The commercialisation of queer culture

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Topic started by Simon B (mtnwalkr)

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mtnwalkrFri 15/04/11 12:25

Afternoon Gents, Here's the latest from St Peter of Tatchell. I happen to believe that he's totally right - increasing numbers of homos are only too happy to buy into a vacuous consumer-obsessed culture. Discuss. The commercialisation of queer culture Peter Tatchell interviewed in Green Left Weekly, Australia (excerpt): "It's quite obvious that LGBTI people have fought for and won (in the West) a significant degree of legal equality and social acceptance within the confines of a free market capitalist system. "These gains have not been given to us. We've had to fight long and hard. "But this freedom is somewhat ambiguous in that it has gone hand-in-hand with the corporate commercialisation of LGBTI culture. "Nowadays we are so often wooed as consumers rather than citizens and gay culture has been packaged as a commodity and sold back to us for profit. The culture we created now has a price. "Increasingly, we are expected to buy our LGBTI identity through the clothes we wear, our haircuts, the clubs we go to, the music we enjoy. The rampant commercialisation of queer culture is one of the downsides of the freedom that we've won. "It has gone hand in hand with the demise of community spirit and solidarity. Poorer or disabled LGBTI people are often left behind in the rush for the glitz and glamour of what passes as modern, gay culture," said Peter Tatchell. The full interview in Green Left Weekly (Australia) covers Peter Tatchell's 40-plus years of human rights campaigning, his support for both same-sex marriage and alternatives to marriage, the Commonwealth and gay rights in Africa, OutRage! and the links between women's rights and LGBTI rights. Read it here: http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/46976 or here: http://tiny.cc/9l4u6

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