Thread by @eigenrobot

caper: become a journalist and in every piece you write mention that someone is "queer" or perhaps "a queer icon". present no evidence of this. stare your editor down if he contradicts you

https://twitter.com/OnlyAWorldAway/status/1481888674308833280

"today, queer icon and vice president kamala harris spoke at foggy bottom"

is SHE gonna deny it. i bet she wont

can you prove shes not? can anyone?

will you get sued? lol, in 2022? im sorry we have established that there is no moral valence to sexual orientation, and if someone calls you "queer" you what are the damages? how is this defamatory? go ahead. explain to the press why being queer is bad and youre not ok

if someone says your queer, what. do you issue a press release denying that you are queer? doomed to fail.

"this press release is raising a lot of questions" etc etc

pretty soon youll be a queer icon even if you werent before. even if no one knows quite what that means

the best part is that this is politically ambiguous. are you pro-queer and trying to claim more people for your cause? everyone can be queer now. are you antiqueer and trying to illustrate the absurdity of the framing? this is the way although "interrogating" is a queer ritual so

before long people will clamor to be queer icons. no one knows what queer means but theyre pretty sure queer people have good taste and so being an icon among them is prima facie evidence of high status

i think everyone will want to be a queer icon in the future