I remember when Ukraine (I think it was still early in the war against Russia) started doing the same shit the IDF is doing, like paying lgbtq+ people to make propaganda for Ukraine. Then the Ukrainians started losing really badly to the Russians, and then they removed these people from their positions.
They only care about minorities if they can be used as tools to push their imperialistic agenda.
I remember when Ukraine started detaining trans women trying to flee the conflict as draft dodgers because "all MEN have a duty to serve." Really made me realize everything some fucking lib would talk about how us ell gee bee teas really needed to get in line and support Ukraine against big bad homophobic russia.
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
In the name of love we have reduced all you can see to rubble. In the name of love we have murdered your families. In the name of love we've terrorized millions.
I cannot wait as queer rights around the world are eroded because of shit like this. As a coat of paint that imperialism is using they inevitably allow reactionary forces to point to the queer struggle in their own countries and call them forces of imperialist decadence. This is not only deeply fucked as you stand in a bombed out area acting like you've finally brought a piece of civilization to a barbarous people, you also create the conditions for continued queer oppression throughout the world because you've long since given up on queer liberation and now are okay with the meager scraps you've been given.
The co-opting of what was a riot against the cis police state, fighting for their right to exist, into something which is used by the most egregious police state on the planet as a pretext for a war of extermination is one for the history books.
We do need that burning Israel flag tho
E: actually we do not, but death to the IDF
hoping a brave hamas fighter stops him from ever saying something like this again
None other than Eve Fartlow has that photo at the bottom of her most recent substack post.
Weekend Update: Hamas, Hamas, everywhere - by Eve Barlow
This weekend hundreds of thousands took to the streets to pretend they could Free Palestine because they wanted to spread their Jew hate. Meanwhile, in Gaza, the IDF secured safe passage for countless Gazans, flew the first LGBTQ+ flag in Gaza and began to, uh, Free Palestine.
But please don’t tell everyone marching that. You will ruin all their fun.
God willing, there will be graphic footage of this man being killed. I am sick of these zionist fucks going back and forth hiding behind"lgbt rights" and the Holocaust to try to launder what they're doing. God damn israel to hell for what they have done and continue to do to the Palestinians.
Maybe one day we will see this kind of footage of amerikkkans god willing.
I really can't stand these pricks waving the rainbow flag while they do genocide. It's the rainbow bomb meme lathed into reality. My brother in Christ if you care so much about gay rights in the Middle East, quit sabotaging left wing political movements.
My brother in Christ if you care so much about gay rights in the Middle East
They don't do they. Conservative or right wing LGBTQ members are no different than conservatives. Rights for me not for thee. Same with conservative POC. Common theme being right wing people suck ass I guess.
I'm gay and so is Peter Thiel and we have nothing in common. They're happy to shovel feed to the hogs for expediency but start to look for the exit when they suddenly have some skin in the game.
Oh neat a photorealistic Eli Valley
I legit feel a little warm and feverish in the head after seeing this, I have taken psychic damage
