Thread by @TwisterFilm

1./ On the LGBTQ+ gravy train. The latest news from New York reminds us of what's gone wrong with so much of the LGBTQ+ movement. In order to maintain influence with dodgy politicians it's increasingly willing to sacrifice almost any ethical restraint.👇nypost.com/2021/09/05/alp…

2./ How else to explain the head of @HRC, (the US's premier LGBTQ+ group) helping ex-Gov Cuomo, an alleged serial sexual harasser, in attempts to discredit a victim? David and Cuomo's relationship is an emblem of the entitlement that drives planet LGBTQ+. nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-ne…

3./ For 9 years before he was appointed David had worked for Cuomo, the ultimate machine politician, including as Counsel. It's widely thought his appointment was due to Cuomo's influence and the fact he had the powerful Governor's ear. nytimes.com/2021/08/12/nyr…

4./ Just as in Scotland or Malta or other dysfunctional states, Cuomo funneled money, projects and influence to HRC while they in turn packaged up electoral support among an outspoken minority who provided "progressive" glitter on the raw turd of Cuomo's political ego.👇

5./ After his appointment in 2019 David gave Cuomo top vote-winning billing at events. Cuomo paid back the loyalty. Here they are together at the @HRC Gala last year where Cuomo announced Marsha P Johnson would have a Park named after 'her'. How long until Sturgeon does the same?

6./ Given Marsha's reputation as a Stonewall pioneer is largely a fabrication, it's appropriate that even as the announcement was being made Cuomo and David were busy discussing how best to spread stories about alleged victims of the Governor's harassment. newsweek.com/human-rights-c…

7./ To rub in the hypocrisy, just months later, as it became clear his bestie's women accusers were not going to be silenced, Alphonso David had the cheek to publicly rebuke @jk_rowling for her considered defence of women's rights and women's safety. 👇hrc.org/news/hrc-presi…

8./ He dismissed her concerns despite the fact @HRC already faced criticism from women for previously sucking up to another loathsome patron, Harvey Weinstein, when it took out full page ads urging the Academy to vote for his movie 'Imitation Game'. timteeman.com/2015/02/03/the…

9./ It was a strange choice since the movie actually played down Turing's gayness. But when influence is what you care about, and not the truth, incestuous relationships with the powerful come first and gay people become just useful window dressing.

10./ How could it be otherwise? Gay people in the West have most if not all of the rights we need. We live in a time of unparalleled tolerance whatever shifty stats LGBTQ+ organisations dredge up. But to justify their existence the LGBTQ+ organisations HAVE to invent problems.

11./For politicians who've given up on big change this is manna. Groups like @stonewalluk or @HRC fabricate problems which they describe hysterically such as "gay conversion" which gives pols something to wax lyrical on even when they haven't a clue what they're talking about.

12./ Gay conversion is a miniscule concern which in the UK affects only sad sods attracted to nutjob sects. But despite soaring drug deaths, a social care crisis and god knows what other REAL social problems legislators set aside time for this non-issue.

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13./ The tragedy is that this weird LGBTQ+ gravy train which gives politicians a platform to prance on and lobby groups "causes" for which they can keep raising funds now actively works against the interests of gay people, the very people who founded these organisations.

14./ Promoting 'gender identity', or some gender queer menagerie of personality traits doesn't help gay people. In fact it denies the simple reality of biological sex upon which our legal rights and our sense of ourselves have been built.

15./ This LGBTQ+ manufacturing of invented grievances harms LGB people in another way. Instead of taking our place as equal citizens we're endlessly encouraged to bleat and exaggerate. Instead of promoting resilience we're told the world is out to get us. It really isn't.

16./ We're going to have to realise many of "our" organisations are run by people who'd cheerfully sacrifice us to stay in their well-paid jobs. Just take Alphonso David, the LGBTQ+ champion accused of spreading lies about a sexual harassment victim to please his thuggish mentor.