Dear Viswanath,
> One of the dangerous politics of the GLBT is that they > are supporting far right politics. Please donot talk from thin air. Where do you substantiate your arguments? What do you mean by glbt, very loosely? Where do you substantiate your arguments? Do you mean all the lgbt groups in the world? You must have seen the forwards in this group also about left lgbt/queer In the name of > ISLAMOPHOBIA,New right political parties of European > countries are winning their agenda very easily.They > are getting a googd support from glbt communitarian > politics. WRONG! WRONG! You please refer the debate by queer groups in the west on Islamophobia. The response from queer communities to the debate on Ahmedinejad's talk in Columbia university is also contradicting your argument. See my own post in this list on 10th of this month (http://www.workers.org/2007/us/arizona-1011/ > In india,look at the position of GAY activist,Asok > kavi who writes the pathetic conditions of working > classes of Mumbai,but he is an out right anti-muslim. Why do you equate Ashokrowkavi, with the lgbt community in India. There are groups like Labia in Mumbai itself, which actively participated in the post Gujarath riots campaigns. 'Voices against 377', 'Prism' Delhi, Nigah Media, Sangma Bangalore, Vividha, to name a few groups. Haven't you also noticed the participation and debates within Sahayatrika to other movements like the anti-ADB campaign? Nigah came in support for NBA, last year during the Jantar Mantar fast in Delhi. And also on individual capacity many LGBT/queer people work with various other movements. Ashwini Sukthankar and Ranjana Padhi has been very vocal of workers issues along with their sexuality activism I > can support his gay activism but not anti-muslim > politics. Well, that is good, your support is very much needed. I also see his contributions as very significant, particularly coming out in Mumbai in 1990s. And like many other queer people I donot agree with Humsafar trust's positions on Muslims. > in india,we also need such a critical coalition. I think that there is an already existing coalition or presence. But many times the presence of queer people in other struggles is not documented or acknowledged. This is not to blame on the queer community itself. Also we need to look, how much other groups have been able to look at sexuality issues? Sex worker, kothi, hijra communities have a large number of Muslim, Dalit people. In fact, there are discussions going on in the sexuality circles on caste and class, thought not on a larger level. But what about other groups? Many queer people get politicised by the venues, which even NGOs like Humsafar trust provides. And lgbt movement in the west has strong connections with working class and black movements. Genet has travelled all the way from France by swimming through the sea to attend black panther meeting. And the famour rainbow coalition of black people, queer and many other minorities is one example of the American coalitions. I also came through a radical journal of seventies called gayleft, which talked of class and sexuality issues a lot. The link is http://gayleft1970s.org Aryan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
