Queer / Respectability / "Obnoxious" / Cursing
The idea that "new baby queers" are "too loud and obnoxious" about their identities is irritating at best and malicious at worst.
The queer community has ALWAYS been loud. ("We're here, we're queer, get used to it!")
Being loud and proud has been a constant in our fight for our rights. We should not have to be quiet just because you personally don't want to broadcast your personal identity to the world. You don't have to. But you don't get to tell everyone else that they can't, either.
I spent my whole life being told to sit down, shut up, and do what others told me to do. Be what others told me to be.
I fought tooth and claw for my identity, and I will scream about it however much I want. You can pry my gender and my sexuality from my cold, dead claws, you fucking cowards.
I'm queer. I'm nonbinary. I'm bisexual. I'm a maverique.
And I am here to make the majority uncomfortable.
— 
Vik (They/them)
re: Queer / Respectability / "Obnoxious" / Cursing
@nyandere Yanno, I used to think this way though.
I used to think that if I was just Acceptable in every other way, I wouldn't get stomped on for being queer.
And then 2016 happened. I realized the folks I was trying to get in the better graces of were Nazis.
I quit the job, grew out my hair, turned my back on my degree more or less, and accepted that my "Career" was basically Over.
I'm much happier now. But I'm a Lot poorer than I would be otherwise, if I'd just kept quiet about what I am.
Had to decide between abundance for my small queer family and standing for abundance for all.
It's not always a brave act of rebellion. Sometimes it's peeking your head out of a hole wondering if the bombs have stopped yet.
