ngl I teared up when I first saw that video. It's... I wish more people were like Mark. It means so much that he cares that deeply, and it's one of the many reasons I subscribed to him.
http://www.autostraddle.com/moments-like-these-where-people-are-repulsed-by-my-existence-341575/ read this today and i'm really feeling it.
I didn't get a chance yesterday to get a picture, but I've been wearing a rainbow pin on my lapel at work. It's such a small thing, most people probably don't even notice, and it's not like a jacket and tie on a clearly afab person scream "straight" but the conscious decision to be visible feels important right now
this might belong here? I made a post about staying safe at Houston Pride, if you still plan to go. reblog maybe? I've seen posts encouraging people not to go, but none about staying safe if you still go, so...
also, update, it's looking more and more like someone made a prediction that there would be a shooting without thinking of the ramifications of posting it, instead of an all out threat I'll still be careful, because I'm a paranoid lil fucker, but it's looking like we could be slightly less worried
I've been kinda disturbing myself at my lack of reaction to this. Perhaps because I have figured it would happen sooner or later? Perhaps because as an older queer person I already prepared myself for this kind of thing with other, smaller or piecemeal tragedies. Or perhaps it's just my unshockability which is normally a good thing but makes me feel coldly inhuman at times like this? But I'm seriously considering going to Pride for the first time in almost 20 years because I am going to stand up and say fuck you to the world, even if I have to deal with crowds.
I know I've also heard that the amount of shock varies a lot in the community because this is the worst thing that's ever happened to younger members in the lgbt community (because no one teaches queer history in high school) and it's barely even close for older members ....because I've read a little queer history, this doesn't surprise me, but nothing like this has really happened since I've come out, so it scares me
@Morven my girlfriend had a similar reaction, and it's what I've heard from a lot of other older queer folks as well (she's a bit older than me) And for my generation and younger it's like... I knew about the upstairs lounge fire and laramie etc. but they were history by the time I was old enough to be politically aware. Important but not immediate the way this is. (edited for spelling)
so, a 'friend' decided that the pulse shooting is TOTALLY A CONSPIRACY, GUYS I want to scream at him, but I already told him to stop yesterday and like, he didn't i wanna hug
I've seen some conspiracy theory shit so far, most of it being "there were really 3 gunmen not one and it was obviously organized terrorism" but nothing really extreme YET.