vincentwilde:

stonedpervert:

fyeahpoliscipanda:

vincentwilde:

THERE ARE NO QUEER TEEN SUICIDES - Unknown artist - 2004 - Portland, OR - Single page flyer.

I have a print out of this hanging in my office.

As someone who has had gay roommates and many gay friends I find this rather insulting. I have played shows with bands to benefit shelters where gay runaway teens would stay alongside battered wives and other abused people including children. Because I don’t “crossdress” I am somehow to blame anytime a gay person commits suicide? And what sexual curiosities? News flash: There are people who simply are NOT attracted to the same gender. Just as a transgender person knows in their heart whether or not they are a woman, man, or undefined so am I sure that I am strictly attracted to women and like to wear what society considers “man” clothes. I did not invent genders nor did I choose which gender I would identify with as a person. I like jeans and t-shirts. I like ties and boots. I had a kilt but an ex took it when she moved. I wore eyeliner when I was a little 12 year old punk. I painted my nails black. I like my facial hair and I am extremely happy to have the penis Mother Nature blessed me with. I don’t do what society tells me is right or wrong. I go by what I feel and believe. I have never had an impulse to fuck a man. As I have written before, a friend of mine, a gay guy, my roommate, once asked if he could kiss me because he thought I had “sexy latin lips”. So I let him and it was very weird. He complimented my kissing and I was 100% sure that I did not find men sexually appealing at all. Just because I don’t fuck men does not mean I am fighting an urge to do so. And just because I am straight it does not make me culpable for the deaths of gay people when I, in my life, have done all I can for gay people to be accepted including getting suspended for beating up bullies who fucked with gay kids at school. Whether I knew them or not. That’s like me saying all white people are guilty every time a non white person dies as a result of the guns your people invented or the diseases your people brought from Europe. Pretty fucking idiotic point of view isn’t it? You can’t paint a picture with one brush stroke. There are always details you must fill in.

The one good thing about this post is that it gave me an idea for a song…Guilty Of Being Straight.

You’re an idiot and you don’t understand. It’s best if you just shut the fuck up.

um. the person that posted the above comment clearly missed the point, getting all defensive when confronted with the idea of heterosexism.