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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Pro-Queer violence
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.214059.1491@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 21:40:59 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.224047.23735@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu
- (Nelson Minar) writes:
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- >I've been asking myself "why don't we have national queer
- >leaders like Martin Luther King or Malcolm X?" I think I
- >understand better now why we don't have a Malcolm X. We're
- >not that bad off. Conditions are not harsh enough for
- >average gay and lesbian Americans to spark off resistance on
- >that scale.
-
- You make some good points. It seems to me that another
- contributing factor is that within limits, being closeted
- works; you can get by, in most cases. And if there's
- substance to the widely-held belief that at least white
- males among the LGB clan are realtively well off
- financially, that would further support your contention.
-
- I have no way of knowing, but yet another factor mitigating
- against pro-LGB activism is that probably something like 2/3
- of our people are in the closet and of them maybe half
- deeply so. Even if we had dynamic national leadership
- figures, these closeted elements might not give much
- support.
-
- >There won't be a queer army any time soon. This isn't all
- >bad. We are winning through political means.
-
- Nice as it would be for that to be true, and though I'm
- generally a fairly optimistic person, I'm not that sure
- we're winning much or that we'll continue to do so.
-
- I think there's an actual civil war brewing. The goal of
- the religious right is not just to suppress LGB people.
- It's to completely take over the United States, to make it a
- Christian (in their perverted sense), fascist country.
-
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