#and just saw a godawful take on a post criticizing those takes and im just done

[chadsuke]

biggest pet peeve and thing entirely beyond my understanding is when people are like of COURSE the gen z tiktok lgbt kids don’t know lgbt history uwu no one is passing around archives to lgbt history uwu you need to TEACH them this stuff and so many people can’t be part of a COMMUNITY irl

i google ‘lgbt books goodreads’ and the first thing that shows up for me is a goodreads list with 460 books. hell, i google ‘lgbt history archives’ and i get a ton of different archives. there’s an entire lgbt history magazine i just found right now. found a random history essay with a ton of good launching off sources.

even if you’re not in a place where you can get one of these books from the library (interlibrary loan is your friend!!!) bc of an irl situation, you can read an ebook. hoopla and libby are also your friends or learn how to use libgen. my country’s netflix has 19 different lgbt documentaries and a quick google search led me to these ten free ones online and here’s a couple more. there’s literally multiple podcasts devoted just to lgbt history.

these are all brand new resources, things i just found right now in a quick google search. yes, community is incredibly important and foundational and yes there are teachings and the like handed down and yes this isn’t available to everyone and no one is asking you to be an expert but if you can be on tiktok you should at least know shit about the hayes code. that neopronouns have existed for decades. etc. or at least own up to the fact that you don’t know anything about lgbt history and don’t pretend that you do.

if i see one more person acting like it’s just sooooooo hard to find access to information i’m going 2 lose my mind. if ur online enough 2 see this post/use social media ur online enough to find resources.

#like no one has 2 be an expert dear fucking lord but its not that god damn hard #there are way too many links in this post that's probably going 2 get like 2 notes but i have seen the WORST takes on tiktok recently #and just saw a godawful take on a post criticizing those takes and im just done #pick up a history book please my dudes #or stop pretending its insanely hard to find its rlly rlly not #gigi.txt #whatever i'm going to bed i need to stay off of tiktok #lgbt history