LGBTQ Americans and the 2024 election: “I don’t feel welcome here.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lgbtq-americans-voting-demographic-2024-election/
LGBTQ Americans and the 2024 election: “I don’t feel welcome here.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lgbtq-americans-voting-demographic-2024-election/
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It’s honestly been take advantage of the second amendment since George Zimmerman got away with killing Trayvon Martin for me……
Honestly this kind of political situation is expected for me at this point.
It was partially the election but also partially the Republicans calling for us to be killed en masse
It really does feel like that nowadays. like sure, there’s always been the concern on whether you feel safe or not, but I just don’t feel welcome here anymore. hate won and in an overwhelming amount. The people spoke, and even if they didn’t say it directly, they chose a world where we would become the antagonist the next administration. They don’t want us around, they would prefer a world where we don’t exist, and it’s hard to look at your neighbors, knowing that society just doesn’t want you around anymore.
I think there are a lot of parallels between the way LGBTQ struggle in current America and the civil rights era of the 1950’s-1970’s Civil Rights struggle. It’s not a perfect parallel, but there are some stricking similarities. To pick a random example, one can look at Malcom X’s “[Who taught you to hate yourself?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCSOiN_38nE)” speech and apply it to the struggle of an LGBTQ person that feels pressure to conform inorder to “pass” in mainstream society. Or [Martin Luther King Jr’s response to being told that blacks were moving too fast when it comes to pushing for Civil Rights ](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/S8LXY7zY4dk)can be applied to post-election people saying that “identity politics” are bad.
The Civil Rights struggle was not a straight line forward. The fight did not stop when the laws were past. People had to fight to have those laws enforced. People had to fight to create a new normal. There were steps backwards along the way. And the fights still goes on to this day, but progress was made. Slowly, painfully, but it was made.
There is likely going to be some short term pain but in the long run, conservatives will be on the wrong side of history.
The problem is that the Republican Party has been taken over by religious fanatics. That’s why it’s so focused on social issues with the intention of using the government to impose religious ideology. That’s why states like Texas have mandated “voluntary” Bible classes in public schools. That’s why all of the Republican judicial nominations come from Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society. Their ultimate goal is Christian theocracy.
Come to California, we want all the best people and we’re getting bluer.
Well, I mean, yeah. I don’t feel welcome, I don’t feel safe because of many aspects of who I am, including my queer identities. When one candidate ran on hatred, bigotry, us basically not being people, and essentially the annihilation of us in the public world, yeah, I think feeling unwelcome is an appropriate response.
As a black men this is how black people felt pre obama. It’s starting to feel like that again. I hate being poor. At least if I was rich I could buy a nice house in a forgien country and relax there until his presidency was over.
This thread is a perfect example why the queer community is feeling terrorized by the election results.
Somehow us wanting equal rights and to be fucking left alone has turned into :
“The world isn’t about them.” Or this ironic use of “grooming.”
Republicans are doing all the grooming.
Please just fucking leave us alone. Let us do our jobs, education, and marriages without you assholes trying to barge into our homes and tell us how our lives don’t matter.
This election shows that Hate Won.
As a gay man, I haven’t felt all that welcomed as my authentic self one way or another for most of my life, but I never stopped fighting for it, and I won’t now.
I mean, how else are they supposed to feel?
REPUBLICANS, all things considered, do not appear to want trans people to exist; Republican message about transgender people like they are an abomination that needs to be exterminated, and they are spending as much political capital as necessary to make it all but impossible to be trans in public life – they are actively waging a pressure campaign on trans rights to eliminate trans visibility altogether.
If you are trans, renew your passport immediately and stock-up on as much medication as you can – do this in consultation with a trusted medical professional and discuss contingency plans.
The Right: “We don’t want identity politics shoved down our throats by the left.
Also the Right: “But those trans people and others are the worst, amirite?”
It’s the 80s all over again.
I live in a relatively liberal enclave in a red state, but even here it gets harder and harder to justify staying in a place where my rights are being eroded one by one.
Staying and fighting sounds noble, but part of me just wants to run away somewhere where I can just live my boring gay life without getting hate crimed. Please just let me and my boyfriend watch Top Chef reruns in peace.
Folks are gonna have to learn how to have steel spines. 50 years ago, a lot of us weren’t just in closets, we were under rocks.
Not welcome?
It’s gonna become worse than that.
