As if pride season wasn’t already terrible, 

we now have to deal with puritan gay-conservative shits who don’t want queers to wear their leather and kink outfits to pride anymore, because “that’s not about sexual orientation, it’s about sex and doesn’t belong in public”. What the fuck. 

LGBT and queer struggle has always been deeply intertwined with the struggle for sexual liberation. Being visibly queer and visibly sexually deviant has always been two parts of the same same ‘fuck you I’m queer’ to homphobes. Celebrating our sex lives and celebrating our existence has always been inseperable. The leather scene is a highly visible bit of queer culture and queer history.

So much of the movement was build by these communities. So many of our heroes and queer elders wear leather.

You do not get to take that away.  

No minor at pride is gonna be scarred because they see a gay guy in chaps dancing on a float. Get real. Everyone has seen naked buttcheeks on tv a thousand times before their 12th birthday.  

Your desire to desexualize our identities has nothing to do with protecting anyone. It’s just internalized homophobia.