You had your time — now, we have other things to fight for.

But even some progressive gay white men say they feel alienated from a movement they see becoming more radical, particularly online, where the tenor of conversation is often uncivil.

Hot take: I'm honestly, vocally sick of settler-gay men who demand that you handle them with kid gloves when their entire existence within the community is an existence blanketed in microaggression at best, when they're not being outright full-on macroaggressive about someone that 'doesn't fit their "preference"'; and I'm genuinely glad people are starting to talk about it.

  • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    [Rosendall] said protesting police presence at Pride overlooks decades of work spent improving relations between the D.C. LGBTQ+ community and the police force; the department even has an LGBTQ+ liaison and is considered a model for inclusion.

    the best part is the follow-up:

    “There’s a risk of behaving in a totalitarian mindset,” he said.

    freedom is when cops. totalitarianism is when no cops. It takes decades of work to reach a theoretical conclusion this profound