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Bruce McArthur: Toronto serial killer destroyed gay safe space
BBC News, Toronto
In a small park in the heart of Toronto's Queer Village, about 200 people assembled in the snow to mourn the victims of an alleged serial killer.
Many wore armbands painted with the words "love", "heal", "rise", "grieve". The words were later used in a call-and-response between organisers and the big crowd.
"Today we grieve," they said, and the synonyms echoed back from the crowd.
"Today we resist. Today we heal. Today we rise. Today, of all days, we love."
A year later, those names were read aloud in a different kind of call-and-response, as Bruce McArthur, 67, pled guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder.
Who is the accused?
McArthur had grown up in rural Ontario and married a woman in the 1980s.
He knew he was gay from a young age, but tried to ignore it, court documents for an assault charge would later reveal.
The grandfather and father of two came out in his 40s after abruptly leaving his family in Oshawa and moving to Toronto, where he became a re
Capitalism Made Gay Identity Doable. Now We Must Annihilate Capitalism.
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- Meagan Day
John D’Emilio wrote the first draft of “Capitalism and Same-sex attracted Identity” in 1979. Originally delivered as a speech and later published as an essay, the ideas in it were informed partly by D’Emilio’s intensive political self-education in a gay men’s Marxist reading group in the years between Stonewall and the AIDS crisis.
Gay activists diligently studying Marx’s Capital together has not necessarily been a frequent occurrence throughout American history, but phenomena of this type did occur more frequently during a few years in the seventies, when activists briefly understood anti-capitalism to be a self-evident component of gay liberation. In keeping with those politics, “Capitalism and Gay Identity” ends with an exhortation to oppose not merely homophobic oppression, narrowly defined, but exploitation and economic inequality writ large.
“Capitalism and Gay Identity” presents a Marxist history of the emergence of modern homosexual subjectivity, grounded in an analysis of changing modes of production and material conditions. This interpretation of our history is uncommon in LGBT political
In 2017, Germany’s Cabinet approved a bill that would expunge the convictions of tens of thousands of German men for “homosexual acts” under that country’s anti-gay law known as “Paragraph 175.” That rule dates back to 1871, when modern Germany’s first legal code was created.
It was repealed in 1994. But there was a serious movement to repeal the law in 1929 as part of a wider LGBTQ rights movement. That was just before the Nazis came to power, magnified the anti-gay law, then sought to annihilate gay and transgender Europeans.
The story of how close Germany – and much of Europe – came to liberating its LGBTQ people before violently reversing that trend under new authoritarian regimes is an protest lesson showing that the history of LGBTQ rights is not a write down of constant progress.
The first LGBTQ liberation movement
In the 1920s, Berlin had nearly 100 gay and dyke bars or cafes. Vienna had about a dozen gay cafes, clubs and bookstores. In Paris, certain quarters were renowned for open displays of lgbtq+ and trans nightlife. Even Florence, Italy, had its own gay district, as did many smaller European cities.
Filmsbegan depicting sympathetic lgbtq+ characters. Protests were or
Colorado Pastor Claims LGBT People Will “Destroy Everything”
01/09/2013
Washington– A Colorado pastor took to the airwaves this week to assert that the nation’s “embrace of homosexuality” stands to “destroy society…destroy lives…destroy families, we’ll destroy everything.” It’s not the first period Pastor Dave Beuhner, who heads up Christ the King Church in Larkspur, has blasted the LGBT community. According to Right Wing Watch, Buehner has previously compared having same-sex attracted friends to befriending the likes of cannibals and molesters, and even linked the growing national sustain for marriage equality to the tragic elementary educational facility shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
“Pastor Buehner’s shrill claims that LGBT people are somehow akin to cannibals and child molesters, and that advancing equality will demolish our society, is exemplary of an extremist viewpoint that is not palatable to the majority of Americans or the majority of people of faith,” said HRC Vice President of Communications Fred Sainz. “While his outlandish claims don’t deserve even an ounce of gravitas,
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