tangle of rainbows

my favourite gay mood is when a straight person you don’t know that well says “can i ask you a, um, personal question?” and you’re like yes bethany-sue im a raging homo what is your point

being around straight people is so wild because they don’t take “because i’m gay” as a valid, sensible answer to a question

being around gay people is so wild because they don’t take “because i’m straight” as a valid, sensible answer to a question

oh no, we talk about straight people all the time, and “because they’re straight” is used very frequently to explain their many flaws

Straight people know that you’re supposed to like your partner right? Like enjoy them as another human being?

There are times I seriously wonder. 

The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, December 27, 1913

He believed that all he had to do was to throw his handkerchief at a woman and she would humbly and thankfully become his wife. Now that sort of man merely bored a woman. And she’s not going to pretend he doesn’t.

The idea that the shooter must be gay because he was scoping out his target makes me so fucking angry. I came home last night from the Boston vigil and my mom was saying how it now seems like he was gay because he was at the club, and I’m like no, he was scoping it out. That answer was blatantly obvious to me, but now I know straight people are going to convince themselves he was because the self loathing gay person is a story they would much rather have. “It wasn’t us, it was one of your own” and absolves themselves of the homophobia they are complicit in, of the homophobia that created the atmosphere for this horrible shooting to happen, of the homophobia from straight people that leads some gay people to be in fact self hating and campaign against equal rights. Like even if the shooter was gay, though I do not believe it for a second, he would be a product of the homophobia started and perpetuated by straight people. 

This is a huge problem in battling homophobia. Too often I see straight people mock homophobes as if they must be secretly gay, because being gay is a punishment rather than an identity to take pride in. I see them wish they have a gay child, because punishing a homophobe at the expense of an lgbt child is so awesome! I see straight people claiming that the real homophobes are the closeted gay people, because it helps them absolve themselves of homophobia and it is disgusting. 

Straight people are the culprits here, straight people and their homophobia are to blame. A man doesn’t get enraged at seeing two men kissing because he is secretly gay. And considering how many people he was able to kill on his own, it’s no surprise he scoped out the place before hand. 

The whole “homophobes are all secretly gay" thing seems like a way to say that only gay people really care about being gay. That if someone is making a big deal about gay people they’re either a self-hating closet case, or an out person who is ~excessively in-your-face~ about their sexuality. (I’m thinking of that comment someone made about how their reaction to a person coming out to them was to ask if the gay person was flirting with them, because ~why else would it matter that you’re gay~.)

And then straight people get to say that ~nobody cares if you’re gay anymore~ and pretend homophobia among straight people isn’t a concern. Or they position themselves as tolerant and "not hateful" toward gay people, even if they are openly "against homosexuality.” Because ~of course their stance is just a neutral, dispassionate opinion, it’s not like they would ever ‘get in anyone’s face’ about it.

The gaydar is a multifunctional tool and the straights not only don’t have it, they also think its only for spotting gay ppl

Other settings:

- Spotting homophobes before they speak - Spotting gays to avoid - Spotting iconic songs - Spotting the safest and quickest route back home so you don’t get beaten or killed after school & many more

What the straights have is a cheap imitation which is really downgraded and has only 1 function called “stereotyping”

Straight people are going on Grindr to make gay best friends

It might seem strange for heterosexual men and women to use one of the largest gay dating apps out there, but many have turned to the app for something other than sex: platonic friendship. Perhaps unsurprisingly, some gay men are not happy about this. Why one straight woman designated herself as a “twink” instead of a “jock.”

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why are straight people like this.

Lmao tho…

gays: this app isn’t for you’ll 

Str8s:

I like to imagine one person got interviewed after his girlfriend caught him with Grindr and was like “babe I’m looking for a gay best friend” and she was like “that’d make an interesting article” and the lie went too far

will someone please explain to the hets that a dude can eat - and even enjoy - a fucking carrot once in a while

the Woman: what do you want for dinner tonight, honeybunches?

the Man: *pounds table with both fists* WANT STEAK

the Woman: well that’s just dandy, sugarpuffs!  i’m going to make some healthy chili instead, it’s better for your blood pressure!  *begins boiling a single whole onion*

the Man: *clumsily gropes at the ball and chain locked onto his ankle* STEAK TRUCK FOOTBALL BLOWJOB

straight people: gay marriage ruins the sanctity of marriage

straight people:

You ever have that moment when you’re with straight friends and they start having a conversation that just makes you go #2hetero4me

yesterday I was thinking about how the stigma against cross-gem fusion is a metaphor for homophobia and I had the horrifying realization, “since same-gem fusion is considered normal and different-gem fusion is considered disgusting, someone’s gonna try and claim it’s actually a metaphor for heterophobia”

but I was like, maybe if I don’t mention it, I won’t jinx things and nobody will actually try to claim that

well

so much for that

so straight people exist or is that just a myth

I think it’s a government conspiracy

fuck I hope so

im opposed to the inclusion of straight people in sci fi. no one in sci fi is allowed to be straight

in space no one can hear your heterosexuality

Straight isn’t an identity it’s a position of power