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Many in 🇨🇳China’s gay community are strangers to Western #LGBT cultures, and Westerners are unfamiliar with their Chinese counterparts’ lifestyles

Using Western metrics like #pride month & #rainbowcapitalism 🏳️‍🌈 to weigh their joy is intellectually flawed
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#Homosexuality existed throughout ancient China, but #gaypride is a modern American celebration → its irrelevance here is nothing to be appalled about

Demanding Asian policies to be more Westernised reinforces the harmful narrative that homosexuality is a Western “lifestyle” 👬
Gay venues and activities in China are unlike those in the West. E.g. In #Chengdu, teahouses are a popular LGBT integration space 🍵

Allies should NOT assume that they are oppressed based on a limiting framework that reduces the West to #liberalism and the East to #conservatism
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The reason it was so difficult to find the original post in this case was due to how bad Facebook is with external archivers and search engines. Image
The original Instagram post still exists, but the profile is private. I have screenshots of the post & archives of the pictures; it was a set of 5 images posted on August 19, 2019. The post title reads: "À girl and her pupps ! #gaypride #gay #fiertemontreal #fiertemtl"
I didn't dig too much on the origin of the Folsom Street/Photoshop lie, but this post from Michael Paulausski seems to be a major part of it, spinning it as part of a 4chan operation 'Pridefall': ImageImage
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This Pride month, we invite LGB people to stand up for same-sex rights and community amid both new and old forms of homophobia, rainbow capitalism, and homosexual erasure in the name of “inclusivity” and “queerness.” Image
Pride has a long history of political & social activism. In honor of tradition, as well as progress & growth, we invite you to speak up & make your voice heard. Let's put a stop to the homophobia & self-hate coming from within our own community.
It's time to speak up for ourselves & each other.
If you’ve been afraid to voice your doubts or concerns about what’s been happening within our community in recent years, Pride is the time to be brave & start speaking up, just as previous generations of LGB people did to create
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Thread: Nick Bosa follows “deplorable” MAGA themed IG accounts with racial, homophobic, Islamaphobic, & white nationalist posts.

Let’s take a look at the account...

“Too_Savage_For_Democrats” by Dylan Perentis

...& see what Nick Bosa has ❤️ “liked” and put into his feed.
Nick Bosa ❤️ likes the idea of cutting welfare to migrant families to pay for Trump’s border wall. ”#BuildTheWall#NFLDraft2019
Nick Bosa ❤️ liked Trump’s tweet attack on LeBron James and Don Lemon’s intelligence. “Trump is straight savage.” #NFLDraft2019
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