The revisionism in gay and trans history within America needs to stop

“Black trans women are the reason you have rights!” Actually no, trans people started getting help and treatment in America after WW2 when medical professionals in different countries could interact with eachother and transport patients to where they needed to be without the war conflicting it.

“Gay people and trans people have always been allies” Also no, gay people both men and women would continuously push out trans people and throw them under the bus especially during the AIDS crisis.

“Drag comes from black gay men inspired by black women” depending on your definition of drag, this is a phenomenon that has happened as early as the Shakespeare era in performance. But if we’re talking more modern depictions, it’s documented that gay men in both 1920s Berlin and Tokyo participated in some form of drag performances without the influence of Black Americans.

People have this idea that both cis gay people and trans people have worked together for ages in harmony. That’s not true at all. And for some other reason they think cis straight black women were the biggest supporters of those groups. That’s far from the truth. I’m sorry but cishet black Americans are the biggest aggressors towards the lgbt community for multiple reasons. Not all of them but it’s prevalent in predominantly black cities.

I only bring up the race thing because it’s so prevalent in these revisionist versions of history. I’ve heard multiple black gay and bisexual men talk about how they get treated by cishet black people even those in their family. To claim that these people are the biggest allies that trans and gay people have had is absurd.

This stuff needs to be called out. It’s not doing any justice to anyone to spread lies and myths of history. There’s a lot of reasons why black Americans are hostile towards gay men and trans women and a lot of it comes from slavery and discrimination. This needs to get addressed and talked about before any real progress can be made.

Also, if we told people how we got our rights in America in a truthful manner, it would destroy the current narrative that progressive liberals try to enforce.

Side note: I’m not trying to go after black Americans in this post because that community has struggled more severely as a whole for being black than the general lgbt community. Because of these struggles it’s caused issues like the one I mentioned above. Ignoring this only prevents progress to be made and ruins a possible future where the general lgbt community and the black community can be actual allies to eachother. That’s all I want to say.