Friday, March 22, 2019

global LGBTQ movement

I was reading this article from the New York Times and noticed that both Botswana and India started their LGBTQ criminalization law since colonial time.  And it raised some of my concerns about the global LGBTQ movement.
As this article depicted, many countries in the world still criminalize and pathologize LGBTQ people in their countries. But it seems these practices were started since Western culture began to expand to other parts of the world. People in ancient China are tolerant to same-sex behaviors. They were often depicted as some strange hobbies in history books (instead of depicted as criminalities or immoralities). However, nowadays, many people in China deeply believe homosexuality is a psychological disorder. They also believe it is immoral and is incompatible with Chinese culture. Influenced or colonized by Western countries, many countries in the world started their homophobia culture, like what this article described. However, they did not find more effective political strategies that can liberate LGBTQ people yet, as different countries have different political frameworks. LGBTQ identity politics is nearly impossible to be organized in China and many other countries. So is there any strategy we can use to make progress in the global LGBTQ movement?

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