I’m very tired of this “queer college students should stop supporting Palestine, they’d kill you there!” I watched a hijabi ask a trans man, “but what name do you want to go by?” A butch giving a woman their hoodie so that she could keep her hair covered after the cops took her scarf. Muslim girls making sure the lesbian couple got through the system together. Religious men making sure green haired protestors got out safe. A Palestinian girl with an ex-southern baptist fiance, who definitely isn’t a practicing Muslim, whose parents were raising hell for her. I don’t want to hear it. Solidarity forever, free Palestine.
Queer muslim here. I couldn’t have said it better myself. We are not free until all of us are free.
Also, like, there are homophobes and transphobes everywhere. There are Israelis who would kill me for being queer. There are people *in my own home city* who would kill me for being queer. Framing Palestinians as if they’re somehow uniquely homophobic is very much a tool of colonialism.