Ian nooded, wiping their face carefully with the back of their hand. They wren’t wearing eyeliner today - black makeup being hard to come by here - but it was habit.
"It can be hard, where I am from, to find songs willing to speak this candidly about what it is like for LGBT+ kids. So many people are so scared to openly be part of us or align with us for fear of recrimination. There was a huge boycott a while back because a beer company loved generally by the sorts of people that wish we didn't exist... the company hired a small celebrity to do an ad spot for them, basically they wanted her to tell her fans to buy and drink their beer. That's just... how brand sponsorships happen these days for people who make their living in the spotlight as it were. But in this case the woman they asked to do the ad spot was Trans. Out and open, loud and proud. And oh the flood after that, of bigoted people making videos posting photos, talking loudly about dumping all their beer from that brand out into the streets or down the drain because they would rather throw away something they paid good money for, wasting something they enjoyed, then drinking a beer that a trans woman recommended..." Ian shook their head. "Or how many politicians lose their careers if they come out. It is just.... We are an easy target for so many people to aim their hate at. From the big scale of global politics and huge international brands down to a person's own family."
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"It can be hard, where I am from, to find songs willing to speak this candidly about what it is like for LGBT+ kids. So many people are so scared to openly be part of us or align with us for fear of recrimination. There was a huge boycott a while back because a beer company loved generally by the sorts of people that wish we didn't exist... the company hired a small celebrity to do an ad spot for them, basically they wanted her to tell her fans to buy and drink their beer. That's just... how brand sponsorships happen these days for people who make their living in the spotlight as it were. But in this case the woman they asked to do the ad spot was Trans. Out and open, loud and proud. And oh the flood after that, of bigoted people making videos posting photos, talking loudly about dumping all their beer from that brand out into the streets or down the drain because they would rather throw away something they paid good money for, wasting something they enjoyed, then drinking a beer that a trans woman recommended..." Ian shook their head. "Or how many politicians lose their careers if they come out. It is just.... We are an easy target for so many people to aim their hate at. From the big scale of global politics and huge international brands down to a person's own family."