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.
Is POCERL a thing? People of Color Exclusionary Radical Leftist? Because I feel like I'm being told I'm not self flagellating performatively enough by a bunch of POCERLs and straight white people
Every organization I poked around before finally finding an org made up near-entirely of my folk certainly felt that way. Bunch of "class-war-only, no talk of liberation or reparative justice here, we don't want to 'alienate' the 'allies' by making them do too much introspection"-type beats and ain't no melanin on the leadership. Ain't no melanin in the speakership. Ain't no melanin in the planning rooms. Just 'sit down, shut up, and toe the party line' on some rebranded-DNC shit for us, so I'm gonna say yeah, that feels like it's a thing.