This is gonna be a very vulnerable thread abt why I don’t trust LP or the GOP. Could contain triggers so please be aware before scrolling down. People expect me to just forgive & forget the trauma that has taken root inside of me bc of the abuse/horror I’ve experienced bc of them
I associate Evangelicalism with GOP bc they go hand in hand in my experience. Since I was 10 yrs old I have experienced deep and horrific trauma from both. I was institutionalized for being LGBTQ+ that’s what they did with us back then. I was put through conversion therapy aka
torture bc of them. I tried suicide. They poured alcohol on my open wounds, laughed & prayed in tongues whilst wrapping up my arms and telling me to go to my room and only come out when I forgave myself for trying to end it. I was never offered medical care bc medical care was..
what Democrats do. 🙄 Lemme day this right quick .. my mom had nothing to do with any of this. I was taken from her by the courts bc she was a single woman & even being a single woman back then was looked down upon. Ok. Back to it. Then there was this thing called corrective rape
which was just an excuse to rape queer women to try to set us straight. Literally. The only reason I’m reliving all this is bc too many folks don’t know what we went through. And y’all need to know bc it’s our REALITY & we still have all the scars. I’ll 4ever see church/politics
as one bc they literally are on the Right. Then AIDS happened and I watched in horror as America turned a blind eye to my entire community. We were ostracized from society. Folks wouldn’t even look at us for fear of getting it. Paramedics wouldn’t treat us. We were on our own.
Reagan was a heinous person and so the revisionist history of him and that shiny fucking hill bullshit really pisses me off. I went to more memorials/funerals by the time I was 21 than I went to Bday parties. I experienced so much death/loss as a youth than I ever did youthful
moments. I grew up in a society that looked at me/us like I/we were the plague. And you wanna know why? Bc of the GOP/Evangelicals. No way around that truth. It is what it is. At the same time we had Democrats Pelosi/Feinstein/Clinton & others marching FOR us. It mattered! I’m
gonna have to come back to this bc it’s too heavy atm. But, it’s a start. When I tell you the trauma is real I fucking mean it’s real. I refuse to be lectured by folks about my feelings toward the GOP. My feelings are based on real life traumatic experiences. Oh, & u know I lost
my babies bc I was queer. That’s old news right. But, it’s something I’ll never forgive/forget. Anyway. Don’t make light of anyone’s trauma. Ever. I’ll add to this as I can. Bc there’s a ton more .. but enough for now.
Lastly, I haven’t ever heard ONE of them apologize or admit the trauma & horror they have inflicted on Americans in the name of their god or ideology. It’s a huge NO from me.
But, also this is why I get so livid with faux purity voters and the GOP. We’ve already slid backwards and gdammit .. why?! Bc you’re either too “woke” to vote Dem or too bigoted. Or both. Your voice is your VOTE. Don’t take it for granted. NO 1 is safe in another trump/GOP reign
Ok. Ima write a lil more. Then we (LGBTQ+) were being literally hunted down by skinheads at our bars (which were our only “safe” spaces) and my gay brothers were being murdered, dismembered, put into burlap sacks and thrown in the river. Yes. You read that right. NOBODY cared.
And look .. do you think I wanna relive this shit constantly? I do not. But, America keeps making me bc revisionist history and propaganda is rampant. Y’all gotta know the truth about how things were not so long ago and how quickly we’ll be right back there if folks don’t learn.
Remember .. this is just my experiences and I haven’t even gotten 1/3 of the way through them. There are millions upon millions just like me. And I haven’t even mentioned all the absolute hell they put other marginalized/vulnerable communities through.
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