20231127 African Gay artist. Reviving Gay focused activities. The failure of the LGBTQXYZ Democrats on Gay health.
We need to reach across political divides to have a Gay politics instead of a LGBTQXYZ politics.
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We need to reach across political divides to have a Gay politics and not an LGBTQXYZ politics.
One reason Gays have lost control of their movement is that they haven’t developed a Gay politics and Gay program that reaches across political divides. Instead they are worried what their straight colleagues will think. The left as well as the right are often “pick me” Gays. The people running the various LGBTQXYZ groups are appendages of their various movements concerned to prove to their straight colleagues of their worthiness.
The left likes to talk about respectability politics, but they practice respectability politics also, with their straight colleagues.
Part of this I attribute to the fact that regardless of what a Gay person might say, deep down they are basically tolerating being Gay and don’t have self-worth as a Gay person.
Some Gay person will be having some useful idea or be developing something of worth to the Gay community and we won’t like the color of his socks. Or we are embarrassed by the Gay Pups or Gay Republicans or Gay Democrats or Gay circuit people. This needs to stop.
Reviving Gay focused activities.
Alberto Bustamnte realizes that “queerification” is the shutdown of Gay activities and in particular Gay sex. He wants to “Let’s go back to my letter and focus on the G.”
He realizes that LGBTQXY initialism is repressive of Gay activities. I think that there will be others that realize the “queer” and LGBTQXYZ is about non-Gays running the Gay community and managing the Gay community to fit into establishment needs and various political agenda and neglecting Gay wants and needs.
LGBTQ initialism and “queerification,” is part of respectability politics.
The following is a quote from https://buttmagazine.com/interviews/mexican-jihad/
Alberto Bustamante: …. And then I became really bored with the whole queer identity politics, como, side of things. And I was like, ‘Let’s go back to my letter and focus on the G – like in gay.’ And I guess that’s what Mexican Jihad & Co. means for me. It’s taking a special interest in the homosocial space, the gay men that are around me: my lovers, my friends.
Interviewer: Cute.
Alberto Bustamante: It’s like I went from the club to the queer to the gay space. Maybe this sounds corny, but it’s like this self-affirmation where now I’m fully empowered within my identity and who I am. And that means being specific. Maybe 5 or ten years ago, I wasn’t comfortable enough with presenting my brand, or my work as gay sex or gay lifestyle. And now I’m in the space where this is what I want to do and how I want to present myself to the world.
That trajectory is really interesting. It does feel like there’s an opening now for doing things that are gay-specific that don’t have to feel like they’re being exclusive to the rest of the queer community.
I mean, there’s real consequences in this tendency of trying to queerify or diversify everything. Like all these party spaces and moments and situations that used to be exclusive to gay men. One of them, for example – and this became really exacerbated by the pandemic – is how gay men really socialize their sex and sexualize their social life. A lot of gay parties were also a sex space for us historically. And when the party became diverse, a lot of that sex activity went away. It went back into private spaces, like apartments and hotel rooms.
Interviewer: True.
Note, that this publication doesn’t have corporate advertisers. Once you have corporate advertisers their little self-righteous departments will want you to shut down sexual content just like Verizon shut down Tumblr.
Their Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/buttmagazine/
Some links.
https://linktr.ee/buttmagazine
Establishment neglect of STDs and the neglect of the LGBTQXYZ co-called leadership.
The article is about a possible new strain of syphilis. The cases involve straight people, but this easily could spread to Gays. I quote the end.
Even without a new worrisome strain of T. pallidum around, the state of sexually transmitted infections in the US is dire. Rates of STIs, including syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea, have been skyrocketing for years. In a report earlier this year, the CDC noted that national cases of syphilis increased 74 percent from 2017 to 2021. In 2022, the number of babies born with syphilis was more than 10 times the number in 2012.
There is some progress, by accident in getting a partially effective vaccine for gonorrhea, but nothing for syphilis and I haven’t heard anything about chalmydia.
This is clearly a serious concern for the Gay community, but it is not on the list of medical priorities for the so-called LGBTQXYZ leadership.
The Democrats are missing in action on mpox.
The very vital issues of Gay health are neglected by the LGBTQXYZ. Mpox isn’t on the agenda of the LGBTQXYZ Democrats or other liberal parties elsewhere. It has vanished from the LGBTQXYZ news reporting.
Also, what are we doing to prevent the next tropical diseases from becoming a major Gay health problem?
Obesity leads to inflammation of all your organs.
Fat liberation is a death cult.
The title is “Metaflammation in obesity and its therapeutic targeting.” You can only read the abstract for this article online.
Obesity-associated inflammation is a systemic process that affects all metabolic organs. Prominent among these is adipose tissue, where cells of the innate and adaptive immune system are markedly changed in obesity, implicating these cells in a range of processes linking immune memory to metabolic regulation. Furthermore, weight loss and weight cycling have unexpected effects on adipose tissue immune populations. Here, we review the current literature on the roles of various immune cells in lean and obese adipose tissue. Within this context, we discuss pharmacological and nonpharmacological approaches to obesity treatment and their impact on systemic inflammation.
The part I boldfaced should warn you about crash dieting and gaining the weight. This newsletter has warned against starving diets as unsustainable.
Basically this article points out that being obese has immediate medical effects. The goal of the researchers is to give obese people medication to try to mitigate the effects. This is not a bad goal for these scientists. Some people will be obese and it would be good to minimize the negative effects.
What is better is that we learn to regulate our weights without starvation and a sustainable habit of living and eating so you don’t have “weight cycling.”
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adf9382
Had a bulletin on fighting censorship.
Listed ten things we can do to resist censorship.
https://edwardhsebesta.substack.com/p/censorship-ten-things-we-can-do-to
African Gay artist imagines a pre-Christian Afria with its Gods.
From the article.
“Chuchu’s photographic series Pagans imagines a pre-Christian and pre-Muslim Kenya far removed from the contemporary moment,” says Art & Queer Culture. “As Chuchu explains, Pagans is ‘a reconstruction of future-past anonymous African deities, their devotees and forgotten religious rites’. He is interested in pre-colonial Africa, before Christian missionaries and Islamic beliefs imposed strict views about homosexuality.
This is the article about his book “Pagans.”
They speak in English. The subtitles are in Spanish.
I had a more indepth article on Jim Chuchu in this post in this newsletter.
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Great problems, I see a lot of potential to liberate ourselves, I especially like the standing up for ourselves (as specifically gay). Deep african videos, they look greeeat.