Terrance Mannery: hero
shit like this is why i’m sick of aces going to pride with flags and banners and horns and yelling “ace pride” (which let me tell you, nyc pride 2017 was a fucking doozy for that shit)
this doesn’t happen to you. it just fucking doesn’t. but when it happens to us, you pretend like you’re a victim too even though you could’ve used your privilege like terrance mannery did. mannery knew his place at pride. kept his distance, didn’t take up space, didn’t try to show how unhomophobic he was until he leapt into action and stopped what could have easily become an angry mob. he is a hero. you’re nothing but cultural parasites and wannabe victims.
apologies to the antifa who run this blog for injecting discourse they didn’t ask for onto this post, but as a trans lesbian who has to contend with being semi-closeted in a transphobic household, i cannot abide by it.
Here at antifainternational, some of us are transgender and bisexual (like the person writing this reply), some of us are gay or lesbian, some of us are none of those things. But regardless, as antifascists we stand in solidarity with all people who experience oppression.
That ABSOLUTELY includes asexual and aromantic people.
So we suggest you keep your aphobia off our posts. Using the pain people experience as a result of this event to push asexual people out of LGBTIA+ spaces is not what solidarity looks like.
Hi, @cu-curu-gol! I’m a trans lesbian who IDed as bi for over a decade, and it’s because of that that I’m absolutely disgusted by your post. I cannot remotely fathom, how, as a trans woman, you can talk about how ace/a-spec people are so definitely not oppressed and privileged and how they shouldn’t even be here, when that’s what TERFs and transphobic cis gays and lesbians have been saying about us for decades. That we’re not really oppressed, that we’re a drain on the community, that we have to be left behind for the good of the community.
You’re 20, so you’re probably too young to remember the hand-wringing about how they just couldn’t pass a trans-inclusive ENDA so it was better not to even try – or the uglier, private side of the discussion where cis gays and lesbians suggested we were just men playing dress-up, that we didn’t belong, where they invoked bathroom panic to try to shut us up and shut down discussion of our rights. You’re probably too young to remember. You’re probably too young too remember how hard we had to fight, even into the 90s and 2000s, to truly be part of a community and movement we – and especially trans women of color – helped fucking found and make into a serious political force.
You’re probably too young to remember the time when the sort of rhetoric you direct at a-spec folks was part of he mainstream of the community, or just barely veiled with concern-trolling and disingenuous claims that they’ll get to us eventually and we just have to wait for them to get their rights without us.
I’m 31. I am not too fucking young to remember this shit. I know people who aren’t too young to remember when lesbians were a target of this shit, though I personally am. I was in or adjacent to the online LGBT community nearly as long as you’ve been alive, and I’m going to give you a wake-up call: This shit wasn’t true about trans people, or bi people, and it’s not that they’ve finally found the part of the community it actually is true of. It’s that they can’t get away with tearing into and scapegoating and excluding trans or bi people as publicly and intensely and constantly as they used to, so they’ve found a new target they can blame for all the community’s ills and shit on to improve their intracommunity power and try to get in good with the cishets. They will keep fucking doing this, keep rewriting our history to make it so that this seems justified and these people who have been part of the community for decades or longer are newcomers and interlopers, and it will never be true. It will never be accurate. It will always be an effort by bigots within the community to divide us.
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