DiscussionOther than defending against the T, what else do you think should be LGB priorities?

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[–]Willpoll 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Those ideas are a great start. the obvious one that pops out to me but a lot of us really can't do much about is decriminalization of homosexuality. Those of us in the west, myself included, take for granted that we can be who we are and love who we love in relative safety. Sadly for the majority of the world that's just not the case. There are still what? 77 countries where it's illegal to be gay? I know a lot of us really aren't in a position to change that but we really should be at least spreading awareness to people who might be able to.

[–]florasisHOMOSEXUAL FEMALE/Pussy is my God and I'm monotheist 11 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Homosexuality acceptance is correlated with wealthy and secularism. Most of the world is poor and religious bigotry is the norm. You can't do much about that.

[–]Willpoll 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That doesn't mean we give up though. Uphill battles never stopped us before. But I get where your coming from.

[–]florasisHOMOSEXUAL FEMALE/Pussy is my God and I'm monotheist 12 insightful - 5 fun12 insightful - 4 fun13 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

It isn't even about giving up. You won't convince billions of people that their imaginary friend likes homosexuality. Homophobia is a side effect of others things, like povertyand ignorance leading people to attach themselves to christianity and islam

[–]Willpoll 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fair

[–]HelloMomo[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Promoting change in other parts of the world, but not being colonialist about it, is... difficult to say the least? and I'm not sure it's even possible.

[–]Gearbeta 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

To be quite frank, one of the things that would help a lot is dropping the TQ+ and reasserting ourselves as functioning normal members of society. I've spoken to people from these homophobic countries and they tell me a big part of why it is so hard to change their laws is because they look to the western world as a template for what would happen if they legalized being gay and they don't like what they see. To a lesser extent, this does also apply to women's rights. They see all the problems we see with TQ+ and apply it to the rest of LGBT and say to themselves "well if we legalize homosexuality, we too will end up with all their problems".

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, crazy transgenders are shown here as "all gay men are like that, they want to dress like women, with bad make-up and sexually harass other people around them".

[–]Willpoll 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So because it's difficult we don't try it? Nothing worth doing is a simple undertaking. Besides, the major purpose of colonialism is extension of authority. We aren't doing that. we're trying to hopefully help local politicians and activists to make the fight for equality that little bit easier. Not very colonial about it to me, but maybe I'm wrong. I just want to see people do something. We owe our fellow LGB people in those countries that much.