Get up, coward

2022-12-06T00:06:37Z

A friend shared with me today an assigned reading for one of their classes, gender studies or something like that. It's called THE QUEER NATION MANIFESTO and was passed out at a New York pride parade in 1990. I read it in full and I'm so, so angry.

Because nothing has changed.

Nothing. Replace the politician names and it's all the fucking same. It's been 22 years and in over the course of, 1? 2? We're right back square one. Hell, we're still fucking arguing about whether or not it's okay to call it the queer community. And I don't care! It doesn't matter what we call ourselves, we're all faggots to them! And fuck am I tired of playing along. I'm so sick of being a fucking educator and a good liaison to these straight conservative christian nazis.

I'm tired of being afraid. I'm tired of letting some asshole shout in my face about how we've been corrupted by demons and him still having teeth in his mouth while the pig officers drag him away, after we already told them this would happen and after we had to call four fucking times.

I'm done sitting idly by for the sake of keeping a good image for our community. I'm done sitting idly by while they kill my family and drive the rest to suicide. I want one of those nazi pricks to lay a finger on me. Give me a fucking excuse. Tell me again how I'll incur God's wrath. I will teach you the definition of wrath, and you will know Our pain.

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thedoldrummajor

Get up, coward