Joseph Jones
@JoeGayHistorian
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American. Homosexual. Student of history. Movie buff. Reader of classic literature. Freedom of Speech.
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The claim that gay men & lesbians owe their civil rights to the actions of transwomen at Stonewall is factually incorrect, & ahistorical, ignoring the many gay men & lesbians who advocated for gay rights prior to 1969. Here are some homosexual men who made a difference.
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@EndWokeness
Except Alexander was bisexual, having lovers of both sexes. This has been known throughout history and is not breaking news.
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I'm a gay man who has voted for
@TheDemocrats
ever since I could first vote in 1988. Their endorsement of the mutilation of vulnerable children, many of whom are gay/lesbian youth, means I cannot do so anymore.
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@dkaygee
@PaulStanleyLive
Nope. I’m gay and agree with Paul 100%. The infiltration of Gender Ideology and Queer Theory is damaging to children, ESPECIALLY those who will grow up to be gay/lesbian adults.
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@libsoftiktok
When I worked at Disney World in the early 90s, male cast members could not have facial hair, you could not have visible tattoos (either sex), jewelry was limited in size and quantity, and females could only wear muted makeup. Plus, only males could work at 20,000 Leagues Under…
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If we are to reclaim the original Rainbow Pride flag for gay men and lesbians, how about a phoenix in the rainbow colors, symbolizing our emerging from the ashes of the TQ+ ideology?
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Somebody really, really needs to make a documentary about the annual Pride parade, how it went from a defiant declaration in 1970 of gay men and women standing up for equal rights when they were still legally criminals in most US states to a corporate sponsored orgy of kink…
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@ReduxxMag
I hope this fine service worker is not reprimanded or punished in any way by Delta. His response was correct, firm, and professional.
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Suddenly, thanks to
#Pride
, everyone thinks gay men are drag queens. Show Corporate America what gay men really look like. Post your photo!
Hashtag:
#GayNotQueer
Suddenly, thanks to
#Pride
, everyone thinks gay men are drag queens. Show Corporate America what gay men really look like. Post your photo!
Hashtag:
#GayNotQueer
Please retweet! It’s time to reclaim our/your identity.
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I am transphobic bigot. It’s true: I despise an ideology that is directly harming women, children, gay people, and even the entirety of society by forcing us to go along with its pseudo scientific, cult beliefs and partly does so by rewriting history to elevate minor,…
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@libsoftiktok
As a gay man, I disavow this entirely. This is thoroughly inappropriate and needs to stop.
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@NBCNews
Many of us LGBs reject this authoritarian TQ+ ideology. We just wanted to be treated equally under the law, not force the rest of society to celebrate kink and embrace pseudoscience.
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@TorontoPolice
How is this helping? Seriously, if this person is in danger, misleading the public like this does a massive disservice.
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@NBCNews
I attended Pride events from the late 80s to the late 00s, and I NEVER heard that chant.
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@LozzaFox
I'm a gay man who has been fighting against this insanity for nearly a decade now, and this is 100% exactly how I feel. Thank you!
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@OPCouncil
I beg of you, please stop. Just treat students equally, with no favoritism based on immutable characteristics or their ideological beliefs. All this is doing is alienating the vast majority of citizens. Just stop.
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I would respect and admire Sam Smith more if he were saying, "wearing a dress doesn't make me any less of a man." You know, genuinely trying to shatter gender stereotypes rather than reinforce them.
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Good morning! Let’s enjoy this Monday!
IG: mrdominicreynolds
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@libsoftiktok
Fellow gay men: you know this is inappropriate and deeply wrong; start speaking up and oppose this insidious "queer" ideology; it harms children and it is harming our community.
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@jk_rowling
When I was a little boy back in the 70s, my backyard play was pretending to jump over walls like The Bionic Woman or twirl into Wonder Woman. I grew up to be a proud gay man. With the modern gender identity ideology, I worry about gay boys being medicalized for their nature.
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There are so many levels of irony in this tweet. Surely, Katy is parody, right?
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I am so tired of reading the repeatedly disproven myth that "transwomen of color" were responsible for gay rights. To see it repeated in a major Hollywood film, written by a gay man and starring several gay men, is beyond insulting.
