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[rm]

While there are a hundred reasons why straight people openly specifying that they are straight and also support the rights of GBLTQ people to marry their partners is a useful thing, think of the power of this:

Just saying that you support it. Without mentioning your own damn orientation.

Because I know it's not always or even often distancing when someone says, "I'm straight but I support gay rights," but trust me, trust me, trust me, trust me, when I tell you that's what it can feel like from over here.

Just try saying it without qualification. Picture _that_ as an LJ meme. You know?

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[weirdquark]

I've had to fight a long time against "some queers are less queer than others" ingrained in ME, much less in the rest of society.

Yeah. Although it's not so much that I sometimes feel like I don't have the right to identify as queer because I'm not queer enough (even though that sometimes is the case) as that since I've never had to fight to be accepted as a queer person, I don't feel I've invested very much in that identity.