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The image shows a page from a book discussing the historical and social dynamics within the LGBTQ+ community, particularly focusing on the distinctions between different groups. The mood is critical and reflective, addressing issues of acceptance and discrimination.
Text in image: The call to split the TQ+ from the LGB is not new. “Acceptable Gays” have tried to distance themselves from Queers, Transgender and Non-Binary folks since before those words existed. Yet, Acceptable Gays were not spared in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s or 90s, no matter how subtle, rich or famous they were. They still got their ass beat, still outed and arrested under sodomy laws, still lost their jobs, their names were still printed in the papers, they still lost their homes under moral clauses, still couldn’t marry or serve. Acceptable Gays still died of AIDS in droves.

Today’s “LGB Gays” are not enlightened or groundbreaking free thinkers, no matter what social media says. They’re clichéd bootlickers with no sense of history. They believe this split would spare them but our persecutors are just working their way backward through the LGBTQ+. Those who hunt us always come for the entire alphabet.