what scares me is how we’ve developed new ways as a society to disempower queer people and make them nonthreatening while acting like we support them
the ass-backwards progressiveness of portraying gay people on tv as white, affluent suburbanites when 40% of homeless youth are queer and poverty rates are exponentially greater for queer people (particularly queer poc) who can also be fired in 29 states
portraying queer people as carefree and “sexually liberated”, equating our entire lives and identities to who we sleep with (no to mention excluding asexuals and aromantics)
making our pride parades into big, loud, corporate-sponsored circuses where all the complex issues that plague our communities are boiled down to rainbows and marriage equality so straight, cis people don’t need to question themselves or how they contribute to our suffering
“I can’t be homophobic, I support gay marriage!” (and so on and so forth in a million different iterations)
giant corporations exploiting our symbols and struggles to win brownie points with peak liberal americans (apparently monsanto is a great lgbt-friendly workplace, go figure) selling t-shirts with rainbows on them and profiting off of people’s inabilities to separate obvious pr from sincerity
queer people are dying and starving every day from this bullshit and you think the sassy gay friend on your favorite show or your rainbow face paint is gonna solve any of this?
WHERE THE DAMN LIE