idk I think I’d go hard if it were still illegal.

really don’t vibe with the whole “Pride™, brought to you by Citibank and Raytheon”. the bi erasure. the endless insufferably bad takes from shitlib bougie white gay guys. (won’t even throw a brick at a cop smh)

anyway, I guess my point is be more gay, do more crimes.

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    reactionaries are targeting and killing trans people every day and rainbow capitalism has not in any way ended homophobia.

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      Not sure what you mean by that, care to elaborate?

      I am not a clever man and I have begun to realize that I lack a basic understanding of sexuality, mine and others’. I’m a super suspicious person so my first thought was how do I get informational materials from an LGBT group that hasn’t been co-opted by Black Rock or something.

      After doing some research, I actually just found some alternatives to Pride that are staunchly anti-corporate:

      Queer Liberation March

      Gay Shame

      Against Equality

      Queeruption

      Now statistically, one or two of those are likely to be reactionaries who got to the correct answer for the wrong reasons, or those kinda LGB dorks.

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      I think I maybe get what you mean, I’ve noticed I have a disproportionate amount of disdain or resentment for wealthy white gay guys. Rational or not, they seem like a convenient focal point lol for these overarching issues.

      My main post was facetious. I’m a coward and if getting caught doing the gay posed a real risk to my life I’d probably minimize that. The pigs would never catch me in removedrante delicto.

      I admire the courage and sacrifice of the people who got us here. It was a path often paved with blood. It just stings to see the loudest voices in LGBT be the people with the absolute lowest risk of being persecuted/harmed/killed. I also know too many gay white guys in finance and finance-adjacent fields, so they migjt just be the worst examples.lol.

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    some funny excerpts from the natopedia article on rainbow capitalism:

    After the Second World War, Western culture was influenced by the homophobia of fascism

    In the United States, accommodation of the LGBT community through capitalist mechanisms has resulted in economic and societal protections for the LGBT community greater than those prescribed under the law. Under the American economic system, employers are incentivized to support the workforce[…]

    I guess there were some missteps in the 30s and 40s, when our glorious western culture was tainted by the foreign ideology of fascism. Luckily, thanks to the power of the free market, this has been corrected and discrimination against the gays has been fixed by the invisible hand.

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      As always, natopedia is fair and balanced. Equal weight to pros and cons, and always presenting both sides of the issue.

      [Gay] neighborhoods […] gradually underwent the gentrification process. Rising prices expelled the LGBT population that could not afford the new expenses.

      Different companies and firms in turn began incorporating the defense of LGBT rights into their company policies and codes of conduct, and even financing LGBT events.

      On the one hand, you might now be homeless. On the other hand, a CEO might pay some lip service to you (while spending millions to make gay marriage illegal again).

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        The “Responses” section of the wiki page may perhaps contain some scholarly analysis or proposed solutions to some of these problems…

        Responses

        Ron DeSantis and other Republicans criticized Disney for being “woke”

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    the solution to this is simple - we have to get so gay that they both have to make it illegal again and that their laws are powerless to stop our gayness