Watching this in real time has been incredibly frustrating.
Mainstream LGBTQ lobby orgs sucked down all the money and then waltzed into distraction fights and “awareness” campaigns instead of supporting lobbying against surveillance or for sex work decriminalization.
We’ve been yelling!
Mainstream LGBTQ lobby orgs sucked down all the money and then waltzed into distraction fights and “awareness” campaigns instead of supporting lobbying against surveillance or for sex work decriminalization.
We’ve been yelling!
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Evan Greer
For years, my org @fightforthefuture.org has begged mainstream LGBTQ orgs to take surveillance seriously as an issue impacting queer and trans folks.
Yes, everyone needs to take steps to protect themselves, but we also need the lobbying powerhouses that are supposed to represent us to come correct
Yes, everyone needs to take steps to protect themselves, but we also need the lobbying powerhouses that are supposed to represent us to come correct
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They can use existing laws to put away any queer person in the country if they determine enforcing “obscenity” works
Begging them to listen https://bsky.app/profile/evangreer.bsky.social/post/3ljhw7xflzs2t
It’s getting harder and harder to say what can be done now, but these organizers and experts are closer to the problem than awareness orgs (advertising consultants)