The Twilight of Equality? by Lisa Duggan

Author:Lisa Duggan [Duggan, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8070-9580-5
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2003-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Bawer looks unabashedly to a trickle down vision of equality as corporate largess, and gleefully anticipates the Disneyfication of democracy as boardroom dealmaking.

As basic left-bashing, though, Bawer’s attacks on Vaid have been mild and inconsequential compared with the efforts of IGF writer Rob Blanchard (now deceased) and his associates in San Antonio, Texas, who joined with Christian right forces to attack the reputation and funding of the progressive, lesbian-of-color led arts and community organization, the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center. In 1997, Blanchard and five other white gay men claiming affiliation with the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, the San Antonio Equal Rights Political Caucus, the Log Cabin Republicans, and the San Antonio Gay and Lesbian Community Center, signed a letter to the city’s mayor and city council members asking that Esperanza be denied city funding, arguing that,

it is a political organization—obsessed with victimhood and using “sexism, racism, classism, and homophobia” as rhetorical and political ploys to extract guilt money from individuals and organizations, including the City. Esperanza has made its battle for tax dollars a referendum on homosexuality and we resent this. But Esperanza’s greatest damage to the gay and lesbian community is the divisiveness it creates within by repeatedly injecting issues of class, race and gender for self-serving purposes.23

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