As far as the ‘queer’ umbrella goes, call me a feeble fruit, but I actually don’t like the word or the forced-teaming.
I’m gay myself, and I feel as if I don’t fit in with all these pink-washing, cross-dressing and LARPing attention-seeking posho art school weirdos. Half of them are straight or straight-leaning bi, anyway, they just used to be Emos/Goths or cosplayers, and had to grow out of it in Uni, so this is the next best thing they can get away with. Or they’re just promiscuous, and don’t want to be ‘shamed’ for it or conversely pressured into flogging their wares like so many do these days.
The whole ‘movement’ is far from counter cultural, so false and transparently performative as well as corporatised. They’ll sell any old rainbow shit to kids, pink Scotch mist of they could. And they’ll forcibly insert the worst gay OC/Mary Sue characters into telly programmes and books, just to sell more. I understand that business is business and it’s unscrupulously tied with idpol now but..let’s not muck about.
If I like someone and want to be with them or get with them, I’ll just do that, quietly and in my own private way. So long as the government or the police or my employer don’t get involved and threaten me out of it, what need is there for a parade or a campaign or sparkly Pride Coke bottles? And what is a Gaylor Swifty? I hate it here.
And in closing, I go back to it (this will only make sense to Britfags on here): footballer Jordan Henderson’s only crime was refusing to decry horrific *labour rights* abuses at his very cushy big money Saudi job, and this was conveniently overlooked by the very people castigating him for ignoring *their* civil rights campaign—the LGBTQ community. Proving how classist and bootlicking the whole organisation really is. He was witch-hunted for the wrong fucking thing, because the Saesneg are so fucking dim and entitled. And with his gammy legs and blindness to the plight of impoverished Indian slaves, I still say Hendo should be reinstated England captain (I support Cymru)
