A thread on survival in dark times for LGBTQ+ people https://twitter.com/AmazonChique/status/1309972709657341952

Not to distract from OP's thread, because the information is useful, sobering, and what a lot of people probably need to hear right now, but there is a level of dissonance between me and most of the conversations I see about being out in the past decade

You know, being rural

The acceptable social media and pop culture standards for what being out and proud means, to me, for most of my life, really haven't applied

And so I feel wildly disconnected from younger and more metropolitan people, with wildly different concerns

I'm fortunate enough that I live in a place that has been easier to *be* out, and that, for the most part, I don't have to stop and think about what danger I could be inadvertently putting myself in just by being around the wrong people at the wrong time

But that may not last

Because if somebody is going to beat you, or try to rape you, they don't care what specific labels you use, or who has what privilege in what club, or how lesbians are portrayed in children's media, or whatever the topic of the day is

If I'm going to be hurt, it's for one reason

Survival is always on my mind, it will always be on my mind, and I want people to see how we're going to need each other to survive this

As a people, as a community, as a block, as a neighborhood, as a city, whatever

Organization is the only thing that's going to save any of us