{"id":835,"date":"2014-06-07T14:15:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T14:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/?page_id=835"},"modified":"2023-04-30T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T09:47:12","slug":"aworldthatmakesyoudeviant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/aworldthatmakesyoudeviant\/","title":{"rendered":"awrldthtmksydvnt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

… And one learns to live in a world<\/a> that makes you a deviant
And untouchable<\/a>
So you become invisible<\/a>
Not to get in the way
THEY\u2019LL JUST BEAT THE QUEER<\/a> OUT OF YOU
And if you come out
They\u2019ll deny you work\u2014That\u2019ll get the queer<\/a> out of you
They\u2019ll deny you legal rights. That’ll shake the queer out of you
They\u2019ll deny you a civil marriage<\/a>\u2014You\u2019ll never legally be a couple<\/a>
Your love<\/a> is never quite good enough
That\u2019ll depress the queer out of you.
They\u2019ll deny you recognition, force the mask<\/a>, the costume
So you can never speak freely your feelings
That\u2019ll destroy your queer heart
But what does it matter?
We\u2019ve been taught that queer don\u2019t have hearts. They live only for sexual deviance …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karen Finley<\/a> from “An Act of Conscience”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… And one learns to live in a world that makes you a deviantAnd untouchableSo you become invisibleNot to get in the wayTHEY\u2019LL JUST BEAT THE QUEER OUT OF YOUAnd if you come outThey\u2019ll deny you work\u2014That\u2019ll get the queer out of youThey\u2019ll deny you legal rights. That’ll shake the queer out of youThey\u2019ll deny […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":103,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/835\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}