Decriminalize homosexuality!

The nasty guy put a line in his State of the Union address about ending HIV and AIDS within ten years. Some sites have treated this as serious and have explored what it might take.

But knowing the source of that goal I wondered about the underlying reasoning and how it might be twisted to not be a good thing at all.

It seems the goal to eradicate HIV has become a goal of decriminalizing homosexuality around the world. When the nasty guy was asked about it he said I don’t know what you’re talking about.

This effort appears to be coming from the vice nasty guy (which is why the nasty guy is clueless). And now I know there is an underhanded reason for the effort.

And Matthew Rodriguez of Out explains it. The VNG using an old racist tactic.

The truth is, this is part of an old colonialist handbook. In her essay, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” postcolonial theorist Gayatri Spivak coined the term “White men saving brown women from brown men” to describe the racist, paternalistic process by which colonizing powers would decry the way men in power treated oppressed groups, like women, to justify attacking them. Spivak was referencing the British colonial agenda in India. But Grennell’s attack might be a case of white men trying to save brown gay men from brown straight men, to the same end.

This is paternalism, not altruism.