Anti-Racism Campaign launched targeting LGBT+

I find it bizarre that an LGBT+ charity whose remit you would think is to advocate for gay rights is now expanding it's remit to tackle racism. This is akin to Pieta House campaigning to counter petty theft in the travelling community, or BLM campaigning to end gun crime in the black community.

The very idea of focusing an anti-racism campaign on a subset of the wider community is bizarre especially on a protected minority. The only targeted anti-racism campaign I can think of is anti-racism in British football but we all know there is a particular issue in football. Are Gay Project saying there's a particular racism problem in the gay community, because that's the impression they're giving off. Wouldn't you think tackling homophobia in Ireland's Eastern European demographic would be a more apt issue for them to address.

Another odd thing is why would gay people be immune to general anti-racism campaigns - as if gay people live a world that is completely separate from the rest of society? Bizarre view to think that gay people live in some kind of alternative universe of their own.

So is it warranted? Well let's look at what GP have presented as evidence which by the way they said they intentionally went looking for or 'reached out for' as they put it. Here is Brian O'Connell taking to Claire Byrne about this 'month long national campaign' , which includes a giant sized poster of a Bangladeshi man plastered over The George that reads "My name is Pradeep I'm Brown I'm fabulously beautiful and ProudAF (As F*ck). https://twitter.com/JarlathGregory/status/1449005736516800517/photo/1 .What kind of an ego would you have to have to authorize that and what an odd hashtag with a swear word in it. What does it even mean. Anyway...

Pradeep tells of his experience in gay bars, he says people objectify you and don't talk to you. Well blow me down with a feather, who would ever have though this could happen in gay bar of all places. Because usually gay bars are like Cheers the TV sitcom where you walk in the door and the patrons turn round and great you by your name. He says that he's seen Asians refused entry to gay establishments. Well who knew Dublin had such a large Asian gay demographic were he saw this regularly. I've seen white gay men refused entry to the George twice, (straight bouncers btw), for no apparent good reason. Everyone knows The George have an odd admittance policy, clubs often do.

Padree says he been in Dublin for five years and can't find a lover but doesn't the above tweet contradict the claim that Asians/blacks can't find sexual partners. How can he be overlooked and be objectified at the same time. He says also that 'people think he's ugly', and suggests that racism causes people to think brown people are ugly. This is absurd.

GP also say that when gay men say 'no asians' or 'no blacks' (their phrasing) on their Grindr dating profiles that this is blatant racism. This accusation is absurd, people state explicitly what they are looking and not looking for, physically, whether it be bears, chubs, otters, muscular guys, leather guy, skinny guys, twinks etc. Since colour and ethnicity are in fact physical traits then I see no reason to assume racism. Well excuse me/anyone for having a type. You can't win with these people, if you say your into black guys they'll say your fetishizing them, if you say your not into, your racist.

Pradeep also says 'you don't see white Europeans with back or Asian men as friends or lovers'. This is just an outright lie. London is full of interracial gay relationships. On of my longstanding gay friends when I lived in the UK was Asian (rented a room off him in his house actually) and I used to play pool with a British born Pakistani regularly, and that's just off the top of my head. And when I bonked blacks in Brixton where I lived I didn't do it because I had a fetish for black men, but because I fancied him. What should I do now? Bonk an ugly brown man I don't find attractive to be more inclusive. That is basically what GP are saying.

Even with the Bangladesh person they decided to what they call 'platform' they couldn't even show any racism at all. At best they showed some prejudice in relation to the traveller from an anecdotal account and that's about it. Pathetic.

Well clearly this white guy is only with this black BBC reporter for the big willy.

You can read all the above bullshyte and more here https://gayproject.ie/special-projects/proud-af/

More stuff for their website...

Beautiful Vibrant LGBT community. What kind of shyte talk is that when they're telling us we're all racist at the same time. So it's becoming obvious, this is all a load of imported American leftist Critical Race Theory style bullcrap that is being supported and funded by our government. And since when is it okay to refer to gay people collectively as 'Queer'. Cringe.

The thing that bugs me most about this is that they made this a national campaign when they could have done it within the gay community itself.

What I'm going to do now is raise awareness about this Leftist Cork Based NGO and expose exactly what kind of people they are.

I wonder if there is a way to find out more about them, if they have full time employee's, directors etc.

A question I asked you in post 3 is is there a particular problem with racism in the gay community? If there is then that could give some validity to this campaign. That's why it matters so hopefully you understand now. Otherwise if it is not, this this is simply a lets target gay male racists campaign.

Your different types of racism argument is just silly because racism could manifest in an infinitude number of ways given the infinite numbers of ways people interact with each other thus it's absurd to attempt to highlight every single manifestation of racism. And besides objectionable and exclusion are hardly unique to the gay demographic so I haven't even heard of any unique racism at all.

But the biggest flaw in your attitude is revealed by this comment:

You keep using this misnomer 'community' when in fact the correct term is demographic. Community suggests that 'attitudes' like racism formulate and spread inside that 'community', and that you could somehow get rid of it from 'inside' that community like a virus in a care home. This is completely ridiculous. The gay demographic is not that kind of community. Spending a few hours in The George on Saturday night does not make one absorb all the attitudes of the patrons on that night no more that it would if you spent your Saturday night in a straight nightclub. So to talk of 'racism in the gay community' is in itself absurd which makes this target gay male racists campaign absurd.

What is sad is you have continually ignored every point I made including the main one which is that this is an anti-racism campaign targeted at gay males.

If you think this is fine then where is the anti-homophobia campaign targeting Ireland's West Asian demographic?

And where is the targeted anti-homophobia campaign targeting Ireland's Jamaican community?

And where is the targeted anti-homophobia campaign targeting Ireland's African community?

And where is the targeted anti-homophobia campaign targeting Ireland's Eastern European community?

Will we be seeing these coming from Gay Project in the near future?

Or is it there policy to only target white Irish people?