Could not agree with this more.
Our rights are being erased. It is going backwards and not forwards all because we won’t play along and dance to others tunes that we have to be attracted to everyone and anyone. It’s not how sexuality works. Not gay sexuality at any rate.
As a gay man, it is exhausting to watch what used to be a movement about same-sex attraction get completely hollowed out.
Gay used to mean something clear. Men who are attracted to men. Women who are attracted to women. That was the entire point. Now it has been buried under layers of gender ideology, identity politics, and a demand that we rewrite our own orientation to make other people comfortable.
I am constantly told that if I am not attracted to a woman who identifies as a man, or a man who identifies as a woman, I am bigoted. That my sexual boundaries are a form of discrimination. That “trans men are men” and therefore belong in gay male spaces, dating pools, and communities. This is not inclusion. It is a direct attack on the reality of same-sex attraction.
The same institutions that once claimed to fight for gay people now treat actual gay men and lesbians as the problem if we refuse to play along. Corporate Pride has become a vehicle for this ideology, not a celebration of us. The language has shifted so far that many young people no longer even understand what gay means.
I do not need a parade or a rainbow logo to validate my existence. I need the freedom to live as a gay man without being pressured to deny biological reality or accept opposite-sex partners under a new label.
The people pushing this did not liberate us. They colonized the movement and turned it against the very group it claimed to represent.
@AlexToughTakes Yes I feel this too as a gay woman.
We all have to identity as “queer” which is great for some but in my youth it was used as a slur. It’s also too ambiguous. It can mean anything and I like to proudly say I’m into women and that’s that, without ambiguity.
@JamesMelville And people who are very well off and comfortable wonder why others live hand to mouth and can’t save anything. It just gets worst doesn’t it.
@yaoihinata@navinquisition This is what bugs me.
Because on the flip side there are ‘chasers’ who fetishise people who are trans and sleep with them for this reason.
So to be supportive we have to want to have sex.. I mean what?
@6B_4T_GSL I actually feel safer around heterosexual women compared to bisexual women for a few reasons.
I’ve had bisexual woman come onto me in the past only wanting to experiment with me.
I’ve also had them make inappropriate moves on me.
It’s been my experience that bi’s seek a third
@stqr_les It’s an abusive and unethical set up designed to use people. Often practiced by people who have a fear of commitment and who like to compartmentalise people into services and what they provide as opposed to loving the whole person.
It’s repulsive 🤮