You’re 100% right. It’s ts a distraction insofar as it serves to quell the movement. The bourgeois elite gave these protections to queer people out of a singular desire to protect their capital interests. If they can mandate gay marriage is legal and suddenly capital is sharing pride month celebrations and the revolutionary intent behind the push for trans rights and queer liberation is stifled.
We got gay marriage, what’s there to be militant about?
It’s a distraction from the inherent oppressive system that has the ability to marginalize people in the first place.
You’re 100% right. It’s ts a distraction insofar as it serves to quell the movement. The bourgeois elite gave these protections to queer people out of a singular desire to protect their capital interests. If they can mandate gay marriage is legal and suddenly capital is sharing pride month celebrations and the revolutionary intent behind the push for trans rights and queer liberation is stifled.
It’s a distraction from the inherent oppressive system that has the ability to marginalize people in the first place.