• This reminds me of the sentiment that I heard described relatively recently and also, if I’m being honest, believed at the time before coming out to myself a little over a year ago which is that getting same-sex marriage rights at the federal level (which itself is being challenged by a few states if my memory serves me right) fixed everything. Like “yay! We got them the right to marry who they want now! Homophobia is over! There can’t possibly be any more issues that the queer community could possibly face that could possibly need addressing.”

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    It also reminds me of how my own mother (who I’m out to and at the very least accepts me on paper) thought that the whole thing about how gay men can’t give blood isn’t a thing anymore when it definitely still is and while it’s likely that this isn’t causing the current shortage of blood donations, it’s likely that the regulations targeting men who have sex with men are contributing to it.

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