Gay Tirade

A passage of thoughts and opinions regarding the everchanging landscape of romance and intimacy.

## Prelude

**ho·mo·sex·u·al** */ˌhōməˈsekSH(o͞o)əl/*

*adjective*

1. (of a person) sexually attracted to people of one's own sex.

*noun*

1. a person who is sexually attracted to people of their own sex.

**alternatively;**

*adjective*

1. sinner.

*Ahem.*

Hello and welcome to my blogpost. Today we will be discussing how to bake a delicious and nutritious lily of the valley pie. A dish so good it'll make you talk about LGBTQ+ rights for 10.000+ words, a dish so good it would also poison you- lily of the valley is poisonous. Do not eat that. Regardless the first part is true, in celebration of the...end of pride month-- err, never mind! In celebration of nothing, I've decided to do some, i suppose you may call it *Mental Masturbation,* basically just me using big words and images, throwing around phrase and citations to pretend im smart and know what im talking about. When i reallllyyy dont, guess thats why theyre called opinion pieces, huh? Well as im not the smartest, im bound to get somethings wrong here and there, right- so whenever i do, do feel free to correct me, i do fear one of my less wise and uniformed opinions is harmful and not slayyy. If there are any like that, do let me know! Especially with a topic like this, one so contentious and fought over. Yet very important, for millions of people globally, and for all of you reading this. Hi gays!!!

No slurs in this btw, literally anyone online can see this, im edging my bets here.

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## Shaking Hands with Rainbow Painted Nails

### 2019

I was dumb, dumbER than i am right now, but...not necessarily

It was funny looking back on very very young me trying to understand- not even sympathize or support but just simply comprehend the concept. And i have to admit, i came into it with a, per se, skeptical perspective. Not openly hostile, but not accepting per se

### 2022

I got OMORI this year and im sure you can connect the dots.

Yes, i met you wonderful little gay people and it'd only bolstered my "yeh nothing wrong with 'em, like them a ton actually" mentality

## Other Topics

### Out, Loud, Proud

I'

A sort of common-ish mentality is always "toleration? always. acceptance? depends." And part

Maybe this is just a fundamental disagreement between me and ***"the liberal left"*** on gay rights, but i just, don't really like the whole thing. Pride Parades, Pride Badges,

I guess i just, don't see it as something to be PROUD of.

Yeah i get that its supposed to represent the triumph of progress, they are a marginalized group who's only gained full rights and equality mere decades ago. And i understand it as an act of protest when said rights are under threat. But for just a yearly thing? i dunno, theres also this intoxicating sense of...well, PRIDE within some members of the community that just, eugh. The assertion that all men are inherently evil, that all cishet people are a "bourgeoisie class determined to take away YOUR rights", that all religion is a lie and those of faith are deluded. It's just too much sometimes i think.

And i do know that, much like the evangelicals, "sigma males", and sleazy international corpo CEO. These annoying nuisances in the LGBT community are in the very, very small minority. But man do they present themselves really loudly at times.

There was this tumblr post that unironically said smth like "The cishet establishment and society pits bisexuals and lesbians against eachother". Which while im sure isn't 100% wrong- the way it was phrased really rubbed me the wrong way.

You've all seen the meme: Companies on July 1'st reverting from their colorful pride avatars to their dull, pastel, marketable pallets. By the time youre reading this im sure it already happened.

### The Bigger Picture

When i log on to social medias and se discourse on LGBTQ flags i roll my eyes to the back of my cranium. Does it really genuinely matter that the *"Drumsfeld Notthingham Design"* is less inclusive than the *"1992 Upper Chesapeake Baltimore Pride Flag"* because the pantone #f4t5m7 strip is 20 pixels too big.

These ultimately meaningless and pointless "discussions" that offer nothing of value to championing actual rights do kind of tick me off. These people living a life of comfort, living a mundane mayhaps- but certainly not an oppressed life. Trying to champion LGBT rights by demanding LGBT representation in media, obnoxious and baseless headcanons that actively undermine the author's intent. A lot of good intentions, but very misguided, a real shame.

And on a lesser note- Slacktivism, defined by Wikipedia as:

> *"The practice of supporting a political or social cause by means such as social media or online petitions, characterized as involving very little effort or commitment."*
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Favorite example, uh- Pride Month, it just feels like Pride Week, if anything. Major statements from content creators, companies, actors only last for like 5 days, most pride pfps are thrashed within the first two weeks, its all honestly pretty cosmetic to me. A set very easy yet very pointless act, taken by people within the borders of already developed, first-world, liberal, democratic states like The US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, The UK and The European Union States.

I suppose its not a bad thing, you still are helping a cause, even if your help is miniscule, but help is help. But man, the people who actually think they're contributions matter on a global scale. Its bullshit, it honestly is. You're not raising any type of "awareness", people know what being gay entails.

And over there, where the star spangled banner does wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave do i see this in it's worst.

## Thin Rainbow Line

***Disclaimer: this section is entirely opinionated, more so than the previous ones.***

A woe some have regarding the state of LGBTQ rights is that "its a DISGRACE that its the year of our lord EINSTEIN - 2022 and GAY RIGHTS arent ENSHRINED in every nation's basis". Like, first of all

I think the pride community are just, a bit too prideful? i guess thats an ironic statement.

No way to phrase it well i think but just, it gets to me sometimes,

20.000 word doc on gay lefts coming pride month 2019 keep ur eyes peeled.
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1. ↑ see: i am not smart.
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism