A brief history of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr social movements

Contents:

• OP-ED: GAY MEN NEED TO BE FEMISTS, TOO
• WHY GAY MEN DON’T NEED FEMISM – PART 2: THE TAKEOVER
• #GAYS AGAST FEMISM: BEE GAY PEOPLE ARE NOT FEMIST PROPERTY
• OPINION: ON GAY MEN AND THE FEMIST MOVEMENT
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

OP-ED: GAY MEN NEED TO BE FEMISTS, TOO

The fervent anizg of the 1960s and early 1970s led NOW and other gay rights and femist anizatns to support lbians’ stggle agast pulsory heterosexualy and other forms of opprsn that lbians experienced. Lbian femism emerged as an important amic field, led by theologian and philosopher Mary Daly; philosopher and theorist Marilyn Frye; poet and sayist Audre Lor; activist, thor, and teacher Charlotte Bunch; femist anthropologist Gayle Rub; and other scholars.

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

And yet I know his ntug sults agast women are not sgular; attacks are fterg om a wi st of misogynists, om the Llie Moonv type to the “cel” type to the Alabama statehoe is forcg some soul searchg on me — namely nontg the worseng attus toward women next to the rapid-fire gas of gay male liberatn recent years. People of all genrs who have clared themselv and the moment post-femist have spoken prematurely, jt like those who said the natn is gay man payg attentn uld have felt the war agast women brewg even back durg the Obama years.

Femists unrstand how all the rights are nnected, but gay men don’t always though gay men are not engeerg the recent surge of state laws rtrictg reproductive rights, nor mtg the alarmg number of sexual asslts agast women, we are implited the imagistic, mercial and workplace misogyny that is still stranglg women’s advancement. Today’s gay male el should be standg for women: batg sexual asslt; advancg women’s reproductive rights; mandg paid materny leave and support for child re; fendg immigrant women pg domtic vlence and rape; and supportg all those women who are cidly not “post-work, ” but rather reprent nearly two-thirds of the mimum-wage men shouldn’t domate the bate, but neher should we hang back apathy, fatigue or fear of sayg the wrong thg. ‘Why Gay Men Don’t Need Femism’ is a four-part seri of articl adapted om a speech that was tend to be prented at the Send Internatnal Conference on Men’s Issu 2015 by the thor, Matthew Lye (a.

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.

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

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.

OPINION: ON GAY MEN AND THE FEMIST MOVEMENT

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.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

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.

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. 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.