Mastodawn

Seeing news articles along the lines of "we need to take back pride from radical activists."

Like, dude, we are celebrating the anniversary of when butch lesbians, trans women, drag queens, homeless gay kids, and queer prostitutes chased cops into the Stonewall they were kicked out of -- AND THEN TRIED TO SET THE PLACE ON FIRE. With the cops inside.

I'm trying to figure out how that wasn't radical activism, but trans people asking for human rights is too radical. Fuck that.

Nire Bryce Jun 2, 2023

@joelle well, that's as close to tacit permission as we can get -- throwing bricks is mainstream now

TheSpiritedWitch Jun 2, 2023

@joelle My pride look this year includes a T-shirt celebrating the Stonewall riots. We are returning to form!

The Doctor Jun 2, 2023

@joelle Can I quote you on this?

Joelle Jun 3, 2023

@drwho Feel free.

The Doctor Jun 3, 2023

@joelle Thank you!

Deb4+ aka Deborah DT 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Jun 3, 2023

Just your straight passing white gay man with a great job wondering why he should support someone who's got nothing to give him. Also he gets points from straight people for not being THAT kind of LGBTQ+.

Essjay (she / her) 🏳️‍🌈Jun 4, 2023

@DeborahForPlus

"I've got nothing against straight people. Just as long as they act gay in public" 😉

Deb4+ aka Deborah DT 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Jun 4, 2023

@essjay @joelle

Aha!! Act straight and don't ask for your civil rights!

dawnfry Jun 4, 2023

@joelle
If your Pride celebration this year isn’t pissing off bigots, what are you even doing?!

#LGBTQIA
#LGBT
#OurExistanceIsResistance
#Pride

Enkiusz🇺🇦Jun 4, 2023

@joelle while yes, the corporations that want to profit from selling rainbow-colored trinkets are not about bringing meaningful social change

M.P. James ☑️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Jun 4, 2023

@joelle Where are people writing these articles coming from? Until the mainstream started openly including queer people (Often for self serving purposes.), the mainstream regarded pretty much all of Pride as “radical” at the time.

Who do the people writing these articles think these non-“radical” people were? How were they not “radical”? And how were they not labelled “radical” at the time?

M.P. James ☑️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Jun 6, 2023

@joelle I notice thick-as-pigshitposter Masto Instadon’t “detriotriotcity.com” (Red flag, anyone?) has arrived to urinate on our conversation.

Everyone: block the shitposters. And! Block the domain “detriotriotcity.com”. Here’s one of their users.

Nika2022 🐶🎶🌐☕️Jun 4, 2023

@joelle
I find it also concerning that with a lot of laws your senators are now also targeting these communities online. It's easy to call it an extremist content,, and just like with Sesta/Fosta they will now remove lgbt content, climate change or what ever they deem 'dangerus' from teens...
This will be very damaging lgbt+ teens. A lot of them use social media to actually find their community and seek for information.

Nika2022 🐶🎶🌐☕️Jun 4, 2023

@joelle They aimed to save the children.... But they dismantled their communities and take away their friend groups

Alastair Cooper Jun 5, 2023

@joelle @Nika2022 As far as I know technologies like VPNs and Tor remain legal in the US (for now) so educating people about those may help a bit. I read the other day that PornHub has an onion site now in part to help LGBTQ people access it in jurisdictions where homosexual content is illegal.

Nika2022 🐶🎶🌐☕️Jun 5, 2023

@alastair87 @joelle indeed...but unfortunately the UK and EU also wants to mandate age verification to use social media and one day maybe even wish to change the recomendation engines.
Canada alread may have done just that, but they call it "discoverability of CanCon".
A disturbing trend when gov offices decide what content is worth recommending and which aren't.
And tbe e2e encryption bypassing ideas we didn't even mention.

Nika2022 🐶🎶🌐☕️Jun 5, 2023

@alastair87 @joelle a lot of Canadians wanted to vpn into us, guess if these laws pass teens probably wont

@joelle Anyone who says they need to take back pride from "radical activists" is a fucking cop, and cops have no place at Pride. Bricks for the sycophants as well as the boots they lick.