#americana

[munequaa]

[brunhielda]

As an American, I appreciate and agree whole heartedly with this message 👆

You guys ABSOLUTELY should have your own history of the queer fight be forefront and present, and be celebrating Pride when makes most sense to honor that fight inside your culture.

American culture does tend to overshadow everyone else, and it’s dumb.

So start parades during the better times. Put together flash cards and pamphlets and YouTube vids. If you think Pride in your culture should focus on different things? Then make a push to focus on different things! You are the queer community in your culture.

The capitalist cultural wave will only last so long as you allow that to be all anyone hears. Put forth a different message and be very loud inside your space.

We can’t control what the tv and cooperations will try to feed your country and culture. But I like to hope most of our community will boost your signal and back your play online.

We are meant to be celebrating diversity even when larger societal forces are trying to homogenize and simplify us down and make us palatable.

So give us some diversity to cheer about. Go. DO IT. Be the change you wanna see.

Please don’t be us. Please don’t try to be us, or allow your voices to be subsumed by ours. You don’t wanna be us.

As OP said: “Don’t accept American narratives as your own. You deserve your own histories.”

Honestly? No one knows that more than an American trying to figure out how the hell “Irish and Scottish and Italian and Russian” became “White,” and how to not be “that asshole.”

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

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Art by Essi Välimäki

[sami--onley]

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[ellaloved]

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[americanaclassic]

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[mother-lee]

[alittlewoozyhere]

My great grandma, Violet Leib. It runs in the family.

[justcallme1anangel]

my eyes are wide like cherry pies

[tendermorbid]

saw this on marketplace ♡

[daisyfreshgirli]

Me this summer

[vintage-tigre]

The Dolly Parton Scrapbook, 1978.

[sami--onley]

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