In the article titled, "In the Shadows of Stonewall: Examining Gay Transnational Politics d the Diasporic Dilemma," by Martin F. Manalansan IV, Manalansan discusses the perils of the Stonewall gay rights movement become a standard for all queer people around the world. Stonewall protests set the standards based on white hegemony and fails to consider queer minorities. It then becomes synonymous with "capitalist expansion: (Manalansan 428) because it's an umbrella term that fails to describe and acknowledge differences within the queer community, exercising its hegemonic white umbrella. As discussed with the Philippines, the description of this society's legal and social conditions used words such as "closet, gay, lesbian, homophobia," words that are too shallow to describe the intricate Filipino culture. Stonewall, though in ints grassroots was seen as a fight for justice, evolved to become the standard for queer people, failing to recognized differences in other queer societies.
Question: Do you believe Stonewall protests became the norm for queer rights? What other problems, besides the failure to acknowledge different cultures of queer society, has Stonewall contributed to?
Works Cited
Manalansan, Martin F., IV. "In the Shadows of Stonewall: Examining Gay Transnational Politics D the Diasporic Dilemma."
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 2 (1995): 425-38. Web.
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