Sounds like nonsense to me. You can’t push someone into being ‘queer’. Like you say, it’s right wing homophobia that gay people have had to put up with for years. The typical “gays are trying to convert people!” rhetoric.
I knew I was gay in my early teens and homosexuality was never mentioned in my childhood. I certainly didn’t know any gay people back then. So
duck knows who converted me!
I have no interest in converting anyone.
Appreciate you just posted the tweet and that you don’t really endorse it btw.
I read it more as "queer" as in straight people still being straight, but self IDing as something else (ie a woman IDing as non-binary and a man IDing as non-binary in relationship with each other is still a straight relationship, and they are still straight people, but they just identify as queer)
I'm not really sure how I feel about that tweet to be honest. I feel that "queerness" has caused far more chaos in the LGB community, and on the surface, I'm inclined to say that the notion that it's specifically targeting straight people to disrupt the traditional family unit is....yeah, a conservative perspective.
But then I think about the straight people who get involved in the queer community, their motivations for doing so -- a lot of the time it is fetish driven. These fetishes have always been there but the queer community gives them a place and a voice. Obviously, most don't see their desire to "become a gay man" or "become a lesbian" a fetish.
I do think the queer community, and of course the trans community, preys on people when it comes to self ID and transitioning but I've never really connected the motivations to trying to disrupt the traditional family unit. I've always attributed them to homophobia by bringing in people who are straight to LARP as gay people, speak over us and push us out of our spaces. And the same with trans women when it comes to women's spaces, women's sports, LARPing men taking women's jobs etc. As I've said about Roe vs Wade -- if you don't have the language to describe yourself, are being continually misrepresented by
people men who are self IDing and don't share your experiences, how can you defend your rights?