As a movement we have ignored women, individually and structurally. It is commonplace for women’s appearances to be analysed in brutish detail, in part through jealousy of presumed sexual power. Many gay men individuate their identity from straight men by exaggerating their sexual lack of interest in women. What I would hope they would do is lend a hand to women.”Īside from the fact that we are far from getting most of what we have fought for, the first issue here – misogyny – is true, in part. “Gay men are as misogynistic as straight men, if not more so … You wanna talk about the fact that I have never heard nobody in the gay community, no gay males, standing up for women on any level?” She continued: “I think it’s what happens to you as a group when you are starting to get most of what you fought for. Rose McGowan, star of the US TV series Charmed, and an LGBT activist, spoke of the “huge problem” of misogyny among gay men.