“[They] think they’ve hit the jackpot now they can have heterosexual privileges. What are they going to say when they’re bobbing in the greenhouse tides?”

ANOHNI has called on the LGBT community to fight for other political causes as well as gay rights, and suggested trans rights have become “a popular Hollywood topic” in a lengthy new interview.

“Black boys are being killed in the streets by idiotic policemen – it’s so fucking real,” the artist formerly known as Antony Hegarty, who releases new album Hopelessness on May 6, told The Guardian. “So it’s not wrong to fight for justice for your special-interest group. But we’ve been deceived into thinking that’s the endgame.

“You look at those rainbow flag-toting, goggle-eyed gays that think they’ve hit the jackpot now they can have heterosexual privileges,” she adds. “What are they going to say when they’re bobbing in the greenhouse tides? ‘But… I thought we won… I can get married now, I didn’t have anything else to fight for.’ It’s not all about you!”

ANOHNI also attacked Barack Obama in the interview, suggesting the President’s eight years in the White House have been a disappointment. “We desperately hoped he’d manifest the heroic vision that might change America’s course. And how many weeks into office did he sign his first kill list?” she says. “Even the Nazis had Nuremberg: they had a day in court before they were executed. Bin Laden was executed in his bedroom, and a country celebrated in bloodlust.”

Hear ‘4 Degrees’, the first single from Hopelessness, below.

 

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