feotakahari | (no subject)

I’ve never understood what it means when people say they’re “queer as in Magneto was right.” If I actually thought Magneto was right, I wouldn’t use the word “queer” in the first place. I mean, I don’t think cis gay people are inherently better-equipped to understand nonbinary identities than cis straight people are. And there are certainly individual gay people who are bigoted against everyone else under the “queer” umbrella. But the reason I use “queer” is because I think people who are different from each other are generally capable of understanding each other. I want to build alliances, and “queer” is a broad term with which to do that.