COLUMN:
IS THE GAY COMMUNITY ITS OWN
WORST ENEMY?
DANIEL BROWN
Last year I wrote an article for this
divine publication about the gay
movement eating itself from the
inside out. It was in response to a
comment from RuPaul, in which she
made that exact statement after the
term ‘she-mail’ was dropped from the
Drag Race television show. Almost 18
months later I still agree with RuPaul;
perhaps even more so now than I did
then. That’s because recently I’ve
found myself becoming victim to an
increasing amount of abuse… not
from homophobes, but from other gay
people.
Locally I do a lot of work with and for
the gay community. This has led to a
certain level of interest in the work I
do and made me the go to person
whenever an organisation or the local
media wish to discuss a gay-related
topic. I’ve never claimed or wanted to
be a spokesperson for the gay
community, but at the same time
whenever I do give an interview or
have