Earlier this month I posted about right wing politicians who are courting — and succeeding in garnering — gay votes. Considering how right wing parties have historically been adamantly opposed to the legalization of gay people, let alone believing being LGBT is something to celebrate, I wonder that gay people could be gulled into giving them their votes.
Part of it seems to be that some of the right wing leaders are themselves out gay people. Surely gay politicians wouldn’t be working against their best interests! That never happens.
Part of it seems to be describing a common enemy.
In France, Marine le Pen [leader of the right wing National Rally Party] openly courted the gay vote in 2017 with the message that her policies were all that stood between them and Islam’s ‘hatred of homosexuals,’ as she put it in a televised debate with [future president Emmanuel] Macron.
Other right wing parties in Europe have also sought gay voters’ support to shut down the immigration of Muslims.
Besides the tactical considerations, Gevisser says LGBT people have “bec[o]me embodiments of progress and worldliness to some,” even on the right of the political spectrum, it seems.
source: The Pink Line: journeys across the world’s queer frontiers
by Mark Gevisser
2020. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
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