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@Merc @hijabicatgirl

ok this is a very specific weird silly example byt its just to illustrate my point

lets say a gay person does a sick skateboard trick

straight people can enjoy that (its very sick after all )

now , if the skater goes “im very gay and i learned to skate bc i dodnt have any friends bc i was gay “

now . in this situation

gay people saying “this is a cool piece of Gay Culture “ doesnt exclude straight ppl from participating and enjoying

on the other hand , straight ppl going “who cares this isnt gay , gayness has nothing to do with this its just a cool trick” is excluding queerness from this discussion , taking away a good example of public gay exposure from queer people , thus erasing both visibility and achievements , and “appropriating” it ina way

nkt that thjs doesnt change if the skater didnt say he was gay , if in this weird world skating was seen as a queercoded activity

death of the author n such