Interesting article looking at Queer ideology and the purposes behind it.
From attacks on Pride for its lack of ‘inclusivity’ to the silencing of lesbians for their supposed transphobia, what used to be known as the LGBT movement is increasingly under siege from a fifth column of hardcore identitarians and their illiberal ideologies.
Like so many other regressive throwbacks, the proponents of this censorious ideology (which rallies against LGBT people who still focus on equality and acceptance) has its roots in the modern left. Calling itself the queer movement – and presumptuously adding itself to the restyled LGBTQ acronym – this hostile takeover has set about reshaping LGBT politics in line with its own achingly woke demands.
For unlike the preceding letters in LGBTQ, queer isn’t a sexuality: it’s an ideology – and one which seems suspiciously similar to the regressive left. These are the people who rally against Pride marches and gay clubs for being ‘too white’, ‘too neurotypical’, and even – whisper it – ‘too Tory’. They are the noisy minority who, while professing to support gay and lesbian people, seek to cannibalise the movement in support of their own, more fashionable causes (the boycott of the Jewish State, for example).
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