I too lived under Section 28. I marched in Thatcher's London streets over it.
I also was arrested in NYC, Philly & DC protests because gay friends were dying & Silence=Death.
Live your smug privilege, just know you're complicit against us, not some freaking role model for us.
I also was arrested in NYC, Philly & DC protests because gay friends were dying & Silence=Death.
Live your smug privilege, just know you're complicit against us, not some freaking role model for us.
https://twitter.com/matthewtoomer/status/1026050430948786176
"I lived through it & it did me no harm."
What the bloody hell?!
The havoc wreaked by anti-gay ordinances like Section 28 ruined lives. And someone explain to @matthewtoomer that the GAY MAN who helped end WWII in the UK, #AlanTuring, killed himself b/c of anti-gay laws, FFS.
What the bloody hell?!
The havoc wreaked by anti-gay ordinances like Section 28 ruined lives. And someone explain to @matthewtoomer that the GAY MAN who helped end WWII in the UK, #AlanTuring, killed himself b/c of anti-gay laws, FFS.
And his whole TL is full of equally smug nonsense. It's not legal to be gay or lesbian in 103 countries. There is NO protection against anti-#LGBTQ discrimination in the US.
We were silent for 100s of years and str8 folks did NOT "tolerate us," they jailed, raped and killed us.
We were silent for 100s of years and str8 folks did NOT "tolerate us," they jailed, raped and killed us.
The Nazis put us in concentration camps. Lesbians were given red triangles, gay men pink ones.
It was illegal to even WRITE about being gay. Oscar Wilde, Radclyffe Hall--there were obscenity trials over their work.
In 2018 lesbians are being correctively raped in SouthAfrica.
It was illegal to even WRITE about being gay. Oscar Wilde, Radclyffe Hall--there were obscenity trials over their work.
In 2018 lesbians are being correctively raped in SouthAfrica.
#LGBTQ people hold #Pride marches to embrace each other in societies that still do not give us full citizenship.
It is still illegal for us to even exist in more than half the world.
That YOU never suffered for being gay is great. It's also privileged since many others died.
It is still illegal for us to even exist in more than half the world.
That YOU never suffered for being gay is great. It's also privileged since many others died.
Every day #LGBTQ people are under threat somewhere--sometimes from their own families.
Ignoring the long history of discrimination and oppression and its current reality is frankly disgraceful when people are literally dying because of who we are.
Ignoring the long history of discrimination and oppression and its current reality is frankly disgraceful when people are literally dying because of who we are.
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