Reacting to LGBTQ+ Memes 

Uhm, actually, Geology is the scientific study of stones and stuff.

@CREATURESCONER Try to strike a deal by pretending a binder is a type of sports bra, also called a binder. “Can I at least get this, it’s for exercise” Or even exercise tape, which can work quite well, as trans tape is very similar to

@CREATURESCONER If you’re young you have PE right? You would have to exercise anyway under school regulations. Either way, exercise is good for you so convincing your mom that you’re gonna start exercising for health isn’t exactly a bad thing.

18:16 the silent generation is from 1946 to 1965. I think I could be wrong.

You haven't played Stardew Valley?! This must be rectified immediately! That's where 'Elliot' is from.

Once every other sexual does feel like it describes my sexuality lol

why not both am i right

How about a sexual rotated 45 degrees around z axis? (around 0,71 gay and 0,71 straight)

@@broblerone413 It’s always both, isn’t it

I am twice as sexual but only once every other gender

Yeahhhh I thought this was glaring lol. Monarch is right there Your majesty is also gender neutral.

I think “your eminence” is my favorite one in like the slang usage of Queen/King today

Your Majesty also works.

I'm more inclined to the term regent for royalty, though royal bastard is imo gender neutral as well.

​@@svenhendrickx2783 Very neutral. "Quit hoarding wealth (and/or) power" is gender neutral as well, we have a few choices lol.

REGENT

Royal

Sovereign

Tyrant.

Liege

as a gay lefty, i am quite lucky to have been born in this generation lmao

@@MMMM09 same lol

Poe’s Law in action.

Plant the seeds of their downfall while your there lol

You can case the joint.

seeds are planted- tree@@aalrightperson2789

well king frederix x is gonna have a short reign lol

haha yeah @@CanonSkyrissian

You haven't failed if you're making active strides to support your ace son. Just make sure you get him the correct garlic bread. Not doing so can lead to disastrous consequences. 😉

Ha

Greetings, fellow parent of ace bean!

Good. We plan to go far Denmark after commotion in Eurasia have stopped. We will take it quickly and easily. ALSO MAKE SURE THAT YOUR CHILD GETS HIS DAILY DOSE OF GARLIC BREAD! Thank you, and I hope you have a good day.

@@missnaomi613 I think you mean ace garlic bread or ace cake 😉

as a dane, I fully support you in this endeavour! Cant be worse than our Frakenstiens goverment we have now!

I'm aroace but I don't want Denmark :(

denmark will be ours one day

@@moviejuhlinhow’s ur garlic bread?

@@robfortune6TREASON

Yeah and I think millennials go up to the millennium right? Hence the name? I thought it was off when I saw it

yeah I’m a silly 14 year old gen z gay and I feel very unincluded 😞😞😞😞

1991 to 2010 a generation is about 20 years

@@marianna-pd5xt im also 14yo and uhhhhhhhhh im turning 15 in may :3

What a relief! 😂

HELL YEAH! the gays are thriving

Art school? Or are we slaying in STEM now That's really cool that your school is so inclusive

@@butterbeer4582 just regular old public 4 year - stem emphasis actually (we're right on the coast, our marine bio program is huge)

I was SO confused about that

thank you. i literally just turned 19 a few weeks ago and was so confused

I was gonna say, Gen Z spanning only six years in that graphic can’t be right 😅 Thanks for pointing that out!

The clarification was definitely needed because i know for a FACT im Gen Z and i was born in 2004. I turn 20 in 2 months🥳

Thank you! I was so confused! My daughter was born in 2008 and I was like, have I been wrong about her being Gen-Z her whole life?? 🤦🏽‍♀️😂

As a poly bisexual, probably same

Yes, we don’t want to be alone… BUT WE ARE (im lucky enough to have been confessed too, but omg if they hadn’t told me)

​@@Beyond_BeybladeSaaame, though I am ace, not bi.

Both will become my friends, but I'd still be to scared to go for more, because rejections hurt.

