Ross Mathews says queer people will never stop fighting: ‘The generation before us did a lot of work to make things easier for us. We’ve having some setbacks right now, but there’s more of us than there are of them.’

https://www.pride.com/interviews/ross-mathews

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  1. The truth is it used to be just us, but now so many allies are visible that people are having a stronger reaction to it. They don’t just hate LGBT people, they hate the entire majority of the population that doesn’t hate us.

    Add in all of the movies, marketing, and media trying to appeal to us openly, and it adds to their list of grievances.

    They’re just a bunch of poopy pantses. They are actively choosing to stay mad about it.

  2. The current media concern-trolling, i.e. “These set backs may make nembers of the LGBTQ+ community give in to despair and give up,” is totally infuriating. The premise for this stupid idea is that prior progress just sort of happened and now that there is some backsliding, all is lost. How ignorant of (pretty recent) history. A lot of people fought a lot of hard battles against much worse oppression to get where the community is today. And by hard, consider the refusal to despair in the face of the HIV plague where the government — abetted by a lot of bigots in the civilian population — deliberately ignored the epidemic, hoping it would accomplish their genodical dream for them. Back when HIV was nearly a death sentence. Today’s backsliding is a splinter in the pinky compared to that war. Wishful amnesia by the h8rs.

  3. I had this conversation with a friend today. The community is not going to put up with decades of abuse again. We have more support today. We remember the constant abuse. We have had the memories of lost people. We will not be pushed into the closet again.

  4. Yeah NO ONE I know is giving up. In fact, we get stronger by the day.

  6. no need to fight where your accepted. Hope y’all find peace wherever you live

  7. Uhh..

    No, there isn’t.

    There are waaaaaaaayyyyyy more Republicans than us. And it seems to be easier to convert a queer person to republican than republican to ally.

    You can bribe someone into being a republican. You can’t bribe someone into being an ally.

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