Any “lesbian/gay/bi/trans” liberationist who thinks the WWP cares about them is almost … almost, not quite … as crazy as the “Queers for Palestine” morons. The Commie splinter party tactic is to “build a mass movement” by sweeping up any group that may have some legitimate goals among its aims into that mass movement, then tell those people that before their goals can be addressed, “we have to build the socialist revolution.”
The Commies think they can leverage any LGBT activism into a social destabilization force. But, aside from an urban gay male party crowd and the self-consciously “queer” crowd, these folks are like anyone else, and like the “workers,” buying into middle class stability given the chance. The only thing is, there’s still a knee-jerk alignment with “progressive” politics that’s (1) left over from the identity group Democratic Party coalition politics of the 1970s and (2) an uncritical knee-jerk reaction to social conservative rhetoric and activism on any gay issue, exploited by the “progressives.”
Even a not officially communist outlet like the weekly San Francisco Bay Guardian seems to disproportionately push anything queer or alt sexual, and I suspect it’s to push a not-so-subliminal message that anyone counterculture must buy into the whole progressive politics package.
(There’s an interesting potential fracture in the LGBT coalition, with criticism that the trans activists pushing the appendage of T to LGB have their roots in the married heterosexual crossdresser scene and have an agenda in line with that. Occasionally there’s a brouhaha over L and B women wanting to keep their spas and social groups for women and not (male-bodied) transgenders, and the transgenders demanding access on the grounds of their “socially constructed identities.” Ain’t postmodernism grand?)