Well my parents are homophobic so I'd take the boy But I'll secretly fall in love with the girl and she'd love me too and once we move out we'll move together get a cat that we'll call some ridiculous name and work simple jobs and once we get home we cook together and watch some movie and cuddle while our cat joins in and purrs

My preferred royalty term is Eminence or Apostle

my friends usually call me captain, which i find very fun

I dig Captain, cuz it's something that I also earned. Captain is the supervisor position in my job. Makes me feel slightly better about the middle management hell I'm stuck in. 😅

Same but I'm french so : is "liege" neutral too ?

@@flubble2473 yes

AW NO THATS SO SAD 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂

gen x truly is the middle child of generations

🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂

Many of us who are Gen-X in the US lived through the AIDS epidemic in the 80's, which primarily affected men. It was a terrifying time for many LGBTQ+ people. When people (mostly men) were in the hospitals, the staff would ignore and avoid those patients and let them suffer by neglecting them, as they thought whatever they had was contagious. They suffered terribly and most died. Once they figured out it was AIDS, it took a while to determine how it was spread. Because of this, it brought on a LOT of stigma, fear and even more discrimination than before. Many people stayed silent and stayed in the closet even longer or never came out.

My moms had to deal with that, too. I'm so sorry you had to cope with that tragic loss of community, it breaks my heart.

@@Cinnamon_Cleric Thanks, but I actually consider myself lucky, as I didn't lost any friends. Still, I met so many gay men _and lesbians_ a decade older than me who had… The 1980s were a horrible time. The only people who cared were the lesbians, which is why the 'L' comes first on the acronym - to honor all of those Sisters who were out on the front lines during the worst of the AIDS crisis.

@@John_Weiss I get what you're saying. My stepmom lost people and she doesn't talk about it often, but when she does you can see how heartbroken it left her. I think that in the climate we're currently in, it's vital to talk about this history and know that as a community, we need to have each other's backs.

@@Cinnamon_Cleric Also, _get her to talk about it!_ That not only honors the memory of her lost friends, it gets out the truth of Just. How. Badly. all of those dying gay men were _mistreated._ There's a project called the "Memory of Mankind" that is storing information on ceramic slates in a salt mine in the Alps. Anyone can submit something. I think firsthand stories of the AIDS crisis would be eagerly accepted by the people running the project.

Not only that, in the US, the AIDS epidemic was going on in the 80's which made it even worse for LGTBQ+ people, although it affected primarily gay men. Men (mostly) in hospitals were ignored and neglected by hospital staff because they thought whatever the men had was contagious. Then when it was figured out it was AIDS, it took a while to determine how it was spread. Those poor people had suffered greatly. Even if it wasn't them, many watched their loves ones suffer. I'm so sorry for everyone who has gone through these things, it was a heartbreaking time.

God damn it! They needed that industrial sized shipment of garlic bread FIVE DAYS AGO SO YOU READ ME.

​@@wingdingfontbroWe're doing our best over here, but the Danish must've intercepted the supplies. There must've been leaks in the system, who told their Allo friends about the invasion? This was on a AROACE TO KNOW BASIS FOLKS.

On my way with my dragon jellycat plushie

Look, I’m trying My plane ticket been delayed for about five years now

and the Aros want all the juice boxes apparently. So as Aro/Ace can I have both? :D

@@starscreamthecruel8026I think we Aro-Aces are definitely cool enough to have both

Juice and cake and animals!!!

But also Denmark, they have pastries

@@julzbehr6696SHHHHH. Don’t be too loud. We don’t need them knowing that we’re coming!

The fort- in fortnight comes from fourteen, though 😮

Yeah cause 14 days in two weeks/half a month/half the moon cycle​@@erraticonteuse

Fortsexual sounds way cooler, that's not fair... 😢

@@spiker.ortmannno because if you think about it means “attracted to 14yo”☠️

@@plant_based_kitten_ you are thinking it the wrong way, just as pansexuals and their "love for pans" fortsexual can be "love for forts" or "a fort for sexuals" and being the Fort Knox of sexuality sounds pretty badass...

Yes, gen X had it very difficult to come out. I’m fringe /late gen X and when the AIDS epidemic hit I was a young child. Bi men had it really bad at that time.

