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Gay Shame
- The Rise of Gender Ideology and the New Homophobia
- Narrated by: Gareth Roberts
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
Only a few years ago, it seemed that the fight for gay rights was won in the UK: legal equality was achieved, prejudice rapidly dying out. Mission accomplished, right?
Wrong, argues Gareth Roberts. Homophobia is making a major comeback under the guise of the ideology of 'gender identity'. The enforcers of this new creed insist that attraction to people of the same sex is 'hateful'. They argue that effeminate men and butch women can't just be gay, but must 'really' be trans. Worse, this ideology has colonised the gay rights movement, capturing institutions like Stonewall and the gay press completely. Anyone who disagrees risks professional suicide.
So what happened to the funny, grown-up culture, truth-telling and knowing irony of gay men? How and why was the older gay rights activism, which gifted such progress to homosexual people, hijacked?
In this passionate, witty polemic, Gareth Roberts answers these questions and argues that we need a new gay liberation movement.
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- Pipinghox
- 16-06-24
relevant hot topic
you don't hear thos side discussed much on mainstream media or society without being labelled negatively
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- Aurum
- 13-05-24
Excellent
Trans activists like to tell you that opposition to their ideology is recycled homphobia and a rerun of section 28 (banning promotion of homosexuality - since repealed). The author lived through S28 and delivers a highly articulate, witty (often very funny) rebuttal.
Terrific book offering a totally original persepective.
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- MR D I FLEMING
- 23-05-24
Persist with the recording - you won't regret it!
I pre-purchased this book as soon as it was previewed on Spiked as I have been a fan of Gareth's witty and incisive writings.
However, when I came to start listening I almost angrily gave up within two minutes, as the recording is not of good quality, with frequently audible intakes of breath,
I only kept going because I had no choice but to listen to more in order to make a damning review! But I'm glad I did because I rapidly became very absorbed in this witty, incisive work. I'm now three hours in and very keen to keep going!
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- TF
- 30-06-24
Scary!
I took out this book after a sample was offered. Within 5 minutes of buying the book, I was ashamed to be listening to it (ironic in a book about shame). I stayed with it a while longer to keep an 'open mind' (one lacking in the writer), until I felt it unbearable. What a homophonic, insulting and narrow-minded critique of an issue, he knows clearly very little about. He is old enough to remember how words like these, have catastrophic results for people in minorities. These ideas are not presented as his 'opinion' but as 'fact' and his lack of intellectual rigour, compassion and balance leaves his writing severely lacking. I suggest he does more research on 'internalised homophobia'. What a waste of time and money.
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