The Queering of Society

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Usually, I have to spend time crafting striking arguments, in order to persuade people to come round to my point of view.

Well, not this time. Because for this topic, I can simply let the facts speak for themselves.

The term ‘queer’ has multiple meanings and has gone through various revisions over the years. Well, one lesser-known definition of the term ‘queering’ is to “ruin or spoil something”. In my opinion, that is precisely what will happen to society if we allow it to be ‘queered’ – it will be ruined and spoiled. Some of what I will now report is crude, even shocking, but I think it’s important that you see it. So here are just some of the examples of ‘queering’ that we have witnessed over recent years.

Cambridge University Press published an article, entitled ‘LGBTQ…Z’. In case you were wondering, the ‘Z’ stands for ‘zoophilia’, which is another term for bestiality – human beings sexually abusing animals. The article argued that the ‘Z’ should be brought into queer theory, in order to bring about “the revolutionary power of love”. This is abusive.

Children’s charity, Mermaids, ran a residential weekend for young children. Speaking about the weekend, one of their staff members described watching a young pubescent girl trying on a breast binder for the first time, saying that it made her “queer heart soar”. This flies in the face of child safeguarding.

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival put on a performance called ‘Blowhole’, described as “a celebration of queer life and love”, teaching audience members how to “perfect the perfect bum-hole selfie in the work toilets”. This is crass and crude.

Former Labour Party MP, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, was pictured wearing a t-shirt that read: “Not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you”. This is aggressive.

Stonewall put out a paper called ‘Queering Atrocity Prevention’, in which they argued that “queerness could have prevented the invasion of Ukraine”. This is nonsensical.

The National Association for Special Educational Needs ran an event called ‘ADHD and Queer Culture’. The guest speaker was a sexualised drag queen. This is grooming.

Kew Gardens ran a ‘Queer Nature’ event, delving into “the connections between plants and LGBTQ+ communities” and “breaking the binary of plant classification”. This is unnecessary.

The University of Arts in London ran a project called ‘Queering the City/Trans-ing the Built Environment’. It featured architectural designs for creating queer buildings, queer ecology, queer signage, queer sport, queer memorials. This is cult-like.

Channel 4’s queer dating show, Naked Attraction, informed viewers about a new sexuality called ‘Ecosexuality’ – used to describe people who “find nature sexy”, and enjoy having “sex with trees”. This is creepy.

The School of Sexuality Education offers the teaching of queer theory to children in schools. In one published testimonial, a child said “I enjoyed the workshop because it was acknowledged that not all people with boobs or vaginas are female”. This is indoctrination.

Officials working under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris called for a “queering of nuclear weapons”, which would involve removing nuclear deterrents altogether. This is dangerous.

Finally, in a BBC documentary about the sexual atrocities committed by Bill Cosby, they interviewed a queer, non-binary sex therapist who told viewers that she looks forward to creating “a sex positive world where someone is able to pay conscious women to come and be drugged for a fetish for having sex with unconscious people”. This is normalising rape.

I could go on.

Abuse. Grooming. Vulgarity. Perversion. Indoctrination. Danger.

In truth, I don’t need to add any spin or rhetoric to the above examples – they speak for themselves.

What was once (thankfully) confined to Pride Month, is now a 365-day-a-year feast of misery. In an attempt to be more accepting and to right historic wrongs that undoubtedly occurred, we have overcompensated and swung the pendulum too far in the opposite direction.

As I, for my sins, watched the 2024 London New Year Fireworks display, I saw that Mayor, Sadiq Khan, had included a message which lit up the sky and read: “We’re queer and you better get used to it”.

Or what, Sadiq?

No. We won’t get used to it. We won’t allow you or indeed anyone else to bully us into accepting child safeguarding nightmares, hypersexualisation, illogical and crude identity politics, in the name of virtue signalling. As far as I am concerned, in the modern sense of the term, a queer society is a ruined society. The sooner society wakes up and realises that, the better. Before it’s too late.