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[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I was literally fighting gaybashers, especially in defence of wee gay men. These ppl have no idea

[–]writerlylesbian 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The town where I came out was mostly working class, and pretty tough. There was one mixed GL gay bar, in the bad part of town. Or maybe worse part of town, since the whole place was kind of the bad part of town, lol. Going into that gay bar usually involved negotiating drunk men, sometimes quite a lot of them, all deliberately loitering around outside jeering and throwing projectiles like beer bottles etc. Sometimes looking for anyone who they thought they could pick off and take away for a good beating/raping/who knows what else.

Like...In those days we really had to look out for each other and defend each other. From actual physical harm. And now pronouns kill people.

[–][deleted] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I had to threaten the COPS to make them stop gay bashing my gay male friends. Those same cops said I was “cute” and they would “do” me. If we didn’t stick together the gay men would have gotten beaten, easily.

When the TRAs say words are literally violence and they are being killed and erased and don’t exist because of TERFS, it’s a piss-off for me.

Sounds like your town was worse than mine, though it was also working class.