I don’t mean this in a dunky dickhead sort of way but the president who had higher approval ratings than Christ tried to use AIDS to exterminate the LGBT community in the 80s and I feel like we should talk about this more. - ThreadSky

irhottakes.bsky.social • 78 days ago

I don’t mean this in a dunky dickhead sort of way but the president who had higher approval ratings than Christ tried to use AIDS to exterminate the LGBT community in the 80s and I feel like we should talk about this more.

Reposted from Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)

In fact, to be an anti-LGBTQ GenXer today, you pretty much have to have slept through the 80s. That whole culture decade was androgynous through and through.

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opfuchs.gay•78 days ago

The fact that straight America are by and large allies of convenience isn't lost on us, at least us gays of a certain age (and I'm only 30).

admiral-monke.bsky.social•78 days ago

Can't think what convenience I would be given to not support ya'll.

Been there since I was a teenager, and my mom told me how sad she thought it was that a gay man couldn't visit his partner in the hospital.

There is no compromise that doesn't consider the full humanity of all people.

krankenbruder.bsky.social•77 days ago

But you follow Jesse Singal.

admiral-monke.bsky.social•77 days ago

Yes. At the recommendation of a trans mutual upset at people mischaracterizing him.

krankenbruder.bsky.social•77 days ago

Mischaracterizing him?

admiral-monke.bsky.social•77 days ago

Yes. Singal is supportive if trans people and had depicted transition positively.

He supports puberty blockers and hormones for children under psychiatric care. His issue is with self affirmation being sufficient to obtain such treatments, and only in minors.

ennui.org•78 days ago

http://www.walterlippmann.com/kirk-reagan.html

hmcd.bsky.social•78 days ago

I’m actually really uncomfortable about the Stranger Things folks’ decision to make Will both gay and living in CA in the mid-80s…Statistically, he’ll die of AIDS within 10 years and we’re supposed to not notice or remember that…

harkov311.bsky.social•78 days ago

I definitely remember being told as a kid in Virginia in the late 80s that I shouldn't tell everyone how my parents were Democrats who hated Reagan.

Saying you didn't like Hollywood Goldwater was getting-shunned behavior in lots of places

triplebassist.bsky.social•78 days ago

LGBT folks definitely talk about this. It might be something that's fallen from straight memory, but I know gay men in their early 20s who hate Reagan as much as Trump for the shit he pulled. I'm really glad we haven't forgotten as a community

proofofburden.bsky.social•78 days ago

The three ghosts are me, appearing with my [0] days sign in increasingly urgent fonts

irhottakes.bsky.social•78 days ago

LBJ was the true father of American democracy and Biden is the most pro-LGBT president ever.

unlox.bsky.social•78 days ago

Buchanan erasure

proofofburden.bsky.social•78 days ago

Okay, but he was a Southern aristocrat who vehemently denied this

Like, "How dare you think I'm fucking my gay lover whomst I live with?" denials, but Biden leapfrogs him!

mistermagic.bsky.social•78 days ago

Merry Christmas

xanadian.bsky.social•78 days ago

Yes! He was saying trans rights on main as VP! And it's partly because of Sarah McBride.

irhottakes.bsky.social•78 days ago

And yes, the parallels in how their presidencies collapsed and fueled insane reactionary backlash led by criminals isn’t lost on me either. First as tragedy, then as farce, etc.

10000thmule.bsky.social•78 days ago

i will accept this deal if trump 2 is hoover

silkscreenfiend.bsky.social•78 days ago

It remains to be seen what AI, crypto, tech speculation in general, and tariffs do the US economy, but Hoover stuff is a non-zero possibility.

geographer.bsky.social•78 days ago

Between AI, crypto, banking and maybe even insurance, feel like there's a pretty solid chance of a sectoral meltdown due to looser regulations and grifters running the show. Which depending on the sector may or may not spread to the larger economy. (Crypto meltdown prolly wont, deposit banking sure)

10000thmule.bsky.social•78 days ago

bad times create strong men pic unrelated

ericbrown13.bsky.social•78 days ago

Insurance as such and resulting in mortgage defaults (b/c can't afford mortgage and property becomes unsellable) that leads to a systemic collaspe of ABS backed "shadow banking"--2008 again, but somewhat different reasons and probably worse and less controllable.

johnhatchard.bsky.social•78 days ago

North Korean hackers have stolen $1.34 billion worth of cryptocurrency across 47 cyberattacks that occurred in 2024 ...

Full thread summary ⬇️

rolodexpropaganda.bsky.social•77 days ago

Really visionary domestic policy coupled with really bad foreign policy paving the way to reactionary politics of the future!

seasouthern.bsky.social•77 days ago

It’s interesting because they were for opposite reasons. LBJ for staying/ramping up Vietnam and Biden for ending the war in Afghanistan. His approval started slowly dropping once the Taleban offensive started in May & had its biggest drop in early August with the fall of Kabul & it never recovered.