I don't diary much. I rarely have anything original to add to what's already been diaried about current events, and I don't want to muddy things up by adding redundancy to already-active waves of discussion on any particular subject. Occasionally, though, I manage to post a comment that I later recognize as touching new aspects of a subject that I haven't really seen discussed around here, and I eventually decide to make that comment a diary. This is one of those diaries.
The current public relations consensus on GLB rights (I use only the first 3 initials because mainstream "gay rights" marketing tends to, when it even bothers doing so, sneak in trans rights behind the curtain, so to speak) is what I call the "Baby Seal Approach". It should be noted that even including the second and third initials in the non-acronym is misleading, because lesbian rights have a separate approach, while bisexual rights are, if possible, more invisible than transgender rights, being subsumed by the G and the L. You know the marketing approach I mean...gay guys are cute, harmless, sassy, fashionable, funnily bitchy human accessories for straight women, who are adorably vulnerable and must be protected while they pursue their completely heteronormative search for their lifelong love with whom to settle down and adopt pets and children.
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