This exactly. They always start with pointing at the most obvious, easiest targets, but if those people go down they’ll just work their way inward to hate on “”“more normal”“” queer people more explicitly than they ready do.

I’ll bet you anything, if the current hate campaign against trans folks wins, it’ll be gay people on the chopping block all over again, next. Same principle.

They like to divide and conquer, and we’re stronger if we don’t let them divide us, especially not just in hopes that they won’t go after ourselves when they’re done going after those weirder or kinkier or more whatever than ourselves.

See also: they have an entirely manufactured idea of what a trans person is and have no problem acting like a) trans men don’t exist and b) trans women and drag queens are all pedos. They’re not tied to reality at all in what they say.

Kinksters at pride aren’t there to “intentionally give more ammunition” to bigots. They’re there for the same reasons everyone else is. Pride and loudness and “I"m here” in the face of internalized, societally imposed shame, pride in the people who came before and fought for our rights, and so on.

Sometimes a subset of them make me kind of uncomfortable, too, but so do a lot of things - I can deal with uncomfortable.