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pinkcadillaccas · 6 months

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I feel like the younger generation of queers have failed to learn the most important lesson from the AIDS crisis which is that barely 30 years ago major world governments were willing to let us die en masse because of their homophobia and racism and not enough has changed since then to guarantee they wouldn't do it again given the chance

#it wasnt just a horrendous lack of sex education for queers (which btw still fucking exists)#it was also active lack fo funding for research into a disease that was a severe epidemic #because they explicitly didnt care/thought it was a good thing that it was queers who were dying #some of the people who made those decisions still have influence in politics #some of them are still celebrated figures #because it was within living memory of anybody over 30 #its not just the residual stigma and the devestating effect on the community #although that is so important #its that we should have learned that they will kill us if they can #and instead we've got young queers cheering right wing governments for any slight improvement to legal rights #and we let them milk gay marriage for years as though it means they actually gave a shit #which is actually just me complaining about my government but like #oh we care about gay people we were the government who did gay marriage #LOOK AT THE VOTING RECORD OF YOUR ENTIRE FUCKING PARTY ON THAT #eat my fucking shit rishi sunak #they mocked us whilst we were dying #and they would probably fucking do it again #al is talking

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