just want to say that countries like sweden and austria deporting brown and black gay men and forcing them go back to uganda or afghanistan or other nations that kill and jail people for being gay because those men don’t “look or act feminine/gay” is a blatant example of racialized homophobia. and this is why i keep reiterating that orientalism is dangerous for lgbt people of color, why i keep saying that homonationalism plays such a huge role in the oppression of lgbt people of color – and i say this bc it’s not just cishet whites who spread these homophobic and racist stereotypes about what “looking gay” entails, but it’s also white gays who back them up by talking about how “inherently homophobic” nonwhite / nonwestern people are, and how nonwhite / nonwestern people are “failing” to live up to some gay Gold Standard of appearance / gender non conformity and gender expression / gayness itself. fuck all white people, gay or straight, for putting the lives of nonwestern lgbt poc and nonwhite lgbt refugees at risk.
I’m sorry but WHAT THE FUCK IS GOIN ON??
Sweden is deporting an openly gay Ugandan football player back to Uganda, which is a country that criminalizes homosexuality and where gay people can be killed for being out. This is very similar to when Austria rejected a gay Afghani teenage boy’s asylum petition on grounds that he didn’t “look or act gay, so he’d be fine in Afghanistan”. Essentially both incidents highlight the how state violence, racism, imperialism, and homonationalism all coincide to oppress LGBT people of color / LGBT immigrants and refugees / LGBT nonwesterners.
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