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"Queer space" as in "this space is created with the needs of queer people in mind and you should expect to encounter queerness here", not "you have to be queer enough to be allowed in"
"Queer space" as in "this space centers queerness", not "queers only"
"LGBTQ+ people with disabilities are often denied an intersectional identity due to inaccessible queer places/events, and the false idea that they cannot have sexual and gender identities. We must remember to make all places accessible and inclusive -- from homes to bars, to parades and festivals -- this month and all year long.
Love these words by Annie Segarra. “It starts with hiring us as organizers, it starts with integrating us into the spaces where we belonged all along. It takes the work to unlearn ableism and misconceptions about disability, it takes effort and care to make our spaces accessible. Pride is for all of us, not some of us.”
Photo: @annieelainey
PRIDE IS FOR ALL OF US, NOT SOME OF US!
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The eyes are what got me.
Yesterday my wife, sister-in-law and I went to our usual karaoke spot. The spot famously doesn’t have Coke products but the near-by pizza place sells bottles the bar doesn’t mind us bringing in. And let’s be honest here: Coke is better than Pepsi.
And while we were there, a collection of clearly queer people were sitting at one of the tables. They were quiet, but one made plenty of noise without saying a word.
He was glaring at me, only me, with a burning anger I am all too familiar with. Every time I turned around, there he was, burning holes in my back.
My sister-in-law noticed, and confused, wasn’t sure quite what to say. Honestly I didn’t either.
When they finally left, we shared words about the experience, and Baruch Hashem for that, it made me feel not crazy.
It hurts.
It hurts to know that my brilliantly gold Magen David and my features (the nose, the hair, the beard, I can’t really be mistaken) make this experience unavoidable.
The antisemitism on the American left is out of control and in queer spaces in particular, pushes out queer Jews like me. This experience itself was far from the worst of it, and other Jews have attested as such. But it makes the warnings of my elders ring ever louder in my ears.
I am a staunch critic of Israel. A fierce advocate for peace. A union organizer. A husband. An artist. A scientist. An avid consumer of fiction. A skilled cook. A queer man.
But none of that was in his eyes.
I was just a Jew, even if he spelled it Zionist.
Since people seem to like my Bsky hits, bringing another certified one over.
Is it "queer spaces are all so anti-masculine!!!" or "I want queer women to decenter themselves in their own spaces"
HmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ...
The funny thing is I know about this shit not just because I've noted the way cis queer men speak to me and my trans gfs, but because I'm friends with gay trans guys and transhet women who've been through these spaces in some way or another.
So like, you could be finding community amongst those who have similar experiences to you, even folks who aren't fully accepted by cis queer men's spaces, but you're just ... not? In favor of saying any queer women's space is TERFy if it's woman-centered?
Get help.
Like, I'm not even going to go into whether it's problematic or whatever. It's just whiny. It's off-putting. It's entitled and bizarre.
Stop.
Wish there were more ways to meet and flirt with girls, that didn’t involve loud music/bright lights and/or alcohol.
Sadly I’m autistic and a descendant of alcoholics.
So… womp womp for my lesbian ass.
The "masculinity is ugly/dangerous/evil" rhetoric that permeates queer and women's spaces is something I think heavily contributed to spending 8 years of my life telling myself I never really "wanted" to be tmasc and I think some of y'all need to hear and internalize that, and realize I'm not the single exception story to justifying that rhetoric, and start changing how you speak about the traits of other human beings.
