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    1. Anthony Oliveira‏ @meakoopa 13 Oct 2016

      Anthony Oliveira Retweeted

      Margaret Thatcher was a nightmare whose monstrous treatment of Britain's queers under Section 28 spawned a whole counter-cultural movement. https://twitter.com/guybranum/status/786787009792663552 …

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      13 replies 144 retweets 282 likes
    2. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 13 Oct 2016
      Replying to @meakoopa

      @ilazer @abbijacobson @mindykaling @cschleichsrun go watch Billy Elliott and cry while these bitches conquer shit

      2 replies 1 retweet 1 like
    3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 13 Oct 2016
      Replying to @guybranum @meakoopa and

      Just gonna leave this here: http://www.mckellen.com/writings/tribute/130415-thatcher.htm … Cc: @IanMcKellen

      2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    4. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 13 Oct 2016
      Replying to @chrisgeidner @meakoopa and

      gonna leave this here: http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Sontag-NotesOnCamp-1964.html …

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 13 Oct 2016
      Replying to @guybranum @meakoopa and

      pic.twitter.com/EjLytaOsLr

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 13 Oct 2016
      Replying to @chrisgeidner @guybranum and

      Being new to "queer" this week, Guy, I've not read this!

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    7. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 13 Oct 2016
      Replying to @chrisgeidner @meakoopa

      Nor am I new to British political history of the 1980s.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 13 Oct 2016
      Replying to @guybranum @meakoopa

      And yet, here we are!

      5 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 13 Oct 2016
      Replying to @chrisgeidner @meakoopa

      Her increase of the price of school milk, her restriction of local councils from educating people about homos.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 13 Oct 2016
      Replying to @guybranum @meakoopa

      I'm confused. If you were just being Camp Guy w/ your initial tweet, why were you defending it on the merits as well?pic.twitter.com/BOnAr4owm9

      11:33 PM - 13 Oct 2016
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        2. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner @meakoopa

          Now let's re-focus our energies on loving Lester B. Pearson.pic.twitter.com/Xe8ThZJB8E

          1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
        3. Anthony Oliveira‏ @meakoopa 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @guybranum @chrisgeidner

          I grew up next to LESTER B PEARSON elementary! (I didn't go there tho bc i am a filthy papist)

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        4. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @meakoopa @chrisgeidner

          That dude was a leader. He worried about everyone getting heard.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        5. Anthony Oliveira‏ @meakoopa 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @guybranum @chrisgeidner

          Anthony Oliveira Retweeted Anthony Oliveira

          being delighted by canadian prime ministers is literally my chief pastimehttps://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/707671352782823424 …

          Anthony Oliveira added,

          Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa
          Manic Pixie Dream Prime Minister pic.twitter.com/kypyG1Y1TY
          2 replies 2 retweets 4 likes
        6. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @meakoopa @chrisgeidner

          Yeah, but who told his dad to run for Parliament?

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        7. Anthony Oliveira‏ @meakoopa 14 Oct 2016
          Replying to @guybranum @chrisgeidner

          oh no am EXACTLY AS BLIND on this flank as ur Thatcher thing bc Pierre was an autocrat but i love him (pro-gay tho)

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        8. End of conversation
        1. New conversation
        2. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner @meakoopa

          cruel, monstrous, moralizing figure. i'm accept both her significance to me, and the reality of her policies.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Anthony Oliveira‏ @meakoopa 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @guybranum @chrisgeidner

          I like this better than the Billy Elliot tweet. To me, Thatcher is the murderer of Derek Jarman's generation.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        4. Anthony Oliveira‏ @meakoopa 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @meakoopa @guybranum @chrisgeidner

          And I find bad taste of celebrating her outweighs any joy. But if u feel the camp joy outweighs the horrors - ymmv!

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        5. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @meakoopa @chrisgeidner

          "Well behaved women rarely make history" - A non-monstrous woman who never got to be in charge of anything

          0 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
        6. End of conversation
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        2. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner @meakoopa

          "There is no alternative" or slamming down some Hayek and pronouncing "This is what we believe"

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Anthony Oliveira‏ @meakoopa 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @guybranum @chrisgeidner

          Thatcher killed a generation of gay icons. I cannot love her for it.

          0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
        4. End of conversation
        1. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner @meakoopa

          figure in the news, and so uncompromisingly, meant something to me, but she was also, i learned over time, a petty

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner @meakoopa

          We have moms who hate us, teach us to hate ourselves and kick us out of the house, but still, on levels, we lovethem

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner @meakoopa

          Irony is "so bad it's good" camp is a complex relationship of significant hostility/badness combined with appeal

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        1. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner @meakoopa

          I was defending an aspect on the merits. Inherent in camp, as opposed to irony, is a complicated relationship

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        1. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner @meakoopa

          She's a drag queen. She's a caricature of a person, so I DO take perverse pleasure in statements like...

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        1. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 13 Oct 2016
          Replying to @chrisgeidner @meakoopa

          Camp is a complex tool for complex emotions. As a kid who didn't comfortably identify as male, having a non-male

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