Re: [Marxism] US president proclaims June "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month"

[David Thorstad <binesi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fred Feldman wrote:
> Attached is a proclamation signed by the President today regarding Lesbian,
> Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.
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>   
Thanks, Fred, for posting this. However, it hardly warrants a serious 
examination, hot air puffery as it is. The Stonewall riots had little to 
do with the spin in this bourgeois co-optation, its reality ignored and 
twisted into the currently palatable bourgeois/Democrat mythology. The 
rebels at the Stonewall Inn were largely street people, teenage gay 
hustlers, drag queens--precisely the kind of social outcasts who are 
still left out of the gay/lez assimilationist bourgeois nicey-nice 
version that strips the movement of rebellion and turns it into little 
more than a marginalized interest group in the bourgeois Rainbow 
Coalition. Their rebellion was not a "GLBT" movement, but rather kick in 
the nuts to the same heterosexist dictatorship that now has largely 
co-opted them. What more to expect from a layer of society that even the 
SWP pronounced utterly lacking in "social weight" back in 1973 (in its 
wretched "Memorandum"), a position, if memory hasn't failed me, that 
Fred also supported. Our Savior places a higher worth on same-sexers 
than the SWP did--but he is exaggerating for political effect.
    Gay lib has been tamed, reduced to a pale shadow of its Stonewall 
spirit, aping failing hetero institutions like marriage and pleading to 
be allowed to kill third world babies for Wall Street. That's nothing 
new: the wind went out of the sails of all 1960s social protest 
movements, including blacks, Hispanics, women, not to mention the 
totally declawed labor movement, and the left itself.
David
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