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  • That Non-Western LGBTQ activists should reject sex positivity

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    Sex positivity is an attitude towards human sexuality that regards all consensual sexual activities as fundamentally healthy and pleasurable, encouraging sexual pleasure and experimentation.

    Monash Australs 2020 · ESL Final · 2020-07-11

  • That we regret the emphasis placed on individual rights by social justice movements.

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    Individual rights are rights which can be held and exercised by individuals. Even if such rights are group-differentiated, they remain individual if they can be held and exercised by individuals themselves. For example, same-sex marriage is an individual right because it is held and can be exercised by individual members of the LGBTQ community. 

In contrast, group rights are rights which are held and exercised by groups. One example is the right to engage in collective bargaining; a person cannot exercise their right to collectively bargain themselves; they must do so with other people in a group.

    Monash Australs 2020 · Open Semis · 2020-07-11

  • This house would attend the Queer Liberation March rather than the Stonewall 50 March

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    The Queer Liberation March is a self-described people's political march, an alternative to the main Stonewall 50 Pride March. Unlike the Stonewall 50 March, it will have no corporate sponsors and no politicians attending.

    CP Nationals 2020 · 5 · 2020-07-06

  • This house believes that Ezra Miller should drop out of the role for future movies in the series

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    Ezra Miller is a queer actor who has acted in the series 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them", written by J.K. Rowling, who has recently come under fire for her trans-exclusionary comments.

    India Debate Open AP 2020 · 3 · 2020-06-19

  • This house, as the LGBTQ+ community, supports Queer baiting

    Infoslide

    Queer-baiting is a marketing technique for fiction and entertainment in which creators hint at, but don't actually depict, same-sex romance or other LGBTQ+ representation.

    India Debate Open AP 2020 · 6 · 2020-06-19

  • This house believes that gender and sexual minority groups (feminist and LGBTQIA+) should ensure that decision making and representation for their cause is done by members of the minority group and limit the advocacy of allies to support and mass action (such as protests and petitions)

    BRAC Genders Online · 3 · 2020-06-12

  • This house believes that the LGBTQ+ movement should include polyamorous people

    Nagoya Debate Open 2020 · 3 · 2020-06-06

  • This house believes that the EU should suspend funding for Hungary

    Infoslide

    Viktor Orbán is the current Prime Minister of Hungary. His government is known and widely criticized for its conservative and authoritarian policies. Recently the Hungarian parliament passed a state of emergency law that gives the Prime Minister the power to rule by decree. The parliament has also passed a law to end the legal recognition of trans people.

    Nagoya Debate Open 2020 · Open Semis · 2020-06-06

  • This house believes that false accusation of homosexuality should not be permissible as grounds for defamation lawsuits

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    Defamation is any false statement (oral or written) about another person that unjustly harms their reputation. A person who has been defamed can sue the person who did the defaming for damages.

    Nagoya Debate Open 2020 · 3 · 2020-06-06

  • This house believes that the LGBT+ community should take an educational approach rather than a combative approach when dealing with microaggressions.

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    Info slide 1: An educational approach refers to patiently interacting with people to explain why their comments are wrong and to change their attitudes. A combative approach refers to challenging a person's words with the intention of embarrassing them. /blame and exposing their evil to othersInfo slide 2: Microaggression is a term used for brief, everyday aggressions, whether intentional or not, that communicate hostile, derogatory or negative attitudes towards stigmatized or culturally marginalized groups

    Torneo Express de Debate 6.0 · 1 · 2020-05-23

  • Regardless of whether or not sexual identity is a choice, this house regrets the born this way narrative

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, ‘born this way’ can be understood to be the idea that a person’s sexual identity is inherent to them and immutable.

    Astana Debate Union Open 2020 · 7 · 2020-05-20

  • This house believes that streaming platforms (HBO Netflix etc.) should remove movies with racist sexist or homophobic content regardless of their artistic value or release date.

    Torneo Internacional de Debate Digital Argumentum 2020 · 4 · 2020-05-20

  • This house supports the outing of anti-LGBT+ conservative public figures (e.g.: politicians, celebrities)

    Infoslide

    Outing is the act of disclosing an LGBT person's sexual orientation or gender identity without that person's consent.

    Asia Queer Open · 1 · 2020-05-02