Straight couples will start dry-humping each other in family amusement parks if the wait for Space Mountain is more than five minutes but sure, keeping latex and leather out of Pride is just about holding our community to the same standards.
Lot of people with fewer than 20 followers replying to the preceding tweet as though "straight couples getting it on in lines" isn't a known and well-attested phenomenon.
The Onion did a whole bit on it.
theonion.com/nation-s-gratu…
The Onion did a whole bit on it.
theonion.com/nation-s-gratu…
At least two people have pointed out that the cliched getting-it-on-in-lines straight couple is a target for scorn as though this is somehow relevant to the point I'm making.
I don't want to QT anyone but I do want to use this as an example of something.
I don't want to QT anyone but I do want to use this as an example of something.
First, far more people are trying to argue that "No, that doesn't happen, no one does that, you're making it up" than the people arguing "But everybody HATES those people anyway," so obviously they're not universally scorned.
The biggest point I have to make here is that sexual displays that are normalized are allowed to pass without comment or notice to the point that a lot of people won't see them or register them as sexual or happening...
...whereas conversely, non-normative sexuality is so hypervisible that people will react like two men holding hands is sexual or a woman with a picture of her wife on her desk is shoving sexuality in people's faces.
Closely related to that is the fact that straight-couples-being-gross-in-public are the subject of eyerolling and snarky Onion articles is being held up as being *equivalent* to saying that too-visible queer people or queer people coded as sexually active don't belong in public.
In the same way that more minor displays of queer sexuality (encompassing queer relationships and even just queer existence) get coded as "sexual" more aggressively, actual sanctions against such queer displays are treated the same as much more minor sanctions (like disapproval).
...I have some doubts as to the sincerity of the person on the obvious burner account raising this, but yes, yes I know the Onion is satirical.
That's why I said "The Onion did a bit on this." and not "The Onion published an article documenting this."
That's why I said "The Onion did a bit on this." and not "The Onion published an article documenting this."
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