Cops cannot be queer.
Repeat it again. Say it aloud. I don’t give a fuck if you’re in public.
Cops cannot be queer.
Queerness is in radical opposition to oppression. It is literally saying “hey, cool weapon you got there, it’s fucking mine now.” It’s the cow wielding the captive bolt gun.
Cops cannot be queer. Cops own the captive bolt gun.
Queerness is not the default. LGBT is the default. Queerness is earned, and not like a merit badge. Queerness is fought for. Queerness doesn’t know how to give up. Queerness uses its broken teeth as projectile weapons. Queerness is here to break shit.
Cops cannot be queer.
And if you want to tell me that by “gatekeeping queerness” we are “just as bad as THEM,”
Also, furthermore, in addition, to elaborate, if you’ll give me just a moment,
How the fuck dare you say that denying cops access to radical revolutionary terminology puts us on the same level as the people who shoot black men women and children in the streets?
Cops cannot be queer.