2021 queer manifesto
a short personal manifesto created and presented during a pride speech workshop at a local leftist festival. although it was written with kaunas pride 2021 in mind, it was not presented to the wider public.
We are gays. We are queers.
We are not satisfied by your empty epithets. We are not content with being just like you, not content with pleasing you. We are gays, not mere people. If we must be of a certain breed, make, source and class for you to so-graciously call us people, then we reject this title entirely.
We are not people – we are creatures, we are beasts, we are gods, we are greater than you. We are a hydra – slice one head off, if you think you're so clever, and two, three, even four grow in its place.
We rise from our lairs as gays and lay to rest as faggots. We have taken the rainbow from your children, we have destroyed your traditional family, and we have wiped our assholes with your christian values.
We are everything you fear and more. We are everywhere where you feel safe, because you've yet to realise what you're dealing with.
We are no longer discussing this. We are no longer pleading. We take from you everything that we desire, and believe us when we say that we want everything.
So take heed and beware, dear people. Your new gay gods have arisen.