Hi, I'm here because I'm old and I actually remember when Elton John and Queen was popular in particularly I remember when Freddie Mercury died.
To say "no one gives a fuck that they're gay" was definitely not true during their careers and lives. Elton John had to publicly deny being gay multiple times in interviews on tv for fear of losing everything and when Mercury died of AIDS, well, people weren't nice about it in my memories. cw homophobia
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I remember a lot of people saying talking about how people "like that" deserve to die from a disease that only harms them
The way the straights dealed with AIDS was downright genocidal, my country had people in the federal government literally calling for internment camps and it has been completely memory holed outside of queer spaces. Also, AIDS is a prime example how this respectability politics shit is getting us nowhere, anybody interested should read a bit about the history of ACT UP! and how they used direct action to drive policy changes. If anything, queers today aren't radical and annoying enough.
AIDS wiped out an entire generation and the culture around it. I've wondered about how much was lost during that time period. You look at modern-day pride events and film festivals and see most of them started in the 90s and 2000s. Very few of those annual customs from the 80s and before survived to today. Then there's subcultures and venues that were around for decades we will probably never know about because they were wiped out.
I definitely remember back then. The discourse about Freddie was pretty fucked up. The revisionist history these guys are on is absolutely laughable
They're right, we should just switch to beating the shit out of homophobes instead of politely lecturing them
Pride bats. I think cricket bats would work best, as you can print flag patterns on the flats pretty well
Rainbow bricks would be absolutely adorable though, because you can build cute things with them that look even cuter if they have specks of fascist blood dried on them
You need a plague mask just to enter this blokes room now hes a thought leader?
I think they hold the current title for "Fanbase outpacing the creator in terms of reactionary content any%" Speedrun category. Like his takes are bad, but his fans are two octaves right in their frothing screeching. His fans are somehow worse than either Destiny or Ben Shapiro fans and they achieved it in a much shorter amount of time, with far less Israeli astroturfing and/or hard right billionaire funding. Maybe because he never styleized himself as an epic logic debatebro to begin with. It seems like an organic cesspool as opposed to a designed one, which would be impressive if it wasn't so gross.
What about that blue hair guy feinstein argued with? The genocide happy lib version of shapiro Mr butchelli or something
Sounds like they like marginalized people to act (and remain) marginalized.
Imagining a grindcore band plays a 30 second song, tells the crowd "we're gay"
Another 30 second song, "reminder, we're gay"
Aaaand another 30 second song, "gay, stay mad"
30 seconds later "we're still gay"
And so on and so forth for like a 40 minute set lmfao
That one guy there who thinks "conservatism is the new punk"
And so on and so forth for like a 40 minute set lmfao
emoji of the gal saying waow when she's thinking basedbasedbasedbasedbased
Thank you <3 I'm on Voyager (Android) and I can't put the emojis easily without memorising each emoji's handle. Is there any app to browse Lemmy in which I can write the emojis (and see the gender tags while we're at it)?
there's a post on lemmy.world about a lot of them cw. lemmy.world i personally just use firefox and open hexbear on my phone, Librewolf also works fine. Trying to do check the whole emoji list just isnt feasible even on PC honestly, you just gotta learn the arcane words or type : and start writing what you'd like and hope the keywords are solid
You know who I think of when I think of gay people who aren’t very openly, publicly, and proudly gay? Elton John
I hate the right, I hate heteronormative society, they hate me, and I want them to hate me more, thus I will be as annoying as humanly possible to them at every single opportunity. I will, in fact, make my entire life revolve around things that repulse them and remind them that they have no real control over me. Seems obvious enough.
"Damn I hate that gay people have a need to constantly talk about the same thing that only pertains really to them but they make everyone listen to it.
Anyways here's part 63 of my 100 hour youtube series as to why women and woke ruined videogames."
Gay people being loud about their sexuality = pride parade with some camp
Straight people being loud about their sexuality = causing a deadly forest fire burning tens of thousands of acres from their gender reveal party’s fireworks
There's something about the smugness and enightened centrism that makes it somehow more enraging than the mask-off queerphobia found elsewhere. To be clear, shame on the person who made the video. Its one thing to have internalized queerphobia, and its another thing entirely to put that out into the world and try to position yourself as "one of the good gays".
"Be less flamboyant, like Elton John!"
Live Elton John reaction:
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Actually, I think people would say ”Holy shit, it's Freddy Mercury, he's back from the dead!”
The irony being that America banned one of Freddy Mercury's music videos for being too queer
Yet another case of "I only perceive things as political or flagrant when they're out of what I consider normal". To them, gay people kissing on the street is "being annoying" and "reminding everyone that they're gay". They can't possibly kissing or holding hands because they're in love, or god forbid, fucking horny, it's always a political thing. Saint Valentine's isn't political, Pride Day is.
what does that have to do with a washed up wow streamer?
It turns out that nowadays people are more fans of him for his chuddery than for anything to do with gaming.
A lot like "Destiny." Fuck that alias is so cringe to even type out. What a jagoff.
would also work
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