By Laura Flanders
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
June
is LGBT Pride month in the US and there has been a lot to celebrate.
From marriage to the military, LGBT people have won acceptance, but that
doesn't mean we've banished, poverty, terror and shame. The
unacceptable pervades our profit-mad society - and that's nothing of
which to be proud. So, what's next for the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender and queer) movement? I asked longtime activist and
organizer Amber Hollibaugh.
A self-described "half-gypsy, white
trash, former sex-worker, hooker and sex radical," Hollibaugh is the
author of the best-selling memoir, "My Dangerous Desires." After forty
years, her heart is still set, not on admittance to some sad status quo
for LGBTQ people, but rather, on social transformation.
LGBTQ
movements carry a special burden of oppression on account of being
associated with sexuality, she says, but they also the hold a particular
promise and power, not just for individual liberation, but also for
society. The erotic, she says, renews our imagination and binds us to
the future in profound ways:
"Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream ... and desire is part of that dream."
With so much still to change, this is
no time to privatize and hush. It's time to talk ever louder and
ever-more publicly about dreams and desire and wanting.
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