Gay MenSome of you may believe I’m being overdramatic here, but it really sucks having to wake up to everyday and be reminded that my sexuality that I’ve fought to no end to get my family and friends to accept is being actively appropriated by straight women who fetishise gay men.

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[–]QueenBread 9 insightful - 7 fun9 insightful - 6 fun10 insightful - 7 fun -  (2 children)

Rejoice: if THIS is the problem you wake up thinking about, then it means you have no problems. You're lucky.

[–]Smolders1Cock is god's greatest gift.[S] 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I mean, it’s not on my mind constantly. It just kind of annoys me is all lol. People claiming an oppression that they will never understand just bugs me and it’s a bit hard not to think about or get frustrated over when so much of your life has been based around trying to rid yourself of a hard-wired orientation that you would honestly rather not live with.

If there were a button I could press that magically turned me straight, I would press it no questions asked. But I can’t. I am always going to be a male who is attracted to other males. Of course, I’m not speaking for all gay men when I say this, I know a lot of lesbians, bisexual and gay men who are happy with their sexuality, but I am not. I have been put through no end of homophobic bullshit in my life to let mentally ill women fetishise people like me. Not a single fucking gay man wants them and they never will. They can take their homophobia elsewhere, I’m not letting the same homophobic nonsense that my parents said to me years ago be used on other homo and bisexual kids disguised under the mask of ‘trans rights’.

If a person refusing to let regurgitated homophobia stand in today’s world is what the trans community considers a ‘transphobe’, then I’ll happily remain a transphobe for as long as I live, because that definition of transphobe is not a bad thing to be.

Sorry for going off topic a bit, but I don’t care. Just my thoughts.

[–]8bitgay 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I disagree with the previous comment. I can't say if it's the same in other countries, but in mine I feel like we got pockets of acceptance. When you got a social bubble of people that are LGB or allies, it's easy to feel like everything is fine. However, it is very easy to notice that homophobia still exists whenever I get out of these pockets. Sometimes getting outside of these pockets makes me feel offended, sometimes it makes me feel actually threatened. I haven't experienced actual physical violence, but I have experienced random people threatening to assault me just because I didn't look straight enough to them.

And the thing is that even these pockets of acceptance don't accept us well anymore. Now they only accept us as long as they think we'd date trans people, among other homophobic "rules" we have to follow.