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Hey Cishet Pandas, In Honor Of Pride Month, Do You Have Any Questions For The LGBTQ+ Community? (Closed)
Please only be supportive, I will try to answer the questions I can, but I don't want to deal with bigots.
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HWY IS IT SO HARD TO BE GAY IN HIGHSCHOOL
it says write your answer, so i might be in wrong spot.... question, my uncle has been gay since as far back as i can remember (he would be in his 70s today). i recently used the word queer to discribe him. i got jumped on for using it. my uncle never had it issue with it, why is it suddenly so taboo?
How bad is it to trip up on pronouns? Like when I see someone born female and they introduce themselves as something other than she/her and my old lagging brain keeps crashing and refererring to them as she/her like how much understanding and or empathy exists with an average
LGBTQ person? Am I going to burn in flaming rainbows for this sin for all of eternity or will trans Jesus forgive me? It's so annoyingly embarrassing stumbling over it everytime I'm talking to or about a trans person but it's like my brain will not pick it up, it just won't stick! Also is it brutally insensitive of me to wish we could all just switch to one non-gender specific universal pronoun set so I don't have to relearn pronouns on an individual basis? How much on a scale of 1-10 does it hurt you personally when someone gets it wrong? Is it mildly annoying or slowly crushing your spirit everytime or causing instant psychological trauma? I have a non binary 12 year old and she's really understanding but 50% of the time I'm getting her friends pronouns wrong and it's kinda driving me crazy and I'm worried about having them over to visit because they're just kids and I don't want to like damage them or something. Is this happening to anyone else or is my brain just broken?
it’s ok to mess up on pronouns if you don’t mean to. if it helps call them by their preffered name until you get used to it. something that helps me sometimes if think of a person and thinking something like “i spoke to them the other day, their really kind” or something like that, just thinking about them and using their preffered pronouns can help :))
Why can’t you let rainbows be rainbows!?
We're not saying they can't be just rainbows, we just use the rainbow to represent our community. It's the non queer people who treat everything with a rainbow as if it were gay, and we're not trying to gatekeep or take anything away. If you don't like rainbows because of us, that's a you problem
No, but that’s what I mean, since lgbtq started everyone associate rainbows with it!
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The original pride rainbow flag had specific meanings for each color, but now it has turned into any rainbow. Its not like anything rainbow means you are queer, it is just a flag we use to celebrate being ourselves
I'm pretty sure each color has its meaning. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Red equals life, Orange symbolizes healing, Yellow stands for sunlight, Green represents nature, Turquoise equals magic & art (this was a previous LGBTQ+ flag and this one had turquoise and other colors) Indigo stands for serenity or harmony, and Violet represents the spirit of LGBTQ people. I got this from looking it up so its probably wrong
