fattyatomicmutant:

christawolf:

adrianianam:

What’s with this rhetoric that “it’s always just been LGBT” that’s cropping up? 

I’ve seen “LGB” and “LG” with my own damn eyes, I remember the goddamn bi-discourse that still goddamn crops up, I remember reading old articles about whether or not the coalition should include them, you’re trying to convince me that I just hallucinated that shit? And they have the gall to claim I’M the one doing historical revisionism here?

More to the point, how the hell do you think a full coalition can just spring up out of the ground fully formed like that before the concept of Bisexuality as a distinct identity was even codified? Anyone who claims otherwise are either misled or actively lying about the issue to preserve the illusion that LGBT is this immutable concept that emerged from the collective subconscious fully formed and it disregards all the hard work it took people to build the coalition into what it is currently. It’s not only historically inaccurate, that’s just plain not how shit works.

Like that’s right up there with “they don’t belong because they aren’t inherently LGBT” as if it isn’t an artificial coalition. Weak-ass arguments intended to sidestep the ACTUAL matter at hand.

Wasn’t it earlier this year they were talking about dropping the T? Again?!

They wanna Drop the T because they think Republicans are using our Identity Politics as ammunition against the Oberfell thing or something.

They stand on the Shoulders of Marsha P. Johnson to get this far only for them to cut us off from the larger community when we ask for Help. We ‘Inconvenience’ them and they cut us off. And they white wash away the Footprints they made on our shoulders.

I keep seeing this ridiculous idea that LGBT as an acronym sprung up because of Stonewall, so that anyone who says the T wasn’t always there can be accused of erasing the trans women at the event. it’s 3 separate decades of history they’re compressing into a soundbite.