I read something somewhere that said that we’re likely to enter another stonewall era. What exactly does this mean? I’m aware of the events at the Stonewall inn but don’t understand the era part of it.
The Stonewall riots were a reaction brutal police enforcement of anti-lgbtq laws. They broke up gay bars, drug people into the streets and generally terrorized the queer community. People refer to that era that led to the ‘riot’ as the Stonewall era.
Criminalization of homosexuality in public via some form of indecency laws. Project 2025 calls for any queer person working in any job that could ever possibly interact with a child to be prosectued as sex criminals. It means being queer in the privacy of guarded spaces. It means a generation of people forced back into the closet.
None of this is a prediction of the future. It’s just what they’ve told us they’re going to do.
I see. I was guessing it meant that there would be a lot more active confrontation and resistance with the feds. That’s disheartening.
It’s so strange to be a young person who just became an adult to grow into this. I’m going to fight as best I can for a better tomorrow. We absolutely have to be as united as possible as a community in order to weather and fight this.
might be worth reading Susan Stryker’s Transgender History
I also found Stone Butch Blues provided some useful historical context.
I’ll give them a read. Looks interesting. Thanks.
As your question is answered, I just want to add here - the last couple of decades of progress winning hearts and minds have not been erased.
We had a black president and we almost had a woman president (twice). These good progressive events brought the many remaining shitheads out to vote.
But there’s a lot of us out there who used to be completely ignorant to LGBTQ+ issues who are now aware and are trying to be allies.
Another shithead in a fancy office can’t change that. (Though, yes, I’m sure he will try.)
We go back to throwing bricks at shitheads again.
