Thread by @TwisterFilm

1./ Is the LGBTQ+ lobby fit for purpose? If it's not erasing women's rights or promoting puberty blockers... #Stonewall messes with the minds of 2 year olds.👇
But perhaps it's the response to monkeypox which has best revealed the lobby's malign idiocy.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

2./ The LGBTQ+ lobby's approach to monkeypox has been marked by all its trademark flaws: bullying groupthink, a bizarre inability to face facts and utter complacency about risks. These have contributed to monkeypox now being declared a global emergency.👇
theguardian.com/world/2022/jul…

3./ For years the LGBTQ+ lobby assured us it understood risks, whether it was of puberty blockers or trans access to women's spaces. That always seemed unlikely. After all, it denied anything happened at WiSpa right up until the alleged perp was charged.
nypost.com/2021/09/17/wi-…

4./ What monkeypox reveals is that when it comes to risks the LGBTQ+ lobby actually hasn't a clue. Only now are gay men being allowed to say "monkeypox is a gay thing." This appeared on July 19th. Why did it take so long for this obvious fact to be stated?
losangelesblade.com/2022/07/19/mon…

5./ The problem is that for weeks most of the LGBTQ+ lobby either dismissed the virus as inconsequential or resisted and even denounced any attempt to link monkeypox with gay men. Here's a lobbyist from @UNAIDS lambasting such a suggestion on May 27th.👇
lemonde.fr/en/environment…

6./ Here's another article the same day reporting on how LGBTQ+ activists were afraid of stigmatisation which might "spread like a virus". If only they'd been more afraid of something else that was spreading like a virus:...the ACTUAL monkeypox virus.🤦‍♂️
thestar.com/life/health_we…

7./ Notoriously, weeks ago, leading LBTQ+ activists denounced @ALLIANCELGB for highlighting the link between monkeypox and gay men, calling it medical disinformation or a "vile" homophobic trope. Now they're complaining about how that same link isn't being made clearly enough.👇

8./ When I pointed out Owen Jones's inconsistency he responded with jibes. It's par for the course. Name-calling and misrepresentation are the lobby's reflex reactions. The validity of an opponent's argument seems to depend for Owen on how much sex he thinks you're getting. 🤦‍♂️👇

9./ @ALLIANCELGB put out its first post on monkeypox on May 17th. This summarised information from our discussions with experts. At that stage it was still assumed the virus was transmitted -as usual- through close contact or in the air. 👇

https://twitter.com/ALLIANCELGB/status/1526460412484534277?s=20&t=5JAkh6PNA1MaxM0rztCLbA

10./ On May 19th I posted this briefing: everything you might want to know about monkeypox. It pointed out a previous outbreak in the US had nothing to do with sex. The virus had been transmitted through contact with exotic pets. Things soon changed... 👇

https://twitter.com/TwisterFilm/status/1527322690746712064?s=20&t=0M8QzmHjpwftbmTrInvlfw

11./ A few days later it became clear that sex venues catering mainly to gay men had driven the European surge in monkeypox. That startling revelation which suggested possible transmission during sex appeared in articles like this from @PBS on May 23rd. 👇
pbs.org/newshour/healt…

12./ The evidence was mounting that somehow the virus had found a new way to transmit itself (during sex) in a new population (gay men). On the same day, May 23rd, Pink News reported a gay sauna in Madrid had been closed down due to cases linked to it.👇
pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/23/mon…

13./ By the end of May there was a judgment call to be made. Either gay men could take a one way bet that the beleaguered NHS could quickly acquire tens of thousands of vaccines and roll them out efficiently or we could in the meantime try to slow the transmission of the virus.

14./ It seemed possible the race to obtain monkeypox vaccines would run into problems. Manufacture and distribution of this vaccine depend on a complex global supply chain and nations might compete with each other just as they did on COVID vaccines.👇

https://twitter.com/twisterfilm/status/1346527272166109184

15./ Of course there were useful arguments to be had about @ALLIANCELGB's call for sex venues to be closed. A mature, evidence-based lobby would have debated the pros and cons. As it turns out the vaccine rollout has faced difficulties. Quelle surprise.
cnbc.com/2022/07/15/mon…

16./ Owen Jones is still describing the call for sex venues to close for a whole month as "unhinged". But what *was* the unhinged alternative the LGBTQ+ lobby came up with? First, they played down links between the outbreak and gay men which stymied health advice for a month.👇

17./ The denial of the most obvious medical fact about the outbreak was compounded by over-optimism about vaccine rollout and complacency about the virus itself which was invariably described as mild. Now some gay spokespeople are trying to correct that. Better late than never.

18./ Even the Guardian is now reporting that 10-15% of those infected face distinctly un-mild symptoms. This bloke worked in sexual health but didn't realise monkeypox was an actual threat. That speaks to the terrible job the lobby did in warning people.
theguardian.com/world/2022/jul…

19./ The painful bleeding lesions he suffers are a new symptom we've never seen with monkeypox before and that's been distinct to gay men. Any half-decent gay lobby group should have been shouting about the dangers of this the second it was discovered. Instead: almost nada.

20./ The guy in the Guardian article was infected during New York Pride. At least that carried warning messages about monkeypox on social media feeds. It's an utter disgrace that London Pride ignored @UKHSA advice and did not warn attendees about the dangers.

21./ Here's a perfect emblem of the failure of the LGBTQ+ lobby: Stonewall's CEO cavorting at Pride having failed to provide any useful advice about a disease affecting gay men alongside Jolyon Maugham who described @ALLIANCELGB's monkeypox warning as "gay plague messaging".🤦‍♂️👇

22./ The real plague affecting gay men isn't monkeypox. It's a sclerotic and bullying LGBTQ+ lobby which claims to speak in our name. Monkeypox shows their idiocy and obsession with gender identity means they no longer take our lives or health seriously. It's time ...for a cure.