A private members bill aiming to erase the criminal records of gay men convicted of now-defunct sexual offences was talked out by Tories in the House of Commons this afternoon.
If passed, it would have cleared the way for a pardon of nearly 50,000 men living with convictions for consensual homosexual activity.This is honestly so important. The people that paved the way for us queer young people are still stuck with criminal records for having queer sex or ‘wearing the wrong clothes’ in just about every country and we need to fucking organize and support them and realize these political games for what they are: an attack on our queer elders.
Maybe you could not add insult to their injury by using a slur that has harmed many of them as a blanket term for them.
You cannot reclaim slurs on behalf of other people, and I can guarantee you that a goodly portion of older TLBG folks would prefer not to reclaim that one.
I agree with all of this except for the “TLBG” like can you actually not tho!??
“TLBG” the post is specifically about gay men and YET
Actually the idea that this is ‘about gay men’ is nothing more than the usual bi and trans erasure. The convictions of “gross indecency” that this is about were used against anyone deemed ‘male’ by the state at that time having sexual relations with someone else deemed ‘male’ by the state so it effected gay men, bisexual men and trans women. (And all those amazing and brave unlabelable queer deviants that are never gonna fit into your alphabetsoup)
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I would but that would be gross indecency so I’d be stealing the spotlight from the cis gay men again.
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