We would not have marriage equality if it weren’t for two transgender women of color rioting against police brutality in 1969.
YES, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS IMPORTANT. BUT I WANT STRAIGHT ALLIES TO TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION AS WELL.
• It is still legal in 29 states to fire someone for being gay/bisexual/pansexual/not straight.
• It is still legal in 32 states to fire someone for being trans.
• It is legal in 29 states to evict someone for being queer.
• It is still purposefully difficult for same-sex couples to adopt children.
• Bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, asexual, and demisexual people exist.
• So, you know. It’s not “gay” marriage that was legalized. It’s same-sex marriage that was legalized.
• Queer people (especially minors) are still getting beaten to death and kicked out of their homes.
• Being queer is still illegal in 79 countries.
• Being queer is still punishable by DEATH in 5 countries.
• The fight is far from over.
I am honestly so annoyed by everyone on here being SO flippant about marriage rights with no acknowledgement that the movement for gay marriage grew out of the AIDS crisis when people literally could not visit their dying loved ones in the hospital because they were not married. By all means continue to spread the word about other issues that our communities face that do not get enough attention but this is not about a fucking ceremony. There’s so much more to it than that and this approach is frustratingly ahistorical
If you aren’t cisgender heteroromantic heterosexual, you belong in the queer community. I’m sick of seeing this bullshit “you aren’t queer enough” sort of community policing.
And by “cisgender heteroromantic heterosexual” I mean ALL THREE of those things.
Are you a trans (binary or nonbinary) person who is attracted sexually and romantically to the opposite gender? You belong in the LGBTA+ community.
Are you a cis person who is heteroromantic asexual? You belong.
Are you a cis person who is heterosexual aromantic? You belong.
Are you a cis bisexual who is currently dating a cis member of the opposite gender? You belong.
Are you an intersex individual who otherwise is heteroromantic heterosexual? You belong.
Stop trying to alienate people based on some fucked-up “level of queerness”. There are enough problems in the LGBTA+ community without people being exclusive.
horrifying fun fact of the day: so greenwich village, which is the neighborhood in nyc where the stonewall riots took place and which was a v important gay center from like the 50s-80s, is now super swanky and full of touristy boutiques and expensive apartments and stuff. st vincent’s, the local hospital which had the first aids ward on the east coast, closed a couple years ago and is being replaced with luxury condos. all of this is sad enough, BUT i just found out that one of the reasons it’s so gentrified now is that the aids crisis was really awesome for real estate. ppl were dying in thousands and leaving empty apartments behind, which their landlords would then rent at higher prices until only rich ppl could afford to live there :)
elaphaia said: also during the aids crisis landlords would shut their heat off in the winter knowing it would kill ppl so they could then rent 4 higher :-)
Reminder that the cishet dominated government didn’t just ignore the effects of HIV/AIDS because of how concentrated the deaths were in other communities because they hate us, but also because they materially benefited from it - because they owned most of the buildings, because our partners and other kin had no legal right to our possessions, and because they commodified and monopolized antiretrovirals to bilk us.
not to forget that a market started up to buy people’s life insurance policies… pay a little monthly fee to the sick, dying queer and get your name on their documents so you get the life insurance payout when they kick the bucket. sure you’re paying out a monthly fee, but as long as your dying queer checked out early enough, you got way more than you had paid out. there are people alive today who are wealthy because of the money they got from gambling that we’d die quickly. living cishet people people sent their kids to college with blood money from investing long- and medium-term capital in queer death.
this basically only died down like when i was born… my parents were young cool politically-aware people in this era. so were yours, most likely. this is NOT ancient history. these people walk among us. they take the bus with you. they’re your aunts and uncles. they’re out there.
can we stop referring to all sex that could possibly result in pregnancy as “heterosexual reproduction” now
Is this real
Is this really appearing before my eyes
can it be true
a cutesy cartoon about gender and sexuality that is not cissexist and degendering toward trans people (who get to wear clothes just like cis people)??????????
mind is blown.
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V IMPORTANT
Did you know? Lesbians and male homosexuals would marry each other in Nazi Germany just to escape persecution?
Queer history tho like
I honestly am learning things everyday that shape my knowledge of what it means to be LGBT? Like did you know Malcolm X was bisexual? Did you know the Nazis persecuting homosexuals said they were protecting “traditional family values,” the same arguments used today by Republicans? Washington in the 1780s expelled several soldiers for engaging in consensual same-sex acts? FDR launched a plan in the 1920s where he forced young sailors to try and trap other sailors into sex? I think schools need to stop erasing queer history from social studies and queer literature from English classes. And also start teaching children to respect gay people at a young age, like grade five. That’s the only way I can see any change coming about…
i also hope when straight cis people know when they say shit like ‘you’re too young to know you’re queer etc’ it’s because you’re sexualising us. you equate queer-ness with adulthood. that’s also why asexuals/aromantics/non-binary folk aren’t considered ‘queer enough’ because our whole community is sexualised. it’s fucking awful.
I think the shittiest thing about being bi/pan/ace or any other invisible queer identity is putting in so much effort to defend the queer community all the time, and at the end of the day there’s still someone in that SAME community telling you you aren’t valid.
and like, god forbid you date a straight person.