When people realise that Manchester really is the better than Londonā¦
Manchesterās hosting of @BRITs at @TheCoopLive was an absolute success, from the weeks of build up to the actual night.
Well done Manchester šš
āI just want to say, Free Palestine, Fuck ICE, go Geese!ā
ā Geeseās Max Bassin during the groupās International Group of the Year acceptance speech at the #BRITs
āThis must be the politicianās table, I wonder who else is here. I think I saw Peter Mandelson on the list- oh wait sorry that was another listā
ā Jack Whitehall during the #BRITs
#Brits2026 censoring free palestine, gingeās punchline, jacks joke about the politicians and the fact that someoneās wearing prada but not a joke about having sex with paddington bear says a lot about freedom of speech in our country.
.@Ghostofcynthia
Iām gay. Everyone is well aware of that.
But... Here's the fucking thing...
Iām done pretending I donāt see what the TQIA+ expansion has done to the LGB.
We were a coalition built on a shared, immutable reality: same-sex attraction.
Thatās it. Simple. Concrete. Unapologetic.
Lesbians loving lesbians. Gay men loving gay men. Bisexuals navigating both.
We didnāt need to rewrite biology or demand that reality bend to feelings.
We just demanded to be left the hell alone to love who we love.
Then the pluses started piling on, each one bringing new dogma, new demands, new guilt trips.
Suddenly the movement isnāt about sexual orientation anymore...itās about gender identity, endless labels, and compulsory validation of everyoneās internal sense of self.
And if you point out that same-sex attraction is inherently exclusive of the opposite sex, no matter how someone identifies?
Youāre the bigot. Youāre the TERF. Youāre the one who needs to be educated, shamed, canceled.
The psychological sleight of hand is masterful: take a civil rights movement rooted in material reality and subsume it under an ideology that insists reality is optional.
Make the gays and lesbians feel like the intolerant ones for having boundaries.
Turn ānoā into hate speech.
Iāve watched lesbian spaces vanish, gay kids get medicalized for being gender-nonconforming, and the word āhomosexualā become a dirty word in our own community.
Iāve seen young women get called bigots for not wanting dick.
Iāve seen the Overton window dragged so far that basic same-sex attraction is now framed as exclusionary violence.
This isnāt progress.
This is colonization.
The LGB fought for the right to exist as we are.
The TQIA+ demands we stop existing as we are unless we center their ideology.
Iām not here to police anyoneās identity.
Live your life.
But stop hijacking mine.
Stop rewriting mine.
Stop telling me my sexual orientation is a punchline or a problem to be solved.
The LGB was never about validating everyoneās feelings.
It was about defending a reality the world tried to erase.
And Iām goddamn tired of watching that reality get erased again...this time by people waving our own flag.
Drop the fucking alphabet.
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