Comments | gsa_lj: Please check your own privileges at the door

bialogue in gsa_lj

Please check your own privileges at the door

May 15, 2012 21:48

Sometimes we don’t have to look too far to find the people who persecute members of the LGBTQ+ Community(s).

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Comments 8

kale May 16 2012, 01:54:34 UTC

...how are a whole bunch of these "queer-on-queer"?

bialogue May 17 2012, 05:21:50 UTC

huh? which ones don't you think Queers say to put down other Queer people?

crumplelush May 16 2012, 03:50:43 UTC

I'm bisexual and have had a lot of these sorts of things said to me. And generally I've found that heterosexual people are more accepting of me than gay people.

darkladyvamp May 16 2012, 04:51:22 UTC

This. One of my best friends at work is gay, and I didn't have the courage to come out as bi to him until about a year of working together. He was totally accepting, but I have found that he is the exception and not the rule.

redstar826 May 16 2012, 13:29:12 UTC

I kind of hate how its become a thing to throw around words like 'privilege' and 'persecution' where they aren't really relevant.

machmed May 16 2012, 19:05:19 UTC

Um. ok.

lostandalone22 June 14 2012, 04:05:50 UTC

I've got another one. I've heard lesbians tell bisexual women and even less masculine acting lesbians that they aren't "lesbian" enough, and there's even one girl I know who says things like "Well, real gay people do/don't like/dislike whatever." I said I liked Brokeback Mountain and she said "Well, real gay people hate that movie. Real gay people know that's not real." Um... go watch any rom-com and tell me how "real" you think that is.

bialogue June 29 2012, 20:46:39 UTC

Exactly!