Homophobia - Blog Posts
Thinking abt how when my ex broke up with me he kept spelling ‘sorry’ like sry
"We do not have the responsibility of making gay life look good to straights so that they will accept us. I am not at all interested in promoting a cleaned up image to a straight world which is twice as corrupt and ten times as sick."
Vito Russo
Photography by Betty Lane, 1978
I think the Voltron Legendary Defender fandom is the only one where we can make gay characters date a girl without being homophobic
Random Quotes From My Quarintined School
Bitch 1: Why are you gay it’s gross
Person 1: Why are you a selfless crusty ass bitch? It’s gross
Person 2: Boobies-
I ruined the moment...
is now a good time to say that alex is PEAK representation of 'gay in theory'??
hear me out, he has very loving and supportive friends and he's comfortable and relatively open with who he is. but we know that he's experienced a lot of homophobia particularly from his parents, and i feel like his trouble expressing his affections with willie really show the impact that had on him.
dont get me wrong, part of it is definitely because of the whole 'willies being blackmailed' thing but it could easily be metaphorical and shit can have double meanings. that hug ?? the way he clearly cares a lot about willie but can't look him in the eyes and admit it even to himself because at that point he has to face the reality of his feelings and show vulnerability with them. it isn't often talked about, but a lot of queer people act very outwardly proud as a preemptive defense mechanism - what you say won't hurt me so dont even bother. because if they show vulnerability then they're letting the prejudice get to them, and they can't do that. hence why alex hesitates from the hug, otherwise comfortable with physical affection but knowing how much this particular hug will mean to him and being scared to face it, particularly in front of the people he loves. because in his experience, the people he loves have been the ones to judge him for it.
its a huge misconception that gay people like to 'show it in your face' that they're gay, and complaining about it is inherently homophobic. but there is some truth that gay people like to call out homophobia before it even comes up, so as to feel some power over it. acting confident and proud is our way of protecting ourselves from a world that has always preyed on our vulnerability.
update because i have not been here :
I found out I am autistic and have ADHD
I lost my best friend for a year (she was toxic as fuck)
I came out to my mother
I got a lecture on friendship, homosexuality, and depression/mental health
I got a new psychologist
I discovered my new spanish teacher did not wear bras, yet wore tight fitting and see through clothing
I identified as genderfluid
I accepted I was an atheist
I identified as asexual
my therapist gave up on me
I identified as panromantic instead of pansexual
i identified as demigirl
I became confused on my gender
I did 🍃
Someone came up to me and my friends the other day and started saying a lot of homophobic slurs and other very rude and harsh things. The thing is, my friends ( trans,bi,pan ) and I ( Pan ) were literally just sitting in a cafe and then we see this guy walk up to us and just start verbally harassing us with slurs and threats against the LGBTQ+ community. And when I started trying to CALMLY speak to the guy, he started SHUSHING ME and then it got me riled up. My friends tried to pull me back telling me that it's not worth it, so while my friends were PHYSICALLY having to pull me back from the argument, a barista came up to the man with the whole SECURITY and escorted him off the premises. My point is that people shouldn't even have to BE in these situations if others just ACCEPTED US and treated us as living, breathing, people. Being gay or anything else IS NOT A SIN OR A CRIME! I shouldn't have to apologize for being me, nor should other people. I AM A PROUD PANSEXUAL AND YOU CAN NOT TAKE THAT FROM ME !!!
Not my mother saying a hole bunch of homophobic shit while in the same vehicle as her teenage pansexual daughter
my biggest problem is that queer characters are either only gay to progress the plot/straight relationship or just put in there tokenly for diversity points but just re-enforces shit stereotypes
question for everyone in the alphabet mafia, what are the biggest problems/negative experiences y'all've had with queer media
A Liar's Truth
author:
internetpistol (orphan_account)
summary: In which Sakusa Kiyoomi is raised to believe that gay people go to hell but then takes one look at Miya Atsumu and thinks, then why the hell did God make them so fucking hot?
"I love a man who acts like a woman and is prettier than me" "Lol date a woman then" STFUUUUUUU
These stories are the ones that remind you that throughout history people have always been people
It's kind of tragic how homophobia affects insecure men.
Like sometimes they want to experiment with a bit of anal and instead of just buying a sex toy and some lube like a normal person, they instead shove random objects up their ass that inevitably get stuck and then they try to get them out by themselves which makes things worse and then they lie to doctors about it and like this all leads to all kinds of extra complications like internal damage, risk of infections, bleeding, the fall of Yugoslavia, etc.
Come on guys, just buy a dildo. It's way safer and it leads to way fewer problems.
Pinkwashing Palestine
The pinkwashing of the genocide in Palestine is ridiculous. First of all gay rights is not an excuse for killing little kids, at all. Beyond that though, opinions on homosexuality are far from a monolith in the region. My Palestinian best friend and his very traditional, religious family are not homophobic in the slightest. My own white American family took decades longer to come around on gay rights than they did. Would it have been okay to bomb a large portion of the south in the 90s? Should my husband have been killed as a child for being born into a very standard (and very homophobic) sect of Christianity around then? Large swaths of Palestine are roughly where America was not so long ago. Laws are ambiguous (because occupation), some people are cool with gay people, some aren't, many don't really have an opinion. Some areas have a visible queer subculture, some don't. It varies, just like everywhere.
NONE OF THIS could justify the current violence (and PLENTY of queer Palestinians are being killed right now), but I think it's particularly absurd because Palestine really isn't that different than we were not so long ago, and most of us can agree the indiscriminate slaughter of Texans a few decades back would have been bad. Israeli propaganda would have you believe every Arab wants all gay people dead. This is ridiculous.
For more on gay rights in Palestine look at Al Qaws.
In light of this I have added this simple design to my shop (click here), I've seen a few people here expressing they want something like this for protests.
ANY AND ALL PROCEEDS from Palestine related sales through my Redbubble shop will go to my Palestinian best friend (same one mentioned above) to help him bring his girlfriend over to America. Any left over will be used to help his family/other loved ones affected by the war.