#you could log into my laptop and open wikipedia for Notable Trans People and every single link would be purple

[uncanny-tranny]

I love seeing those "Top Ten Secretly LGBT Figures YOU Didn't Know Were LGBT" types of historical-themed posts or articles. Clearly they've never met a young LGBT person - they would name figures you've never even heard of, let alone knouwn they were LGBT.

#queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbt meme #i would spend HOURS pouring over wiki sites and snippets of news articles and books and comics just for a SMIDGE of finding trans man rep #you could log into my laptop and open wikipedia for Notable Trans People and every single link would be purple #i know those articles are made for a cishet-first audience but to me it highlights... #...that you could theoretically never know a Big Figure was lgbt... #...unless of course you share community (being lgbt/other demographics you share with that figure)... #...like i'm not saying that there's this Inherent Difference that Irreparably separates lgbt people from cishet people but like... #...it really can remind you if you grew up not seeing Anybody like you of why it was that you felt that way