I feel like not enough people are acknowledging the actual horrors of what James Somerton was lying about.
homophobes want queer history to be gone, they want it to be miss-remembered, they want it to be doubted, they want it to be dubious. James Somerton lied about queer history to primarily younger queers who may not have the ability to access real queer history.
It's appalling that a gay man who made video essays (even plagiarized ones) on queer topics wouldn't think of this or even worse if he did think of this he didn't give a shit.
he cared so little for his community that he not only stole the voices of his community, spoke over those in his community, treated queer writers as disposable but also spread misinformation to those that where often younger in ways that are extremely harmful considering that those who dislike us want that history to not be known.