intracommunity things lgbt people on here should be discussing
- racism / antiblackness / antisemitism / islamopobia / hatred toward other non-christian non-western racialized religions / xenophobia
- transmisogyny
- ableism and lack of accessibility and resources for disabled lgbt people
- the phenomenon of homonationalism, what it looks like, what it entails
- the commoditization of pride and its entrance into the neoliberal mainstream
- youth homelessness
- abuse, sexual violence, domestic violence, both at the hands of straight people and within gay relationships
- normalization of age gaps and power imbalances (e.g. the coercion of young lgbt people to pursue older people because of social alienation from peers their age)
- lack of support for lgbt survivors who speak out about being battered/abused/etc by someone else who is lgbt
- serophobia within the community toward ANYONE who is HIV+, which includes cishet sex workers / cishet poc / etc + general elitism and aversion toward people who have STI’s
- lack of sexual education
- stigma toward addicted and alcoholic people
- mental illness and mental health issues in general
what lgbt people on here instead discourse about:
- ace discourse
- who “gets” to reclaim a slur
- who is “allowed” to use a word/term
- “this word/experience is x-specific or x-exclusive and if you relate you’re x-phobic”
- who is “more radical”/”more oppressed”
- “everyone hates [x group] on here lol”
#i mean roll my eyes at homonationalism but yeah
@stillrunmp3 Yes, I too am a white person from New York, like you, who rolls my eyes at the fact that white LGBT gentiles are joining neo-n*zi and white nationalist movements. I roll my eyes at white western gay couples participating in the exploitation enacted by the surrogacy industry against the bodies of women from the Global South. I roll my eyes at white LGBT people advocating for invading and imperializing West Asian countries because of the homophobia/transphobia that West Asian LGBT people face. I roll my eyes at white same-gender couples abusing the children of color that they adopt. I roll my eyes at white LGBT people naming organizations after Stonewall while also calling the cops on Black Lives Matter protestors and queer/trans Indigenous organizations. I roll my eyes when rainbow cop cars and brands advertising at pride are seen as signs of progress.
And I’m sure you know what homonationalism actually means or who coined the term and I’m definitely sure you’ve read the book that popularized the framework.
Tag: serophobia
a radical feminist, of the kind that proudly identify as terfs, just came onto one of my posts advocating for the systematic murder of people with hiv.
i wish i could be shocked by this, but i can’t because i’ve seen it before. suffice it to say, there’s a serious problem with anyone who tolerates this kind of rhetoric, in the name of any politics.
hmmm
Correlation does not equal causation and this is very serophobic. also if you somehow think making an STI a FELONY is the way to prevent spreading STIs then why aren’t you mad that spreading herpes isn’t a felony? y’all need to consider WHY a disease being spread is a felony, and how easy it can be to say someone “knowingly” did something when they didn’t.
Pairing these two stories that have nothing to do with each other is both willfully ignorant and serophobic. The first is about SB 239 which finally reduced intentional HIV transmission to a misdemeanor in California, making it similar to other “serious infectious diseases.” Intentionally transmitting or exposing people to other STDs still carries no criminal penalty at all. The fact that HIV was ever singled out this way was a product of extreme homophobia and serophobia in the 1980s (which, as we can see, is still going strong!), but virtually all research since then has shown that these laws only fuel stigma and serve as an incentive not to be tested for HIV (you can’t be charged if you don’t know your status), and as a result, serve to increase transmission rates. They also disproportionately affect vulnerable people (trans women and WOC in particular) X HIV criminalization laws also don’t reflect progress in treatment of the virus, as even people on viral suppressing medications who are undetectable and incapable of transmitting the virus can be charged.
Why? Because in California (until SB 239), as in most other states, these laws don’t even require proof that HIV transmission has occurred, only that the individual knowingly “exposed” their partner to the virus. “According to a Williams Institute study, in California 800 people were charged under HIV criminalization laws between 1988 and 2014. In 98 percent of those cases, the prosecution wasn’t required to prove the defendant had intended to transmit HIV to another person. None of the cases — that’s right, zero — required that transmission of HIV had occurred before the defendant was charged. The 2015 Williams Institute study also found that 67 percent of those who were arrested under these laws were people of color, 95 percent of the cases involved sex workers, and — perhaps most disturbingly — “every incident in which charges were brought resulted in a conviction.” X Unfortunately the biggest shortcoming of California’s new law is that it retains felony status for exposure for sex workers, and it’s still illegal to engage in sex work after receiving a positive diagnosis.
As for the other article, maybe if OP had read it instead of jumping at a chance to be serophobic, they’d see that it’s talking mostly about rates of syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea, not HIV, that it seems to be related to systemic racism, and that it’s an increase that’s been happening over the last five years.
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