Apologies if the title is a bit cumbersome, as well as this text wall, I'm not sure exactly how to put this feeling into words, this will probably be messy. Before I hit 'peak trans' this year, I was pretty active in the gay scene, I went to pride, bought rainbow shit, and for the past decade I've been generally happy about the way things had turned around for gays. I basically grew up right in that weird zone of time between gay people being generally shunned or misunderstood by society, and then growing to be pretty widely accepted over the span of 8-10 years.
I've just been scrolling through news feeds and shopping lists, and it hit me suddenly, that now when I see 'rainbow'-themed products, advertisements for gay events, or even just opening gay dating apps I've used for years, I feel a kind of apprehension now. It kind of disturbed me at first, because as an out and proud gay man, I've always been nothing but unabashedly proud of my sexuality and the fact that I survived being disowned for it, escaping an oppressive religion, and generally just being my own person. Of course, I always rolled my eyes at companies that were putting out gay-pride themed products and messages just for brownie points (which is most of the time, I'm sure), but I never felt that weird apprehension that I do now.
The gay community, it's ideals, everything about it has changed because of this gender ideology cult. It's almost more accurate to say we don't even have a community anymore. Absolutely everything is about the T now. Trans validation, changing science and language, silencing women, co-ercing GNC people into changing their bodies to re-inforce rigid gender roles, putting children on horomone blockers, all of that is what I see now when a picture of a rainbow-painted mug comes up on my newsfeed, or a new flavor of gay-pride Oreos shows up at the market, or one of my coworkers puts an LGBTQ+ hashtag on one of their posts. It's disturbing, I don't recognize it, and I don't know what to do about it.
But yeah, I'm not sure if any of you will relate to this, I just had to put it out there.
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