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From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.
This f*g loves dykes, trans women, trans men, NB & genderqueers, and all my queer fam.
This website is toxic to human existence and it also a lifeline. It brings out the worst in all of us. And it is full of people who know they're in the heart of Empire, know how evil America is, but will *not* ever revolt & are convinced *they are revolutionaries*.
You win. I will go with them if they go. If I come back it will be to find ways to stay in touch with five of you, for the handful of people here in good faith I'm sorry I didn't get to know you better, and the rest of you deserve the hell I'll meet you in after.
@AceRedBand1t I mean, it'd ironically be more aligned with the founder's original values, and Dems love demonstrating how much they love to worship the founders n' shit.
@dablayddid@SamHC9710 Person who goes out of his way to make clear he isn't queer, he just incidentally sucks dick, doesn't like queer media?
Not surprising bud.
@dablayddid@SamHC9710 Cool, good for you. I came out in the-pre-Obama era and remember what its like when the only depiction of gay people you ever saw in fiction even remotely sympathetic involved us being murdered or dying of aids.
@dablayddid@SamHC9710 Gay life in the US is often fucking deprivation, violence, and familial abandonment. Its okay if our fiction sometimes dreams of a world where that isn't true anymore.
@dablayddid@SamHC9710 "But I'm A Cheer Leader" is a seminal queer film - we organized film screenings at GSAs all over the country when it came out.
It is also absolutely not a realistic depiction of gay life.
@JosephRReagan@suchnerve But if he'd literally done the bog standard PTSD screener every single psychiatrist got trained in I'd have literally scored 54/54 or whatever - I know this because thats exactly what happened like three years later.
Tools can't work if ya not actually even usin em
@JosephRReagan@suchnerve Like full on couldn't process that I was like... perfectly comfortable as a bisexual and decided all my flashbacks and shit weren't from all the violence I experienced (as a person growing up super power in a very violent, very poor place) but actually cus Gay