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Feb 25, 2022
Stealing Our Power
When it comes to state-sponsored queerphobia, the cruelty is the point in that it creates a permission structure for the wholescale theft...
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Feb 23, 2022
Love Is The Antidote
Homophobia is intrinsically violent, but acceptance and celebration are intrinsically loving.
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Feb 13, 2022
It's All Good
One way to resist straight supremacy is to cultivate a sacredness to all our sexual urges, needs, and desires.
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Dec 20, 2021
Two Opposing Forces
It's impossible to simultaneously act as an ally while also enabling straight supremacy.
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Dec 15, 2021
It's Up To Us
Don't be part of the permission structure for prejudice. Let's leverage our privilege to lift up others by meeting bias head on...
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Dec 12, 2021
We Are All In This Together
Unfortunately queerphobia will likely persist until straight people see its adverse impacts on their lives as well. Bigotry is not just...
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britteast
Dec 2, 2021
Just Getting Started
To all of our lovely queer allies out there: your work of dismantling systemic queer oppression is just beginning.
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Nov 29, 2021
It's Up To You
When someone confides queerphobic behavior with you, what what they're really telling you is you're their safe space. You can then either...
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Nov 27, 2021
Putting It On The Line
Part of our work is to make "polite" bigotry socially unacceptable. We must risk discomfort and decorum to confront prejudice in the...
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Nov 19, 2021
Unconditional Love
If you're not ready to unequivocally celebrate and love a queer child, then maybe you're not yet ready to be a parent.
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Nov 17, 2021
The Lie of Manliness
Feminine men are just as "manly" as masculine men. Our flavors of gender expression often differ from our gender orientation, and we owe...
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britteast
Nov 10, 2021
Masculine Men Can Be Queer Too
You don't owe anyone femininity simply to appease their narrow view of what queer might mean. You're welcome in the queer community...
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britteast
Nov 7, 2021
Our Gender Expression Is Our Own
Queer people don't own anyone masculinity simply to appease their fragile view of what manhood might mean.
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britteast
Nov 1, 2021
Speak Truth to Power
People in power often trade in euphemisms to preserve the delicate sensibilities of their followers, assuage the silent majority, and...
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britteast
Oct 16, 2021
Affection is Part of the Resistance
In too many places gay men are safer walking alone than with each other, which makes simple public displays of affection political acts...
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britteast
Oct 6, 2021
Active Resistance
Bigotry is the default in our society. That means each moment we're not actively resisting it and working together to eradicate it...
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Sep 30, 2021
Let's Decolonize Our Choices
"Decolonizing" our choices means we recognize that the global plunder and genocide of indigenous peoples, particularly by countries in...
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britteast
Sep 25, 2021
#Phony Arguments
Discussing queerphobia doesn't divide us. It's the actual queerphobia that does that. Claiming otherwise is just gaslighting.
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britteast
Sep 20, 2021
Open To The Possibilities
Our sexuality need not be defined by our partners' body parts.
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