Putting money ahead of human rights or I got mine, **** everyone else.
Gay men are increasingly voting for anti-LGBTQ right-wingers, says new studyI think this hits the nail on the head…
LGBTQ Nation
By Daniel Villarreal
February 2, 2019
In the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, 82% of LGBTQ voters voted for Democrats, America’s more pro-LGBTQ political party. But in many other Western countries “right-wing and virulently homophobic parties enjoy considerable support among gay voters,” says Samuel Huneke, a gay historian at Stanford University who studies modern European culture.
Huneke looked at voting data from 14 elections in five Western countries — the US, UK, France, Germany and Brazil — and then published a recent article on the troubling phenomenon. It it, Huneke observed:
LGBT voters in other [non-U.S.] countries were less likely to support the conservative (or in some cases far-right) party by an average of only seven percent. And when you look only at gay men, the results are even more striking. In other countries, gay men were, on average, more likely than the general electorate to support the conservative or far-right party.
“Gay politics in other countries prove that LGBT people — especially gay men — are not inherently progressive voters. Give them the chance and they will vote for xenophobia, for racism, and for misogyny. Democrats (and progressive parties in other countries, for that matter) cannot and must not take the gay vote for granted,” Huneke concludes.They vote their pocket books and they don’t care if he is a scoundrel as long that they can keep their money, in other words they are “Gay Inc.”
"They vote their pocket books and they don’t care if he is a scoundrel as long that they can keep their money, in other words they are “Gay Inc.”
ReplyDeleteYeah and I wonder what are they going to do when they come for them. Is that all they care about their money. I suppose though across the spectrum of our community you will find pockets of conservative voters, thinking Prizher, Jenner Gay INC, and the likes. This has always been rampant in the white gay male community and can be traced to the break-a-way from the GLF of the GAA white middle class men. But we can only blame our own community too as we have been a single issue tribe since that fateful day in December 1969 and up to today. We have seen it in Ct. over the years. We haven't really educated ourselves to why we are a marginalized people and that those who hate all of the others hate us too. I am sure before the night of the long knives that many in Germany were hot for he Nazi's.