I know that for a while Gen Z used to be called iGen because we were born in the period of smartphones, but eventually Z won out.

My mother's first crush was on a woman, and I didn't know that until I was 19 years old. She just never found it important to mention, but it was a little mind-blowing to me. I think she might be one of those edge cases you described.

The Silent Generation (for the U.S.) is my parent's generation, 1928-1945 (Mom in '28, Dad in '31). So, Great Depression through World War II births. At least for the U.S. (where I am) they weren't much involved in the war, as they were too young for service (though my mom did have some returning soldiers finish high school with her). Apparently they are the same as the Traditionalists, though I don't know that I'd ever heard of that. At least part of the silence was there weren't that many of them to begin with, since the depression and then the war were dampers on reproduction (which is part of what made the Baby Boom such a big deal), and then moving into the 50s (their young adulthood and teens) it was a pretty good to time to remain silent (unless you really were traditionalist, and that doesn't really set you apart from the preceding generation, so who'd notice). I mean, compared to the pre-war leftist movements and the counterculture of the sixties, they really were pretty quiet. I've always felt kind of out of place, being solidly demographically Gen X (1970), but the child of Silent Generation parents, all of whose other children were Baby Boomers (and all on their own with children by the time I was 5), and then having my own child in 2005 (Gen Z). So I wasn't raised by people who had the same generational background or assumption as my folks, nor was my kid in comparison to their peers.

Gen X were also called latchkey kids because many families had both parents working late so kids would let themselves into the house with a key hanging on the latch after playing outside after school.

Is it 2 languages twice the time or 2 languages twice in life?

Having been on the organization team of my cities pride parade, the actual gay (LGBTQ) agenda involves a lot of creating task forces to figure out basic planning stuff, like getting permits for music, or getting a shuttle for people with impaired mobility, and a sign language translator for the deaf. And of course a lot of meetings to figure out what we need the other meetings to be about. I think weve had multiple meetings, and a taskforce to develop a proposal for the main meeting, just about the ethics of sponsors and what our criterias for one should be. Sovereign also works great as a gender neutral term, and kinda sound dope

I mean, the word agenda literally means “a list of items to be discussed at a formal meeting,” so I think it’d be a good idea for everyone to actually help make an agenda for everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community. Although I don’t know if we should have agendas similar to the aces

Gay agenda: Wake up Be gay Sleep (optional) Trans agenda: Wake up Be trans Sleep (still optional) I'm not sure what the other agendas are, tho

@@Kcthetransgirl I’m part of both agendas 😂

Greetings, fellow Gen Xer!

agreed. (i refuse to be gen alpha)

@gallitheenbyfox Too late

@@gallitheenbyfox If it makes you feel any better, Gens Z and Alpha are only named what they are because of the mistaken idea that the X in Gen X is alphabetical. However, it’s a variable. They didn’t know what to call us, so the X functions like it would in an algebra equation. And since Gen Y never stuck for Millennials, it wouldn’t make sense to skip a variable. If the people who name generations wanted to be uncreative again and use a variable, it should have been Y and Alpha just doesn’t work at all by that logic. Neither name makes sense.

I've always liked lord (the word not god lol)

I believe genderfluid falls under the non-binary umbrella

Regent is usually a temporary position while the heir grows up/returns.

Sovereign's a fun one ~sincerely, a transmasc enby who also mostly uses they/them pronouns

woo its nice to meet a silly goober

@@N95j yay!!

Heir? That just means "the one who inherits" basically. You can be an heir to a business, title, property or fortune.

dragon cakes?

As a fellow Ace, I’m in >:D

Belgium(for their baked goods), Italy( for the bread, and the gov sucks), and Greece( Their prime minister is pro lgbt but is being held back a bit by the rest of the government) are next. Be prepared… Your local ace lesbian🎉 Edit: holy blahaj so many likes…

Our Supreme Leader shall be… PUD!! >>sitting here, watching videos with my PUD. Bigger than I expected and such a cuddly guy

WHERE DO I SIGN UP, THIS IS UTOPIA ❤ 😅

This is incredible and I love it.

gonna get this comment stitched in gold and framed ty

Regent!

