So I’m a few drinks in, but I’m going to do my best here, and hope I do it service.

‘Queer,’ as you put it, for me, is important. Queer for me means a political identity, is visibility, is reality. Queer is my partner and I not dancing around the fact that I dated a woman for nearly four years; a woman that he knows I would have married had the social tools been available to me. Queer is the absence of heteronormativity.

Queer is the hope that my child and our future children will see the gender binary as an awkward vestige of the past. Queer is the hope that my son will one day laugh at the idea that people used to care more about the concept of people’s bodies than the content of their hearts.

It’s my partner telling his friends with pride that his girlfriend is a queer feminist. It’s my mother coming to a sit in protest at a church because her daughter once loved a woman. It’s a dream that my beautiful son will grow up in a world where nobody will hate him for who he falls in love with.

I identify as queer because it’s still important; because it’s still apparently revolutionary to support the happiness of all human beings.

The biology of my relationship remains irrelevant when I live in a world where somebody else’s is tantamount to oppression. I will identify as queer until such point as there is no human need to vilify anybody who is both different and happier than you are.

<3 this so much.

(Source: badgirlguitar)