{"id":1134,"date":"2024-06-10T14:49:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T14:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stg-gaystarnewscouk.gmg-staging.link\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2024-06-10T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T14:49:09","slug":"the-questions-lgbtqia-people-should-be-asking-this-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev-gaystarnewscouk.gmg-staging.link\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/the-questions-lgbtqia-people-should-be-asking-this-election\/","title":{"rendered":"The Questions LGBTQIA+ People Should Be Asking This Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A friend just said to me that it doesn\u2019t matter if or how they vote: \u201cThey\u2019re all shit.\u201d My heart sank, as it has so many times over the past few years, as political\u2014and actual\u2014attacks on queer people grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don\u2019t vote for someone who cares about our communities, someone else will: a voter who wishes to debate or deny the reality of our lives; who will vote to attack us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Effective activism is always multi-pronged: We organise, we lobby, we build coalitions. We make noise outside parliament, we lobby inside. We vote. We make it clear that supporting our communities is a vote-winner. We demand to remain in the light.We deny the call to draw us back into darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is how we equalised the age of consent and killed Section 28. This is how funding for HIV came on the agenda. This is how women and working people got the vote. It\u2019s a messy business, and we all have our part to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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