#BrosMovie
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I'm a gay man. This person does not speak for me or represent my community.
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So I'm in the middle of this LGBTQ DEI meeting at work and all the buzzwords -- "queer," "intersectional," etc. -- are all present. But when I try to push back, pointing out the ideological nature of the meeting, I'm literally silenced and told I must "respect" others.
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This is one of the most devastating ratios I’ve ever seen.
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@JudiciaryGOP
@RepDanBishop
Have been a Democrat all my life, since I could first vote in 1988. Cannot do so anymore in good conscience, and this is why.
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Such an effective way of winning hearts and minds.
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@Variety
What he's really saying:
“The science that we have now says that [human males] do not hold an unfair biological advantage over [human females]."
Really?
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It was LGB up until the late 90s, so, yeah, we did and will again.
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Everyone, trust me on this: gay bars have never been “filled with trans people”; some bars may have had drag shows, but a) drag isn’t trans, and b) there might’ve been 3 drag queens among hundreds of ordinary gay dudes; some bars, particularly in the 70s and 80s, had strict rules…
@Berenger_x
@JoeGayHistorian
@MFrederickM
This is crap. Gay bars in the 70s were filled with trans people; It was the one place they were unlikely to get beat up. What about the Houses? Have none of you seen Paris is Burning?
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Fine. We don't want anything to do with the TQ+ community, either. But remember, that means we take our history and culture, too. It's not yours.
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@novaramedia
@AaronBastani
@hoyer_kat
So “successful” that people dug tunnels or flew a hot air balloon to escape the country.
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I've been out since the late 1980s, and had been studying gay history since I was an adolescent in the early 80s. Sure, there was drag, but that was gay men performing to make an extra buck; conversely, transsexuals and straight cross-dressers were quite vocal in not wanting to…
@RED2024official
@backtrvck
Trans people can't hijack a movement they have always been a part of. Weird that these "gays" you know don't seem to know a lick of their own history
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I'm a homosexual male. It's precisely the fact that men, only men, and everything about a man, that turns me on, excites me, thrills me, soothes me. It's knowing that I am a man having an emotional, sexual, spiritual connection with another man that satisfies me.
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I am a homosexual and as a student of history, it's natural that one of my primary interests would be the experience of exclusively same-sex attracted men throughout the past.
The TQ+ ideology is not a "safe space": it is disrupting society -- as it's intended to do -- by…
@JoeGayHistorian
@MFrederickM
Centering your research on “homosexuals” rather than the varieties of gender expression throughout history doesn’t prove your point; it misses by a mile. We know who we’re safe with & who we’re not safe with; we know who’s gonna vote FOR us. CHOOSE to be a safe space for others.
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The TQ is actively harming the LGB. This union has been a catastrophe. It’s long overdue for the groups to separate.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️There is no LGBTQ without the T. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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So about 4 years ago, my great-nephew Ben decided he was actually a girl “Luna” at age 7, so that partly is why I have been so vehement on the subject of trans kids. Well, just got this text from my sister and am over the moon with joy!
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@ACLUVA
They took it from someone, and they took it from someone, and they took it from someone, and they took it from someone, and they took it from someone, and they took it from someone, and they took it from someone, and they took it from someone, and they took it from someone….
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@elonmusk
@StationCDRKelly
Forcing others to use “preferred pronouns” is the same as forcing others to acknowledge Jesus Christ as “your lord and savior”; it’s a religious test to identify adherents.
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My interpretation of LGB and T history is as follows:
First of all, individuals with actual gender dysphoria are extremely tiny; most males in history to cross-dress were, and continue to be, heterosexual males with a sexual fetish for wearing the clothing associated with women…
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Gay did not come into circulation as a "replacement" for homosexual; they actually originated independently around the same time, the late 19th century.
"Homosexual" was created (by a Hungarian homosexual) alongside "heterosexual" in the late 19th century as a specific term to…
@AndersTurgeon
@JoeGayHistorian
@JohnBoyneBooks
Why do you think “gay” came into circulation as a replacement for homosexual? Go on, show you have a basic understanding of LGBTQ history
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I was friends with several drag queens in the 1990s; they were gay men who performed in drag at local clubs to make extra money. They had no delusions that they were women. In fact, the few queens who partly or fully transitioned were controversial - I distinctly recall…
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It was precisely through debate that gay men and lesbians gained our rights. If your position is that your goals cannot be debated, then perhaps those aren't really "rights" you're demanding.
