okay but the understanding of RHPS as nothing but irredeemable, toxic, subversive trash from a bygone age seems to go hand in hand with queers who want to distance themselves from leatherboys, kinksters, pups, xdressers, & exclude them from Pride.
I have literally seen whole threads of people pointing to RHPS & saying 'I'm not THAT kind of queer, I crochet, I am wholesome, I drink cups of tea. I'm NORMAL'.
And this is exactly what RHPS was satiring & holding a mirror up to. THIS IS THE POINT THEY WERE MAKING. that no matter how fucking pure and wholesome you present yourself as, if you're trans and queer, the world hates you too. sitting at the right hand of the Devil does not mean you're immune.
This is not to say that RHPS is a perfect movie that does not invite critique! This is not to say it hasn't done harm! But maybe criticise a film without throwing other queers under the bus for being Too Weird? Yeah?
And for any puritan queers reading this - you owe your liberties to *exactly* the kind of queer you despise & condemn. They threw stones at the first Pride to give you the freedom to kick the ladder down behind your white picket fence. okay? okay