On the last Queer Out Here walk, there was a welcome circle where everyone was asked to introduce themselves, state their pronouns and tell the group what the outdoors means to them.
I can imagine nothing worse.
But hey get out there climb them hills and mountains have fun.
>proving the great outdoors isn’t just for cis, straight folk
Who ever said it was?
What the actual fuck is this article? How have I as a bisexual person ever been given the idea that walking in nature is a “cis”, straight activity?
Pink News are just trolling for attention at this point, it’s like they want to be oppressed.
Ah yes, all those old laws that stopped “queer people” going for a walk….
I don’t know anybody who’s ever said that it is just for “cis, straight folk”
What is this nonsense? Since when have queer or any lgbtq people faced discrimination for going on a hike?
Since when did a tree, hill, stream, rock or any other inanimate object give any shits about your sexual orientation?
How the hell can you even tell what someone’s orientation is when we’re all trussed up in Gore-tex or similar? Can you even tell from clothing? I dunno.
The idiots you can spot, fair enough, they’re the ones in flip-flops and football shorts.
The mind boggles.
All that said, if this gets people over some barrier (perceived or not) and out into nature, jolly good. Keep it up.
I don’t think anyone in history has thought “I’d like to go for a nice long walk in the woods today but I can’t because I’m not heterosexual”
Also, wtf do they mean “a lack of equality around access to the outdoors”?
Meeting the people who walk outdoors but THEY’RE GAY!
Just FYI for people getting frothed up about this headline: PinkNews are notorious for this sort of bait and aren’t any better than something like the Mail or others now in terms of trying to get outrage clicks, and I say this as a fully-paid-up member of that community.
It’s bizarre it’s got to this sort of point but that’s the media landscape we’re living in now.
I went for a run on national trust land this morning because I am a straight white man. I did see a black dog though so maybe times are changing to be more inclusive? Hashtag Progress.
What the fuck is this? This is my reaction as a gay man. I go hiking and camping all the time and not once have I ever felt it was a “cis, straight” activity that I was excluded from, and not once have I ever felt the need to surround myself with other LGBT people to be able to do it.
It sounds like a Daffyd from Little Britain line, “I couldn’t possibly go for a walk, I’m gay!”
Walking in lakes, snowdonia and Scotland happens to be one of my big passions for 20 years now. It is coincidently also where I happen to know the most LGBT with 3 people, (5 if you include their partners somtimes dragged along) in a group of about 20 over the years as friends have swapped in and out, having that as once facet of their personality.
As far as I can tell none of them have ever felt excluded from the hills.
In some of the pubs we went to there may have been a look or two, but even then it was never an issue as they are quite touristy areas too
So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
They say, “The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light”
Now there’s no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.
> about how they can be more diverse and make the outdoors more accessible to different communities.
This is just absurd. What did they have in mind dye the sheep pink?
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On the last Queer Out Here walk, there was a welcome circle where everyone was asked to introduce themselves, state their pronouns and tell the group what the outdoors means to them.
I can imagine nothing worse.
But hey get out there climb them hills and mountains have fun.
>proving the great outdoors isn’t just for cis, straight folk
Who ever said it was?
What the actual fuck is this article? How have I as a bisexual person ever been given the idea that walking in nature is a “cis”, straight activity?
Pink News are just trolling for attention at this point, it’s like they want to be oppressed.
Ah yes, all those old laws that stopped “queer people” going for a walk….
I don’t know anybody who’s ever said that it is just for “cis, straight folk”
What is this nonsense? Since when have queer or any lgbtq people faced discrimination for going on a hike?
Since when did a tree, hill, stream, rock or any other inanimate object give any shits about your sexual orientation?
How the hell can you even tell what someone’s orientation is when we’re all trussed up in Gore-tex or similar? Can you even tell from clothing? I dunno.
The idiots you can spot, fair enough, they’re the ones in flip-flops and football shorts.
The mind boggles.
All that said, if this gets people over some barrier (perceived or not) and out into nature, jolly good. Keep it up.
I don’t think anyone in history has thought “I’d like to go for a nice long walk in the woods today but I can’t because I’m not heterosexual”
Also, wtf do they mean “a lack of equality around access to the outdoors”?
Meeting the people who walk outdoors but THEY’RE GAY!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Y6PchDYfw&t=9s
Just FYI for people getting frothed up about this headline: PinkNews are notorious for this sort of bait and aren’t any better than something like the Mail or others now in terms of trying to get outrage clicks, and I say this as a fully-paid-up member of that community.
It’s bizarre it’s got to this sort of point but that’s the media landscape we’re living in now.
I went for a run on national trust land this morning because I am a straight white man. I did see a black dog though so maybe times are changing to be more inclusive? Hashtag Progress.
What the fuck is this? This is my reaction as a gay man. I go hiking and camping all the time and not once have I ever felt it was a “cis, straight” activity that I was excluded from, and not once have I ever felt the need to surround myself with other LGBT people to be able to do it.
It sounds like a Daffyd from Little Britain line, “I couldn’t possibly go for a walk, I’m gay!”
Walking in lakes, snowdonia and Scotland happens to be one of my big passions for 20 years now. It is coincidently also where I happen to know the most LGBT with 3 people, (5 if you include their partners somtimes dragged along) in a group of about 20 over the years as friends have swapped in and out, having that as once facet of their personality.
As far as I can tell none of them have ever felt excluded from the hills.
In some of the pubs we went to there may have been a look or two, but even then it was never an issue as they are quite touristy areas too
So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
They say, “The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light”
Now there’s no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.
> about how they can be more diverse and make the outdoors more accessible to different communities.
This is just absurd. What did they have in mind dye the sheep pink?