I'm not going to argue with you
jumpluff because I know you're more well versed than me and I would just lose hah, I'm actually curious though as a gay person about LGBT rights worldwide so I would just like to explain to you my thought process of my post.
1) I have used polityIV before (
http://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity4.htm ), which is a respected scholarly source, to look at which countries are democracies and non democracies based on their index which includes, transparency of elections, changes in power, rule of law, etc. all the good stuff associated with measuring regime type
2) I thought it would be a good idea to just look at gay rights for countries so I found out about this site (
http://www.equaldex.com/ )
3) What I saw: there is a pretty obvious correlation between non democracies and criminalizing homosexuality (which I know doesn't cover the gender identity issue yet but its just a start)
4) Israel in particular always fascinated me as a democracy surrounded by nondemocracies and throughout its history often hostile states
5) I thought this was relevant because someone posted what would you do if you lived in a country where being queer was illegal.
Basically what I tried to say was being a liberal democracy has a good track record for gay rights - and I doubt that this is just some spurious relationship, I know that some scholars say that gay rights come naturally with post industrial societies and other scholars who say democracies come after modernization only (although this is probably the minority opinion now) so put together you get some type of logical flow modernization -> democracy -> gay rights.
You'll notice I never said anyone should be colonized. I said all people should support democracies of which Israel is a particularly important one. I say this because I think that will advance rights for queer people.
That said I know Israel is not without controversy, I should have qualified my statement by saying "support the democratic parts of Israel" or even "support democracy" and scrap Israel altogether...its just that my boyfriend is Jewish :(