I remember the 1990s, and this is all true. I especially remember Helms proposing -- seriously -- that all gay people should be exiled to an island, to protect "us" from AIDS. So when today's conservatives whine about how being asked to wear a mask is a violation of their civil rights, I know exactly how full of shit they are.
I was “in the newspapers as a youth activist” level of O-U-T as a queer student at 16yo in 1991. EVERY SINGLE ONE of the objections we now see about trans youth was made about me, and I am FURIOUS at all the gays and lesbians my age who are falling for this now. To them:
— S. Bear Bergman (@sbearbergman) April 6, 2022
schools and talked to teachers, I let them print my picture and full name in the paper while my parents begged me not to, while the AIDS epidemic raged and Jesse Helms was still yelling for all the dirty queers to be rounded up and branded or sent to an island. At every turn,
— S. Bear Bergman (@sbearbergman) April 6, 2022
people said I was disgusting, perverted, sick. They asked their legislators if their innocent children would have to share a locker room with me, if I should be allowed to have my own children or if I would ruin them, if I should be segregated or locked up. Grown adults
— S. Bear Bergman (@sbearbergman) April 6, 2022
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