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ht...> . . .white-racist cishet masculinity. . .<br /><br />http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/the-gun-group-that-wants-to-arm-gay-america-213961<br />--------------<br />The Group that Wants to Arm Gay America<br /><br />What if the Orlando clubgoers had been armed?<br />Pink Pistols wages a battle to get LGBT people to carry.<br /><br />By Julia Ioffe<br />June 13, 2016<br /><br />. . .<br /><br />In the wake of the Orlando shooting, it’s hard to imagine<br />an advocacy group more precisely tuned to the moment than<br />Pink Pistols. . .<br /><br />The group’s ethos goes back to its founding in 2000, during<br />a different time both for gun rights and gay rights.<br />“Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” and the Defense of Marriage Act were<br />still the laws of the land; it was two years after Matthew Shepard<br />was beaten and left to die tied to a Wyoming fence. The<br />Federal Assault Weapons Ban was still in effect; gun sales were<br />half of what they are today.<br /><br />It was in this environment that Jonathan Rauch, a prominent gay<br />journalist, wrote a column called “Pink Pistols,” from which [the]<br />organization takes its name. Rauch called on gays to band together in<br />“Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help homosexuals<br />get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets as<br />much publicity as possible.” The point, Rauch wrote, was to change<br />the image of gays, both in the heterosexual and homosexual universes.<br />“Since time immemorial, weakness has been a defining stereotype of<br />homosexuality,” Rauch wrote. “Think of the words you heard on the<br />school playground: ‘limp-wrist,’ ‘pansy,’ ‘panty-waist,’ ‘fairy.’<br />No other minority has been so consistently identified with contemptible<br />weakness.”<br /><br />But if gays carried concealed weapons, he argued, and homophobes<br />didn’t know which gays did and which didn’t, it would drive down<br />attacks on gays, and it would change their self-image from one of<br />weakness to one of empowerment. . .<br />====<br /><br /><br /> YMMV.<br />jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com