#youd think my old ass would know better
do y'all even know how much i hate being an “elder queer” at 40? a whole goddamn generation before me was wiped out by a plague that politicians deemed not their problem bc it was killing the “right” people. like. this was OPENLY STATED. i spent a large chunk of my childhood going to funerals. nevermind the fact that killing queer people for being queer wasn’t codified into law as a hate crime until i was a junior in high school.
i should NOT be an elder queer, i should be middle at most. i am a middle aged queer. most of the elder queers died.
when i was growing up i didn’t go to pride parades, i went to pride marches. because that’s 100% what they were in the 80s and 90s.
from the absolute bottom of my heart, LEARN OUR FUCKING HISTORY. a generation was nearly wiped out so you young queers could be here. don’t let that have been in vain, please.
I’ve never seen any “blame the gays for COVID”??
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@mother-entropy is talking about fucking AIDS, NOT COVID?
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I was referring to the tags that someone reblogged this with so can you chill with the outrage before you give yourself an ulcer?
You know what? I would swear that I checked the tags on the post you reblogged from and didn’t see a COVID mention, but I would be dead wrong, because here it is
And I’ll be perfectly honest with you, even if those tags hadn’t been there, I would STILL have been out of line to respond to you the way that I did.
I should have assumed that there was some kind of context that I was missing when I read your post and taken a beat to look further if I felt such a need to respond to it, and to respond like a dick.
I apologize for my rash and harsh reaction. I was out of line, and you didn’t deserve that. I’m sorry. I’ll update my previous reblog with a comment saying as much.
Please understand I’m not trying to excuse my behavior, but a quick tip - if you reblog to reply to tags, it’s sort of tumblr custom (or at least it used to be) to include those tags in your reblog to provide some context when people come across your post later.
But again, I’m sorry.
I’ll also reach out to the couple people that reblogged it from me and let them know.
