Sometimes there are secrets that are hateful. Nasty. Cruel. Homophobic. Transphobic. Bipohobic. Heterophobic. All the other phobics. Otherwise bigoted. That is the nature of the thing; when you ask for secrets, there is badness.

I don’t censor them unless they deal in incitement of violence. But sometimes, even secrets I think might be hateful-for-the-sake-of-it get posted. Why? Because every time something negative has been posted, I’ve seen the responses, and that have been powerful, and they tackle prejudice and misguided attitudes head on. Reblogged reaction to these secrets are just as powerful for people as the secrets being posted.

Queer Secrets isn’t about silencing the negativity within our own community, neither is it about promoting it, it is about tackling it by giving it a forum, and the wider community a forum in which to react and confront it. Do this by reblogging, not sending in “rebuttal secrets”, or sending messages that are either accusatory (you posted X, you must be X-phobic), or threatening. Neither help tackle the opinion you’re so angered by, they simply make this a harder task to do.