Y’all Ever Think About How Bucky Got Drafted And Acted Like He Enlisted So Steve Would Think He Was

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Come here, baby gays, and let me tell you the story about how James Somerton made me so fucking angry with a single line that I had to make this post.

As I now know, most of his audience is young queers and there are things we NEED you to know.

The fight for marriage equality was a massive fucking deal and I will tell you why with a very personal story.

My mom was a nurse during the AIDS crisis. And I mean she started working as a nurse out of school in 85. My mom was on the front lines. She worked with so many AIDS patients that it genuinely altered her brain chemistry. My mother was a homophobe before her nursing career. She was a massive supporter of gay rights until she died in July because of what she saw during her career.

And what did she see?

She saw people who had been abandoned by their families dying with their partners at their side.

And then suddenly…the family would materialize, ban the partner from the room, kick them out of their homes they had lived in with their dying partners for decades, and then watched them ban their partners from even attending the funerals or visiting the graves. Imagine being denied your right to grieve.

And why was this possible? Oh simple. They weren’t married. They weren’t legally bound, the partners weren’t considered next of kin because they weren’t fucking married.

I watched my mom pass. It was horrible and painful and traumatic and terrifying. But it was closure. And I wouldn’t have it any other way because I know…that who my mom wanted by her when she passed was my dad. Because she was scared, she wanted her partner by her side and she was terrified she was going to die. My dad couldn’t be there. He had to work, which sounds cold but understand he had been off work for a month by that point and he was the only one who had health insurance. He wanted to be there, we had made plans to take her off the life support when he came back (we were 4 hours from him) but there was a freak accident and she passed the night after he left to return to work.

Why am I telling you this? Because I need you to understand how important this is to some people. So you can understand how big a slap to the face it is to have people say “marriage equality isn’t that important”. You can understand why someone like James Somerton rolling his eyes at marriage equality and implying we weren’t focused on job equality and discrimination (information that is WHOLEY untrue) would make me see red.

It’s not trivial. It’s not meaningless. It wasn’t about “assimilating” or “appearing normal” (we’re already normal).

It’s about people who had their children taken from them because they weren’t the biological parent. It’s about people who never got to comfort their loved ones in their final days. It’s about people who weren’t able to comforted by their partners in their final days.

So the next time you think “why waste your time on something as trivial as marriage?” Remember my mother. Look up testimony from victims of the AIDS crisis. Remember the people who advocated for marriage equality were the survivors who were torn from the love of their life.

Remember that we advocated so damn hard to give you the right to grieve.

Sam looking down at buckys hand, almost confused, because they aren’t the hand shaking type.

But then Sam remembers they’re in public and it clicks why Buckys going in for a handshake instead of just kissing him. They have reputations to uphold and can’t risk people knowing, not yet at least.

Rant

I’m fucking sick and tired of being treated like a god damn infant in my school because I’m autistic I’m tired of kids and teachers baby voicing me the second they find out I have autism I’m in fucking high school I can drive and get a job and they treat me like I’m 5 literally a random teacher who wasn’t a special ed teacher came up to me whall I was working and said to me in the most stupidest baby voice “do you like trains?” Like what the hell. I’m sick and tired of random teachers coming up to me in class talking to me in a baby voice this happens a lot sometimes I don’t know who the teachers are even they just come into class to talk to me I voiced my concerns to others but they just said “oh there just talking to you like that because your IEP.” My IEP shouldn’t make them talk to me like a baby and they barely even follow my IEP anyways they were supposed to let me leave class if I got overstimulated or listen to music if I got overstimulated but when I am overstimulated they just tell me to sit in class cause it’s not fair to other people in class IT SHOULD BE FAIR FOR ME THOUGH BECAUSE ITS IN MY IEP I’M LITERALLY ON THE VERGE OF TEARS AND YOU SAY THIS!? This is why autistic people don’t feel safe or comfortable in school because there being treated like infants I barely feel like I can focus in school because a random teacher comes up to me or people are too loud and I can’t listen to my music which calms me down. One time I started stimming in class and my teacher told me to stop because it was distracting to the other students how I literally fucking stim is I wiggle my fingers under my desk i always have to mask to please others because I make them uncomfortable but they don’t even fucking try to make me comfortable at all I’m sick of every second of the day I’m treated like an infant it makes me wanna scream being underestimated because my autism I’m a person too I should be treated like how you treat everyone else people tell me “oh it’s easy to be autistic.” NO ITS NOT if you lived a day in my shoes you couldn’t handle half the shit I do and that goes for any disabled person never tell someone there disability is “easy” it’s never easy there’s always setbacks and struggles..anyways I’m sorry for ranting just a lot has been happening lately and people have been blaming my autism. If you read all this thank you and have a good day.

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