i dont care if theres a genetic basis for being gay. i dont care if trans people’s brains resemble their gender. i don’t care. can we please stop focusing on answering why people arent cishet and more on how to actually stop homophobia and transphobia? because going out of our way to show that trans and gay people are weird variants on “normal” cishets isn’t helping.
why are cishet people so insistent on “solving” gayness and transness anyway? why not just accept us how we are. how’s that for a concept
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full offense but let lgbt people mourn the years they lost trying to repress their orientation and/or gender identity due to hetero&cisnormativity
implying pansexuality is the only sexuality that includes trans ppl is transphobic. implying pansexuality is the only sexuality that cares abt a persons personality rather than genitals is homophobic. implying pansexuality is an elevated/better version of bisexuality is biphobic. its fine to identify as pan but these mindsets specifically are still problematic and that needs to be recognized by the community.
trans men have male bodies, male voices, male brains, and male genitals regardless of their transition status bc guess what? those things belong to the person who embodies them and if that person is male, so are they.
the same logic goes for trans women.
this makes me happy
please take the time to remember every member of our community who was lost from aids. our government did nothing to save them. our schools do nothing to remember them. an entire generation of lgbt culture and history has been lost, the generation just before our own. remember them when people ask why theres suddenly so many lgbt kids in this generation. we’ve always been here. we cant be stomped out. we will remember our roots and by doing so we can keep those we have lost alive.
A memorial installed by Russian LGBT-activists in front of Chechnya’s office in Moscow to commemorate 1 year since the public found out about gay concentration camps in the republic
also to expand on what i was talking about earlier, straight people get annoyed when gay people “talk about being gay so much” because they fail to realize that we aren’t just talking about how much we like to fuck or w/e like. it’s about being apart of a community with culture, one that has rich history that we can find meaning and support from that doesn’t exist in the wider world. straight people don’t get how rich and rewarding our identities are and they don’t get that it took a long time for most of us to accept ourselves. they literally do not understand any of that and don’t want to.
when it comes to being straight, there is no history or culture behind that, it usually is all about romance and/or sex to them, its almost like they literally forget that we have a huge culture and history.
so that leads to them taking “i love being gay” as “oh you’re shoving the fact that you like to fuck other women in my face i get it shut up” when its like?? not about that at all?
i mean even if it was, it would STILL be different than straight people talking about sex, because gay people have been demonized for having gay sex for decades, but thats beside the point. i’m just. tired of straight people saying this
The original flag, by Gilbert Baker, June 25, 1978.
r.i.p. gilbert baker (2 June 1951 – 31 March 2017)
It’s fine to identify as pansexual if that is what you’re most comfortable with, and there’s nothing inherently bad about it, but it’s pretty hard to deny that “pansexual” getting big as a term has a really fucked up biphobic and transphobic background, considering that it basically got popularized on the internet as “we’re more progressive than bi people because we love people for more than their gender, also we’ll fuck trans/NB people too,” and it really, really shows in a lot of discourse and slogans from pan bloggers, and the mogai crowd. I’m not surprised at all people have finally lost patience with this shit
what a lot of these contemporary queer theorists have done is they’ve collapsed critiques of homonationalism into their critiques of what they term “homonormativity” which is their fancy way of saying that cis gay and lesbian people are Evil and Catered To or some shit. but understanding homonationalism and pinkwashing, which are very much different from “homoassimilation”, is incredibly important, especially because lgbt people of color are impacted by homonationalism.
lgbt inclusion in the military; corporations at pride; “pro-gay” corporate ads; drone operators and soldiers and CEO’s who are lgbt; white nationalists such as milo yiannopolous; patriotic pictures of white lgbt people with the american flag overlaid on their faces; wanting cops to be included in pride parades – this is all what homonationalism is. prioritizing capitalist notions of success over liberation is what this is. israel touting itself as “pro-lgbt!1!!” while blackmailing gay palestinians is what this is.
gay people wanting to get married is not a bad thing and it’s not “assimilationist” of lgbt people to want to lead happy, healthy, safe lives with their loved ones, lol. however, gay and trans people being pro-cop and pro-military and pro-capital and white lgbt people aligning themselves with white nationalist ideology is very bad and you really cannot use your hatred of contemporary queer theory to ignore actual critiques of homonationalism.
This is such a great post omg. I was thinking about this the other day and couldn’t figure out how to put it into words, let alone put it into words that aren’t four letter words!
re some tags: if you want to understand homonationalism you need to read jasbir puar’s works because she’s the one who coined the term. those of you who assume that homonationalism is a criticism of gay and lesbian people being exclusively SGA are wildly missing the point! homonationalism has nothing to do with that – it’s about white lgbt people and the global ascendancy of whiteness, how empire sets itself up as sexually exceptional, how white lgbt people are used to advance empire’s agenda, and how white lgbt people align themselves with white nationalism to gain rights.
I feel the mountains burn inside 