Has anyone here EVER thought this?

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[–]haveanicedaytoo💗💜💙 38 insightful - 7 fun38 insightful - 6 fun39 insightful - 7 fun -  (5 children)

I'll tell you what. 20 years ago, my first days in college at a west coast LGBT+ friendly big city, and going to the room that housed the (I forget what they called it, the GSA? The LGBT club?) and it was all tattooed, punk-rock clothing, colored hair, facial piercings, and I just stood there in my plaid shirt and white singlet and baggy jeans and skate shoes (yes, I was a total cliche) like................... Oh.... Uh.... Okay.... This is not the place where someone like me fits in... I guess....

But I never felt "not queer enough" because I am NOT queer at all. I just looked at these people like "Wow... Okay, this is like a different type of gay?" In reality, these were the ancestors of the Queers, already scaring away the normal LGB and T even back then.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

So many botched opportunities to tell these crazy people to piss off. So many botched opportunities. But I’m glad many of us are waking up now.

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Gotta make up for lost time!

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is actually a really comforting story.

[–]fuckupaddamsBisexual Terve 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Were they really gay though? Maybe they were and you could've made some unlikely friends?

[–]haveanicedaytoo💗💜💙 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It was the club for LGBT people so I'm assuming they were all LGBT somehow, or "allies." They were all older too, so it was a little intimidating (when you're 18, even 20-year-olds feel old, and these people, to my squishy little teenaged brain felt like they were at least mid-20's and up. It was a state school so it was normal to see students older than 18-22 there.) I ended up making A LOT of L and G friends at that school, and a few B's, but all of them I either met in class, or through friends-of-friends.

OMG I just remembered the first B I ever met there. Within like... 5 minutes of meeting her, she was telling me about her Hello Kitty vibrator, and I had never experienced that level of TMI before from someone I barely knew, I was so traumatized LOL On the outside I was grinning and going "Oh... Wow... Okay!" and on the inside I was like... dying. hahahaha