There are a few individuals that I know, like a few friends and even my husband, that do not agree with the idea of the LGBT community having its own country. They have expressed that for the LGBT community to have a country of its own would be "extreme" and unnecessary. I found it a bit confusing and hypocritical since one of them is Israeli.
Another person near and dear to me also surprised me by stating that in a country such as the Queer State (QS), in which individuals would obtain children one way or another, would have children that would then be straight and that the QS would cease to exist. To some extent yes, but to another extent no.
I hope to take on these topics this post. I know that this is not an academic blog, but I hope I'm sticking to the facts as I have read them or experienced them. I write an academic paper with proper sourcing and uninterrupted arguments when I have the time and resources to do so.
Ok, let's get started by addressing the issue about a sustainable future for the QS due to straight children. I feel as though I've written lightly on the topic by stating in previous blog entries that the purpose of the QS is NOT to create a country or nation in which ONLY the LGBT community can reside, BUT a community that is created with the intention to PROTECT the LGBT community. It would be welcoming to others, but would prioritize granting of citizenship and residency permits to those of the LGBT community. The country would be a place where ANYONE would be welcome, but with the goal of focusing all resources and efforts into promoting a land where all walks of LGBT life would be able to live an open, transparent and safe life.
One does not need to look to the possible straight children to wonder if the QS would simply become "overgrown" with heterosexuals and then become the same as any other nation, country or state. One needs only look at the bisexual segment of the LGBT population. They would be able to have a partner of the opposite sex without being ostracized. I've written before that the bisexual community or individuals that once identified themselves as homosexual that later change their identity to that of bisexuality suffer discrimination form others in the LGBT community--especially those of the LG segement. This would be something that would need to be worked on and would need to be discussed later.
Back to the children. I feel as though the children would be able to choose whether or not they would like to grow up in a country that is so vastly different to that of other heterosexuals. If the individual felt it was not correct, morally or otherwise, to have such a lifestyle or if said individual felt as though they simply wanted to live a different lifestyle due to the very nature of the QS being located in underwater biospheres (UwB) or platforms (Pf), then they would be offered the opportunity to travel back to their parent's country of origin or to a country with which the QS would have signed treaties. These children would otherwise be integrated into the society--a society in which individuals are hopefully seen as simply people, regardless of their sexual orientation or any other number of self-identifiers.
I hope that if the QS is successful in its goal of full integration and societal harmony between LGBT and non-LGBT members, that it would serve as a model of how other countries could successfully integrate the different segments of their society and that if the rest of the world learned to integrate their LGBT communities into society, that there would be no more need, per se, for the QS. The QS would then need to reassess its long term goals and find other issues to address. It would continue to be an LGBT country, in the sense that it would still be able to serve as a safe haven for LGBT individuals from around the world if history were to repeat itself and persecution of the LGBT community were to commence once again, but it would not need to be a nation focused so much on the LGBT community and on promulgation of LGBT issues and rights. It would, in essence, become a nation/country/state similar to any other with an amalgam of different sexual preferences, etc, but with the exception of having stated in its constitution that members of the LGBT community would always be able to escape persecution by living there. I know there are implications to that statement like national defense, and those will be addressed later. I will address other foreign policies including immigration.
As for the second point, I'll have to get to it tomorrow...
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