@rechelon this is so true. Especially the huge uptick in queer visibility and people finding out and coming out as queer is in huge part due to the internet, due to media no longer being as top-down and corporate, by allowing queer people to find community and exchange knowledge and ideas in a way that is easy to access even for closeted people and even for people in the most queerphobic, conservative areas or in the middle of nowhere as long as there’s internet access.

I don’t know if I would have ever figured out my queerness and felt encouraged enough to express it, and if I would’ve made it through that early phase after I realized I was trans without the internet. And idk if I would’ve become an anarchist without it, not because I don’t tend towards anarchist values but because it’s so hard to just come across anarchist ideas irl, I might’ve never considered it, I might’ve never had that moment of “that makes so much more sense and is so much better than liberalism/social democracy/whatever you call the ideology of naive teens supporting the Green Party” without internet communities exposing me to anarchist ideas and given me the space to understand the basic concepts of anarchism/what anarchism is (the funny part is that I had met and even been friends with anarchists irl before that, they just never talked about why they believed what they did, they just sort of talked among themselves about it).