lgbt-history-archive:[TW]“THERE ARE NO QUEER TEEN SUICIDES,ONLY QUEER TEEN MURDERS.Anyone who

lgbt-history-archive:[TW]“THERE ARE NO QUEER TEEN SUICIDES,ONLY QUEER TEEN MURDERS.Anyone who espouses anti-gay rhetoric, anyone whosays it is unnatural to love someone of the same sex,anyone who calls someone a faggot or a dykemaliciously, anyone who does not challengeheterosexuality as a cultural norm, is implicatedin the deaths of queer teenagers who take theirown lives. Those deaths are not suicides,they’re murders. The young people are justdoing to their bodies what others have alreadydone to their souls. They don’t killthemselves, Christians kill them, televisionwriters kill them, Big Red gumcommercials them, their parents killthem, their schools kill them. I kill themand so do you. We need to move beyondconfronting homophobia to challengingheterosexism. When we don’t challengeexclusionary sex education lessons,when we don’t cross dress, when we don’tact on our sexual desires and curiosities, when we are ignorantabout intersexuality and transgenderism, we are braiding thenooses upon which queer teens hang.” Unknown, Portland, Oregon, 2004. c/o Queer Zine Archive. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #ProtectTransKids #Resist #Mood -- source link

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