But emporer is masc, empress is fem. Monarch is truly neutral, as is regent, though regent is often the person temporarily ruling on behalf of an heir who is too young to take power yet.

Thempress ?

As a millennial that identifies as ace and transmasc, my path was the opposite. I realized my attraction was actually me just wishing I looked like that. 😅

Alternatively Pharaoh was gender neutral 💛🤍💙💜🖤

Or ruler. Wish there was a one-syllable version for it so it can be parallel

Also sovereign. I like that word quite a lot.

And the word lord!

@@deethwarrior really? I thought Lord was a term for men somewhere below the king. Like Lord and Lady.

Woo! Tengo una racha de 260 días! Had to google streak though. And yeah I notice a lot of esposo/novio from masc speakers and esposa/novia from femme speakers. Haven’t really noticed any gender neutral terms, but there may not be an agreed upon standard yet ^_^

​@@Nortarachanges In Spanish for gender neutral we usually go for the ending with -e, like amigue, instead of amigo or amiga. For married people cónyuge (spouse) would be the right word, pareja (partner) is also gender neutral. I'm in 768 days in a row for English :)

@@Nortarachanges You know, I actually recall a PS5 game, Spider-Man 2, introducing a few gender neutral terms in its Spanish script. For example, a nonbinary doctor used the pronoun "they" in English, and was referred to as "Doctore" in Spanish, as opposed to "doctor" or "doctora". Some Spanish streamers online seemed to balk at the inclusion, though, so maybe it's not catching on in more media yet. But on the bright side, it's just "yet," not never.

Straight or gay, do your lesson and you'll see your family today!

I just reached 421 days of learning Japanese on Duolingo today. Still a long way to go to reach the thousand-day mark and more. I have yet to come across any LGBTQ+ content on there though. Hopefully I'll see it eventually. It is nice to know that Duolingo is that inclusive.

Yes, and we you address them you say “your majesty”

Yes 🙌

ya they tried to make that such bands were Satanists.. and dee schooled them HARD.. it was awesome :). smh he's Christian, and they say ozzy is a Satanist.. smh he's catholic and his house is filled w crosses, his kids went to catholic school.

That whole trope of "elderly bachelors who live together because they never found wives" lol

Not to sound morbid but the same thing happened with cancer. People used to be so scared of it they'd lie on death certificates and medical records because their kids wouldn't get married/be ostracized, etc. Once it became accepted numbers went up so much that people thought occurrences were going up way more than they actually were

This reminds me of a fact I read, the person who played Jean Luc Picard almost didn't get the role, because one of the directors thought that baldness would be cured that far into the future. But he mentioned that far far into the future, baldness wouldn't matter.

Oh nooo 😩

My old roommate wud oft repeat that quote to which i wudve ofc say "I have many!"

Oh is she going by Suzy now? Oh no! Have I been dead naming? 😮😢 Oh please say she still goes by both. I would be so sad if I have been an asshole this whole time. 😭😭

@@SweetVermillion I just quickly checked wikipedia and she seems to be using both?

She still uses Eddie as a professional name for shows, to my understanding. "No flag no country! Those are the rules....that I've just made up." 😂💜💜

@@MachaMongRuad So, Eddie is her drag persona name essentially; got it. Just a diff kind of drag

As a pansexual, I will support you. Our goals are in fact the same.

As a bisexual, I’m searching for the best lemon bars. But i love a nice slice of garlic bread, we should exchange recipes once our quests are over.

@@300DBenz Hmm yes, indeed we should, and we shall. I raise a toast to your quest, happy lemonbar hunting

i am so confused what is the joke with garlic bread

@@lluucasiscool So am I, but just like my garlic bread too much to care.

Recently binge watched the TV show "Lucifer" and he is absolutely bi. It's cannon!

He is supposed to be a master seducer. He'd be foolish to restrict his skills and experience to one gender. Also, yeah, Lucifer's actor is bi and suitably hot for being the dark prince. I'm straight but just look at the man.