A reminder. Love and solidarity to the trans community.
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@bbcarts
@BBCiPlayer
Aside from being an anti gay slur, “queer” is also a quasi religious political ideology that advocates for the disruption and destabilization of society and which has developed since the 1980s, long after Coward passed away. He was a homosexual, not “queer.”
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@sciam
The vast majority of children who experience gender dysphoria will, if not “affirmed,” desist by the time they end puberty, and most will likely grow up to be gay/lesbian adults. You are advocating for the most insidious form of gay conversion therapy yet developed.
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@LambdaLegal
I would think a legal organization would remember that compelled speech violates the First Amendment.
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@Sargon_of_Akkad
Owen is on a rant trying to claim the term "homosexual" is now offensive because it isn't inclusive of straight people larping as oppressed victims (trans and "queer"); "homosexual" underlines the binary of sex, and that's verboten in the TQ+ ideology.
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Good morning! It’s Saturday, April 13, 2024!
On April 13, 1204, Constantinople fell to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade and the Byzantine Empire was temporarily dissolved.
On April 13, 1742, George Frideric Handel‘s oratorio Messiah premiered in Dublin, Ireland.
IG model:…
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Are there any podcasts out there hosted by gay men who have rejected the woke, genderist ideology?
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@NBCNews
Sex is not "assigned at birth"; it is determined at conception, observed either in utero or at birth, and remains constant for eternity.
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Probably because they're not actually gay or lesbian.
Queer is the umberella term being used by many of the younger generations and we are hear for it. Queer family ❤️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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I just checked the website for
@DublinPride
and, yes, there is a picture from 1983 that has been photoshopped to feature the phrase "Trans Rights Are Human Rights" on a placard. Dublin Pride, why are you attempting to alter history? This is utterly shameful.
@IrishTimes
Tomorrow is
#DublinPride
2023. On the
@DublinPride
website’s “Our History” page, the main picture, at first glance seems harmless; a photo of the first gay rights march in Ireland, Fairview March 1983.
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Some facts:
1. The gay rights movement predates Stonewall by a century, and consisted entirely of ordinary gay men and lesbians speaking out, connecting with each other, daring to sue the government, even marching for equality.
2. The vast majority of rioters at Stonewall were…
@JoeGayHistorian
I didn't say speak out. I said fight. It was the drag queens who fought the police and ushered in the gay rights movement, while the "respectable" gay men hid in the shadows and tried to pass as straight.
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Sweetheart, I've been studying gay history since I was a teen in the 80s, and came out in the late 80s, right when that was happening. It was used purely for political, in-your-face activism in response to the AIDS crisis; in our personal lives, we did NOT use the term. Instead,…
@ChrisFourOhFour
@JoeGayHistorian
@VictoriaCoren
@Glinner
Study some history. Queer nation. “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it”. Etc etc. Just because you don’t like the term doesn’t mean others can’t embrace it.
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🧵I came out in the late 80s. Here are some pics of me and friends at Gay Days at Disney World in the 90s. I’ve been to Pride events/parades and joined many gay groups all my adult life. Up until the 2010s, I saw only one person who would be classed as trans today...
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No, "queer" did not always refer to both gay and non-gay; it was specifically used as a slur against homosexuals for nearly two centuries, then briefly used by gay activists for AIDS advocacy, then commodified by radical academics for a political ideology that advocates for the…
@JoeGayHistorian
Because genderqueer is a thing and can be any element of LGBT IA+ too. They're bullied for being "queer" all the time but you act like it's not a thing? Seriously? People should be proud of how they are, NOT bullied. Queer was always to refer to both gay and non-gay queers.
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@hulu
As a gay man, my “Pride” stopped when the TQ+ colonized our movement and started attacking women’s rights, sexualizing children, and denigrating actual gay men and lesbians.
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@TheAdvocateMag
Cross-dressing straight men who weren't Jewish largely were ignored; but if you were a gay man and/or Jewish, you did not fare well. There, I saved you from reading propaganda.
