Fyuck exclusionary anything.
I just read a very annoying thread where a woman in her early 20s was proclaiming herself the Keeper of All Auld Queer Wisdom. She is of the opinion that allies aren't really part of the community, and aren't needed.
Bitch, where were you the night Dan White murdered George Moscone and Harvey Milk?
Where were you when the White Night Riots broke out, and angry LGBT people burned police cars and smashed the doors at City Hall?
Where were you when a rioter with blood pouring down his forehead stated with an eerie calm that society was now going to have to accept the gay community as real people capable of real violence, not just fairies who owned hair salons?
Where were you when it was called GRID?
Where were you when the deaths started mounting? How many friends did you lose?
Where were you when the Bay Area Reporter's front page had "No obits" as their headline in 1998 after 16 years of death?
I'm, straight, but asexual. I've been an ally of LGBTQ-whatever-letters-you-want-to-add+ since the night I saw that rioter explain the world to me. I helped hide gay soldiers in the Army. I've marched in the San Francisco Pride Parade, and when I found out I now had a big sister instead of the big brother that's I'd had for fifty years, my only reaction was to joke that now I was the eldest son, and would inherit everything!
Dismiss allies, and history, at your risk. And don't piss off the asexuals, after all, we got extra time and energy on our hands.
Bitch, where were you the night Dan White murdered George Moscone and Harvey Milk?
Where were you when the White Night Riots broke out, and angry LGBT people burned police cars and smashed the doors at City Hall?
Where were you when a rioter with blood pouring down his forehead stated with an eerie calm that society was now going to have to accept the gay community as real people capable of real violence, not just fairies who owned hair salons?
Where were you when it was called GRID?
Where were you when the deaths started mounting? How many friends did you lose?
Where were you when the Bay Area Reporter's front page had "No obits" as their headline in 1998 after 16 years of death?
I'm, straight, but asexual. I've been an ally of LGBTQ-whatever-letters-you-want-to-add+ since the night I saw that rioter explain the world to me. I helped hide gay soldiers in the Army. I've marched in the San Francisco Pride Parade, and when I found out I now had a big sister instead of the big brother that's I'd had for fifty years, my only reaction was to joke that now I was the eldest son, and would inherit everything!
Dismiss allies, and history, at your risk. And don't piss off the asexuals, after all, we got extra time and energy on our hands.