THERE ARE NO QUEER TEEN SUICIDES - Unknown artist - 2004 - Portland, OR - Single page flyer.
I have a print out of this hanging in my office.
As someone who has had gay roommates and many gay friends I find this rather insulting. I have played shows with bands to benefit shelters where gay runaway teens would stay alongside battered wives and other abused people including children. Because I don’t “crossdress” I am somehow to blame anytime a gay person commits suicide? And what sexual curiosities? News flash: There are people who simply are NOT attracted to the same gender. Just as a transgender person knows in their heart whether or not they are a woman, man, or undefined so am I sure that I am strictly attracted to women and like to wear what society considers “man” clothes. I did not invent genders nor did I choose which gender I would identify with as a person. I like jeans and t-shirts. I like ties and boots. I had a kilt but an ex took it when she moved. I wore eyeliner when I was a little 12 year old punk. I painted my nails black. I like my facial hair and I am extremely happy to have the penis Mother Nature blessed me with. I don’t do what society tells me is right or wrong. I go by what I feel and believe. I have never had an impulse to fuck a man. As I have written before, a friend of mine, a gay guy, my roommate, once asked if he could kiss me because he thought I had “sexy latin lips”. So I let him and it was very weird. He complimented my kissing and I was 100% sure that I did not find men sexually appealing at all. Just because I don’t fuck men does not mean I am fighting an urge to do so. And just because I am straight it does not make me culpable for the deaths of gay people when I, in my life, have done all I can for gay people to be accepted including getting suspended for beating up bullies who fucked with gay kids at school. Whether I knew them or not. That’s like me saying all white people are guilty every time a non white person dies as a result of the guns your people invented or the diseases your people brought from Europe. Pretty fucking idiotic point of view isn’t it? You can’t paint a picture with one brush stroke. There are always details you must fill in.
The one good thing about this post is that it gave me an idea for a song…Guilty Of Being Straight.
(via anirishginger)
