Re: [Marxism] Dave Thorstad letter to Socialist Alternative

[Michael Sims <mjsbpmagen-mxmail@xxxxxxxx>]

Wow! reading that, or better said, trying to read that was like reading
binary code.

Whatever happened to spacing?

Michael

Louis Proyect wrote:
> now describe as LGBT people" should be tagged with that moniker?  A few
> years ago, it was "GLBT"; now, the "L" has gained first place.  Why is
> that?  Is this supposed to reflect some alleged superdiscrimination
> against lesbians?  Are lesbians more important than gay men?  Maybe
> that's why since the late 1970s (a product of noise making about
> "lesbian separatism") lesbians seemingly permanently occupy the first
> place in the New York City gay pride march every June.  Eric Bentley
> once asked me why gay men and lesbians couldn't alternate in occupying
> this place. I had no answer, because the sheer reasonableness of the
> notion was unacceptable at a time when lesbian separatism was turning
> gay men into the enemy.  The solution to "lesbian invisibility" (the
> mantra whereby lesbian separatists tried to muscle their way out of
> perceived second-class status in the gay/lez movement of the mid-1970s)
> would seem more democratic if the front row were alternated between
> lesbians one year, gay men the next.  This pc imposition of the latest
> alphabet soup acronym was not the result of any discussion or democratic


        

        
                
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