not 2 start shit but the person who said tenderqueers are the opposite of camp was right!!
camp is about tenderness below layers and layers of artifice and performance, tenderqueers are about the performance of tenderness on the surface layer, regardless of what's going on beneath
the (mostly trans) gay people i surround myself with speak and live in a language of appearances and jokes and codes and there is very real love there that we communicate through that !
i know this thread is obnoxious but what is the point of my fake-ass degree if not shit like this