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      The way the straights dealed with AIDS was downright genocidal, my country had people in the federal government literally calling for internment camps and it has been completely memory holed outside of queer spaces. Also, AIDS is a prime example how this respectability politics shit is getting us nowhere, anybody interested should read a bit about the history of ACT UP! and how they used direct action to drive policy changes. If anything, queers today aren’t radical and annoying enough.

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        AIDS wiped out an entire generation and the culture around it. I’ve wondered about how much was lost during that time period. You look at modern-day pride events and film festivals and see most of them started in the 90s and 2000s. Very few of those annual customs from the 80s and before survived to today. Then there’s subcultures and venues that were around for decades we will probably never know about because they were wiped out.

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      I definitely remember back then. The discourse about Freddie was pretty fucked up. The revisionist history these guys are on is absolutely laughable

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      I think they hold the current title for “Fanbase outpacing the creator in terms of reactionary content any%” Speedrun category. Like his takes are bad, but his fans are two octaves right in their frothing screeching. His fans are somehow worse than either Destiny or Ben Shapiro fans and they achieved it in a much shorter amount of time, with far less Israeli astroturfing and/or hard right billionaire funding. Maybe because he never styleized himself as an epic logic debatebro to begin with. It seems like an organic cesspool as opposed to a designed one, which would be impressive if it wasn’t so gross.

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    "Damn I hate that gay people have a need to constantly talk about the same thing that only pertains really to them but they make everyone listen to it.

    Anyways here’s part 63 of my 100 hour youtube series as to why women and woke ruined videogames."

    not-built-for-this

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    I hate the right, I hate heteronormative society, they hate me, and I want them to hate me more, thus I will be as annoying as humanly possible to them at every single opportunity. I will, in fact, make my entire life revolve around things that repulse them and remind them that they have no real control over me. Seems obvious enough.

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    Sounds like they like marginalized people to act (and remain) marginalized.

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    Gay people being loud about their sexuality = pride parade with some camp

    Straight people being loud about their sexuality = causing a deadly forest fire burning tens of thousands of acres from their gender reveal party’s fireworks

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    Yet another case of “I only perceive things as political or flagrant when they’re out of what I consider normal”. To them, gay people kissing on the street is “being annoying” and “reminding everyone that they’re gay”. They can’t possibly kissing or holding hands because they’re in love, or god forbid, fucking horny, it’s always a political thing. Saint Valentine’s isn’t political, Pride Day is.

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    There’s something about the smugness and enightened centrism that makes it somehow more enraging than the mask-off queerphobia found elsewhere. To be clear, shame on the person who made the video. Its one thing to have internalized queerphobia, and its another thing entirely to put that out into the world and try to position yourself as “one of the good gays”.

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    I’m just going to go out on a limb here and guess the thread is filled with homophobia because they’ve found an acceptable way to say it with like minded “I’m definitely pro-lgbtq, guys honest! anyway trump is gay and sucks putin off lmao” liberals