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LGBT rights have come a long way in recent years, but to say that non-hetero people still don't have it easy would be an understatement. On the 3rd of September, one of two men said he and his partner they were aggressively kicked off a London bus after boarding through the wrong set of doors, last weekend homophobes attacked Pride committee members in Northern Ireland and on Monday a Burnley footballer had to revisit tweets he popped off in 2012 – calling for gay people to "burn" – after the FA charged him with misconduct over them.
In short, things can be rough. Some people think that the solution is to keep fighting tirelessly for equality. Gay separatist organisation the Gay Homeland Foundation has proposed a different strategy: its members believe that the marginalisation of gay culture is an inevitable consequence of societies where the majority of people are straight. They advocate the creation of an all-gay state. This might seem a little radical, but as far as they're concerned, it's the only feasible solution. I got in touch with the group's executive officer Viktor Zimmerman to find out why he believes that such a drastic move is required.
LGBT rights have come a long way in recent years, but to say that non-hetero people still don't have it easy would be an understatement. On the 3rd of September, one of two men said he and his partner they were aggressively kicked off a London bus after boarding through the wrong set of doors, last weekend homophobes attacked Pride committee members in Northern Ireland and on Monday a Burnley footballer had to revisit tweets he popped off in 2012 – calling for gay people to "burn" – after the FA charged him with misconduct over them.
In short, things can be rough. Some people think that the solution is to keep fighting tirelessly for equality. Gay separatist organisation the Gay Homeland Foundation has proposed a different strategy: its members believe that the marginalisation of gay culture is an inevitable consequence of societies where the majority of people are straight. They advocate the creation of an all-gay state. This might seem a little radical, but as far as they're concerned, it's the only feasible solution. I got in touch with the group's executive officer Viktor Zimmerman to find out why he believes that such a drastic move is required.