In a first part, I investigated the question of what social benefits Germany could derive from its LGBT-friendly legislation of the last few decades. The result was that the regulations, except for the later repealed life partnership law, created more problems than they solved and they are a burden and an overburdening of the entire society.
The question now is, what’s next in Germany? To answer this, I turned to the parties represented in the Bundestag. I asked the CDU/CSU, SPD, AfD, Greens, FDP, Left and BSW how they assess the current situation and what changes they expect for the time after the election. I sent them the following email, which intentionally leaves room for individual answers.
Dear honorable members,
In the US, Donald Trump is reversing the decisions made by Biden to promote the LGBT movement and queer people. US companies are giving up their programs to promote diversity and gender equality. What do you expect and what path do you think Germany will take after the federal election in February? Has the peak of the LGBT movement in Germany been surpassed?
I’m making a small article series on this topic for the Russian international news agency RT DE and I’d like to include your response.
Best regards from Moscow,
Gert Ewen Ungar, Editor at RT DE
The central finding is that the parties are still not willing to talk to us. They are forgoing the opportunity to present their positions on political issues to a public that they do not reach through the mainstream. The interesting question now is, how long the German party landscape will think it can afford to ignore a medium like RT.
None of the parties or their LGBT organizations responded. It’s not possible to blame RT for being too close to the parties. One can only speculate about the reason for the silence. The parties may have different reasons for not wanting to share their ideas and conceptions with us, unfortunately.
Since the parties did not share their ideas and conceptions with us, I will predict what will happen. It’s already clear that Germany, like it did with the hype around LGBT, will follow the trend of the decline of the LGBT movement. Although it was excessively celebrated in Germany, Germany was actually quite late to the party.
The majority of the population was forced to follow the ideological demands of a small minority. Anyone who deviates from the given standards must reckon with punishment, as seen in the self-determination law. Germany did not become more open, tolerant and diverse in the last few years; on the contrary, the social rifts have deepened.
The minority in question is not the people who are subsumed under the acronym LGBT. Many gay men and lesbians are critical of the LGBT hype. The exhibition of private life in public is not in their interest. The clichés and over-the-top displays on Gay Pride parades cement prejudices and stereotypes, which are not in the interest of integration, understanding and acceptance, as often claimed by people who have a critical distance from the LGBT movement.
However, it’s difficult to resist the instrumentalization, as the LGBT movement is not democratically organized. Its representatives were not elected and their institutions have self-authorized as interest groups, which are also supported by state funds. The LGBT organizations are state-sponsored front organizations that pursue a political agenda, which cements the existing power structures. The LGBT agenda has become detached from the interests of LGBT people.
A survey among the users of the dating platform “Gayromeo” showed that the most popular party among the users was the AfD, with 27.9% of the votes. The Greens came in second with 19.9%, followed by the CDU with 17.6%. The majority of the male, gay users are conservative. The apparent paradox can be easily explained. The state recognized the LGBT theme as a useful tool and instrumentalized it to intervene in the internal affairs of other countries and to control and manipulate its own population.
However, it seems that the instrument has become worn out. In the US, a trend reversal is underway and in the EU and in associated countries, more and more states are distancing themselves from the artificially inflated tolerance demands from Brussels. They are risking an open conflict with Brussels.
Russia took the lead by declaring the LGBT movement extremist and banning it, while homosexuality remains not punishable in Russia. The step was understandable and overdue. The LGBT organizations in Russia, financed and supported from abroad, including from Germany, pursued the goal of social division and aimed to bring about a “regime change.” This has nothing to do with the interests of LGBT people anymore; it’s a pure instrumentalization of the theme for the purpose of an imperialist agenda.
Even now, the impulse for a moral turn and the return of the private is not coming from Germany, so it will not be shaped there. It’s the US that is making the decisions, which will also affect Germany. Mark Zuckerberg is announcing a strategic change for his company Meta. He wants to focus more on male energy at Facebook and Co. Google is abandoning its concept of diversity and is focusing on qualification as the sole criterion again. Amazon is following suit. The list could go on.
The LGBT hype is over. It’s only a matter of time before the big companies in the EU and in Germany follow suit. Who will pay for the huge sums for the trucks on the Gay Pride parades when the Deutsche Bank, IKEA and BMW are out? The answer is simple: no one. The Christopher Street Days in Germany will become smaller and less numerous. The media interest will decrease. So will the financial support for LGBT organizations, because the company image can no longer be easily polished that way. Sexuality will retreat back into the private, where it belongs.
What can also be expected is that Germany will make this swing as extreme as it always does. Then, the great, colorful LGBT party will turn into the great repression. The party that was the most ideologically flexible in the past few years is the Greens. They managed to switch from being a peace party that demanded the withdrawal from NATO to being the strongest NATO supporter and war backer. I personally expect the Greens to become a strong driver of a future repression against gay men and lesbians in Germany. I consider it safe that the pendulum will not come to a halt in the moderate middle, but will swing as extreme as it always does and Germany will remain true to its extreme nature in everything it does.