As *a* cis gay man and one of those evil academics, I propose we take a close look at this piece by *the* “Cis White Gay” (his memoir) @benappel, cuz it gets really exhausting to see the same poor and wholly unsubstantiated points repeated ad nauseam…a 🧵 newsweek.com/new-homophobia… Let’s start by staying with the beginning for a bit. Ben’s point is so old it reeks. We’ve seen it in the ‘50s when some homophiles thought the queens were hindering their fight for equality; in the ‘70s when some clones wouldn’t be seen near a faery;

This has been circulating and it’s given me one too many thoughts. An #HIV, #Queerantine and #COVID19 thread: 1/ Imagining that queers and queer academics are going to jump on some bandwagon to catch up with everybody else shows little knowledge of how the history of a much larger and deadly epidemic has for decades been entangled not only with our work but with the flesh on our bones 2/