#and god forbid you try and do some sort of assimilation for PROTECTION

[sadaveniren]

Sometimes the homophobia inside the house is so much stronger than outside. And that's just... I don't know what to say.

Oh, and if you ask why I'm saying this, well. The community kind of made me stay in the closet, because I was not a gay or a lesbian and therefore not welcome into the community. And of course not that welcome to the outside world for that matter. Yeah

For sureeeee. I'm so sorry the community is for everyone and some people truly don't understand how excluding groups of queer people from their own community is so damaging ❤️ The infighting within our own community is so damaging and harmful to queer people who don't fit into what some perceive as "acceptable" and "family friendly" BUT it is also not welcoming to people who aren't in the LG(sometimes B and maybe just maybe T) area and this isn't even beginning to touch on people who don't fall under the label of "white" within the community and how they identify/present themselves.

#i remember the president of our gsa in highschool told me no one was bisexual and we needed to pick #and he was like IM JOKING after but like... no dude you weren't #and that's an insanely harmful thing to say to someone who was you know... 14 and trying to find a community within high school #I was also on tumblr during the ace hatred (which is still a thing) #and now of course the trans hatred #and god forbid you try and do some sort of assimilation for PROTECTION #DO YOU KNOW WHY WE LET ALLIES INTO QUEER SPACES BECAUSE CLOSETED PEOPLE CAN BE ALLIES SOMETIMES #I HAD SO MANY 'ALLY' FRIENDS IN HIGH SCHOOL WHO WOULD SLOWLY CONFIDE IN JUST A FEW PEOPLE THEY WERE MAYBE GAY #BUT THEIR PARENTS COULDN'T KNOW #BECAUSE THEN THEY COULDN'T COME TO GSA ANYMORE #i just... the infighting in the queer community is horrible #and the vitriol that comes at closeted queer people in the form of hatred towards potential closeted celebrities is just... #as the meme goes harry styles/taylor swift/etc won't see your words #but your closeted friends who identify strongly with these people will and those are the people you are harming #like... my annoyance is very much not at people thinking a celeb isn't gay i don't care #i care that you are making young closeted queer people feel like garbage and excluding them with your words and actions #and you don't even care because you're so high and mighty in being 'right'