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‘I am not a queer”- I am a declared lesbian
Alice Weidel (45, AfD) with wife Sarah Bossard (42) at the margins of Saturday's discussion in Zurich. They've both been a couple for 15 years.
Photo: Sarahsepabossard/Instagram
AfD is simply a homophobic organization – at the same time there is Alice Weidel, a lesbian. How does that fit together? Are the parties able to attract conservative queer voters?
Alicia Weidel is right. I have never written this conviction before – but in this case it fits. At the beginning of September, the AfD frontwoman in a summertime interview with the ARD made it clear: “I am not queer, but I am married to a female I have known for 20 years.” due to the fact that queer is simply a affirmative self-description of people who are not heterosexual and/or cis-gender, that is, they live in a sex that has been given to them since birth.
This is definitely not about Weide; 44-year-olds don't see any signs of affirmative self-image as lesbians. On the contrary, she is simply a populist, profoundly right-wing conservative female who lives with another female and raises children – but has small to do with the remainder of the queer community. He's not hiding it in the remainder of the summertime interview. He calls for opposition to trans people, speaks of the "sex quark" and wants to defend children from "stupid trans-pop-culture".
Homophobe – inside and outside
A female headed by AfD: At first glance this is amazing – especially if she is besides a lesbian. After all, AfD is by far the most homophobic organization in the Bundestag. This shows a glance at their basic program. In this case, AfD classically places father, parent and kid at the heart of its household policy and warns against damaging the conventional image of the family. At school, he rejects “unilateral emphasis on homosexuality and transsexuality in classrooms;” Children should not “be a toy for the sexual inclination of a loud minority”.
In 2019, the Bundestag parliamentary group attempted to take distant gay and lesbian matrimony rights. Failed due to the fact that all another groups voted against. In the election programme for the 2021 national election, the situation continued to be energetically antiqueer: sex change operations were banned in children and young people, pre-school children had to be protected from gender-related madness, and a "real" household needed a father and a mother.
What speech has prevailed inside the party, we have already known since the NDR and WDR published communications on the AfD faction chat. "Oh, well, another Minister of Defence" was the motto erstwhile Jens Spahn (CDU) was briefly discussed as Minister of Defence. SPD associate Michael Roth was insulted as a “disgusting pauper” and his partymate Johannes Kahrs as a “radically bad anal debut”.
Alice, fig leaf
So why was Alice Weidel on top of this environment? On the 1 hand, due to the fact that a politician with her prejudices and rhetorical attacks fits into the AfD program. He agitates against transgenders and complains of the same - determination bill: “Now you should be able to choose erstwhile a year gender, male, female, or even another. What's the point?” On the another hand, a lesbian from AfD, Weidel, is proof: we're not that bad. How can we be homophobes erstwhile we have a lesbian on top? As a fig symbol or leaf, it is intended to aid parties scope at least the conservative queer voters.
Queer selected, well chosen
Good news: it's truly not working. At least that's what Giessen University suggests. The investigation squad examined how queer people vote in the 2017 and 2021 national elections. Effect: fewer people vote for AfD. In 2017, it was only 2.7 percent – at least in the group studied – and in 2021 only 2.6 percent. By comparison, the Greens received over 50% of the vote.
Nevertheless, AfD will proceed to effort to attract gay and lesbian voters in the future. This will put Muslims and the queer community against each other; it will effort to improve the temper with alleged or actual – homophobic acts of force by refugees; With its warnings about “sex madness”, it will scope conservative gays and lesbians.
The problem remains
Homophobic AfD policy besides leaves a mark on the remainder of society. Their loud rhetoric changes the speech of the debate that many would like to keep objectivity – the self-determination dispute is just 1 of many examples. In particular, at state level, it allows politicians openly expressing homophobia and transphobia to enter parliament, both in the plenary and in social media. Here, his agitation reaches a immense audience sometimes.
AfD policy is full of contradictions and its hatred can affect anyone: gays, lesbians, disabled people, Muslims, refugees. Only erstwhile we stick together will we do something against threatening to return to AfD's law and election successes. We gotta fight for it. Not only erstwhile it concerns us. But as shortly as Alice Weidel and the company question humanity and human rights – no substance who.
for:https://blog.campact.de/2023/09/ich-bin-nicht-queer/
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