Tumblr users will say "queer history" and mean "midcentury archival records from a specific US-American city that I have extrapolated into a universal mythos" and not even blink
#been trying to learn more finnish queer history lately. there's not a huge ton of literature which is unfortunate#i think genuinely the average queer person here knows more about american queer history than our own bc it's treated as βuniversalβ#which pisses me off so bad#i also wanna learn more about non-western queer history i need to look into that when i get a break from uni stuff#also. i've seen americans on this site go βwell yeah but didn't we start it (pride movement or wtvr) for other countries so it makes senseβ#are you fucking serious#yes the entire world was just sitting around helplessly going oh if only some americans could show us what to do#they aren't their own people with their own communities and rich histories and dynamics or anything. america is the main character you see
