#it's also funny for stuff like a/pansexuality which categorically didn't exist until the internet age

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Most of the appeals to LGBT history on this website are so shallow at best and actively bigoted at worst lmao I saw someone once point to letters sent in to Olivia Records in the 70’s as proof that “male lesbians” were valid meanwhile the letters in question were literally from people who wanted to ban trans lesbians from participating at the record label like. Congrats you are literally agreeing with transmisogynists to prop up your argument

EXACTLYYYY holy shit 😭😭 its just bizarre and honestly so reactionary like it is inherently not a progressive viewpoint to be like "we need to continue to do things exactly the same as the past" HELLO?!?! it does upset me bc the natural extension of that is like, well the existence of gay trans people wasn't accepted (to the extent it is today) by almost anyone in the community and people like lou sullivan suffered horribly from that +literally spent their entire lives fighting for it to be recognised (both medically & in the community),

and the same way with bisexuality which I've spoken abt before but all the arguments that appeal to the fact there used to not be a distinction between lesbians&bi women, actually lots of bi women were privately aware that the term didn't fit them and struggled with it, but ur main option at that point was to move between 'lesbian' and 'straight' communities depending on ur current or desired parter (and often be painfully exiled from the other as a result - not to say there weren't individuals who were aware of this but that's how the community was organised and THAT'S where the whole 'sexuality is fluid' thing comes from - the understanding that u could change between being straight and gay at different points of ur life as a way to explain bisexuality).

so it's just turning around and spitting on the bi women of the 80s-90s who worked so hard to make bisexuality a recognisable identity to free them from that choice 😭 especially when people build this narrative that these asshole lesbians "kicked out" bi women or something like it's so vile to take the activism of bi women (and their lesbian allies!!) and use it as a way to frame lesbians as the villains. plus if u can't share community with people and treat them with respect without forcing them to share your identity that makes you an asshole like it's the worst part of this argument. this is at the core of a lot of these discussions and it's very like um if u can't respect lesbians without reclaiming dyke for urself then u literally have no business w that word wtf