We're Here and We're Queer

This is gonna be a bit of a preaching to the choir, depending on who ends up reading this. I always see the way people talk about us and wanna stand up for this community, but I don't want to bring the negative attention towards me. Violet thought making a blog post about it would be a good best of both worlds. 

This is a response to seeing the way people have talked about Beyond the Plus on Bluesky and possibly elsewhere on the internet. They claim that we're "masquerading as queer liberation", and this is what people say all the time. I know they'll never believe a word we say, but there is no "masquerading" anywhere. We're not some sort of abuse ring that is for nasty pedophiles but pretends we're about queer rights, we are a queer organization made by queer people, no matter your definition of the word. Being a MAP is queer, and I am also transgender, bisexual, and many other queer identities, from the normie ones, to the less common ones. MAP rights is queer liberation.

Antis will see things like this and, since they assume we're all evil, automatically assume there's some shady stuff going on. Obviously I'm an evil pedophile [sarcastic], therefore I will act like other evil people they know, people like politicians that actually do "masquerade" their shady business practices. These people will always see us as like them, but sometimes you have to stand up for yourself and say "no, I am not what you think I am". 

No one is perfect. I don't think anyone should try and be perfect, all we can do is make ourselves better a little bit at a time, and try to leave this world as better people than how we came into it, but I won't just sit back and let people say things like this about my community. Beyond the Plus is my life's work, and it's something I am very proud of. We are not evil, we're not pretending to be anything; we are genuine people that want rights. MAP rights may seem silly to you, but to us they're everything.

It's not just MAP stuff obviously, we also welcome everyone else under the rainbow, but I never see people talk about anything else we welcome, like zoophiles. I guess I haven't really made any posts or anything about that, maybe I should make it more clear that we're not just pedophiles, we're everyone who feels like they can't wave their flag at pride.

I guess like my last blog post this is a little more of a rant than leftist or activist theory or something. It's hard to find a way to stand up for myself that won't end up in getting me reported, but it makes me upset to see what people say, and maybe deep down that's what they want. But unlike some people, I take my anger, my sadness, and all the negative emotions that are created, and I turn them into something positive. I started this journey because I got doxxed, and I realized that this shouldn't be happening to people like me. 

I'm still on this journey. It's a rocky road with many forks, and I've changed destinations many times. But along the way I've learned more about myself, made lots of new friends, and put myself to the test. No amount of hate is gonna make me give up now. Why, I've only just begun.