In Rearch on Femism and Gay Rights, a Case for Uny | Radcliffe Instute for Advanced Study at Harvard Universy

Contents:

• #GAYS AGAST FEMISM: BEE GAY PEOPLE ARE NOT FEMIST PROPERTY
• IN REARCH ON FEMISM AND GAY RIGHTS, A CASE FOR UNY
• FEMIST GAY-BASHG
• COMPANY GO FULL-ON BUD LIGHT WH ‘GAY WATER’ RELEASE
• WHY MORE GAY MEN NEED TO CLAIM FEMISM
• WHY GAY MEN DON’T NEED FEMISM – PART 2: THE TAKEOVER
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• OPINION: ON GAY MEN AND THE FEMIST MOVEMENT
• CONFLICT THEORI: GAY MARRIAG AND FEMISM
• FEMISM, GAY LIBERATN, & U.S. POLICS

#GAYS AGAST FEMISM: BEE GAY PEOPLE ARE NOT FEMIST PROPERTY

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. 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.

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. 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. 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.

IN REARCH ON FEMISM AND GAY RIGHTS, A CASE FOR UNY

Through archival rearch, she is evaluatg the legal and activist legaci of the femist reproductive jtice movement and their effect on gay rights activism and the eventual achievement of foundatnal Supreme Court lgs.

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” Canned cktail ‘Gay Water’ aims to sh on Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney disaster — New York Post (@nypost) July 21, 2023 The pany’s founr, Spencer Hodson, told the New York Post that the backlash Bud Light suffered after s cisn to partner wh Mulvaney spir him to be more unapologetic his pro-LGBT stance. But fish strong, as the nflict over Richie’s bathhoe project grows and Mx has to nsir whether ’s too risky for the magaze to speak to gay men, or even gay moments like this, the historil fictn feels not entirely historil.

FEMIST GAY-BASHG

" Stdrick claims that "misogyny is as unavoidable as rbon dxi, " and that gay men mt do more to challenge January 2014, The Aerogram executive edor Roh Guha wrote an article for Jezebel tailg the "dirty secrets of gay male subculture" -- misogyny beg one of them.

COMPANY GO FULL-ON BUD LIGHT WH ‘GAY WATER’ RELEASE

In a March 2015 post on the blog genr-agenda, Cambridge stunt Martha Perotto-Wills pots to the ia that gay men often feel entled to offer unsoliced cricism of women's clothg or bodi, what she lls "Perez-Hilton-style genred shamg of women's bodi and fashn/life choic. And January, The Advote's Eliel Cz lled out RuPl's equent e of a trans slur and Andy Cohen's vasive qutng of Nicki Maj's sex life as exampl of how gay men e their sexualy and their cis-ns as an exce to be misogynistic.

Mto pots to the Redstockgs, a radil femist group found the same year as the Stonewall Rts, which clared male homosexualy objectnable for s rejectn of, Mto nces that gay male sexism is a problem and that some gay men have trouble takg cricism. As gay men, we may be opprsed by homophobia; but as men, we operate a system that privileg men and mascule genr inti to the disadvantage of women -- regardls of whether they are gay, straight, cis or importantly, we n e our privilege to ll out stanc of misogyny and genr-based bigotry mascule-domated spac. For reasons that some people, pecially many gay men, stggle to unrstand, G meekly obeyed, and allowed self to be relegated to send-class stat wh s own movement – a posn which retas to this very day.

Rose McGowan attempted to rally support for femism among gay men by optg for the fely more bizarre approach of hurlg a barrage of all-too-faiar Co Black Shamg Language [5] at them: “Gay men are as misogynistic as straight men, if not more so, ” she said. Perhaps the most alarmg of all was McGowan’s claim that she has been a long-time supporter of gay men and their rights, th offerg an sight to the rather cur approach that femists tend to adopt toward their supposed alli.

WHY MORE GAY MEN NEED TO CLAIM FEMISM

A note to Rose McGowan: beg rmed by an alleged celebry that, que ankly, most gay men like me had never heard of, that she is “really upset” about our lack of enthiasm for her bigoted, anti-male iology that regards gay men as, at bt, token lackeys who ought to be ashamed of our misogynistic ‘rejectn’ of women, is not somethg that will terpt my sleep any time soon. The fact that she assum that will, speaks more to her narcissism, her staggerg sense of entlement and the supremacist leangs of her chosen iology than do about the gay men she has publicly, and rather ironilly, nmned as “lnal”. Public attacks like the have the benef of alertg many gay men to the fact that femism is one belligerent, foot-stompg Diva they would be well-advised to step as far away om as possible, and proceed to expose her te nature to the world at large.

