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It’s Gross And Cringey To Love A State Like Israel Or The USA – Caitlin Johnstone
(caitlinjohnstone.com.au)
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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I, for one, actually DON'T like being queer in the USA
I didn't either until I learned more about myself and now I know that this is the only place that works for people like me; queer, brown, and on a particular part of the spectrum that is at odds w how mainstream queerness works.
This is queer exceptionalism and is the justification israel uses to commit genocide.
The "brown" countries have been forcefully kept in material conditions of underdevelopment and and forces for social and material progress have been killed and stomped out by this country. Brown people the world over will never be allowed to celebrate queerness as most did precolonization until this one ceases to exist in its current form.
Plus queer spaces are filled with queer exceptionalism, white nationalism and transmisogyny due to the hegemonic ideology maintained by this country which makes it horrible to be a lower working class queer of color regardless.
all true with a surface level understanding of what i said; i have a longer description further down in the post.
how exactly does that work without healthcare
i don't think it does
i just dont see how you can say that the US is great for queer people when the US does less than nothing to support queer people (see AIDS). wouldnt it make more sense to say that queer spaces exist in spite of the us, instead of because of it?
the us is not great for queer people; i'm saying that its queer spaces are unique compared to those of the rest of the world and that it's one of the few positive things that it has done and that it was done by accident.