You can see certain topics or narratives emerging in different places. So the idea that the LGBT rights are kind of neo-colonialism or kind of outside or Western imposition is used in many countries. So you can see that, for example, coming from the Russian Duma when the argument is that we’re, you know, just trying to justify an invasion of the Ukraine by saying that the state is protecting it from Western decadence. And then there’s a lot of talk about gay pride, great trans people in kind of war in war rhetoric, which sounds bizarre almost, but is used in this way. We see that in some global South countries when there are two, you can see this idea that LGBT rights are painted as a kind of Western or colonial imposition. The irony there, of course, being that colonialism actually defused anti-sodomy laws around much of the world, which was actually introducing homophobia that erased the queer local cultures or at least made them much more invisible. So these are the ways some of these strategies develop, and it’s easy to develop them in these movements because there are these networks that bring a lot of these thinkers together where these arguments are proliferated, where they’re connected to these kind of threat tropes that we talked about earlier.
[Clip] LGBTI rights framed as Western colonization
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