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Apr 6, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
When I was coming out (back in what feels like the Axial Age), it was axiomatic even in more conservative parts of the LGBT movement that parental authority was a wellspring of oppressive abuse. It wasn't neutral or apolitical. Curtailing it was where politics began.
One of the most disturbing parts of what passes for LGBT "social acceptance" has been the acceptance of parental power as a social good. It comes from queers becoming parents and wanting some of that power themselves; and also from the scrapping of discomfiting critical thought.
Mar 11, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
This gay man is 36. He insists for most of his life, "gay rights" had nothing to do with trans people or gender. It's all a recent perversion of the movement.
I'm a gay man, 23 years older than he. From the moment I came out in 1982, I understood trans rights as connected to me.
When I came out--five years before this bizarre dude was born--I saw my sexuality faced social repression not just because of Bible verses but because it menaced what manhood was supposed to mean. I realized I wouldn't be free till others' bodies were also free from those norms.
