Justin Mao
160 posts



.@Ghostofcynthia I’m gay. Everyone is well aware of that. But... Here's the fucking thing... I’m done pretending I don’t see what the TQIA+ expansion has done to the LGB. We were a coalition built on a shared, immutable reality: same-sex attraction. That’s it. Simple. Concrete. Unapologetic. Lesbians loving lesbians. Gay men loving gay men. Bisexuals navigating both. We didn’t need to rewrite biology or demand that reality bend to feelings. We just demanded to be left the hell alone to love who we love. Then the pluses started piling on, each one bringing new dogma, new demands, new guilt trips. Suddenly the movement isn’t about sexual orientation anymore...it’s about gender identity, endless labels, and compulsory validation of everyone’s internal sense of self. And if you point out that same-sex attraction is inherently exclusive of the opposite sex, no matter how someone identifies? You’re the bigot. You’re the TERF. You’re the one who needs to be educated, shamed, canceled. The psychological sleight of hand is masterful: take a civil rights movement rooted in material reality and subsume it under an ideology that insists reality is optional. Make the gays and lesbians feel like the intolerant ones for having boundaries. Turn “no” into hate speech. I’ve watched lesbian spaces vanish, gay kids get medicalized for being gender-nonconforming, and the word “homosexual” become a dirty word in our own community. I’ve seen young women get called bigots for not wanting dick. I’ve seen the Overton window dragged so far that basic same-sex attraction is now framed as exclusionary violence. This isn’t progress. This is colonization. The LGB fought for the right to exist as we are. The TQIA+ demands we stop existing as we are unless we center their ideology. I’m not here to police anyone’s identity. Live your life. But stop hijacking mine. Stop rewriting mine. Stop telling me my sexual orientation is a punchline or a problem to be solved. The LGB was never about validating everyone’s feelings. It was about defending a reality the world tried to erase. And I’m goddamn tired of watching that reality get erased again...this time by people waving our own flag. Drop the fucking alphabet. 🖤🏳🌈

























