just had an absolutely sickening conversation with a 20 year old I work with wherein I had to impress upon her that her and her friends need to be extremely cautious going to the gay clubs right now with increasing attacks happening. make sure any very young, very newly adult queer people in your life know that we're a family and community and part of that is being willing to fight for your siblings lives if they're under attack. even if it's a person you despise, you stick up for your family and they will stick up for you. we are all we have. the cops refuse to help, and so do most people outside the community. we cannot survive without each other
also on the family note, people are weird on here sometimes about allies going to clubs/being in queer spaces, but as long as they're there for us like this, they're family too. they may be a cousin instead of a sibling but we protect them and they protect us. at a recent attack on my local gay club, the ONLY person who was injured was an ally who was a regular at the bar who was knocked out trying to protect the drag performers who were being targeted. this is a family born out of acceptance, love, and safety in numbers, not a vip only club
actually I shouldn't have left this in the tags