i appreciate melissa harris perry using her platform on national television to talk about issues related to the LGBT community
but when we start priviliging her opinion as a straight woman over our queer brethren who have fundamentally said the same thing since stonewall and will continue to say it
not only have we chosen,and done so far from wisely, who we would prefer to listen to and what that presentation should look like
but we play a role in the white supremacy that the mainstream LG movement operates on, that seeks to erase those within the community who don’t agree or paint them as being “anti-marriage”/anti progress/anti-gay or a self loathing gay
that seeks poster children to counter act the radicalism that’s calling them our on their shit
that seeks to predicate queer survival on the ability to acquire upper middle class white gayness
and not those who are waiting on prison abolition, comprehensive affordable health care for trans and non-binary people that isn’t a trickle down after effect from the cis-centered health care system, a higher standard of living than the streets many homeless queer youth live on or have lived on, and the abolishment of the military industrial complex to survive
that seeks to erase our radical ancestors, bring them out only when its convenient and subsequently whitewash them {killing them softly all over again}
and that seeks to paint straight allyship as one predicated on basic bitch actions/words which really fall under the category of human decency at its bare minimum and fundamentally doesn’t make you any better of a straight ally
sorry, but i just can’t
i wont play a party to it
