A transgender woman of color on the hypocrisy of the gay rights movement

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

http://qz.com/440549/a-transgender-woman-of-color-on-the-hypocrisy-of-the-gay-rights-movement/


So what exactly are we celebrating? A community that stands idly by as the annual death toll for trans women continues to rise. A community that routinely ignores the cries of LGBTQ people of color as they suffer disproportionate workplace and housing discrimination. Or even a community that erases identities deemed "too difficult" to understand.

[PhoenixAsh]

I have argued before that the LGBTQ community isn't a movement of people who all share the same interests. They merely exist as a label by merit of not adhering to the hetronormative standard.

Yet they share the same hetronormative attitude towards each other as the rest of society does. They don't exist in a void.

The expectation is that while they all suffer discrimination people who are LGBTQ should have automatic sympathy and tolerance for each others struggles...but that simply isn't the case.

And that is one problem with current identity movements. They are topic oriented and more often than not geared towards the problems of specific identities.

[RedWorker]

I don't think this kind of generalization is good. You'll find workers who don't give a crap about women, women who don't give a crap about gay people, gay people who won't give a crap about black people, and black people who won't give a crap about workers.

Yet, all these groups share interests, and will naturally tend to support each other, especially when educated.

How can you say that the whole movement stays idle? The "gays rights movement" is not one big organization. I'm sure many people and groups within it care about all of these things.

[Bee]

For true and inclusive queer liberation the LGBT rights movement needs to overcome its tendencies towards liberalism.

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

For true and inclusive queer liberation the LGBT rights movement needs to overcome its tendencies towards liberalism.
Yes, exactly. Also, queer liberation can only happen as part of a broader class liberation struggle, so we need the working class in general to overcome its bourgeois tendencies.