Senior Corporal Cassie Dotsy demonstrated the actual opposite of the unarmed shootings we’ve seen, not the “look at officers playing with minority children”‘fluff pieces.
tell me “we are Orlando” after you and your masc friends address how the homophobia you’ve internalized is also the same kind that led to the massacre
tell me “we are Orlando”‘after you recognize POC in the community as more than just trophies you can cross off your fetish bucket list
tell me “we are Orlando” after you start uplifting feminine and trans men instead of treating them like a stain you can’t remove from the carpet
tell me “we are Orlando” after you start putting POC on the cover of your magazines more than once every leap year
tell me “we are Orlando” when you stop giving priority to straight white men over LGBT POC voices
tell me “we are Orlando” when we really become a community instead of a straight acting white boys only club
Because at a time like this you should really be dividing the community. Shit like this is fucking disgusting
people have been asking me why I made such a divisive post during this tragedy, so here’s the deal.
I left a vigil in Portland where a white gay man with “no rice no spice” on his scruff profile took a selfie holding a candle as he mourned 49 brown bodies.
A masculine friend on Facebook posted “we are Orlando” and filtered his profile picture. 12 hours later he made another post about how he can’t stand when men sound like they have “a purse falling out of their mouth”.
The same accounts I saw calling #GayMediaSoWhite divisive are now the same ones using a tragedy involving 98% POC to make out with their boyfriends with #2MenKissing for nothing more than reblogs while praising Nick Jonas, a white straight man, for being such a brave ally and speaking on behalf of LGBT people of color.
I made this post because even in tragedy, y'all never stop.
So, yeah, this post is divisive. But so are the actions of those within the community I’m holding accountable as they continue to build social capital from a tragedy involving men both brown and feminine.
I don’t even know why this post had to be clarified. Privileged gays will never get it.
It just means you found the privileged gay.
@All white aphobes: This is exactly the kind of fucking behavior within the community that we are referring to when you attempt to use a single problematic a-spec person to justify banishing all of us from the community.
You have no right to pretend like this shit is not rampant in the community, doesn’t harm other people in the community, or when hypothesizing on kicking the white gays out for being problematic is suddenly and mysteriously not directly comparable to how you are justifying kicking all a-spec people out.
