#truly if you have never witnessed a 19 year old say ‘elder queers’ to a 50something gay man

[lezbianz]

i think one of the worst results of internet lgbt discourse has to be…actually, you know what, let me back this up a little. this needs context.

i’m taking a class this semester (with my fave professor ever <3) on sexuality in judaism, christianity, & islam. it’s a great class, but there’s only like, 9 (obviously gay) people, and we tend to have very open discussions on whatever reading we’re doing. cool, right? our professor is a 50-something year old gay man i should add.

ok. so because we have these open discussions, right, with 9 18-22 year old gay people, internet lgbt discourse has been brought up. multiple times. we had to explain mogai to our professor. awful.

but the thing about like, putting a bunch of people who have obviously participated heavily in internet lgbt discourse together in a classroom, and giving them free-range to talk about it for an hour and a half, is that online lgbt discourse will be regurgitated verbatim, sometimes in the worst ways possible.

anyways, one time in class one of my classmates started throwing around the term “elder queers” and how they felt about certain super online discourse topics. and my 50something year old gay professor was just like🧍i literally don’t know what you’re talking about and i lived through the aids crisis

AWFUL!!!!!