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Logos are rainbow-fied, heartwarming ad campaigns are launched, and nonsensical hashtags ( #BeTrue!) are ruthlessly weaponized. June is Pride month, and everywhere I turn, some organic wine company seems to be violently shaking me by the throat while yelling “GAY RIGHTS!”Īs a certain kind of queer visibility - married! safe! - has become more palatable to the mainstream, each June we are confronted with the increasingly humiliating attempts of brands to cater to potential LGBTQ customers and virtue signal to well-meaning straights. Lately, the ghost of Jennifer Lawrence has been haunting me. Trans rights bitch - Ashura ? June 1, 2019 Earlier this month after Taylor Swift released her latest single, which advises people facing homophobia to tell their haters to “calm down,” the official Grindr account tweeted, “Taylor really said ‘GAY RIGHTS!’ with this one.” Perhaps my favorite iteration of the meme is an aerial photo of a beach in Indonesia glistening in white, pink, and blue, accompanied by the caption, “Beach said trans rights bitch.” Since then, celebrities ranging from Christine Baranski to Michael Sheen have also unwittingly participated in the inside joke. The meme expanded beyond that one image when, back in February, a young Twitter user named Grace asked actresses Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman to say “Gay Rights!” on camera at a red carpet. In fact, to the fake Jennifer Lawrence’s credit, “Gay Rights!” implies a more coherent political philosophy than “Love is Love.” Around the time of Prop 8, as mainstream LGBT organizations steamrolled years of debates within queer activist circles and threw all their resources behind the fight for same-sex marriage, the bar for “allyship” became so low that you could accidentally step over it on your way to brunch. It’s a photo of Jennifer Lawrence in what appears to be an ad advocating against California’s 2008 Proposition 8 that simply reads “Gay Rights!” The ad is clearly fake (there is even a stray comma after Lawrence’s name) but gestures at something real. Also this month.There’s one recurring Twitter meme that never fails to make me laugh, even though it can barely be called a joke.
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Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar was asked to make 14 cuts in his Emergency-era Indu Sarkar, including 'communists', 'Kishore Kumar', 'Akali Dal', 'RSS' and 'PM'. There's 'cow', 'Gujarat' and 'Hindu India', which the Censor Board wants to beep out of Suman Ghosh's documentary, The Argumentative Indian. Just look at them filtering down like fine sand through Censorship's hourglass. Dangerous thought-bearing objects that call for disrespect. In this surreal landscape, words are unholy. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.' But nowadays it feels like we're being nudged towards one of Haruki Murakami's parallel realities where otherworldly forces rule an unrecognisable universe. What if the cops see this as impersonation and book me under Section 416 of the Indian Penal Code?įor many years, my Facebook profile carried a quote from the British playwright Tom Stoppard: 'Words are sacred.
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Would the cops have considered a cat filter obscene? What about the Gay Pride filter? Would that result in a booking under Section 377? Or #Faceswap, which allows me to change my face to another person's in the same photo. Now that the police have dubbed a playful image 'obscene', the mind just boggles at the(im)possibilities.