queeruprising1990:

queeranarchism:

air139:

gracklesong:

Y’all want talk about gay men as a uniquely prejudice-filled group while ignoring the existence of trans and nonwhite gay men or any other gay men who don’t fit into your bogeyman role; you also totally avoid discussion of, say, MEN as a group, or cis people as a group, or white people as a group, because then those critiques would apply to you and your buddies as well, and you are not actually interested in ameliorating any of this, you just want to talk shit about the mean ol’ gays without being called on your homophobia

gay men’s transmisogy is separated distinct and valid. just like lesbians. we can talk specifics it’s okay

Yes. Gay men within LGBT spaces (ESPECIALLY but not only able-bodied, white cis middle class gay men) developed a very specific subcultural flavour of racism, transphobia and sexism aimed at every group within the LGBT community that might threaten the power of white cis gay men within the LGBT community.
From ‘no fats no femmes’ to ‘gold star gay’ to ‘not everything is about gender’ to ‘gay but straight-acting’ to mocking queens and bottoms to putting a white cis gay man on the cover of every damn LGBT magazine, gay men have developped a specific flavour of bigotry within LGBT spaces and talking about that is not homophobia.

Not gonna get into everything because yes gay culture makes certain systemic biases show up in different ways, but also most people in practice do pin shit on gay men to distance themselves from their own complicity in oppressive structures.

But.. for the record, bottom shaming and the like are gay community specific issues that are ours and ours alone to address and if you aren’t specifically gay, or at least mlm, no one wants to hear your ugly ass peanut gallery opinion on them.

1. I’m gay

2. The gay community makes its bottomshaming and femmephobia an LGBT community problem when they photoshop make up and drag on homophobic politicians they hate and do ‘that boy is a bottom’ montages on Putin. 

Bottomshaming pretty much always involves a very loud, explicit disapproval of all things passive or feminine and is deeply rooted in misogyny. Women who have to listen to that kinda shit in LGBT spaces have every right to point it out.