(Never mind that Spivak herself, who was born in Calcutta and has had high-profile professorships at Cornell, Cambridge, and Columbia, seems to have been saved by white university administrators from what would otherwise have been a very obscure academic career in India.) So they know that it’s not “the job of the white man,” as the postmodern scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has instructed them all, apropos of Western efforts to alleviate gender oppression and sex slavery in the Third World, “to save the brown woman from the brown man” - or, by the same token, to save the terrified brown gay man from a whole bunch of violent brown straight men. These gay news websites are staffed by woke types who’ve taken courses in this or that kind of “studies.” They know what they’re supposed to think - and what they’re never, ever supposed to say. If somebody dares to suggest that, say, Rachel Levine, Biden’s transsexual assistant health secretary, isn’t the most womanly of women, it’s a story deserving of scare headlines about anti-queer bigotry in post-Trump America.īut if judges in Afghanistan are having walls constructed so that they can be dropped on gay men - well, that’s their culture. Of course all this silence on gays in Afghanistan is in perfect accord with the unwritten rules regarding crimethink in the year 2021. Nor was there anything about gays in Afghanistan at the website of Human Rights Campaign, the nominal gay-rights organization - now basically a trans lobby - whose sleazy history of “ whor itself out” to Clintons, Obamas, and other Democratic politicians was illuminatingly outlined by Daniel Greenfield in an article on August 12. There was also a breaking story about allegations of lip-synching on a drag show on British TV. Or, for that matter, mean anything much at all. When I turned from the Gay Express to other sites, I found nary a word about the Taliban’s grim plans.Īt Pink News (UK), the highlighted stories concerned the firing of a gay teacher by a Christian school in Sydney, Australia a ban on Pride flags at another school in Newburg, Oregon and the loss of a lawsuit by Hobby Lobby, a chain of arts-and-crafts stores, which had refused to let M-to-F transsexuals use its ladies’ rooms.Īt the Advocate, the picture was much the same, with scream headlines about some C-list television actress who supposedly challenges stereotypes by being a lesbian Asian-American about the teenage child of Enimem, who has come out as “ genderfluid and bisexual” and about a ruling by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services that “gender affirmation surgery for legal minors” is “child abuse.” (Hurrah, by the way.)įinally, at Gay Times (UK), the top news items were largely about celebrities you never heard of coming out as “queer” - which these days, of course, doesn’t necessarily mean gay. the Kiwi website noted that “ hile homosexuality has always remained illegal in Afghanistan, laws making it punishable by death were repealed when the United States invaded in 2001.”īut that, warned the website, will surely be reversed, given Taliban judge Gul Rahim’s recent assurance, in an interview with Bild(Germany), that gays, under a new Taliban regime, would be “crushed to death by toppling walls.”īut that story was, as noted, an outlier in the gay Anglosphere. never to say anything positive about the U.S., and especially about Republican governments in the U.S. In what seems a strict violation of the unwritten rule of Western gay media - i.e.
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Under the headline “Taliban Plan to Crush Gay Men to Death as they Close in on Capturing Afghanistan,” the Gay Express reminded readers that during the years of Taliban rule (1996-2001), adulterers were executed, thieves subjected to amputation, girls over 10 denied schooling, movie theaters closed, Western TV and music banned, women forced into burkas, and men ordered to wear beards. In the last couple of days, as the Taliban consolidated its position in the Afghan capital, I had to go all the way to New Zealand to find an English-language gay news website which acknowledged that this lightning reconquistawasn’t exactly a great development for gay Afghans.
Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.