Mate, it’s as relevant as “Guns, Guns, Guns”, “Construction Worker Magazine” or “Golfer Weekly” (all made up names for illustration purposes only) - they’re domains around which people have formed communities which talk about things in that domain because they care about it and find it interesting to know about weird stuff that happens to members of the community.
I don’t see Sexual Orientation as an area any less likely or deserving to have communities formed around it than Sports, Hobbies or Jobs.
Of course, in the US Sexual Orientation has been politicized way more that other areas, but it’s exactly my point that we shouldn’t treat it any different, even if American Politicians have chosen it as an arena for performative moralism - it’s exactly by treating it as no more or less important than anything else (as done in plenty of other countries) that one rises above the American Political Kabuki around it.
I’m fully on board with a publication about queer issues, I just don’t think this is a queer issue. It wouldn’t make sense for “Guns, Guns, Guns” magazine to have an article “Journalist (who happens to also be a gun owner in their private life) charged with hate crime for coverage of NYT vandalism”.
Have you ever perused any of the trades or farming magazines: silly “news” about things that have happened to somebody in that trade are often there, not least because those magazines have to come up with stuff to fill a magazine every week.
Also don’t get me started about the ridiculous “news” around Sports personalities in Sports magazines or about Celebrities in Celebrity magazines.
“Famous member of our community unfairly charged with crime” articles aren’t exactly a crazy thing to expect in a magazine about a community that’s built around things that people are rather than merely objects (in the latter one would indeed expect mainly articles about the objects rather than about people).
News media around communities publishes articles about the things that their readers might be interested in, not the general news that interests people outside the community, and articles about nasty things done to or happening to members of a community (and also a journalist, like the people that wrote the article, quite possible an acquaintance of them) do fall into that category.
Of course, all that shit happening in the US, it’s quite possible that Politics did influence the decision of publishing the article, but then that’s pure speculation, just like expecting that this person’s sexual orientation is what prompted them being charged like this for a ridiculous made up crime is pure speculation.
Mate, it’s as relevant as “Guns, Guns, Guns”, “Construction Worker Magazine” or “Golfer Weekly” (all made up names for illustration purposes only) - they’re domains around which people have formed communities which talk about things in that domain because they care about it and find it interesting to know about weird stuff that happens to members of the community.
I don’t see Sexual Orientation as an area any less likely or deserving to have communities formed around it than Sports, Hobbies or Jobs.
Of course, in the US Sexual Orientation has been politicized way more that other areas, but it’s exactly my point that we shouldn’t treat it any different, even if American Politicians have chosen it as an arena for performative moralism - it’s exactly by treating it as no more or less important than anything else (as done in plenty of other countries) that one rises above the American Political Kabuki around it.
I’m fully on board with a publication about queer issues, I just don’t think this is a queer issue. It wouldn’t make sense for “Guns, Guns, Guns” magazine to have an article “Journalist (who happens to also be a gun owner in their private life) charged with hate crime for coverage of NYT vandalism”.
Have you ever perused any of the trades or farming magazines: silly “news” about things that have happened to somebody in that trade are often there, not least because those magazines have to come up with stuff to fill a magazine every week.
Also don’t get me started about the ridiculous “news” around Sports personalities in Sports magazines or about Celebrities in Celebrity magazines.
“Famous member of our community unfairly charged with crime” articles aren’t exactly a crazy thing to expect in a magazine about a community that’s built around things that people are rather than merely objects (in the latter one would indeed expect mainly articles about the objects rather than about people).
News media around communities publishes articles about the things that their readers might be interested in, not the general news that interests people outside the community, and articles about nasty things done to or happening to members of a community (and also a journalist, like the people that wrote the article, quite possible an acquaintance of them) do fall into that category.
Of course, all that shit happening in the US, it’s quite possible that Politics did influence the decision of publishing the article, but then that’s pure speculation, just like expecting that this person’s sexual orientation is what prompted them being charged like this for a ridiculous made up crime is pure speculation.
I like the way you’ve framed it here… Consider me won over.