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The man who shot ad far-right Dutch gay polician Pim Fortuyn is to be eed May.

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HOW A GAY EUROPEAN SOCLOGY PROFSOR’S POLIL REER EXPLAS DONALD TMP

Pim Fortuyn and the gay right have fed a new brand of nservatism. And uld tch on, says<B>Richard Goldste</B>. * pim fortuyn gay *

But the untry's lol electns, Fortuyn, openly gay and proud of , then proceed to take Dutch polics by storm. Fortuyn's open gayns was fundamental to unrstandg his polics.

For him, Mlims were people who hated gays, and thought women were send-class cizens. He told me: "I have gay iends who have been beaten up by young Morocns Rotterdam. Fortuyn repeatedly praised his eedom to be openly gay, which eventually led the other man to explo to an anti-gay tantm.

DUTCH FALL FOR GAY MR RIGHT

Fortuyn was openly gay for much of his life and retaed his Catholic fah. Tagged: dutchthe herlandsmangayhistoryhomosexualyhistory is queer. At first blh, Fortuyn may seem an odd choice as a Tmp anctor: Fortuyn was a gay soclogy profsor, about as far om Tmp background as you n image.

Prime Mister Wim Kok nfirmed Fortuyn's televisn said the 54-year-old former amic and lumnist, who led an openly gay liftyle, was shot the head, neck and cht.

It was the first untry to legalize gay marriag, regulate prostutn, approve and ntrol thanasia, and tolerate the over-the-unter sale of marijuana hundreds of "ffee shops". They do so, however, very different ways—rangg om cidly heteronormative and at tim homophobic on, to those genuely favor of some emancipatory rights. Pim Fortuyn (1948—2002), the perfect ‘morn’ lear: gay but not a woman.

ASSAILANT SHOOTS GAY WHO RAILED AGAST MLIM IMMIGRANTS : RIGHTIST DUTCH ELECTN IS MURRED

Promently, pecially for the time, he was openly gay—an inty which partially fed his polics. To him, this reprented the threat of movg ‘backwards’ on the ‘emancipatn of women and gay men’. He do habually voice support for women’s emancipatn and gay (and sometim “LGBT”) rights, but he lls even superficial support for non-bary inti (as well as teachg children about genr and sexualy) a ‘woke dictatorship’.

KILLER OF FAR-RIGHT DUTCH GAY POLICIAN PIM FORTUYN TO BE EED EARLY

His strategic alignment wh European (Christian as well as populist radil right) parti and anizatns that are cidly trans- and homophobic (and anti-abortn) shows that progrsive posns are at least not pivotal to his iology. Somewhat ntrastgly, however, Bt often shows a blogil sentialism terms of genr and sexualy–ocsnally cludg homophobic rhetoric. For Fortuyn and Wilrs, masculy revolv around hetero- (or homo-) normative fay life but not necsarily nqut or domatn.

Fortuyn’s visn, nsirg the timeame which he operated, is very liberal terms of gay sexualy. Bt’s learship is more tradnally masculist: he posns himself as the succsor of historil Whe male lears and embodi a sometim homophobic, nservative masculy.

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