Labour Pinkwashing is Cynical Seat-Saving Measure

Ferd
Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:00:00 +0000
Labour Party, Marriage equality, Water charge, LGBT, National, Newsroom, Analysis, Aidan Rowe, Andrew N Flood

In a desperate attempt to save a few liberal seats the Labour Party have been engaged in trying to suggest the water charge movement is some sort of homophobic mob. It's an argument based o n the worst Dublin 4 prejudice and snobbery. Joan started the slander after Jobstown, Aodhan continued it in the Irish Times in a piece whose only outcome if believed would be to win election votes at the cost of equality votes.
Aidan writes "As a queer and a participant in the anti-water charges movement, I regard Aodhán Ó Ríordáin's comments as a rather cynical and desperate attempt to paint one of the most promising movements for progress in this state as somehow regressive, and to staple together some progressive credentials for himself by co-opting LGBT demands and organising.