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[–]writerlylesbian 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

it's really odd. This year's Pride especially seems to be all about punishing same-sex attracted people, with the punishment all coming from the TQ+ community. Maybe they feel like they have to silence us online even more this year since there are no pride parades? Normally they'd just ban us from the marches and be done with it. Now, we have to be rooted out from having a presence ANYWHERE, perhaps especially where uninitiated normies might accidentally wander across our perspective.

[–]Ricky_Ticky 21 insightful - 2 fun21 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

This is just so upsetting, no words can express it. I am in my late 30s and I come from a very homophobic country. It took so much time and effort to escape my country of origin and move to a democratic and open-minded one. Never ever would I imagine to have to go through hate, discrimination and "lesbians will enjoy dick, they just need to try it" all over again. It feels surreal. We gotta do something about it.

[–]writerlylesbian 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If it makes you feel any better, I've been watching this shit-show unfold since the early 2000s, and I've never seen as much awareness and resistance to it all as there is now. The idea of someone like JK Rowling coming to the support of lesbians would have been unthinkable back then. No disrespect meant to her, but if she'd been aware of the 'conflict' back then, I am pretty certain she would have been on the pro-trans and anti-lesbian side, because that was just the default position that the nice, clueless allies took. We even have some conservatives speaking up for us. And I know there are different perspectives on that, not everyone likes it, but again...20 years ago, that would have been unthinkable. The bannings are happening because we're getting too loud and too organised and too effective. So we just need to keep doing more of the same.

[–]Ricky_Ticky 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It does make me feel better, indeed! Thank you for sharing how things unfolded, I wasn't aware of it. Yes, we just continue to be loud and organized and it's all going to be fine again.