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Is this an ok organization/movement/whatever it is?

https://www.queermajority.com/about1

I don't need anyone's approval for my opinions, I just want to save the time digging deeper if someone already knows off the cuff that this may all seem nice on the surface, but actually they support Toxic Issue #47, or they ignore obvious problems and whitewash things, or it's all dogmatic or anecdotal. Tentatively there seems to be good stuff here.
#47
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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
I read https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/fauxfeminism . It's a long article about how the author found it difficult within feminist academia to get people to accept evidence that while we still have people beating up queers and trans people and society has work left to do, mainstream men are less homophobic than they used to. They're not just tolerant, but also changing their masculinity as a consequence.

I found it really compelling and refreshing. It agrees with what I see on fedi and what I see among my real-world friends and relations from the 80s to now.
jec&
It doesn't much matter when you're 40 and you move around in social circles with people around your age. Also growing up in an intensely homophobic world has shaped my psique in a way where I inherently can't trust straight people with anything regarding the queer aspects of my life.
jec&
Also I can't do PDA. I just don't feel comfortable
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
I will never know what that feels like. I'm sorry for what we messed-humans have done.
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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
I'm above forty and I tell my best male straight friends that I love them. We call each other for emotional support and cry together, just not as often as we should. One of our school mates and his husband just had a baby and the comments were all joy and cheer and well-wishings.

The future is never evenly distributed and it's not fair. I know that homophobia isn't dead. But it's not alive everywhere and it's not generally considered cool.

I'm sorry that it's too late and too patchy to make you feel safe in the environment you're in. But it is progress. I think denying that can be harmful too.
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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
As a counter-anecdote, my schoolmate with the baby has a friend who is a politician, previously in the Swedish parliament, now in the EU parliament.

He got randomly beaten up at the hot dog stand queueing for a late night snack, because they recognized him and knew he was gay.

There is still work to do, even in Sweden, even in Stockholm, even on Södermalm.
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jec&
Yeah... having fully read the article, there's a lot wrong with it, way more than I have time to unpack and refute.
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
If you ever find the time and strength I'd be thankful for a glimpse of it.
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