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   Catherynne M. Valente (catvalente@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 04:51:14 JST Catherynne M. Valente

   I’ll be honest, this may be one of my finest paragraphs.

   https://catvalente.substack.com/p/it-may-not-be-praxis-but-we-need

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     Nikola (alfa_vuk@metalhead.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 04:51:08 JST Nikola

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     • Jeremy Kahn

     @trochee @Catvalente I know, I am disagreeing. It is a distraction. The betterment of LGBT rights in the US wasn't because of corporations or marketing firms. It was because activists have worked concertedly on it for decades.

     The key thing is corporate pride started in earnest after the Supreme Court decision to allow gay marriage. When it was safe to support LGBT causes companies started doing it.

     Companies are not LGBT allies. If they could make money being anti-LGBT they would.

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     Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 04:51:11 JST Jeremy Kahn

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     • Nikola

     @alfa_vuk
     I think you need to read the article again (or maybe for the first time)

     Cat is not calling corporate pride a distraction
     @Catvalente

     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ repeated this.
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     Nikola (alfa_vuk@metalhead.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 04:51:13 JST Nikola

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     @Catvalente you’re right. It’s not praxis, it’s vibe politics and as long as the LGBT community is committed to vibe politics we’ll always be in this limbo where there’s a perpetual danger of the pendulum swinging the other way.

     Corporate Pride lets everyone pretend something is being done, something is getting better while more and more queer people (alongside everyone else) become hungry and homeless thanks to those very same corporations that fly the rainbow flag every July.