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spiralsheep documents in In which Peter Tatchell gamed the system to suppress this academic paper, a paper Gay Imperialism: Gender and Sexuality Discourse in the ‘War on Terror' critical of Islamophobia in the Western/European LGBT movement has been comprehensively censored by the UK gay leader Peter Tatchell who claims to have been libeled by it.
Afaict any factual errors are no worse than your usual critical article and I personally found it a very worthwhile read, so have followed sanguinity's request to host a copy:
As a straight person I don't want to get too involved in poking at the GLBT movement, but there's a lot to take from it on the way white Western feminists use "defending the poor muslim women" as a reason to be Islamophobic.
spiralsheep documents in In which Peter Tatchell gamed the system to suppress this academic paper, a paper Gay Imperialism: Gender and Sexuality Discourse in the ‘War on Terror' critical of Islamophobia in the Western/European LGBT movement has been comprehensively censored by the UK gay leader Peter Tatchell who claims to have been libeled by it. Afaict any factual errors are no worse than your usual critical article and I personally found it a very worthwhile read, so have followed sanguinity's request to host a copy:
- Webarchive of google's cache
- Scan of the chapter from the book as a pdf
- Spiral Sheep's post, has more information and some of the reactions to the piece
As a straight person I don't want to get too involved in poking at the GLBT movement, but there's a lot to take from it on the way white Western feminists use "defending the poor muslim women" as a reason to be Islamophobic.