The notion that being gay is somehow inherently political drives me nuts.
I’m gay, so what. Continuing to exist as a gay man isn’t some sort of political statement of resistance against people who don’t like me and people like me.
Being gay isn’t a lifestyle to me, I just happen to like guys.
I’m gay, so what. Continuing to exist as a gay man isn’t some sort of political statement of resistance against people who don’t like me and people like me.
Being gay isn’t a lifestyle to me, I just happen to like guys.
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the fact that transgender people are being taken out of everything is a slippery slope and it comes to us eventually. if your rights can be infringed upon
It sucks. But you being a gay, and a furry no less makes you quite political by nature. As your existence is
We're all tired of it. But it's that or I guess Ignoring it until either it's no longer an issue or they come for your life.
My existence is a political statement but not one made by me.
I get it though, I feel like it's kinda become more a thing in the last 10 years. I've always been kinda in the same boat as you.
Society as an aggregate does, and society as an aggregate has chosen to make it political.
My existence is political because THEY make it that way. It's either that, or the closet.
It didn't last, and you're starting to see the old ways of queerphobic culture returning. You've always been politicized, it's just more clear now.
They never stopped thinking of all of us as beneath them. They never stopped politicizing us. They never stopped wanting to erase us from society.
Whatever makes you happy, but don’t tell me my existence is itself inherently a political act.
Unfortunately it’s back into the realm of that because everyone got complacent and said “we got rights we’re done :)” but whatever
They don’t like queers, I don’t like people that chew loudly.
The people that don’t like queer people are
Being queer is political because our enemies MAKE it political.
In the Poem "First they Came" LGBTQ+ didn't even make the cut despite being the first group the Nazi's came for.
And you don't have to engage with theater of it. Have gay sex, hold hands with another dude, wave a rainbow flag.
Existence is resistance by expressing yourself as a "political animal." There is no opt out. You exist in the context.