Teaching the Queer Agenda
Educate the Children! Shove it in peoples faces! Of course, I must address, that I don't actually believe we should be shoving queer politics and identity down peoples throats. I think education and exposure does fantastic things for our community, but forcing people to listen to our ideals can become quickly off-putting, and bigots immediately weaponize our attempts as an excuse to not listen. However, we need some element of queer education. Think about the last time you were taught about a gay person in school. We're you even taught about a gay person in school? I wasn't. The first time they even mentioned gay people in my Roman Catholic high school was during our study of A View from the Bridge at Nat 5, where (spoilers for this very mediocre play with very incest-y undertones) , jealous Uncle Eddie kisses his niece's foreign boyfriend (who is also her cousin) Rodolpho in attempts to emasculate him, and basically out him as gay (which, newsflash, he