Mr. Very Wrong

i had literally never heard of james somerton before this whole thing. he apparently has an audience primarily of young queers who, through no fault of their own!!!!!! do not have the life experience yet to immediately clock this as bullshit. somerton is NOT unusual. people make shit videos about everything, even subjects that are much more recent and much less important than the history of gay survival. PLEASE assume everything you hear from youtube essayists in nonsense until you double check it. i mean everything. "ultimate creepypasta iceberg explained"? 9/10 of that type of video is just. bullshit. made up.

PLEASE talk to older people. talk to people who are older than 40 and 50. the 20th century was not a long time ago, there are tens of thousands of people on this very website who were in their 20s, or older, on 9/11. ask them why marriage equality was important to the AIDS movement. ask them what their parents told them about the 1960s. ask them if "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" was considered shockingly sexual and improprietous when it was released IN NINETEEN SIXTY-THREE (another somerton claim that is so insane i cant even start to explain how angry it makes me).

if you see a guy online with his girlfriend and he has a pride flag in his bio and your first reaction is to question whether hes even allowed to put that there, log off. the guy could be bi, could be trans, could be nb, could be literally any queer identity at all and it doesnt matter. its none of your fucking business. he could also just be an ally showing support, its none. of your. business.

you are not the queer police and it is not your job to make sure everyone in the queer community has the properly documented justification for being part of it. touch grass. you need to be normal about not knowing everyones labels and identities and about people keeping those private.