The emboldened degenerate MAGA are going to make it painful. They want to drive out anyone not like them. Musk will become the doxing monster. He’s going to feed lists to all of the people eager and willing to enact violence. Not just LBGTQ. Anyone outspoken and insulting to Musk and Trump? They become targets. The reach he’ll have will be so vast, he’ll be able to do this. Seriously, not hyperbole. Our country is headed for the shredder.
Their goal is for no one to feel welcome but straight white male christians and their households. As an atheist I feel similar fear because I don’t think I can bring myself to give fake obeisance to some god I absolutely don’t believe in. I know it’s not the same, but I still wonder what I’ll do if they show up on doorstep one night to arrest me for being unamerican.
It’s great fun being in America these days. I love being demonized by the ignorant for wanting to exist peacefully. My body, my rights, dinguses. Oh noes, I’m taking HRT in the privacy of my own home, and I like wearing a dress in **public**! The horror!
A collective third of our country is so obsessed with what’s in the pants of 1.14% of the rest of us, that it would be downright fascinating if it weren’t also accompanied by dehumanization and intentional disinformation intended to absolutely crucify trans people as some kind of perverted boogeyman.
Of course I don’t feel welcome here. Still gonna stay though.
And after feeling unwelcome and unsafe a lot of us decided to turn that fear into anger.
Come at us fuckin scum. Find out why the local gun stores love us lately.
My husband and I are seriously checking out other countries. We don’t feel safe.
It truly is the “I wasn’t part of the community, so I did not speak up” type of situation here. They’ll find another group to ostracize again afterwards.
It’s pretty much how my partner and I feel after the election.
The drive to help others in my southern rural town understand and them slowly accepting that we’re just normal people has completely disappeared. I feel disgusted with my fellow townspeople.
I’ve stopped giving local trump supporters AND republican enablers the benefit of the doubt. To the point where my partner and I carry outside the house, even when checking the mail.
I’ve gone from feeling somewhat safe here but still on guard to full on “behind enemy lines.” Especially with all the recent anecdotal stories of the casual harassment of LGBT by MAGA in the country
Yeah I just got back to New York from Florida for the last time for the foreseeable future. I don’t feel comfortable there at all.
Way too many of these people voted for trump for the stupidest fucking reasons
Yeah because what were supposed to be their fellow citizens screwed them over.
There are fewer 🏳️🌈 flags in my area ALREADY…💔.
I’m going to ask the same question I have been asking for years now in which I either get ignored or provided non answers that do nothing to approach curing gender dysphoria.
The current psychiatric consensus on addressing gender dysphoria in most cases is to allow the individual to transition to the gender that The individual best feels corresponds to them. It is an indisputable fact that in all metrics of their quality of life, things improve for those individuals. Regret rates are low enough to be irrelevant and not really discussed, because there is no such thing as complete, total absolutes in life. Conservatives always complain about this for everything. Is something isn’t 100% successful and doesn’t 100% accomplish the goal they want to achieve, such as vaccine effectiveness, etc, they think that it needs to be banned or discouraged.
That being said, if conservatives are against gender affirming care in a therapeutic setting with a counselor, are against puberty blockers, hormones, and bodily surgeries, the burden of proof is on CONSERVATIVES to provide a step-by-step methodology in a psychiatric setting that will allow a person with gender dysphoria to be able to realize they are the sex that they were born as, to be happy to accept it.
If any conservative in this comment section has the balls enough to answer me, provide me an empirical, data driven, successful methodology that addresses gender dysphoria with similar or higher success rates that allows a person to accept their born birth sex and to live as that gender.
If you can’t do this and aren’t able to provide a solution, frankly you need to sit down and shut the fuck up. Provide some real solutions, or quit your bitching and complaining.
Still mad at the millions and millions of Americans who couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to what’s going on, or knew what’s been going on but were too lazy to vote. Then there’s the self-righteous that didn’t vote because, “no candidate spoke to me and my values”. Just brain-dead, self-serving “I’m the Main Character” types that ignored how vulnerable the vulnerable are with this voting result.
I’m not a LGBTQ American and I don’t feel welcome here
Yeeeeeeeeah, going home to Florida for a week after the election deff got me in some mixed emotions that were not helped by coming home and having people at work insist they could sell me on Trump being good after I already said “he literally campaigned to exterminate people like me”.
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