God is bisexual too. Canon on supernatural

If they don't want us going to hell then Why'd they put all the good representation down there?

The devil is a bi legend!

🔥The Fire consumes ALL! 🔥

Hamilton!

That really is how it do be sometimes.

It’s what I aspire to be

She is a grifter who tries to promote unfounded ideological ideas to susceptible lonely and vulnerable young people and should be banned.

But can't remember the word "monarch" exists. :-)

what does monogamy have to do with it?

Or you could use lord i like using lord cus monarch is too long

That tag is especially helpful for an American king size bed, which is 76” x 80” (193cm x 203cm), making it really hard to tell which is the long side of the fitted sheet until you have it on wrong.

Congrats on your coming out! Shit can get real for sure, but you will get through it. I personally have faith in you, wherever you are. Take care of yourself; you only have one you. And happy B-Day!

Happy birthday Rachael!

Happy birthday Rachael!

Happy birthday 🎂 and congratulations for coming out. Hope you have an amazing day 🤗

Happy birthday Rachael and congrats for coming out!

As a trans guy who came out at 45 I can confirm that it gets a bit weird. But let's face it, with some people there is no "appropriate age." I came out as bi to my mom when I was 20 and she didn't believe me. 15 years later she actually said to me, "You can't be bisexual if you've never had sex with a woman!" I didn't get into the obvious fallacy but instead responded, " What makes you think I haven't had sex with women?" Now that I'm a guy I have no idea how she processes that. But I've come out twice, young and old, and neither was super fun with my family. Sorry about your therapist. Good luck on finding a new one who is validating and with everything else.

@CorwinFound that's intense. I'm sorry your mum was/is like that. Sadly, I have seen this Dr 11 years, and he's attached to a very specific hospital that I need access to. So I actually can't just change Dr's all of a sudden. I'm not actually sure what to do. My dad helps me to pay for said Dr as psychiatry costs a lot in Australia, sadly. Also, I'm not too sure if my dad would be willing to assist in payments if I eventually made the shift. This Dr, on every other mental health aspect, is very, very good. 1 of the top in their field in the country. It's unfortunately when things are LGBTQIA plus related that they're weird about it all. I'm seeking options but at this stage I have to stay with them. I'm seeing them in the next hour and half funnily enough. I think I'd like some professional guidance in working out who I am and how I identify and then also have said guidance on "coming out" as a more mature person, as it's never easy anyway, but when you're older and your family think they know you, well.... Thanks for the comment and all the best to you.

I'm 41 and feel this on a very personal level. It feels so damn weird going half of your life not knowing exactly who you are. Then when you come out, you feel rather sad and bitter that you spent your young years not being the real you. I knew I wasn't straight when I had my first crush on a woman at 21. Realized I was nonbinary/agender at 29, but didn't fully embrace it till early last year. THEN realizing I'm on the ace spectrum within the same time frame was a lot to process. Still is, honestly. I haven't come out to my mom and sister yet. I'm wary of it, even though I'm sure they'll be somewhat accepting. When my sister and I were young, my mom sat us down and told us she'd support us if we were gay. Her reaction when I got my first girlfriend was... distant and silent. She was supportive in her own weird way, but not very accepting. Hypocrisy. Her behavior during that time is making me hesitate coming out to her. Feels weird as a middle aged person to be scared of your family's approval, but in my case, lots of trauma play into that. Anyway, please find a new therapist. The one you have now is making things worse for you, which is the opposite of how a therapist is supposed to make you feel. People like that shouldn't be therapists. I've actually made it a hard rule for myself that I would only see therapists that are queer friendly, which isn't difficult since I live in California. There are therapists that don't know how to handle non-cis people, though. They can handle various sexual orientations, but not gender identities. We're getting better as a society when it comes to these things, but we still have a way to go. You're not alone. 💜🌈

I just turned 40. It took me until just a few years ago to figure out I'm asexual. Did not take me long to come out since all my friends and family are either part of the LGBT+ community or Allies. They were pretty clueless about asexuals except for my friend who around the same time came out as biromantic demisexual and my sister who came out to me as biromantic gray-sexual when I came out to her as ace.

