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Title: To Me, The LGBT Movement Seems To Be Moving Towards Irrelevancy
Post by: Shana A on October 30, 2010, 12:36:58 PM
Post by: Shana A on October 30, 2010, 12:36:58 PM
To Me, The LGBT Movement Seems To Be Moving Towards Irrelevancy
by: Autumn Sandeen
Sat Oct 30, 2010 at 08:00:00 AM EDT
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/17841/to-me-the-lgbt-movement-seems-to-be-moving-towards-irrelevancy (http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/17841/to-me-the-lgbt-movement-seems-to-be-moving-towards-irrelevancy)
Let me work off of that hypotheses that a movement becoming a one or two issue movement is working itself to irrelevance. In my mind, this is what's happening to the LGBT movement -- we are functionally becoming irrelevant because our federal focus is so narrow.
Right now, we have two major national issues -- marriage equality, and repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT). It appears to me that passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) has fallen off the LGBT community's national discourse.
by: Autumn Sandeen
Sat Oct 30, 2010 at 08:00:00 AM EDT
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/17841/to-me-the-lgbt-movement-seems-to-be-moving-towards-irrelevancy (http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/17841/to-me-the-lgbt-movement-seems-to-be-moving-towards-irrelevancy)
Let me work off of that hypotheses that a movement becoming a one or two issue movement is working itself to irrelevance. In my mind, this is what's happening to the LGBT movement -- we are functionally becoming irrelevant because our federal focus is so narrow.
Right now, we have two major national issues -- marriage equality, and repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT). It appears to me that passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) has fallen off the LGBT community's national discourse.