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Marsha, in his last interview, called himself a gay man, and admitted he arrived at the Stonewall Riots after it had already started. Sylvia wasn’t even there and, later in life, rejected the “transgender” label, preferring transvestite, partially because it emphasized that he…
@alexslego
@PopCrave
the first 2 are in fact not men (marsha is debatable but rivera was trans) and tf u mean none of them were there? where?
i admit i dont THAT much but i got the basics unlike someone here. and no im not American (which is irrelevant anyways)
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@greg_price11
Have there been any witnesses who are themselves L or G or B or T who have pushed back against this obvious lie? I'm gay and will readily use "groomer" to describe any adult who wants to sexualize children.
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Who is being excluded by the term “homosexual” and who is being included by the term “queer”?
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@VLubev
@FredSargeant
@JustMisogyny
@AmarjeetSohiYEG
The Stonewall Riots were sparked by a black lesbian, Stormé DeLarverie, who, while chased around a squad car by police, yelled at the crowd of mostly white gay men, "Why don't you do something?" They responded by throwing pennies and other small items at the cops. The person you…
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@realchrisrufo
@iamjohnoliver
So
@iamjohnoliver
is supporting castrating boys and performing mastectomies on girls, failing to acknowledge is that the majority of these kids would, if left alone, grow up to be healthy gay/lesbian adults.
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Yes. Malcolm Michaels, a drag queen/prostitute, who, by his own testimony, arrived at the Stonewall Riots after they had started. A gay man - again, by his own testimony - he struggled with mental illness and drug addiction. His one attempt at creating a charity for “street…
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A straight man who pretends to be a woman is not a lesbian; he is still a straight man.
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@sarahkateellis
This forced teaming with a dehumanizing, sexist, homophobic cult must end.
LGB ✂️TQ
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@GeorgeTakei
@ShawnieT146
YOU should be ashamed, George! I have had with you Vichy Gays pushing one of the most despicable concepts possible, that boys and girls who don’t fit gender norms are “born in the wrong body.” It’s regressive, sexist and deeply homophobic. My God, you sicken me.
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When I was an adolescent coming to grips with being gay in the early 1980s, these were the men I read about, who inspired me and gave me hope. They did so much to advance tolerance and equality, but are neglected today in favor of a myth. We need to remember them.
Leonard…
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Yes, I know the meaning of “queer”:
1. An anti gay slur.
2. A neo-religious political ideology that rejects “normalcy” and advocates for the complete disruption of society primarily through the breakdown of sexual boundaries, including with children.
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That’s not the same as “gay people owe their rights to trans people,” which is what you originally stated.
Were there trans people who interacted with gay people in certain circumstances? Yes.
But it was on the fringe of the gay subculture and they largely avoided the…
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Well, I've been studying gay history since the early 1980s, but, please, tell me who these trans people were who led the gay rights movement, and what precisely did they do?
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@eurekaohara
@EW
I'm gay and I support this legislation. The government would be leaving your "LGBTQIA+ family" alone if you weren't targeting children with your sexist, regressive, dehumanizing ideology.
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This depresses me. 53k likes for this rank homophobia.
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Trans women were not at the forefront of our liberation, gay men were. This is a historical fact. What you are spouting is a complete myth.
Cringe & dumb. To be transphobic and gay is to completely disregard or be unaware of the fact that the freedoms we have today are because of trans women being at the forefront of our liberation, NOT gay men.
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It absolutely astounds me to see a straight man lecturing gay men on who we can associate with.
There is no LGB without the T.
My speech at the Council of Europe.
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LGBTQIA+ is not a "community" at all. We're disparate populations that have been force-teamed together despite having opposing values and goals.
@kutfruitvliegje
@floraplant2597
@MassachusettsXY
@Baldilocks58
@GNQ__
@JoeGayHistorian
We are NOT a community without the TQIA+*
There, fixed it for ya
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@elie_mcn
@TrueNorthCentre
The vitriol and hate that I have received as a gay man opposed to gender ideology far outstrips the level of hate I received from the religious right back in the 90s and 00s. The TQ+ crowd routinely responds with hate and anti-gay invective if you don't repeat their mantras.
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