I know, I'm quoting myself again. But I especially thought about this A LOT while Obergefell v Hodges was at SCOTUS, because some younger LGBTQ people were saying we shouldn't bother with marriage equality, it was just respectability politics.https://twitter.com/NeolithicSheep/status/1364007248046006272 …
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And I thought, "They really don't know. Because almost everyone who could tell them why this is important is dead, and how they died is why it's important."
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Keep in mind I was a kid at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, and only knew one man who died personally, when I was 17 in the mid 90s.
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Seeing stuff like this with the marriage equality or even the queer slur shit makes me so upset at the lack of queer elders.
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And that these kids really don’t know, they don’t get it. I remember the panic still about AIDS when I was little, how long people fought for marriage. And I still didn’t know a word for myself until I was 15 and I had no one else except another friend, my age.
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I have met two older gay men in my life and they are closeted. I couldn’t go to them because I didn’t know/realize this until later.
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But I do remember this, and I still feel it: a complete disconnect from a wider community because it felt like we were scattered. I was getting into screaming matches with homophobic kids at high school over marriage equality...in 2007.
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So it makes me goddamn pissed off they are saying this is respectability politics. That is the same attitude about gatekeeping what it means to be a queer person. Just two months ago a big acct on here tore into me with screenshots with all this biphobic shit.
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And this was from a queer woman, but according to her I wasn’t queer enough because I’m with a man or something. Like you said earlier, it feels way more rigid.
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