Gay Shame
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Gay Shame is a self-described direct action movement that seeks "nothing less than a new queer activism that foregrounds race, class, gender and sexuality, to counter the self-serving 'values' of gay consumerism and the increasingly hypocritical left."
In other words, these folks see mainstream gay rights activism as being too bourgeois and liberal in nature; instead of working for a greater inclusion of queer people in contemporary society, Gay Shame wants to fundamentally change that society.
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- Supports anti-psychiatry.[1]
- Opposes marriage in any form, including same sex marriage.[2]
- Opposes what they call the "non-profit industrial complex" of LGBT groups, for having an "authoritarian and ageist structure that gives power to older LGBT people" while exploiting and claiming to speak for youth,[3] careerism and professionalism,[4] and promoting "gentrification" such as gay business districts.[5]
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[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ "AgainstPsychiatry!", Gay Shame, 2007 August.
- ↑ "Gay Shame Opposes Marriage in Any Form", Gay Shame.
- ↑ "Gay Shame Says No to YES", Gay Shame.
- ↑ R Conrad, "Creating Change or Creating Chains? A Fierce Look at the Non-Profit Industrial Complex", Gay Shame, 2010 July 23.
- ↑ Inez, et al. "Critique of Authoritarianism in the Anti-Gentro Gay BID Campaign", Gay Shame, 2005 January 22.