HOMOPHOBIC JOKES: You can use the Trump/Putin meeting as a cover to say gay sex is gross To cause insult and irritation by calling someone gay only reinforces the connection between the two, providing an acceptable form to express discomfort over same-sex relations. Therefore, the joke isn’t that they’re secretly gay: it’s a joke at the expense of their homophobia, a blistering commentary on Chechnya’s terrifying and violent purge of LGBTIQ citizens under Putin’s rule.īut insinuating someone is same-sex attracted because they’re homophobic isn’t activism: if anything, it’s entrenching the fear and disgust it supposedly attacks.
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