Before you are obliterated by one of our high-tech weapons systems, I would like to take this moment to ask you if you personally support LGBTQ+ rights? I need to know if I should feel kinda sad about your death or if I should just shrug my shoulders. Thank you and have a nice day
YES, I am VERY concerned about LGBTQ+ rights in Palestine.
NO, I will NOT listen to a single LGBTQ+ Palestinian perspective.
My PANTS are full of PISS and SHIT.
PROBLEM, TANKIES?
It's incredibly funny and sad when they try pull this stuff in Africa. The whole reason most of Africa is homophobic is because Eurocentric views in terms of religion and culture were brought to the continent by westerners during colonialism, and forced upon the local population which they subjugated. Now that the West has moved on and is "enlightened" in it's reasoning and has emancipated LGBT people (if you ignore the fact that most western nations only legalised gay marriage or passed LGBT rights protection laws about a decade ago, and LGBT people still face various forms of discrimination), it's time for Africa to follow the West's lead again, in a similar manner that made Africans homophobic in the first place, by adopting Eurocentric views on humanism/religion and gender/sexuality that are being practiced by the people oppressing them through neocolonialism.
It is incredible that most westerners can't see how unhelpful and detrimental this approach is to social progress. White man's burden all over again. I say this as a bisexual person in Africa, luckily living in one of the few countries where LGBT rights are constitutionally protected.
We refuse the instrumentalization of our queerness, our bodies, and the violence we face as queer people to demonize and dehumanize our communities, especially in service of imperial and genocidal acts. We refuse that Palestinian sexuality and Palestinian attitudes towards diverse sexualities become parameters for assigning humanity to any colonized society. We deserve life because we are human, with the multitude of our imperfections, and not because of our proximity to colonial modes of liberal humanity. We refuse colonial and imperialist tactics that seek to alienate us from our society and alienate our society from us, on the basis of our queerness. We are fighting interconnected systems of oppression, including patriarchy and capitalism, and our dreams of autonomy, community, and liberation are inherently tied to our desire for self-determination. No queer liberation can be achieved with settler-colonization, and no queer solidarity can be fostered if it stands blind to the racialized, capitalist, fascist, and imperial structures that dominate us.
- Queers in Palestine
And in some cases gleefully exported by American Christian psychos after colonialism
Yeah it's still going on today with some missionaries. So in countries like Uganda and Kenya you get this big contradiction where American right wing Christian groups are funding and encouraging homophobia, but the US state department is considering cutting these countries off from trade deals because they're homophobic. It's like that time CIA funded rebels fought pentagon funded rebels in Syria.
I asked a five year old Gazan girl if she would respect a non-binary person's pronouns, and she just let out a scream of pain and dropped to the floor. I didn't think I could trust US conservatives, who we all know are 100% affirming of people's pronouns, gender identity and presentation, but I guess they were right. I don't understand how someone could be so insensitive.
We now have gay billionaires and female CEOs. We have achieved true equality
