Article Homophobic attacks in UK spur new wave of LGBTQ+ only housing (fashion or need?)

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The new wave of LGBTQ+ only housing coming to the UK supporters say helps 'marginalised people' but critics believe is just 'virtue-signalling'
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INTRO: A new wave of LGBTQ+ housing is coming to the UK amid concerns about the 'deadliest rise' in homophobic attacks in a decade. London has already seen its first residential hub for elderly members of the LGBTQ+ community opening up, following a £3million grant from city mayor, Sadiq Khan.

The fancy apartment block, built by Tonic Housing, overlooks Westminster and is a stone's throwaway from Vauxhall, Waterloo and Tate Britain. Over the summer, another group - First Brick Housing - received backing for its plan to build homes for 'marginalised' gay Londoners to ensure LGBTQ+ people are 'free from oppression', with City Hall stumping up £5,000 towards it.

Meanwhile, in Manchester, a proposal to construct a purpose-built, LGBTQ+ majority housing site for the over-55s was unveiled this week, in what city leaders and activists hailed as a 'landmark' scheme.

Critics have accused supporters of the new schemes of 'virtue-signalling causes based on fashion and not need'. But campaigners insist the need has never been greater and comes amid a worrying surge in homophobic attacks.

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), hate crimes on the basis of sexual orientation are up by 112 per cent in the last five years, with Home Office statistics finding homophobic hate crimes ballooned by 41 per cent in 2022. It was branded the 'deadliest' rise in violence against gay people in a decade, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe).

Meanwhile, the recent report 'No Place Like Home?' – which surveyed and spoke to 260 LGBTQ residents – found that 32 per cent felt their neighbourhood was not a safe place to live in as an LGBTQ person.

While in 2020 a survey by Tonic of 624 LGBTQ+ Londoners over 50, found 56 per cent would favour living in an LGBTQ retirement community compared to just one per cent who would consider moving to general retirement scheme.

At the Tonic accommodation hub in the capital, residents there say they feel safer being in an 'affirmative community' together with other LGBTQ+ people... (MORE - deetails)

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According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), hate crimes on the basis of sexual orientation are up by 112 per cent in the last five years, with Home Office statistics finding homophobic hate crimes ballooned by 41 per cent in 2022. It was branded the 'deadliest' rise in violence against gay people in a decade, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe).

Is it odd that hate crimes have increased since the LGBTQ movement has brought more attention to their, should I say, plight? I would suspect that perhaps there are other groups who are playing second fiddle to LGBTQ and aren’t getting their usual funding support from govt. Are taxes increasing to bankroll LGBTQ requests or is the money coming from accounts that used to support other groups?

Recipe for animosity? Envy driving violence? Are other groups raising a stink and if they do is it perceived as hate?

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According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), hate crimes on the basis of sexual orientation are up by 112 per cent in the last five years, with Home Office statistics finding homophobic hate crimes ballooned by 41 per cent in 2022. It was branded the 'deadliest' rise in violence against gay people in a decade, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe).

Is it odd that hate crimes have increased since the LGBTQ movement has brought more attention to their, should I say, plight? I would suspect that perhaps there are other groups who are playing second fiddle to LGBTQ and aren’t getting their usual funding support from govt. Are taxes increasing to bankroll LGBTQ requests or is the money coming from accounts that used to support other groups?

Recipe for animosity? Envy driving violence? Are other groups raising a stink and if they do is it perceived as hate?

Such might raise the question of just how diverse the haters are. Is it still the classic, stereotypes of teenagers and older white men doing this stuff -- some of which can thereby be readily mentioned in headlines?

Or has it rounded out to include population groups which themselves cannot be easily specified due to ethnic sensitivities, and themselves being victims of systemic oppression? Ancestral traditions are hard to give-up, and that's probably much of the attraction of advanced postcolonialism -- where Western culture and its standards are no longer deemed what the rest of the globe has to genuflect to.

LGBT people and Islam

LGBT rights in Russia

LGBT rights in China

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Such might raise the question of just how diverse the haters are. Is it still the classic, stereotypes of teenagers and older white men doing this stuff -- some of which can thereby be readily mentioned in headlines?

Quoting W.C.Fields, ‘ I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”. He’d probably get arrested if he said that today. Good response if queried though.

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From experience I'd suspect females may be, to some extent, the driving force behind these attacks even though they may not actually be the ones carrying them out.

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I guess I have my answer:

Is gay-bashing prevalent in the UK? I haven't heard of a single instance in the US for decades. All the ones that hit the news turn out to be hoaxes, just like much of the racism that hits the news.

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Targets have changed. Hippies used to protest materialism and war until they reached the age when they had to get some of which they protested against and praise those who fight to defend their rights. The groups of gay bashers and anti-racists protesters have grown up only to realize they’ve become what they protested against(even mildly) and that may be due to having kids of their own and recognizing the requirements for survival these days. Maybe now they have a more mature analysis/outlook of the world and where to fit in or what to ignore. Reality check maybe and most important …need of an education, skill, job. Maybe the most important realization that there are people in the world who want what they have and are prepared to take it from them. Will they defend it or surrender?

Can’t protest all your life. Sure some try but end up on the streets or in a trailer park hoping or demanding like hell the people they ranted against provide them welfare. The police they hated will now be expected to protect them. Perhaps it’s that realization that they’ll screw up their lives and lose the advantage of time on their hands to fix it. Youthful exuberance and invulnerability leaves as life span starts to near the inevitable. The blame game doesn’t work as well as it used to.

Years from now today’s protesters will look back and probably see their replacements protesting or bashing them or their society, the way it goes. Want to protest something that never goes away then protest aging.