From Everyday Femism:“The gay rights movement has won rights and regnn that largely serve the terts of whe, wealthy cisgenr gay men to the triment of poor queers and queer people of lor, and to the triment of racial and enomic jtice more generally. Like many gay men, the only thg I n discern that femism has ever done for me is to maner my own human rights movement unr the guise of a purported alliance, and g as a vehicle to promote an anti-male hate movement hell-bent on unrmg the rights and welfare of men and boys – a mographic that clus me – attemptg to rope me to helpg to monize my own mascule inty and, if that weren’t enough, brawashg the more suggtible of my gay brethren to accg our straight brothers of beg rponsible for every problem and jtice the world has ever known. It is ltle wonr that as early as 1976, renowned gay rights activist, John Lrson, was already lamentg the fact that femists had bullied their way to the gay rights movement, effectively margalizg the gay men wh , and turng the gay rights movement to what he lled “the fag end of femism.

WHY GAY MEN DON’T NEED FEMISM – PART 2: THE TAKEOVER

Women we had never seen before would e and liver tiras agast the GLF men; they would say that not only were gay men more sexist or more male chvist than straight men, but men GLF were among the worst of all. They charged that the panel was “elist” and “sexist” (although half of the panelists were women); their ma ostensible grievance was that on a table the hall, provid for leaflets and ee lerature, were pi of Gay newspaper, which they had found a reproductn of a betiful, lh, reclg female nu, pated the style of classic romanticism.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

It is tertg to note that Lrson believ that one of the ma reasons why femists got away wh -optg the gay rights movement all those years ago, and have enjoyed virtual immuny om cricism for dog so, is bee – like Er Pizzey and her associat – most of the gay men were aaid of them. So would seem that gay men are not really so badly off, and perhaps would be better if they did not vote their energi to repealg sodomy statut and fightg discrimatn, bee the goals if realized would simply give them equaly wh straight men, th objectively creasg the opprsn of women.

Femists prefer gay men, like women, to perceive themselv as perpetual victims, and to st straight men as the villas who are rponsible for everythg they hate about their liv and the world they which they live. Perhaps the real purpose of creatg Queer Theory was to divert the attentn of gay men away om femist rhetoric the hope that they wouldn’t notice the staggerg homophobia of femism’s most proment and fluential theorists.

When gay men intify as femists, you n be certa that they have never read much femist theory, bee if they had, they would never embrace an iology that relentlsly nigrat them a manner that would make a plard-wieldg Wtboro Baptist homophobe crge. The most important take-away for gay men who read is that there is no unter-theory om proment femists that refut any of the relentlsly hateful drivel that has been offered by the vanguards of femism over the past five s – and is much too late to for them to attempt to do so now.

OPINION: ON GAY MEN AND THE FEMIST MOVEMENT

Suffice to say that is not very plimentary, or a particularly big secret – except perhaps to the gay men of Gay Pri Toronto, who may want to rethk allowg femists to ntue poisong their ranks, providg, of urse, that they ever get around to readg . 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. ) 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.

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. In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women. In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act.

CONFLICT THEORI: GAY MARRIAG AND FEMISM

In the 1970s and ’80s, gay polil anizatns proliferated, particularly the Uned Stat and Europe, and spread to other parts of the globe, though their relative size, strength, and succs—and toleratn by thori—varied signifintly. Now headquartered Geneva and renamed the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA World), plays a signifint role ordatg ternatnal efforts to promote human rights and fight discrimatn agast LGBTQ and tersex persons.

This support, along wh mpaigns by gay activists urgg gay men and women to “e out of the closet” (ed, the late 1980s, Natnal Comg Out Day was tablished, and is now celebrated on October 11 most untri), enuraged gay men and women to enter the polil arena as ndidat. At the lol and natnal levels, the number of openly gay policians creased dramatilly durg the 1990s and 2000s, and 2009 Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir beme prime mister of Iceland, which ma her the world’s first openly gay head of ernment.

FEMISM, GAY LIBERATN, & U.S. POLICS

In Ai, Asia, and Lat Ameri, openly gay policians have had only limed succs wng office; notable electns to natnal legislatur clud Patria Jiménez Flor Mexi (1997), Mike Waters South Ai (1999), and Clodovil Hernans Brazil (2006).

Other issu of primary importance for the gay rights movement sce the 1970s clud batg the HIV/AIDS epimic and promotg disease preventn and fundg for rearch; lobbyg ernment for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other aspects of civil society; endg the ban on ary service for gay and lbian dividuals; expandg hate crim legislatn to clu protectns for gays, cludg transgenr dividuals; and securg marriage rights for same-sex upl (see same-sex marriage). Ary’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy (1993–2011), which had permted gay and lbian dividuals to serve the ary if they did not disclose their sexual orientatn or engage homosexual activy; the repeal effectively end the ban on homosexuals the ary.