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Matthew Shepard. 
I’ve been thinking about him a lot. Him and Brandon Teena. Just been thinking about how horrific it used to be for the LGBTQ+ community. We didn’t have social media to shed light on the hate. It really felt like nobody cared. Felt like we were truly on ..
I’ve been thinking about him a lot. Him and Brandon Teena. Just been thinking about how horrific it used to be for the LGBTQ+ community. We didn’t have social media to shed light on the hate. It really felt like nobody cared. Felt like we were truly on ..
our own. For me, I think that’s the difference from what old school LGBTQ+ community felt like vs what it feels like now. There was much more of a sense of community/family bc we were all we had. Don’t get me wrong I’m glad we’re more accepted and have rights now but too many
don’t realize or flat out don’t care what it took to get here. What was lost. What was won. Progress didn’t & doesn’t come easy. So many lives needlessly lost. Forgetting our history or not wanting to learn .. never bodes well for the future. Example: current state of the world.
When I came out being LGBTQ+ was still considered a mental illness. It was still against the law to be LGBTQ+. Hate crimes were an everyday occurrence and nobody cared BUT us. Gay men in my city were hunted, killed, dismembered, put into burlap sacks and thrown in the river. L’s
were raped and the excuse was “corrective rape” ... police turned a blind eye and/or joined in. Our bars were shot up. Our bars were home to most of us bc that was the only place we felt safe and at home. So we went anyway. If we were gonna die we were gonna die w/chosen family.
So don’t ever come in my mentions to say ... we haven’t made much progress and/or we didn’t do enough. Don’t do it.
