For years, activists have been trying to minimize the role of gay men in the battle for their own rights
Gay men spent decades fighting for legal rights and social acceptance — but some far left circles now consider them insufficiently radical. Consequently, there has been an emerging “woke homophobia” that denigrates gay men and attempts to minimize their role in LGBTQ history. This new strain of homophobia shows how woke advocacy for minority rights is often politically conditional — ”We will fight for you, so long as you adopt our ideology.”
Because woke homophobia hasn’t been formally studied, it’s hard to break down and analyze. However, examples have been collected in an infamous Google photo album, which is publicly accessible and includes over 4,500 screenshots of woke activists attacking gay men — calling them “fa***ts” who will “burn in hell” and need to be “erased” and “cancelled,” while advocating that society “normalize homophobia,” among other things.
Among some radical leftists, being a “cis gay” (cisgendered gay man) has become a slur.
Some parts of the woke left deny the existence of same-sex attraction and have attempted to brand homosexuality as a “genital fetish” that needs to be unlearned — conversion therapy, more or less. If a gay man prefers male genitals and rejects pressure to “interrogate” his orientation, that is wildly offensive to some.