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The LGBTQ+ bogey to consolidate power
As anthropologist Gayle Rubin wrote in ‘Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality’ (2007), “Disputes over sexual behaviour often become the vehicles for displacing social anxieties and discharging their attendant emotional intensity.”
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Scholar-activist Dennis Altman described gay rights in ‘The emergence of ‘modern’ gay identities and the question of human rights’ (2000) as a ‘marker of modernity’.
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Kirill, in his support to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, linked it to gay pride parades.“Pride parades are designed to demonstrate that sin is one variation of human behaviour. However, discontent arising out of this liberalisation — poverty, crime, corruption, etc.
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Notably, there was significant progress made in the arena of LGBTQ+ rights. Characterising gay pride parades as a “loyalty test” to Western governments, Kirill claimed that Ukraine’s breakaway republics have “fundamentally rejected” them, and that is why Russia’s invasion is “far more important than politics.”
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That’s why in order to join the club of those countries [the NATO], you have to have a gay pride parade,” he said in a sermon in March 2022. After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a wave of liberalisation in Russia — both socially and economically. Russia's Prosecutor General's Office has designated The Moscow Times as an "undesirable" organization, criminalizing our work and putting our staff at risk of prosecution.
This symbolic association with modernity and progress is why gay rights, and the LGBTQ+ community as a whole, become punching bags of conservative movements.
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For authoritarian populists, they thus become trojan horses to consolidate power by dichotomising gay rights and ‘family values’ to, as Rubin put it, “displace social anxieties” in an unjust and unequal neoliberal world order.
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