Let's Change the Paradigms of Gay Organising

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Let's Change the Paradigms of Gay Organising
Filed by: Yasmin Nair
November 8, 2008 1:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/27_of_gays_voted_for_mccain_can_we_chang.php

A full 27% of gays voted for McCain in this year's election. That's up from 23% in 2004, the percentage that voted for Bush. It's easy to dismiss these Republican-leaning gays as either self-loathing or deluded, but perhaps the numbers ought to make us pause and wonder about the easy distinctions we like to draw between lefty/progressive/liberal gays and the rest of the cruel, conservative world that wants to take our rights away. And it ought to make us think about the outmoded paradigms of gay organising.
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Perhaps it's time for us to openly acknowledge that the queer community is not as progressive as it likes to imagine itself. More importantly, it's time to acknowledge that the cause of gay marriage is not radical or progressive but one mired in a conservative philosophy that endows married and coupled people with the kinds of rights that ought to be available for all. Marriage allows the state to decide what kinds of relations are worthy of recognition, and that recognition is rooted in deeply patriarchal and capitalist ideas about the consolidation of property.

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It is the fragile male ego. Very few straight males can handle advances by another male. It is an insult to their masculinity as well as an attack on their self esteem. That type of behavior needs to be out of sight and mind. That is the main reason for discrimination of gays and gays rights including marriage. If gays want equal rights they have to be very careful about who they approach.

The conservative gay philosophy is one in which they do not want to exhibit sexual tendencies in public. They also do not want unwarranted advances. They want to compete on the same level as straights. Look at that Republican Senator that got caught in the bathroom. They prefer the closet for sex. What the majority is afraid of is not the equal rights but the public display of same sex love and the changes to all mating culture.