Gay men are executed for being gay, and this asshole uses it to bash Obama and gay rights activists?! Of course conservatives would use anything to attack Obama's stance in Iran, including being "concerned" about gay people being executed, that is as revealing as an article claiming the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. No shit!
The phenomenon of invoking LGBT equality as a justification for American foreign policies, which theorist Jasbir Puar calls “homonationalism,” has been around for several years. (Puar might prefer the term “imperialism.”) Even as conservatives fight LGBT equality at home, Puar says, they champion it overseas—as long as it serves their interests to do so.
Say what now?! I have
never seen politicians raise the rainbow flag as a flag of war.
Moreover, says Puar, Americans frequently impose their own conceptions of sexual and gender identity onto other cultures, stomping out indigenous ways of thinking about sexuality and gender, and perpetuating the myth that sexual diversity is a Western invention. Ironically, by demanding tolerance of “homosexuality,” Americans can inhibit the tolerance of forms of sexuality and gender identity that are long-standing traditions in non-Western culture.
Ok, that is just a bit of stupid. Why is homosexuality in quotes and how does promoting equality squelch other " forms of sexuality and gender identity that are long-standing traditions in non-Western culture"? And those would be what?
I am used to seeing GLBT issues used as a political football. Some self-professed liberals using it to attack something they don't like (Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Saudi Arabia, etc.), or using it to claim GLBT are "self absorbed" (single issue), or making claims that minimize the gains/losses of GLBT rights in other places.
Then again, maybe he's on to something. Seems too many think GLBT issues are passé and a "done deal" here, so no need to worry about "those peoples'" rights elsewhere.
His other articles are just as strange. Seemingly 'gay positive,' but having a strange odor to them.
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