#HOMOPHOBIA

[our-queer-experience]

[rainbow-salt2022]

Went through something similar, my grandfather threatened to shoot me in the head when I was 14 if I turned out gay, well now I’m genderfluid and bisexual and I’m trying to get my brother(trans) out of that house. And no I did not pressure my brother to be “trans” I kept my sexuality out of it until he was 17 and asking about it

[prokopetz]

Honestly, part of why it irritates me when people act performatively shocked at the homophobia in 2000s media is it wasn't just media. "Can you believe this aired in 2008" buddy, in 2008 I was having shit thrown at me from moving cars for having long hair, and you wanna get worked up about sitcoms?

[voidyellingback]

has anyone else noticed that cishet people have started to use "twink" and "zesty" in a derogatory way... like, seemingly in place of the f slur?

[crispyliza]

When people say "I don't want my child to be exposed to LGBTQ+ media because it will turn them gay" they actually mean "I don't want my child to be exposed to LGBTQ+ media because it might help them realize that they're gay".

[nando161mando]

[prokopetz]

I understand that folks tend to think of open homophobia in popular media as a Thing Of The Past, and that the 2000s are still sufficiently recent as not to count as The Past in a lot of folks' minds, but still it kills me the sheer incredulity I keep bumping into when people are confronted with how casually homophobic early 2000s popular media actually was. Like, buddy, you have no idea how recently "isn't it shameful for a straight man to know what a latte is?" stopped being a standard sitcom bit. There were whole shows airing as recently as the early 2010s whose entire premise was "this ostensibly straight man has somewhat fruity mannerisms" – like, that was the entire joke.

[theconcealedweapon]

It's like how conservatives regularly insist that businesses have every right to discriminate when deciding who works for them but shit themselves when a business won't hire unvaccinated people.

[kinkicherryblue]

YOU'D THINK THEY'D WANT TO PROTECT CHILDREN ACROSS THE BOARD, WOULDN'T YOU? BEING A REPUBLICAN THESE DAYS BASICALLY LABELS YOURSELF AS AN UN-CARING PERSON WHO IS LOOKING OUT ONLY FOR THEMSELVES, WHO IS DOGMATIC, RACIST AND USUALLY CHRISTIAN. TO QUOTE KRIS KRISTOFFERSON: "A WALKING CONTRADICTION". A SHORT PRAYER FOR THESE FOLKS-I HOPE YOU "SEE THE LIGHT" OF TRUE JUSTICE AND COMPASSION IN YOUR LIVES BEFORE IT'S ALL OVER. THANKS 4 YOUR CONTRIBUTION dontmean2bepolitical

[loveless-arobee]

Hey, aces, can we have a word?

I've seen a bunch of post venting about how sex is treated in this society by calling sex "unhygienic" or "dirty", or calling people who have sex "weird" or "disgusting".

I get the impulse to rant about how sex is pushed onto you. I do this about romance all the time!

But one thing you don't have to do for that is literally reuse homophobic talking points.

Sex is not unhygienic or dirty, as long as you practice proper hygiene and safe sex. I hope I don't have to explain to you in detail how this is just repeating homophobic talking points, especially against gay/queer men, right? The AIDS-crisis ringing a bell?

People who have sex aren't disgusting, freaks or weird. Even if you include AlloCisHets in that, the people you're mainly attacking with your words are queer people who have historically been (and even still are, in a lot of countries) murdered, assaulted, imprisioned and executed for having sex, and are even in more "accepting" countries where it's legal often still horribly mistreated. The AlloCisHet people don't care for what you have to say about how disgusting they are for having sex. Queer people do.

You can totally vent about not liking sex, and how society is pushing people to have sex! Just maybe don't do that by repeating straight-up queerphobic talking points. Because society is definitely not pushing queer people to have queer sex.

I say this as an aromantic gay man who has been made uncomfortable and felt unsafe in many general a-spec spaces by vents like this. Please remember that your oppressors aren't "people who have sex" but CisHetAllo-society that is pushing everyone into a very specific mold.

Thank you.

Also, if anyone wants to use this post to call aces in general homophobic: fuck right off. I'm just kindly pointing out a problem I've seen in the ace- and general a-spec community, if you use that as an excuse to be aphobic, you're going to be blocked. No discussion.

I doubt the aces saying this are being intentionally queerphobic. They are usually young and venting, and probably don't know the problematic history and implications behind the words they're using. Because they're oftentimes children. You know.

Have a nice day.

[nando161mando]

Pro-homosexual forces stay winning

[packleaderbriggan]

There's nothing quite like the feeling of writing explicit queer fanfiction while in the same room as Christian/homophobic AF family members at the reunion 😂

I feel like a damn secret agent here, like:

"Hello, HQ? Agent Faggot, reporting on progress- Entry #27. It's been 48 hours and they still believe I am One Of Them. Uncle Jeremiah went on a 40-minute rant about how the Trumpster Fire is the second coming of Christ. I tuned him out with the sweet, dulcet tones of Paris Paloma, Girl In Red, and Chappell Roan.

"When the cousins asked what I was writing, I got away with the pre-prepared agency response of, "College homework." No one is the wiser that my 'homework journal' is actually filled cover-to-cover with polyamory, body worship, and deep discussions about complicated emotions- something these foolish mattress baguettes have felt exactly one (1) time in their lives.

"There is approximately 48 hours remaining of my mission. I will now be off to Gender the children with 'Woke Liberalism' and promises of 'Equal Rights' and 'Unconditional Love', like the dirty commie I am.

"Agent Faggot, out."

[animentality]

[benk625-blog]

Reminder, the man who created Wonder Woman was in a thruple that engaged in bandage play. Accusations of Batman and Robin being a couple was a subject of US Congressional debate in 1954!

sometimes when reading classic superhero porn fic scenario "hero is auctioned off to a group of bad guys who are bidding for the right to do evil 😉 things to them 😍" i'm like i love this but man it's so common, who started this trope? what porn fic got this thing going? is it from the livejournal era, perhaps? from the days of print zines? and then i pick up an innocent dc comic to read and like okay nevermind dc was stroking it to that idea before any of us got the chance to invent it

[shiftingwithmars]

Fuck off🖕