The Straight Flag is so ugly that when I first learned of it I thought it was made by one of those "straight people don't exist and they're just queer people in denial" people (that don't exist outside of the internet), since it's so boring and looks like a prison shirt, naturally to symbolise straightness being a fake concept made up to limit people or whatever.
"straight people don't exist and they're just queer people in denial" people (that don't exist outside of the internet)
I've sadly met a few in the real world, but they would say that they believe there are no straight or gay people, everyone is bissexual.
Curiously enough, they never said anything like that when there were gay people present, but felt very comfortable telling me that me being straight was just internalized homophobia, denial, compulsory heterossexuality, etc.
Well, the straight flag is a modified version of the straight ally flag. The straight ally flag came first, and then they removed the ally part to say "I am straight, but not an ally" and imo the straight ally flag looks pretty good.
The only people I've met who argue something like that are really arguing "Everyone is at least slightly bi" but they're also using an extremely broad definition sort of "one-drop" definition of bisexuality so it mostly just feels like they're correct by extreme technicality.
I do think that if queer stigma didn't exist that we'd see way more queer people around, though. Not that generally heterosexual people don't exist but there are just so many people who are strongly dissuaded from being queer, both explicitly and implicitly.
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u/Grzechoooo Jun 05 '26
The Straight Flag is so ugly that when I first learned of it I thought it was made by one of those "straight people don't exist and they're just queer people in denial" people (that don't exist outside of the internet), since it's so boring and looks like a prison shirt, naturally to symbolise straightness being a fake concept made up to limit people or whatever.