What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

gailsimone:

harkaventblog:

My favorite part of when characters are revealed as bi are when the news media and fans do everything they can to erase any different gendered relationship, repeatedly refer to them as gay, try and erase all the differently gendered relationship history, and then call people lesbophobic and queerbaiting if they point out that this character is not a lesbian, but bisexual.


And by favorite, I mean fucking burn it.


QUOTED BECAUSE TRUTH.

and this would be yet another reason why, for some of us, “queer” is a really fucking useful and important umbrella term for the community as well as a means of personal identification

because even though “gay” is sometimes used as a generic term for any sort of queerness, it more commonly denotes a specific type of sga-only queerness, such that using it as a catch-all descriptor - especially in contexts where non-queer folks are likely to replicate the word choice without checking whether it’s being used in the specific or generic sense - frequently has the effect of erasing other identities, particular bi/pan/poly-sexuality

whereas queer, by virtue of being all-encompassing, or at least non-specific, at least invites you to ask what identity, instead of assuming the answer is already in evidence

(Source: harkaventblog-blog, via violent-darts)

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