Being gay/trans is not supposed to be a political statement. The only reason LGBTQ became political is because people were attacked for it. It’s just a strange concept to me that people still consider gay to be some type of alternative lifestyle choice.
Further muddying the waters, I have a really hard time seeing much authenticity within the LGBTQ community because you never know who is just there for the ride now. Every time some literary dyes their hair purple just to say that “sexuality is a spectrum” and claims they’re queer for the attention, the real voices of the rainbow get drowned out. I can’t stand this “you are who you say you are” nonsense. A white person is not black, and a straight person is not gay. Nor should either want so bad to be the other that they feel the need to trample upon the other’s identity.
Yep. All of this. Glad I'm not alone.
I vociferously reject homophobia from "LGBT people" who think they can identify however they please, including as something fundamentally homophobic, like "a gay man" who has heterosexual (opposite-sex) genitalia. This is all nonsense. As a gay man, I happen to intimately know what both
gay and
men are, and I won't be gaslighted over it or my homosexuality. People who enable word-meaninglessness are not helping any cause except avoiding "being offensive." I voted for Obama and Bernie and never Conservative, but it has become clear to me that Liberals are sick with "needing to be kind," even if it destroys or kills. The worst offenders are the obsessive "Straight Allies" who have no real skin in this game and have no experience what it's like being gay, yet would crucify themselves if they thought they caused the slightest offense to a valid purple-haired person, so instead eviscerate and nullify the meaning of words and existence so as to not be insensitive to someone else's issue.
By the way, dear MacRumors peers, I view every "disagree"/downvote to my comments in this thread as rather homophobic. 🤷🏼♂️ So go ahead and expose yourself. Might as well be honest about it.
There are a lot of people in this corrupted LGBT "community" that think "being just gay" is no longer "cool" and "just a genital preference" (or even more homophobic: "a genital fetish"). If you don't want to hear an actually-homosexual man expose inner-community homophobia from "LGBT people," then you're not here for what the Rainbow Flag means, you're here for the LGBT Fad that exploits us rather than represents us. You're no better than the people who've exploited Native people or Black people or people in general. This corporate-political LGBT-ism especially is toxic and socially destructive. I honestly sympathize with people who view gay people negatively, because looking at these social agendas, so would I, if I weren't gay and knew being gay has nothing to do with these engineered movements.
So I reiterate: I will not be wearing this band for I can not do so with pride. It's a symbol that eviscerates what I am, and what gay people / the Gay Rights Movement has fought for. Which was always to be deemed as normal and acceptable as straight people, to have a family, to get married, to bitch and moan about taxes as spouses — not to have purple hair etc heralded as one's sexual expression and the existence of men and women blurred to boldly not offend mental illness.
At the rate things are going, I think it's time for the rainbow to dissolved back into the sky. I'm a normal guy who just happens to be gay and have experienced almost zero homophobia from straight people. Straight people are no longer the problem. Nowadays even Conservatives, opinions on marriage aside, accept that I'm gay, without judging me as "not cool" or minimizing me as having "a genital fetish." I'd rather talk to a Conservative that doesn't want me to marry than a gay/trans/LGBT/ally person that debates whether the word "homosexuality" means "same sex" or "same gender."
There's just no reason for this rainbow ideology to exist when gay people are now as accepted for who we are. Except wait, we aren't, not everywhere! The
real Gay Rights Movement in its purity is still
very needed when gay men are killed in Iran as soon as last month where homosexuality remains criminally illegal — meanwhile it is not a crime to be transgender
anywhere. No, bathroom disagreements do
not compare to being
criminalized and killed for who we were born as.
But alas, the rainbow has been co-opted by people who have a lot of problems and need help, more than validation and parading. Purple-haired nonbinarydemigodnonconformistpansexuality is worth letting gay men in Iran die. After all, it's just a genital fetish. His problem, he should've been less transphobic.
What this band represents, does not help people like him — it leads to their death.
Or maybe people in his circumstance will get lucky in the future and Iran will just start transitioning gay men to straight women! That's when the newfangled Philadelphia Pride Flag will get an upgrade with Crescent & Star to include marginalized Muslims. Gay men be damned, we don't matter anymore, time for us to start having sex with opposite-sex genitalia. And of course, lesbians have never mattered to these LGBT people, with their spaces full of the wrong genitals boldly including themselves in their spaces. LGBT misogny is doubly strong. Lesbians just shouldn't've been born as women!
If you think you support the LGBT movement but can't listen to a gay man detail the homophobia he's experienced from this selfsame community, I don't know how to describe you but as a clueless hypocrite that's doing a lot of harm. Wake up.
I love Tim Cook for his post-Jobs tenure and successes, but from one gay man to another, I call him out for supporting this ideology just to be socio-corporately popular without a second thought to the deeper ramifications.