Source – Three people carrying Jewish Pride flags were asked to leave the annual Chicago Dyke March on Saturday.
The Chicago-based LGBTQ newspaper Windy City Times quoted a Dyke March collective member as saying the rainbow flag with the Star of David in the middle “made people feel unsafe,” and that the march was “pro-Palestinian” and “anti-Zionist.”
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The Chicago Dyke March is billed as an “anti-racist, anti-violent, volunteer-led, grassroots mobilization and celebration of dyke, queer, bisexual, and transgender resilience,” according to its Twitter account.
Laurel Grauer, a member of the Jewish LGBTQ organization A Wider Bridge, told the Windy City Times “it was a flag from my congregation which celebrates my queer, Jewish identity which I have done for over a decade marching in the Dyke March with the same flag.”
“They were telling me to leave because my flag was a trigger to people that they found offensive,” she added.
Another participant asked to leave because of a Jewish flag was Eleanor Shoshany-Anderson. “The Dyke March is supposed to be intersectional. I don’t know why my identity is excluded from that. I felt that, as a Jew, I am not welcome here,” she told the Windy City Times.
Can’t we ALL just get along? If you were wondering when the open-minded acceptance groups would start practicing open-minded close-mindedness, here it is. I find it fucking hilarious that gay rights advocates could somehow be anti-Semitic after crusading for fair and equal treatment based on sexual preference.
I was talking to my friend Jeff (who’s proudly gay and out) and he said there’s a militant portion of the gay community that misrepresents the gay community; extremists that cast a long asshole shadow on the rest of the gay community. He told me a story about a black man who was walking naked with a white man in a parade years ago. The black dude was fat, and the white dude was thin. He said the fat black gay guy was heckled by so many people that he started to cry and left the parade.
If the community was looking for equal rights, welcome to it. Discrimination based on race and religion has been around way longer than anti-Semitism. No matter the sexual preference, people can still be huge assholes. Pardon the pun.
