Anti-Semitism isn’t the only issue breaching the alliance many liberal gays and lesbians have felt with the left and the Democratic party:
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The Depths of Intersectional-Left Insanity
I'm lost for words, this is Toronto. pic.twitter.com/STjyQdp2rV
— Five Lucky Fingers (@5luckyfingers) November 21, 2023
Binion adds: “When it comes to ‘Queers for Palestine,’ what’s richly ironic is that many LGBT Palestinians seek asylum in Israel—the same country these stateside protesters are rallying against.”
Progressive, intersectional LGBTQ+ “social justice” activists think that by supporting Hamas and its genocidal policies (look at what children are taught in Gaza) they’ll curry favor with radical anti-Semitic jihadists, the way that Harvey Milk won support for gay rights by supporting San Francisco labor unions. Yes, this is what the intersectional left believes! Coalition-building!
Additional takes:
I love how the implication of this is that the Gaza Strip is a land of laws where people accused of homosexuality are charged in a court of law under the British Mandate Criminal Code of 1936
— Swann Marcus (@SwannMarcus89) October 16, 2023
Like Hamas are legalistic sticklers and aren't just murdering people without trial pic.twitter.com/aaCp5H1UjQ
Please, intellectuals, “contextualize” this https://t.co/zZmHYMosXp
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) October 29, 2023
The progressive left and the Islamic world represent a choice for humanity.
— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) October 30, 2023
A mirror opposite of what we know as life right now.
Once that choice is made, they'll battle each other.
But for now it truly is us against them.
Not against people.
Against ideology.
A choice.
— Crime data analytics (@California__Cri) October 29, 2023
Added:
Progressive feminists are now onboard with mass rape.
And this:
The Great Betrayal
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) October 30, 2023
The left’s reaction to the massacre in Israel has many progressive Jews in the West rethinking their past activism, political affiliations, and friendships.
Reporting by @SnoozyWeiss and @FrancescaABlock:https://t.co/ETOYax607u
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Squeezing Out the Middle
Yes, new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is anti-gay, opposed decriminalizing gay sex and opposed same-sex marriage. It’s also true that polls show many or most Republicans now disagree with him on these issues (55% of Republicans supported marriage equality in 2021 per Gallup, falling back to 49% in 2023 amid unease over bio males in women’s sports/locker rooms and schools pushing trans identities on gender-nonconforming kids, which, for some, seemed to confirm “slippery slope” fears). Nevertheless, the GOP was hijacked by 8 House members of the ultra-MAGA variety, and they were able to force their will on the Republican’s slim majority because the Speaker must be elected by a majority of the House (not the party) and Democrats were all no votes against any Republican.
If a handful of Democrats had bucked their party’s top-down lock-step tactics and chosen just not to be present for the House vote that ousted the more moderate (certainly on culture-war issues) Kevin McCarthy, then McCarthy could have kept a majority of the House without the 8 insurgents. But that’s not how the game is played in Washington.
Here’s an interesting X thread discussing the awful situation of the Republicans held captive by the anti-gay right (again, a minority of today’s GOP), while the Democrats are captive of the LGBTQ gender ideologues (trans the kids, no guardrails) left.
.Exactly.
— Robert Valpy 🇨🇦 (@CosmicBob11) October 26, 2023
This is why we need to cut the woke nonsense, and unite as one gay community and go back to what we were fighting for in the early 2000s. Most Americans, even many Republicans would support that movement for basic equal rights, and nothing more.
But we are stuck in…
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A Way Forward
Countering the Orwellian misuse of language by LGBTQ+ progressives is also vital:
The religious right wanted to “pray away the gay.” Now, the progressive left wants to “trans away the gay,” and gay man and lesbians who defend gender nonconforming gay kids from the new medical-conversion therapy are labeled “transphobes” and “TERFS”—or worse.
It is so weird to write online that I don’t think gender-nonconforming kids, who will likely grow up to be gay, should have their natural development compromised by experimental drugs, only to be called a Nazi.
— Ben Appel (@benappel) September 9, 2023
When the struggle for gay rights was underway, protesters weren’t holding up signs telling their detractors to commit suicide.
— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) September 10, 2023
The violent rhetoric of gender ideologues is just one of the reasons why their campaigns fail to persuade the general public.pic.twitter.com/7f1GNkqfeP
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Bad Strategy
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LGB Rights vs. Gender Identity Activism
And worth repeating:
And then there’s this:
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The Blowback to TQ+ Extremism Undermines Gay Rights and Accpeptance
Gallup: The share of Americans who say that same-sex relations are morally acceptable has fallen during the past year from 71% to 61%. Even among Democrats the falloff was 6 percentage points, from 85% to 79%.
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HRC’s ‘Emergency’ Declaration
The Human Rights Campaign issues a warning to be afraid…be very afraid:
🚨 Our statement on the @HRC's "state of emergency" PR stunt.
— Log Cabin Republicans (@LogCabinGOP) June 7, 2023
TLDR: The Human Rights Campaign perpetually fear-mongers that the LGBT community is in grave danger in order to gin up donations and justify their existence.
We encourage them to read a history book. pic.twitter.com/eHL8q9qgii
Non-straight Americans have never enjoyed more rights or broad acceptance in our nation’s laws/culture than we do today. To effectively suggest — with a dramatic, first-ever “emergency” declaration — that it’s never been worse (dating back to the early 80s!) is really something. https://t.co/9MOKXiHePv
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 7, 2023
Via the Washington Times:
>>Mr. Moran said the problem is that HRC has redefined support for LGBTQ rights to include “trans surgeries for minors, biological men competing in women’s sports, and sex and gender identity lessons in kindergarten.”<<
“The HRC’s latest PR stunt is so ignorantly detached from the incredible LGBT progress over the past decade that we’d be shocked if their donors even buy it,” Log Cabin Republicans President Charles Moran told The Washington Times.
— Log Cabin Republicans (@LogCabinGOP) June 7, 2023
Check it out! https://t.co/tKR3LHBSlP
The gender ideology narrative is failing to convince the masses, so it’s an “emergency”!
Promoting the medical transitioning of gay kids is the real emergency that gay people should be responding to:
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Where Things Stand
Continuing on from prior posts about the new anti-LGBTQ+ backlash and how trans-extremism, especially when directed at encouraging gender-nonconforming minors to transition, is undermining the hard-fought gains that gays and lesbians have made:
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‘Back in culture war hell.’
L.A.’s Major League Baseball is inviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, drag street performance group to accept a “community hero award” on the field of Dodger Stadium at LGBTQ+ Pride Night on June 16.
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) May 24, 2023
This is one of their performance. pic.twitter.com/XvnR9BtAkc
And worth repeating: