Also when you erase the anti capitalist politics of social justice pioneers

neurosocialist:

too-cute-for-the-bourgeois:

mmattie:

thepeacockangel:

You decontextualize their whole life. Like the foundations of modern feminism, anti racism, gay and trans (gay in the broad sense) liberation and so on ALL HAVE FUCKIN’ ANARCHISTS AND COMMIES AT THEIR HEARTS

Yeah, it pisses me off to see radical figures held as icons by neoliberal apologists.

I think people should stop using gay in a broad sense.

Yeah that’s true, I should have fixed it, especially when erasure is a huge product of the decontextualization that this post is about

The fact that society has erased the broader meaning of gay is the same erasure.  Gay was originally a euphemism for sex worker, and historically included LBQetc people, the fact that gay men have managed to take it as just theirs is erasure in and of itself