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January 16-31, 2025
Teletubbies Pride installation at Siam Center in Bangkok. Is the West becoming peripheral to the LGBT movement?
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM;bc36a388.2501
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:11:01 +0000
My field trip to Thailand in June 2024 was to observe Gay religious life there and make comparisons and also to do field trips to photodocument temples there. However, while there I would come across these huge Pride exhibits which were physically spread out over a location. Even when thinking I had all the parts of it, one a return visit, I would find large sections which I had over looked.
So photo documenting them as well as the temples became my goal. Even though the effective temperature would be over 100F, I pushed myself to the limit to cover everything.
Thailand has become a nation ahead of the nations in the West in terms of LGBT acceptance and rights. The claim in this article is that there is 90% acceptance. Maybe there are some issues with the polling, and it is only 80%, but that is quite different than nations in the West.
https://www.thailandnow.in.th/life-society/is-thailand-truly-a-queer-paradise/
Being there in June 2024, you could sense living in a nation in which LGBT were accepted as part of society and were supported by the national government.
Agains, one of the manifestation of this support for the LGBT are these huge Pride displays which put up for June Pride month in malls or in front of buildings. I have finally started processing the images into videos. This video does a walking tour of the Siam Center displays which were on multiple floors.
There were more major displays in Bangkok, and I am going to try to make one video per month of these displays.
Contesting hotel space: Circuit Gays thrown on to the streets by AKA sorority who is having Harris speaking to their convention.
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM;70ee4e0.2501
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:01:42 +0000
On Saturday, July 6, 2024, hundreds of Gay men at the Dallas Crowne Plaza Downtown were abruptly thrown onto the streets of Dallas on a weekend without any accomodation after members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority members complained about them.
The Crowne Plaza has rented space for a Daddyland meeting the prior year and certainly new what to expect. However, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was having Kamala Harris speaking at their convention and so felt an importance which the owner of the Dallas Crowne Plaza Downtown perceived that the hotel owner just threw the Gays onto the streets abruptly, some didn't know until they had been expelled until they returned to the hotel from outings. It isn't known if whether some Gays had to spend the night on the streets.
One might expect that local LGBTQXYZ+ organizations outraged over this gross violation of rights. However, individuals and the local LGBTQ+ paper instead attacked the Daddyland event and participants. To the Queer studies people and LGBTQ+ groups and media, Circuit Gays represent the sum of all villanies. They work out, have lots of sex, and have fun with club music. They are not respectable at all.
Also, the LGBTQ+ movement in America is an extension of the Democratic Party so it is fine that Circuit Gays are thrown out into the streets if supporters of Kamala Harris are annoyed.
The local paper, Dallas Voice, published claims by an ex-employee of Daddyland without substantiation, and these minor claims of lack of communication, were considered sufficient to dump a hundred plus people onto the streets without accomodation.
A t-shirt was issued, "I survived Daddyland 2024" and sold by Swish Embassy, who do t-shirts for Circuit Gays. What happened was circulated through the channels that the Gay party circuit has which are global.
It has been commented that the LGBTQ+ groups which supposedly represent Gay interests are actually actively hostile to them. This incident supports those claims. The reality is that the Queer studies people are disconnected from the regular Gays. The whole point of making Pride events family friendly is to repress Gay men's behavior. At a 2014 Houston event it was determined that thrown condomns from floats wasn't family friendly.
Whatever the expectations of Dallas Crowne Plaza Downtown were when they threw hundreds of Gays on to the street were, Kamala Harris is defeated at the polls and her political party is without any power. However, the memory of the July 6, 2024 event remains with many.
The documentation, links to articles, screen captures of commentary are at this report.
Gay Men's Conference Jan 25, 2025.
I posted this on Jan. 25, 2025 because the meeting place was secret so the group wouldn’t be subject to attacks.
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM;dd045692.2501
Subject: Gay Men's Conference Jan 25, 2025.
Date:
Sat, 25 Jan 2025 13:25:31 +0000
The Gay Men's Conference is today Jan. 25, 2025. There are 140 attendees. They had a waiting list since they couldn't accomodate more.
Evidently the threat of violent assaults against those who dissent from the ideology of Queer studies or the LGBQXYZ+ has resulted in the location being secret and control on how the conference is announced.
However, as I write this listserv notice, here in Texas, the conference is already half-way over. I don't have a university president who will be "deeply troubled" nor students who will "feel unsafe" by my existence so I am able to announce this conference.
This is a grass roots effort, with participation from around the world. I am a sponsor for $500 for the group. Pizza.
They are focused on gender ideology, I am focused on the basic needs of the Gay community which are neglected by the current movement.
The average Gay person really isn't directly impacted by gender ideology, at most there is a meet up where they realize that the person is a transman and the transman is politely rejected. Despite really offensive things that "Gay" transmen say, they are also a tragedy. I focus on how there isn't any Gay agenda in the LGBTQ+ to address concerns of Gays believing that will be of more interest to Gays. Despite the concept of informed consent being a basic ethical concept, some trans ideologes support the idea of stealth so in some Gay spaces lacking good lighing caution should be exercised.
There needs to be a periodical of academic writings in support of the Gay movement by writing about history, literature, events, etc.
I will be working to help bring this periodical into existence. It might be that pseudonyms are necessary and that I think that can be accomodated.
I am fairly sure that there are Gays in universities who would support our efforts, but don't want a committee investigating them, students harrassing them in stairwells, university presidents stating that they are deeply troubled, or students wailing that they feel unsafe by the existence of the person with a dissenting ideology.
I am your contact point.
I am not sure what their announced out put will be, but I will be reporting on it in my hastily written and riddled with grammatical monstrosities newsletter. https://edwardhsebesta.substack.com/
I remember that thailand travel. Breathtaking photos 💖.