I woke up today forgetting that it’s pride month, and it feels sad because I know the reason why: I’ve distanced myself from LGBTQ+ spaces so much that it just didn’t occur to me like it has for the past few years. Why? Because most of the LGBTQ+ spaces I’ve interacted with are overwhelmingly white, and the experiences with that, as you would expect, are
The whiteness of these spaces is part of why it took me so long to figure it out. I felt out of place and figured I mist be cishet rather than because the whiteness was repellant
I don’t know how to explain it better than, LGBTQ+ spaces feels like the Target Queer section. Almost like a hate crime with nothing behind it beyond visibility and rainbows
I never bothered with grindr both because of my anxiety around sex and also because I keep hearing how racist it is. I got one queer friend online in my friend group when everyone else is pretty damn white. This shit gets kind of lonely fr
I woke up today forgetting that it’s pride month, and it feels sad because I know the reason why: I’ve distanced myself from LGBTQ+ spaces so much that it just didn’t occur to me like it has for the past few years. Why? Because most of the LGBTQ+ spaces I’ve interacted with are overwhelmingly white, and the experiences with that, as you would expect, are
The whiteness of these spaces is part of why it took me so long to figure it out. I felt out of place and figured I mist be cishet rather than because the whiteness was repellant
I don’t know how to explain it better than, LGBTQ+ spaces feels like the Target Queer section. Almost like a hate crime with nothing behind it beyond visibility and rainbows
I never bothered with grindr both because of my anxiety around sex and also because I keep hearing how racist it is. I got one queer friend online in my friend group when everyone else is pretty damn white. This shit gets kind of lonely fr