Oct 10, 2020
Look at this, and remember it next time someone says that the gay community survived the AIDS epidemic.
We didn’t survive, we started over. We lost all but an entire generation.
This is what “we survived Reagan, you’ll survive Trump” looks like. No, we didn’t.
This is a big reason why the movement to take away the word ‘Queer’ and exclude parts of our communities is gaining so much traction. We lost our elders and with them, our history. So TERFs and other bad actors have gained a lot of power because this generation largely isn’t here anymore to dispute them. They’re building their vision of the queer community on the dead bodies of those we lost.
