#queer posts

by just ... gendering them correctly and using the right pronouns

and yet

it don't be happening

is there any site where I can download for free books based on our labels? it can be any type of book fiction or non-fiction

something a lot of queer americans fail to understand or acknowledge is that their queer history is not the same as every other country's queer history, and if anybody tries to point this out, they're met with incredible backlash because they (americans) read too much in to the statement and start inventing implications that aren't actually there.

whenever a queer tells another to "learn some queer history before you start discoursing" a lot of the time they mean american queer history. whenever somebody links historical articles and writings they're american historical articles and writings. whenever somebody sets up queer resources they're american queer resources -- (and none of these things are inherently bad! they just don't realise they kinda do need to specify that they're american because they view themselves as the default, or get very, very angry when you point out that a lot of this doesn't apply to you or your country.)

queer history and queer liberation did not start and end in 1960's america, not even in america, and whilst non-americans can appreciate and applaud and celebrate queer american historical heroes, we're doing this as outsiders, not as people that owe our lives to them. each and every country around the world have their own queer historical heroes, each and every country around the world has their own queer history and queer liberation movements, we have people that we do owe our lives to, they're just not the same as yours, and vice versa.