" I really would have loved to be in pink like everyone else and - TopicsExpress



          

" I really would have loved to be in pink like everyone else and my friends, but principle dictates that given such a blatant act of discrimination I couldn’t come without any mark of protest. I saw Alfian Sa’at staging his own protest with the following placard – “Queerness is radical; not sanitised; not commodified”. I couldn’t agree more. It is unfortunate that (as exemplified by Pink Dot) the “LGBT community”, in its pursuit to be accepted by mainstream society, has chosen the less noble path of presenting an elite “sanitised” and “commodified” gay/lesbian prototype in the hopes for acceptance. At last we now know what is meant by the stated vision of an “inclusive” society – that the gay/lesbian elite be “included” by the mainstream. The celebration of true diversity – the non-elite within the “LGBT community”, is sorely lacking and, in this case, deliberately avoided."
Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 06:36:15 +0000

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