Overheard on the street…
“So sad to hear about what happened, how can humans still be so horrible to one another? It’s 2016.” —flowerharry, on the current year
“The #PulseShooting has been confirmed as the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. At least 50 dead.”—Philip Lewis, verifying the high score
“The shooter’s father said that the shooter was angry recently after seeing two men kiss. Homophobia is deadly.”—Deray Mckesson
“A dire need for blood for gay victims at gay club shooting, but because of bigotry fellow gay men can’t donate blood.” — Mike Signorile, believing that gay people require gay blood.
“If you’re straight i really appreciate you uh, making posts about this and trying to raise awareness and give your 2 cents but please….. don’t? this isn’t about you or what you think and it’s making me really uncomfortable lmao please let us raise our voices, please share our posts instead of making your own. today isn’t a day for you to be reaching for ally points.” — Thexfiles, stating that you must be this gay to mourn.
“tbh if you’re straight now is not the time to try to get Good Ally Points™ reblog a post made by someone who is in the LGBT community, spread awareness, but don’t speak on it because you’re opinion doesn’t matter because you’re cishet.” — Straightboyfriend, putting cishets in their place.
“if you’re cishet and ace, cishet and aro, cis aroace, whatever, and you’re trying to make this tragedy about you, about ‘‘aphobia’‘ or ace erasure, or are calling out ~aphobes~ (who are lgbt people currently mourning the siblings they’ve lost in this horrific tragedy) – honestly?? burn in hell. this is why we don’t want you near us. this is why we want you far, far away from us. you’re as bad as all the other straight people.” —Airana, demonstrating her vocabulary of buzzwords.
“last night’s event was latin night. last night’s event was meant to be a safe space for lgbt latinx people. last night’s attacks were an act of domestic terrorism against lgbt latinx people”—reyton bringing race into the issue.
“stop using the q slur as an umbrella term for the lgbt community!! stop using it to describe the victims in the shooting! it is still a slur and many people haven’t reclaimed it!” —frnnkiero reminding us which word is offensive this week.
“it’s Pride Month and Ramadan. Two events meant for peace and celebration. Two groups that get so much hate. Love your LGBT and Muslim friends.” —geekygirlexperience, ignoring the truth.
“50 sga and/or trans people died and all cishets care about is how it might negatively affect their efforts to worm their way into LGBT safe spaces.” —hate2breakittoya, identifying a scapegoat.
“can you believe today I got to drag cishets AND a Christian like what a good time for me a bisexual non binary Jew.” —gregsgf, on the benefits of being a bislut non binary Jew.
“so basically don’t leave the house if you’re queer, got it.” —whitelivesdontmatter, making excuses for never leaving the basement.
“these people were multifaceted individuals and it’s an injustice to ignore that this was a crime that infringed on their intersectional identities as non-het people of color.” —terell, babbling about something.
“the terrorist you won’t be hearing much about today .. because white. He was on his way to the PRIDE festivities.” —myactivism, finding a way to pin blame on whitey.
“whom is delusional enough to think violence against lgbt people can be divorced from racial disparity in the united states a country where black & latin@ lgbt people are statistically the least likely to survive homophobic/transphobic attacks.” —medicine, after forgetting to take their pills.
“he can choke!” —thecrystaltems, in response to Obama’s statement of sympathy for the victims
“I think it’s rather transparent that the media is trying to make an obvious hate crime aimed @ the LGBT community into some ISIS terror attack. Like someone shot up a really popular black/latinx gay club and CNN is talking about the shooter’s connections to ISIS like I’m honestly trying to not vomit on these people literally have zero respect and are using our deaths as a way to attack Islam.” —fuckrashida, ISIS sympathizer
“gay marriage is legal what more do you want. stop killing us.” —softjudaism, politely asking everyone to stop killing gays in their free time.
