Here's One Btal Tth Every Whe Gay Man Needs to Hear

Contents:

• STUDY FDS GAY, WHE MEN ARE OVERREPRENTED LGBTQ EMPLOYEE GROUPS
• HERE'S ONE BTAL TTH EVERY WHE GAY MAN NEEDS TO HEAR
• ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
• HOW THE ALT-RIGHT IS USG SEX AND CAMP TO ATTRACT GAY MEN TO FASCISM

STUDY FDS GAY, WHE MEN ARE OVERREPRENTED LGBTQ EMPLOYEE GROUPS

Others flipped protters the bird and shouted, “Shame!”"Fuck you for g a nice para!" yelled a blond olr guy om the siwalk, who then ma an abortive attempt to start a unter-chant: “No rpect, no pri!”No Jtice, No Pri and Black Liv Matter–affiliated groups reprised the prott ci across the untry throughout the summer.The Capal Pri nontatn and others like have laid bare a growg chasm wh the LGBTQ+ muny between olr activists and younger; between gay whe cisgenr men who feel like they n celebrate post-marriage equaly and those who fear for their liv unr a Tmp admistratn; between those whose biggt stumblg block life is beg gay and those who feel their eedom is ntgent not only on LGBTQ+ rights but also on issu like police reform, reproductive rights, and enomic equaly. “Intersectnaly is askg what kds of privleg some LGBTQ muny members have and who gets nied them.”But as dtups ed by groups like No Jtice, No Pri show — as well as other velopments, like the addn of a brown stripe to Philalphia’s LGBTQ pri flag; and scuffl over the cln of Israeli flags at monstratns — that not everyone is happy wh the LGBTQ+ movement’s foc on tersectnaly, which has foreground discsns of privilege, police btaly, sexism, racism, and anti-trans vlence.Robyn BeckSome gay whe cisgenr men are startg to tune out.“You have gay whe men who are no longer volved activism or muny work bee they jt get shouted down by mory activists who want to racialize everythg,” said Jamie Kirchick, a right-leang journalist and visg fellow at the Brookgs Instutn.

In a piece Tablet magaze last year tled “How Intersectnaly Mak You Stupid,” Kirchick took aim at the Natnal LGBTQ+ Task Force, which nceled and then unnceled a Shabbat receptn at s annual Creatg Change nference rponse to crics of Israel.“Whe gay man has bee an ephet,” he add.While the amic fn of tersectnaly may be narrow, s meang has broaned as s age has spread across var social jtice movements.

Not only is ed as shorthand to talk about work between alns, has also e to embody the ia that, as wh the experience of inty, the sourc of opprsn — sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism — are ternnected.

HERE'S ONE BTAL TTH EVERY WHE GAY MAN NEEDS TO HEAR

For the more radil, the ultimate opprsor is palism.“I thk what [the foc on tersectnaly] do is brg everyone to rally around our victimhood, and that, fundamentally, is negative,” said Jimmy LaSalvia, now a polil pennt who -found gay Republin group the Log Cab Republins.

“A bigger, more unifyg msage will ronate wh more and more of Amerins as we grow tired of the -vers-them nontatn-style polics of the last uple of s.”Kirchick said tersectnaly has ma the work of some LGBTQ+ anizatns herent, cg groups like Gays Agast Guns, which spng up after the Pulse massacre Orlando last year.“You n support gun ntrol, but I don’t see what that has to do wh beg gay,” Kirchick said. “And the notn that gay-rights groups should be weighg at all on [the] abortn issue is prepostero.”Erasg Gay Whe Cisgenr Men?But even some progrsive gay whe men say they feel alienated om a movement they see beg more radil, particularly onle, where the tenor of nversatn is often uncivil.

This clus downplayg the role of gay men the 1969 Stonewall rts that kicked off the morn-day LGBTQ-rights era.“People lerally say that gay whe men have done nothg for the movement for the last 50 years,” he said.

ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT

“For a lot of people — even people who support [tersectnaly] but may have a stickg pot — they jt feel they had better stay out of the nversatn.”But Olson, who is gay and married, add that the ternal nflict the LGBTQ+ movement is currently experiencg — and the drop-off participatn om those at the top — was to be expected after marriage equaly.“Movements change after they w,” Olson said. A gay whe married man, he said he “showed up for marriage and looked at issu that followed and stepped back out.” While he supports trans rights, he said he feels the battle is no longer his.Another “Movement of Movements”Olr activists also believe that criqu of the LGBTQ+ movement’s clivy overlook past progrs.

Uned by the Vietnam War, was an “credible era of dialogue” between social-jtice groups of starkly different strip.The Gay Liberatn Front marched wh the Black Panthers and participated antiwar monstratns. The movement was not only far more centralized than today, when several large LGBTQ+ advocy anizatns wh lots of money generally set the agenda; was stacked wh crics of palism, cludg munists like Harry Hay, who -found early homophile anizatn the Mattache Society.

HOW THE ALT-RIGHT IS USG SEX AND CAMP TO ATTRACT GAY MEN TO FASCISM

In 1989, the first gay-pri march through Washgton, D.C., featured a nference that tried to enurage alns between different racial groups; was endorsed by the Natnal Organizatn for Women and the Natnal Coaln of Black Lbians and Gays.To ll the “movement of movements” tersectnal would be an anachronism, but the bandg together of different produced siarly ntent bat about who had power, whose issu should take precence, and which alns ma sense.