About The Historical LGB 'Day Of Vengeance'

That never, ever happened

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April Fools. There is no LGB Day of Vengeance.

There has never been a day of vengeance for lesbian, gay, and bisexual people.

There never, ever was such a Day. It did not happen. We are joking but not laughing.

No one has ever even scheduled a day of actual vengeance, to our knowledge. Not even at the height of the AIDS crisis. It is not a thing. Was never a thing.

LGB people have made great strides in America, and much of the world, for decades exactly by not seeking revenge on straight people for the harms done to themselves.

Although violence born of frustration initiated the LGB freedom movement at Stonewall, that movement ultimately adopted nonviolence as a principle in order to highlight the violence done to themselves.*

Transgender activism and its cousin category for fancy straight people, “queer” activism, have impressed a dominant narrative on society and media that they are uniquely vulnerable to violence. In turn, this supposed vulnerability jus…