#THE CLOSET WAS GLASS

[sunbleachedbitch]

62 years ago, on this day, John Lennon beat Bob Wooler half to death for insinuating he had an affair with Brian Epstein at Paul McCartney’s 21st birthday

[iheartqueers]

Also i told my 47 yr old dad while we are currently rewatching ST to watch all the seasons through the lens of Mike being gay and in the closet, because it makes all of his "weirdness" in the later seasons suddenly make sense and he just looked at me like this 🤨 and said "um...duh??? Mike is gay, you just figured that out?" AND I WAS LIKE NO DAD. I WAS JUST TRYING TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOU DAMN. Anyways my dad believes in byler endgame and he's literally a middle aged straight man so they're endgame for sure

[neeakainen]

I can't believe I found *EVEN MORE* fem kagehina I drew in middle school

[nicnsmth1]

dramatic

[phantom-of-the-memes]

And who the fuck did I think I was fooling writing shit like this at the age of eight?!?!

(Spoiler alert: I am an asexual trans man!)

[starsandscars81]

do you ever get mad at your past self for not realizing shit?

oh, you don’t like how big your chest and thighs are getting? ‘this is what insecurity feels like’ that’s gender dysphoria you fucking dumbass

[poltergeist-punk]

remembering the time that I told my parents “if i get married i think it be neat to shake on it instead of kissing.” then explained how I would do a blood oath and then give my partner a firm handshake…..

[s-o-u-l-m-a-t-i-s-m]

The gay jokes were off the charts in Interactive Introverts. Jfc.

[dyke-dyke-goose]

I spent the afternoon looking through old photos and you guys

the dyke has always been inside of me

[katy1kenobi]

The fun thing about realising you’re gay in your 20’s (bi at 22 and then lesbian at 27) is looking back at the shit you were doing, saying and thinking when you thought you were straight, and realising what a dumbass you were.

[griddlezeeninth]

if only baby college me knew there was a secret third way to be able to date Wallace Wells

[babygirldilf]

"Okay, if you're me... tell me something only I would know."

Dean. Dean. My man. My dude. I see you for what you are.

[oscars-queer-experience]

For some fun closet perspective, lemme give you some insight.

I knew men were pretty to me. I knew that I liked my men muscular, hairy, b i g, any combination of these traditional masc traits- but I told myself that everyone knows that men are pretty. That everyone feels this way about their same sex, and that even if they didn’t, I was just comfortable enough with my masculinity for it not to matter.

I told myself I wanted to be them, not be with them, and to some extent that is true. I did want to be beautiful like these men with their stunning, wide chests. But I also wanted to feel these men, to hold them close, to kiss them.

I told myself as long as I didn’t act on it, I wasn’t gay. That I didn’t actually count because intrusive thoughts happen. I was so hellbent on not being gay because I thought for so long that God himself hated queerness. I denied myself peace because of my close family telling me constantly it was wicked to love my fellow man.

Then I moved out, and I got to look over some scripture with my own lens. I got to talk with my very queer friends group from high school and my new, also queer friends at college. It was through these interactions that I saw more light, love, and goodness than I ever had with the righteous/supposedly law abiding right that convinced me God loved my queerness. That He loved my ability to see everyone as a part of His beautiful creation.

It was the many years of patience and company with these local queer youth that allowed me to be unshackled from my hate. I found peace in knowing I loved men, and that it was okay, and that I was still loved and not wicked and filthy for this.

Sorry for all this ramble, basically I just want to put it out there that the closet is a weird space, and I’m so proud of anyone who’s able to navigate out of it. Society is wack, good on you for rebuking it.

[allbuthuman]

it's so funny to me that i looked like this, was happy that an old lady called me "young man", was happy to have a gender-neutral name, yet still thought i was a girl for another year and a half

[itsjustbell]

Everytime I remember all the things I’d say from my childhood before I realized I was queer I get psychic damage

[trash-and-trash-accessories]

I'm researching the "Glass Closet" as a concept and looking for content related to it so I watched a tiktok where someone claimed that it was invented by Riley Snorton and is only applicable to the black community as it refers to their hyper visibility, but Snorton didn't publish his book Nobody's Supposed To Know which discusses the Glass Closet as it applies to the black community until 2014 and the term appears at least as early as Eve Sedgewick's Epistemology of the Closet, published in 1990, which Snorton references.

This person was responding to another tiktoker who used the correct definition of the glass closet, shaming them for not doing their research and not knowing that the term only applies to the black community and should never be used for white people. Shaming them for not knowing something objectively false which can be debunked with five minutes of googling. Several people had commented thanking this person for educating them.

Queer people, what are we doing? What is happening on queer tiktok? Every time I go there I come across something like this.