'The new “Don’t Say Gay” law in Florida is just one part of a larger nostalgia for straight-up hate,' writes WFKARS
, was “queer bait,” a quality that one supposedly possessed. I certainly didn’t understand what was actually implied with those words, and I doubt most of the young children who used them did, either. But that’s what they meant, comprehended or not.
It is easy to look at all the progress LGBTQ+ people have made in the decades since, from open military service to marriage equality to 14 seasons ofand locate those lies about us strictly in the past. It is comforting to think that that hateful and bigoted slander has been abandoned. Most of the well-deserved blowback has focused on either the right-wing blowhard himself or the failure of the business community—and specifically Disney—to effectively resist his bigotry.
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