LGBTQ Activists Outraged That Pennywise From 'It Chapter Two' Isn't a Gay Ally – PJ Media

Contents:

• THE ENDURG, MYSTIL QUEER APPEAL OF KATE BH: FROM PNEERG ALLY TO ETERNAL GAY IN
• LGBTQ ACTIVISTS OUTRAGED THAT PENNYWISE FROM 'IT CHAPTER TWO' ISN'T A GAY ALLY

THE ENDURG, MYSTIL QUEER APPEAL OF KATE BH: FROM PNEERG ALLY TO ETERNAL GAY IN

They help create a platform for activism to fight homophobia and transphobia, and they personally advote for equal treatment for all people, regardls of their sexual orientatn.

While some saw the rabow-lored, ke-fightg, gay tea party as brgg queer visibily to the mass, others saw another pop star playg around wh queer imagery whout talkg much about LGBTQ people’s actual liv. As Vox’s Rebec Jenngs pots out, while Swift’s song looks like a “powerful example of allyship” on the surface — and do clu a ll to sign a petn support of the Equaly Act — her queer-signalg outf, slew of LGBTQ celebry meos, and outdated parodi of homophob are all exampl of safe msagg durg Pri Month.

A 2016 survey om Pntial Fancial fds that LGBTQ rponnts experience an e gap “lked to both genr inty and sexual orientatn, ” wh men makg more than women but gay men and lbians receivg, on average, ls than their straight unterparts. Instead, we get YouTube adoptg a rabow profile picture while fends homophobic slurs on s platform, and Joe Bin stoppg by Stonewall on the same day he praised the segregatn era’s “civily. The queer muny has a long history wh sex work, cludg but not limed to survival sex, or when someone will “tra sex for basic needs, such as food, shelter, and clothg, ” gay men’s health crisis advocy specialist Kaleb Dornheim, who they/them pronouns, explas to Vox.

LGBTQ ACTIVISTS OUTRAGED THAT PENNYWISE FROM 'IT CHAPTER TWO' ISN'T A GAY ALLY

They also face an overwhelmg amount of workplace discrimatn: The Williams Instute reports that lbian, gay, and bisexual employe are more likely to report beg fired om a job or nied a posn pared to their straight unterparts.

For vlence agast LGBTQ people, the Southern Poverty Law Center hosts an extensive history on homophobic and transphobic rhetoric, and the Natnal Coaln of Anti-Vlence Programs’ reports track vlence targetg the queer muny. In an age when lbian bars are dyg and gay bars are forced to pe wh gentrifitn by “[ampg] up the mp factor, ” as Eater’s Amanda Kludt wr, makg room for the LGBTQ muny to physilly meet up is a radil statement alli need to get behd.

In the 1950s, the “Homophile Movement” strsed that gay and lbian Amerins weren’t social viants but an opprsed class, as queer historian Jefy J. In s wake, “workg-class gay bar cultur” emerged “mid-sized ci, ” which paved the way for queer solidary after the Stonewall rts.

“When we suate Stonewall as the genis, the pot of orig, of the morn Gay Rights Movement, we exclu the impact of labor movements, the Black Civil Rights Movement, the anti-Vietnam war movement, youth unterculture, and the broar sexual revolutn on gay liberatn, ” Iovannone warns.

“Centerg Stonewall has typilly rulted an unrstandg of the Gay Rights Movement that is whe-male centered and exclnary to lbians, queer people of lor, trans and genr nonnformg people, and workg-class queers.