I've had the good fortune to work in intergenerational and international LGBTQ+ spaces. So I find the exclusionist gatekeeping around the assumption that everyone has moment of revelation in adolescence and adopts a gold-star ideal lifestyle to be terribly naive. Because so many people come out in middle age (or later!), often with a heterosexual spouse and children, trying to gatekeep people based ideals and first impressions just isn't done.
So it's a real disconnect for me between tumblr and doing city or regional LGBTQ+ work, where you'll run into all sorts of LGBTQ+ people who flunk tumblr purity tests.
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timeasmymeasure
Yes! I agree.
Date: 2019-01-22 03:47 am (UTC)So it's a real disconnect for me between tumblr and doing city or regional LGBTQ+ work, where you'll run into all sorts of LGBTQ+ people who flunk tumblr purity tests.