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LGBT: Pembebasan dan Revolusi — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 08:01:35 +0000

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By: Denis LeBlanc

Denis LeBlanc — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:35:57 +0000

Sorry I’m so late to reply. I’ve been busy working for free on a new campaign to benefit people living with HIV defeat Stigma once and for all. Its always a pleasure to read your blog, its always a learning experience for me because you always bring to light facts generally unknown to the wider public. Stay well and stay healthy.

« HRC’s head Chad Griffin said that “LGBTQ people around the world are looking to us” to be a “beacon of hope.” » That is a really inflated sense of self-importance by Mr. Griffin in a country with no basic Human Rights protections for LGBT that covers housing, employment and access to public services, and no Human Rights Commissions to enforce any future protections. Yes, the US is one of a handful of countries with marriage, but personally, I would rather live in a country full human rights protected by my country’s constitution such that it cannot be easily repealed by tyrants. Oh wait, I do have all that. But, I only live in little unimportant (to Mr. Griffin) Canada, which just finished a year ago a 10 years of very conservative government.

Few nations look to the USA any more to be a leader in Human Rights despite what Mr. Griffin says. Most of Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand along with South Africa are much more advanced than the US on the civil rights front. I have only been legally allowed to visit your fair country since 2012, after I had retired. because I am a gay man with HIV.

I am very pleased that those other countries I named continue to have modestly paid executives leading their LGBT groups. They continue to keep their governments accountable without getting compromised by big money like the HRC. I wonder how much influence the HRC will have with the Trump administration?

Mu sincere hope is that my American friends will be able to count on the richest LGBT group in the world to be at the forefront; leading protests and defending the few rights LGBT Americans have now and to press the new regime for LGBT refugees to continue to be accepted into the USA. Somehow, I don’t feel very confident about that, or about imagining Alan Greenspan suddenly donning gay colours at any Pride celebrations. I think Mr. Yiannopoulos is more likely to be seen prancing at the White House than Mr. Griffin.

Best Regards.

By: scottlong1980

scottlong1980 — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 21:11:13 +0000

In reply to Thorsten. i just tried to write about He Who Shall Not Be Named, and boy was it difficult. we'll see if anybody reads it.

By: Thorsten

Thorsten — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 17:33:34 +0000

Good to have you back again in such…interesting times.
Do you maybe, by any chance, plan to write about…You-know-who in the near future? I am particularly interested in your opinion on his gay enablers, especially Mr. Yiannopoulos.

By: linafree

linafree — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:08:58 +0000

Reblogged this on freedombyanymeans and commented: must read

By: HeJin Kim

HeJin Kim — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 07:59:33 +0000

Reblogged this on University of Broken Glass and commented: I think these are important reflections... we sometimes automatically assume that, just because an organisation is a human rights organisations or an LGBTI organisation, it is only doing good...

By: walberg2002

walberg2002 — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 15:50:28 +0000

hi scott thanks for this. you throw light on a disgusting regime that no one knows about. thailand is only ‘pretty rent boys/ girls’ in the Western mind.i take it your point is that gay rights in thailand pre-empt any concerns in the West about the nightmare thailand is for the other 95% of the population.ditto for americans, etc. gays have become the trojan horse of imperialism. glad to see you’re still full of vietnam-era social justice. >diplomats from the most supportive states had to be persuaded that queers weren’t either a distraction or a joke spot on >chiaroscuro motives? ie, hypocritical? like your sarcasm > What I do give a flying fuck about is that the US government hands $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt annually, promotes the SIsi dictatorship as its partner at least gays in egypt are in the same boat as everyone else there (down in the leaky hold with the Muslim Brothers) Adorno: Only by abandoning the false positivities that power always posits, and pursuing the relentlessly negative logic of that thought, can the discourse of rights change anything that needs to be changed about the world. but that’s how marx defined communist dialectic. negation and critical thinking. so i’m not out of date? >World Bank loudly declared, in 2013, that it was going to adopt LGBT rights as a priority – pretty much as its first-ever human rights priority; a project it launched by invoking Uganda’s anti-LGBT legislation which we can thank the evangelical missionaries for >Foucault also showed that to participate in governmentality, to share in the play of power, is equally to be shaped, to be controlled, to be disciplined. Power is exercised not only through, but within, the powerful. he is my icon. embraced the islamic revolution in iran, interviewed khomeini, never backed down to join the imperialist naysayers. he knew there is no room for genuine human rights under imperialism, and when your mind is a prisoner of that system. good attack. you are part of the ‘good gay international’ as opposed to the griffins. which means part of the genuine human rights struggle. keep up the good work. eric http://ericwalberg.com/

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