Hi, I’m here because I’m old and I actually remember when Elton John and Queen was popular in particularly I remember when Freddie Mercury died.
To say “no one gives a fuck that they’re gay” was definitely not true during their careers and lives. Elton John had to publicly deny being gay multiple times in interviews on tv for fear of losing everything and when Mercury died of AIDS, well, people weren’t nice about it in my memories.
cw homophobia
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I remember a lot of people saying talking about how people “like that” deserve to die from a disease that only harms them
The way the straights dealed with AIDS was downright genocidal, my country had people in the federal government literally calling for internment camps and it has been completely memory holed outside of queer spaces. Also, AIDS is a prime example how this respectability politics shit is getting us nowhere, anybody interested should read a bit about the history of ACT UP! and how they used direct action to drive policy changes. If anything, queers today aren’t radical and annoying enough.
AIDS wiped out an entire generation and the culture around it. I’ve wondered about how much was lost during that time period. You look at modern-day pride events and film festivals and see most of them started in the 90s and 2000s. Very few of those annual customs from the 80s and before survived to today. Then there’s subcultures and venues that were around for decades we will probably never know about because they were wiped out.
Hi, I’m here because I’m old and I actually remember when Elton John and Queen was popular in particularly I remember when Freddie Mercury died.
To say “no one gives a fuck that they’re gay” was definitely not true during their careers and lives. Elton John had to publicly deny being gay multiple times in interviews on tv for fear of losing everything and when Mercury died of AIDS, well, people weren’t nice about it in my memories. cw homophobia
spoiler
I remember a lot of people saying talking about how people “like that” deserve to die from a disease that only harms them
The way the straights dealed with AIDS was downright genocidal, my country had people in the federal government literally calling for internment camps and it has been completely memory holed outside of queer spaces. Also, AIDS is a prime example how this respectability politics shit is getting us nowhere, anybody interested should read a bit about the history of ACT UP! and how they used direct action to drive policy changes. If anything, queers today aren’t radical and annoying enough.
The Stonewall Riots shouldn’t have stopped at Stonewall.
AIDS wiped out an entire generation and the culture around it. I’ve wondered about how much was lost during that time period. You look at modern-day pride events and film festivals and see most of them started in the 90s and 2000s. Very few of those annual customs from the 80s and before survived to today. Then there’s subcultures and venues that were around for decades we will probably never know about because they were wiped out.
I definitely remember back then. The discourse about Freddie was pretty fucked up. The revisionist history these guys are on is absolutely laughable