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Sammy @autistichalsin.bsky.social

Every time someone insists "LGBTs went too far and that's why there's all this backlash now" I want so badly to ask them if they actually think LGBT people in Russia, Poland, Turkey and Hungary went too far but I know they aren't making that argument in good faith so I wouldn't get a real answer

aug 19, 2025, 8:39 pm β€’ 205 27

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social

Queer Pole here: the bigots in Poland certainly pull out the "went too far" thing fairly often

aug 20, 2025, 4:57 am β€’ 15 0 β€’ view
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Shannon Nosurname πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆβš½οΈπŸŽ²πŸš²πŸ‰ @theshayd.bsky.social

"Went too far" Translation: how dare they be visible and advocate for their rights! The audacity!

aug 20, 2025, 1:21 pm β€’ 6 0 β€’ view
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Immigrant Penguin πŸ§πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @penguinitoguate.bsky.social

Yes, in their minds LGBTQ+ people everywhere on the planet went β€œtoo far” – by having the audacity to exist.

aug 20, 2025, 5:38 am β€’ 5 0 β€’ view
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Immigrant Penguin πŸ§πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @penguinitoguate.bsky.social

What they – and all other flavors of bigots – want is the simple β€œfreedom” of never having to see, or even think about, anyone who is, in any meaningful way, different from themselves.

aug 20, 2025, 5:38 am β€’ 3 0 β€’ view
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Cheryl @cheryl-blue.bsky.social

Those queer Americans in the 1950s had gone soooooo far

aug 20, 2025, 11:33 am β€’ 2 0 β€’ view
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MelodyFoxes @melodyfoxes.bsky.social

Too far in what though? Living happily? XD

aug 20, 2025, 1:19 pm β€’ 2 0 β€’ view
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Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social

I think we need to go further and get the whole of society to understand that being cis-het, and neither ace nor intersex, is not the human norm but just as much an aspect of normal human diversity as being LGBTQIAP2+

aug 20, 2025, 7:10 am β€’ 4 0 β€’ view
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David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk

Just a lazy excuse - the reality is that if you are claiming that people don't, or shouldn't have, the right to even exist, then you really can't complain if they get upset about that ...

aug 20, 2025, 10:11 am β€’ 2 0 β€’ view