One Can't Be Too Surprised . . .
anonymous
March 23 2010, 03:38:02 UTC
One can't be too surprised of this since the LGBT Center in NYC is not one of the most progressive in the nation, with many closets still awaiting opening up. The position of Bi groups must be still quite precarious in there, since they seem to tiptoe around issues instead of mustering the courage to take them on. This to me reads as if the Center does not really reflect the base or the diversity of LGBTTQ-Poly communities, the different kinds of people that inhabit them but just the glibness of the big apple, queer style, with all-out urban gay men running the scene. It's such a pity! The way I've encountered this is by the perverse sabotage of my voice in the scene, which has been silenced, in one way or another, even though, as myself and many others firmly believe, I have a significant contribution to make. So be it. It's time to open up a whole string of parallel closet doors that imprison sectors of our community into narrowly defined micro-identities that do nothing but produce useless competition among subgroups. Biphobia is bad enough. Yet there is worse, with a whole bunch of taboo subjects that if at all mentioned publicly cause upheavals and all kinds of emotional responses, even though they are common parlance among many progressive groups. Let's become authentic allies instead of glib enemies camouflaged as coalitions. We are losing the forest for the trees! Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD, author of Gaia and the New Politics of Love Blog: http://polyplanet.blogspot.com/
So be it.
It's time to open up a whole string of parallel closet doors that imprison sectors of our community into narrowly defined micro-identities that do nothing but produce useless competition among subgroups. Biphobia is bad enough. Yet there is worse, with a whole bunch of taboo subjects that if at all mentioned publicly cause upheavals and all kinds of emotional responses, even though they are common parlance among many progressive groups. Let's become authentic allies instead of glib enemies camouflaged as coalitions. We are losing the forest for the trees!
Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD, author of Gaia and the New Politics of Love
Blog: http://polyplanet.blogspot.com/
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