So, the more speculation made about who bubba was – and I’m not sure it really matters for this post – tRump being big mad about trans people, wearing makeup so consistently, being so ashamed of who he is sexually attracted to that he’d do a foreign authoritarian’s bidding to destroy their adversaries (the US govt. and NATO) to hide evidence of such acts, would explain a bunch of things that previously seemed detached to me. What if the end to tRump’s saga is the discovery that he could have been an ally of LGBTQ+ had he only had good parents and be part of a generation that was more open to that lifestyle? On his deathbed, if it comes out he was just closeted, would there be more sympathy for him in historical texts and opinion?

not an endorsement or apology for his many, many crimes

I hate him and his enablers more than I can legally ever express outside of my head. This was just a thought I had after the last few days of speculation over recent emails and after some edibles had kicked in. I still think he definitely diddled kids, for sure, but that’s never been a deal breaker through time; pretty sure some states still have marriage legally available for 14yo kids with parental consent. However, knowing the median age of his supporters, and conservative vitriol toward the queer communities despite them seeming to crash Grindr whenever there’s a major conservative get together, I could see this sort of revelation feeling more damning for him and his support than the pedo stuff, alone, if it got out.

  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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    In my mind, many active homophobes are secretly bisexual. They’ll say its a choice. Which we all know its not.

    Bisexuals are the only ones who actually do have “the choice” to be gay or not to be gay. (Inb4 pansexual reverse heteropref transmasc because I dont have the brainpower for that many fields on the chart).

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      In my experience most of them are just straight up gay. The choice thing is more rhetoric imo

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        I’d say most are queer, not gay. It’s unfortunate that society pushes queer men in to the gay umbrella because most people don’t understand the damn spectrum.