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There are a lot of conversations in the LGBTI people about Prides becoming “too commercial,” but what about grassroots, leftist radical Prides? Well, the thought of community-organized, grassroots Prides is marvelous, but unfortunately, it is very human to make mistakes.
While big LGBTI Prides that are organized with help from businesses are trying to be inclusive, grassroots Prides possess sometimes gone too far in their attempts to produce an “edgy,” rebellious atmosphere. Some slogans that have been used at “independent” Prides create more problems than they solve, making these events non inclusive and unacceptable for a large part of the LGBTI community.
I believe in intersectionality. I was one of the very few activists in Russia who began writing and speaking about the need for intersectional approaches in the LGBTI community — speaking up for neurodivergent, disabled, non-white, Muslim, and Jewish LGBTI people. In the U.K., I’m part of various groups supporting LGBTI refugees.
And this is why I observe that some latest attempts by Western LGBTI activists to be mindful of different forms of oppression have actually
Trump’s War on Lgbtq+, Lesbian, and Transitioned People
When Donald Trump ran for president last year, he signaled that he would not be far-right on social issues. He tried to defuse the issue of abortion rights in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade by saying that it was now up to the states, as if this preserved rights. He refused to state whether he personally opposed abortion.
And on LGBTQ rights, the Republican platform, at Trump’s request, did not propose ending marriage equality. All of this was a classic Trump feint.
Trump’s administration has worked with state officials on vigilante laws intended to punish people who seek reproductive care out of state. He has redoubled the endeavor to deny federal funds to Planned Parenthood. Trump’s appointees keep trying to ban medications that induce abortion, the safest and most widespread method.
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And the attack on gay and transgender people keeps escalating. On Inauguration Daytime, Trump declared that “only two genders,” male and female, would be recognized going forward by the federal government. He signed an executive arrange to that e
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