BRITAIN: National Students Union Passes Motion That White Gay Men Need To Stop Acting Like Black Women
Via Gay Star News:
UK's National Union of Students has passed a policy to stop gay men appropriating black female culture. Delegates at the Women's Conference today, many of them self-identified feminists, have passed plenty of motions. Just one of them was ensuring everyone at the conference understood that some behaviors were damaging. On Twitter, they announced: "Some delegates are requesting that we move to jazz hands rather than clapping as it's triggering anxiety. Please be mindful!" A later motion passed was 503: "Dear White Gay Men: Stop Appropriating Black Women." Put forward by the NUS LGBT Committee, they believe the appropriation of black women by white gay men is prevalent within the LGBTI scene and community.Also approved was a motion against drag because it's supposedly offensive to trans women.
"To issue a statement condemning the use of crossdressing as a mode of fancy dress. To encourage unions to ban clubs and societies from holding events which permit or encourage (cisgender) members to use cross-dressing as a mode of fancy dress." This [motion] was given an exclusion to queer students who want to use cross-dressing in their everyday lives as a mode of expression and to those who want to cross-play by flipping the gender of a fictional character in fancy dress.There is lots of mocking on Twitter.
Labels: Britain, drag, LGBT culture, silliness