Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life.
Contents:
- #GAYS AGAST FEMISM: BEE GAY PEOPLE ARE NOT FEMIST PROPERTY
- FEMIST GAY-BASHG
- OPINION: ON GAY MEN AND THE FEMIST MOVEMENT
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- OP-ED: GAY MEN NEED TO BE FEMISTS, TOO
- WHY ARE YOU A FEMIST, ARE YOU GAY OR SOMETHG?
- GAYS AGAST FEMISM: BEE GAY PEOPLE ARE NOT YOUR PROPERTY, FEMISTS
- ROXANE GAY: THE BAD FEMIST MANIFTO
#GAYS AGAST FEMISM: BEE GAY PEOPLE ARE NOT FEMIST PROPERTY
Prt ? PDF ?Note: The followg opn piece is by NCFM member Dean Esmay. It do nta some harsh and angry language, mostly by gay men angry ... * feminist gay *
Hello, I’m a gay a man, I fely nsir myself a femist, though i’ve been told that ’s not okay (by femists), I’m not a woman, I should refer to myself as an ally. I've been told by some femists that bee I'm a whe man, my whe and male privileg are enough to disregard the fact that I'm also Gay and am opprsed for that.
FEMIST GAY-BASHG
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Back when there was an actual social and polil st to beg gay-iendly (let alone gay) I almost certaly would have been beat up badly had I shown someone that rd. I did not, although I did once rcue a dnk gay man whose abive boyiend had gotten him liquored up and then left him strand om home wh no money a tough workg-class blue-llar bar. So if you ever wonr why I’m almost pletely immune to hateful femist bigotry and disgtg attempts at shamg, and am 100% fortable the pany of gay, lbian, bi, whatever people, bear md that I remember fully and vividly how rmal vigilante lynchgs were somethg most people would jt look the other way at–if was a gay man.
Now absolutely, lbians would often take horrible harassment and would ocsnally be hurt, even killed, and sometim mutilated like the gay men were. But as a le, was gay men–y, the gay men–who were gettg thrown jail, thrown mental hospals, raped by “fag” bashers (y, that was and is still a thg), sometim even strated, lobotomized, hung, or jt pla beat to ath.
OPINION: ON GAY MEN AND THE FEMIST MOVEMENT
Are we gay men who claim to be femist really so? The spate of anti-women legislatn mands we start showg up for women. * feminist gay *
When you watch or read histori of the Stonewall Rts, ’s fascatg to watch how hard they will generally work to move lbians up to the ont of the story, even though was overwhelmgly gay men who were beg most btally persecuted. Carefully read the -pth stori of how the first Stonewall rt began, and you will disver that at the very begng, at an unrground gay club, durg a police raid a p tried btg a lbian for beg among the other “crimal” homosexuals, and she was somewhat roughed up as they tried to put her to a paddy wagon.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
In her 2012 article “Bad Femist,” published by VQR, Roxane Gay suggts that many of the tensns and negative nnotatns that acpany the term femism n be attributed to a damagg, socially-nstcted ncept emed sential femism. Gay, an Amerin sayist and mentator, scrib sential femism as “the notn that there are right and wrong ways to be a femist,” leavg those who do not live up to societal expectatns feelg unf or aquate to intify themselv as such (pg. 1). * feminist gay *
There is of urse nothg wrong wh that–the ps were vlatg her human rights after all–but shows how the male protective stct toward women is part of even most gay men. Remember that the next time you hear about men’s herent vlence, or hear yet another radfem sist that gay men are misogynists–which they equently do.
And what’s so fascatg about the racism and gay-hate that’s been part of femism for s is that femists and their apologists tomatilly behave as if the were statistil outliers, and therefore “not real femists. Jt as there were people who joed the Nazi Party (y, I jt went there) who didn’t particularly hate Jews, the misandrist assumptns of 1960s and 1970s femism fell jt as much agast gay men as they do today, if not more so.
OP-ED: GAY MEN NEED TO BE FEMISTS, TOO
Lbian femism, a polil and theoretil movement wh femism that emerged the send half of the 20th century at the nvergence of the women’s movement, the gay rights movement, and the sexual revolutn. Lbian femists advoted alternative ways of thkg about genr and power. * feminist gay *
It always has been, for is an pable ncln of their “Patriarchy” theory (or their new favore word, “tersectnaly”) that not jt gay men, but black men and brown men and “yellow” men often and routely rape and btalize women, or jt lgh at the btaly and accept –for real and not as dark humor or sarsm or irony.
And so now we fally see the rise of gay men who fight femism, not jt private but the wir world, wh the growg and fearls #GaysAgastFemism. And they were not some ge group and they were not the only femists of their perd to e gay-bashg rhetoric and weave man-hatg and gay-bashg prcipl to their work. For stance she equat homosexualy and Nazism, which is an pecially obscene piece of stupidy view of the actual history, and a transparent piece of dishonty view of how well-known that history is.
This was rather nontg, but the few months sce she ma me aware of my own misogynistic tennci, I’ve tried my bt to be nsc of such thgs, and feel 's important to share this wh other gay men. Gay men, and pecially cis whe gay men, have a tenncy to overwhelmgly play their own ‘opprsn rd’ orr to pe cricism for their sexist behavurs.
WHY ARE YOU A FEMIST, ARE YOU GAY OR SOMETHG?
I would not s idly by if any of their boyiends lled them any of those slurs, but the past, seems I thought the gay rd was a ‘get-out-of-jail-ee-rd’ when me to sexism and misogyny. It’s possible ’s bee we, as a society, oversimplify the nature of opprsn and believe queer people are more opprsed than women so we n’t cricise them bee that would be ‘homophobic’.
GAYS AGAST FEMISM: BEE GAY PEOPLE ARE NOT YOUR PROPERTY, FEMISTS
So, this Internatnal Women’s Day, I enurage everyone, but pecially gay men, to reflect on their behavur and attus and serly nsir what they n do to be better. E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life.
(Although the term gay is monly ed reference to homosexual mal, is also ed more generally to refer to homosexual mal together wh some or all other orientatns wh the LGBTQ muny. ) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy.
ROXANE GAY: THE BAD FEMIST MANIFTO
Ined, his poem “Two Lov” (1894), Lord Aled (“Bosie”) Douglas, Osr Wil’s lover, clared “I [homosexualy] am the love that dare not speak s name.
” Homosexual and bisexual men and women were given voice 1897 wh the foundg of the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee (Wissenschaftlich-humanär Komee; WhK) Berl.
Dpe Paragraph 175 and the failure of the WhK to w s repeal, homosexual and bisexual men and women experienced a certa amount of eedom Germany, particularly durg the Weimar perd, between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power. In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons.