Culture & Identity

LGBTQ+, LGBT, or LGB? A Defense of Gay Identity [Extended Version]

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I’ve published in my Substack a longer version of my July 30 IGF CultureWatch post. I’ll leave the original post up but recommended clicking on the extended Substack version, linked to below.



One of the additions in the Substack version is a discussion of the Log Cabin Republicans announcement that they will now label themselves as an advocacy organization for LGB Republicans and conservatives, dropping the “T” they added to their self-description in 2015, and the reasons behind this decision.







And this: “Why Progressive Activists Are BIG MAD That Log Cabin Republicans Dropped the “T” And Why Gays Are Happy About It.”

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LGBTQ+, LGBT, or LGB? The Loss of Gay Identity

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Matthew Vines, in a Substack follow-up to his controversial New York Times op-ed arguing against “Queer” as an identity designation, tries to make the case for an “LGBT” identity coalition, without the anti-normative “Q+” that simply seeks to elevate transgressiveness.
What Vines doesn’t want to grapple with, however, is how transgenderism, or gender-identity ideology, itself undermines the concept of same-sex attraction as well as gay/lesbian and women’s rights.
Encouraging gender-nonconforming children to consider whether they were “born in the wrong body,” as many progressive school districts now do (with or without parental consent) followed by social transitioning that puts proto-gay or just gender-confused kids on the road to medicalization; allowing biological males who identify as female (often with limited or even without various medicalizations) to participate in girls’/women’s sports and have access to female-only spaces; and demanding that sexual attraction be defined by gender identity, not biological sex, are now all fundamental tenets of the “T” advocacy embedded in “LGBT.”
Which is why the growing LGB counter-movement goes its own way, without T and Q+.

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London Jewish Pride

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Incredibly sad — rank anti-Semitism at the London “Pride” parade. Outright Marxism and Jew-hatred now define the woke identitarian left, which dominates LGBTQ+ activism.

Brendan O’Neill writes in The Spectator:

Someone shouting “Fuck you, Jews”. Another telling the Jews they’re baby-killers. A man suggesting the Jews should “go back” to their homeland.
A bloke telling Jews they’re “the most hated people in the world”. Where did this verbal mauling of Jews occur? At a neo-Nazi parade, perhaps? Actually it was at Pride in London.
Yes, the Pride parade on Saturday was scarred by what the Metropolitan Police are calling “anti-Semitic verbal abuse”. The rainbow-coloured shindig that claims to be all about “tolerance” was shockingly intolerant of Jews.
Pride London will show that “love always triumphs over hate”, said London mayor Sadiq Khan. Tell that to the gay Jews who were subjected to gross outbursts of hateful invective.


In response, London Jewish Pride:

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Ship of Fools?

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Maybe they shouldn’t have wanted to spend gay tourist dollars in anti-gay Egypt and Turkey in the first place.













The left seems to be taking two lines of attack: (1) It’s Trump’s fault because he controls the world and is making nice Muslim countries be anti-LGBTQ+, and (2) The ship is full of rich gay Trumpers who deserves whatever they get and serves them right.





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The Shame of ‘Pride’

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Last month’s “Pride” events were increasingly dominated by the ugliest aspects of the LGBTQ+ left, including the world’s most ancient bigotry gussied up in woke language.

Take for instance, the rank anti-Semitism at the London “Pride” parade. Outright Marxism and Jew-hatred now define the identitarian “queer” left, which dominates LGBTQ+ activism.



And in NYC, a similar story:



And, of course, what should be obvious:

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DEI Preferences for LGBTQ+ Contractors Is a Terrible Idea

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DEI, so-called “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies, mandate preferential treatment in hiring and promotions (and other far-flung areas, from college admissions to government contracts) based on identity group membership. DEI preferences are justified as a means to rectify past group-based discrimination, but in effect they operate as a thumb on the scale the overrides individual merit in decision-making.
The height of DEI ideological insanity could be the California Public Utility Commission’s policy of preferencing the awarding of government contracts to LGBTQ-owned businesses.
Again, it’s as if LGBTQ+ activists and their political “allies” are trying to provoke a backlash against the great achievement of the gay rights movement—equal treatment under the law.





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