I'm 42 and only last year started coming out to people as bisexual. I started to realize it in my late 30s and accepted it for myself at 40. I'm only out to my co-workers and a few friends though. I haven't told any family yet because of some openly homophobic relatives.

So is this kinda like willingly having a crush without the wish of it to turn into anything?

YEAH EXACTLY THERES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH DENMARK AND US

I knew I was Bi (just didn’t know the term) when I was 7. It was a day when I noticed the ‘cute girls’ being followed around by their ‘cute Boyfriends’. Seriously, it’s always been a part of me, but one I couldn’t openly declare until last year.

​@@popechuckyI hear you fellow bi, I was the same and came out last year too... 👍👍

Thank you, the same to you.

Dee Snyder also appeared before Congress in full drag to explain that music didn't make kids violent. Then the gov't put the Parental Advisory sticker on the records/tapes/cds. As predicted, it just made kids want them more. And record store employees don't card.

Huge fan ❤

@@jooleebilly I love that too, he’s to thank for explicit music

@@jooleebillyI think one rap group made their whole album cover like a big ol’ Parental Advisory sticker - basically advertising it and giving moral guardians a middle finger.

yet dee snider is as of now a very vocal transphobe, as are many other artists who were popular for transgressive on stage personas

"Im a tomato!" is my fave meme honestly; that person from some anime i dont know the name of is dressed in a tomato outfit and says it. Every time the LGBT sandwich comes up, i always think "Im a tomato!" in that voice even xD

I hate those kinds of pictures. Always so hard to read.

E not f

Same Gender (Preferably Male) Adult Funtime😊

oh, thanks for clarifying, I was super confused cause I was born in 2006 and I always knew I was Gen Z

thanks for this, i was really confused and had no idea it was about adults only 😭

It’s more like 1997-2010

Omfg same

Themperor is ICONIC

It HAS too be lord for me

Okay thank youuuuu love this. Monarch feels too, serious and less fun. THEMPEROR are you kidding, thank youuu

This. Also GenX was originally called The Lost Generation, particularly the older end of our generation.

Didn’t realize I was such a bi stereotype I can’t sit in a chair right, at least two beverages at once, clear phone case, lemon desserts and just anything lemon, finger guns, and I walk so much faster than the rest of my family

@@eeng17 Gooble gobble, one of us

Yes, that was my Mom.

@@susannairisastarte5192 My mum must be a traditionalist then, as she was born in the early 60s.

Plus with Denmark's ocean claiming technology, we can take over the sea's.

@@lois4158 yes! We shall be asexual oceanic overlords.

usually its not something people can just consider, its just what they are comfortable with

That is still a decision 😉

​@@irenezaleski4989 too many decisions

@@irenezaleski4989 not really, people cant just decide to be comfortable with something

The secret trans agenda was finding happiness in your own skin. Who knew?

@@Montesama314 Yay

⁠@@Montesama314oh buddy, it’s no secret. Everyone knows the trans agenda is to feel safe being ourselves and then be happy.

Im not even ace but I still want Denmark and garlic bread loll

youre definitly invited lol @@Beyond_Beyblade

And if they give us garlic bread, pasta, and cake, We may leave them alone and move on to the next step

As a fellow AroAce I would also like some garlic bread

Lord? Royal?

@@deethwarriorisn't lord a term for noblemen, instead of kings and queens?

Yes

Yes it is stardew valley

​@@LordJatz thank you 😂 I thought I recognised the art and font... such a great game 😊

i thought gen z ended in 2012 (and started in y2k)

@@gingermaniac5484 probably a transitional period, because the gen z timeline is 1997-2012, but gen alpha is 2010-present, and millenials are 1981-1996 it says

@@cory_and_co oh that's so cool that some people have like.. dual citizenship to generations? kinda jelly rn ngl X3

@@gingermaniac5484 lol

I am a bi boy and found out when I was 10 as well and I just embodied them as equal and that it doesn’t matter who you have a crush on just be yourself