Very interesting to read. The description of a schism within the lesbian and gay community itself was something I had not previously recognised. So the original and successful Stonewall agenda was always about the more conservative values, where lesbian and gay people more or less slotted into a normative version of society in a way that didn’t significantly affect others. Presumably that is why the brand was so successful.
But the more radical version sounds as if it might have echoes in Shon Faye’s agenda and perhaps goes some way towards explaining where some of this is coming from. Interesting that up till now, it’d been so carefully kept off the agenda, and more recently off the radar. The Brexit vote was probably indicative of anger in society, and perhaps a desire for change, but I suspect the desired change is more conservative in nature and doesn’t fit at all with the more anarchic agenda that is being demanded by some transactivists.
It also crosses my mind that perhaps the gay men who are somewhat unexpectedly so much in thrall to transactivism in its current form, have been far more aware and approving of the hidden-from-mainstream agenda and hence are significantly less astonished, perhaps even unaware of the extremity of those views, as for them they have been normalised by years of exposure.
Fascinating to gain some context about the origins of some of this.