Why is LGBT rights made to seem as a feminist issue?

Because feminism is concerned with gender roles. Heteronormativity—the idea that society dictates that heterosexuality is both normal and in some sense required is a form of gender role enforcement. read more

Discrimination against LGBT people is a form of gender-based discrimination in society: legally, over the rights—including marriage—granted based on the gender of their sexual/romantic partner choice, or over recognition of their adopted gender, or societally, by the expectations that they live up to particular inapplicable heterosexual gender roles. read more

Statements like this" having spent 40 or more years fighting along my brothers and sisters for full equality for the LGBT community, I’m ready for a bit more two-way solidarity." completely ignore the fact that not all feminists are straight, and that many of us within the lgbt community are women and we do care very much about women's rights as well as lgbt rights. read more