{"id":7005,"date":"2022-07-09T09:12:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T09:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/tiktok-has-finally-given-me-a-queer-space-im-comfortable-in\/"},"modified":"2022-07-09T09:12:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T09:12:05","slug":"tiktok-has-finally-given-me-a-queer-space-im-comfortable-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/tiktok-has-finally-given-me-a-queer-space-im-comfortable-in\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Has Finally Given Me A Queer Space I&#8217;m Comfortable In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tiktok-has-finally-given-me-a-queer-space-im-comfortable-in_62c94663e3090-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tiktok-has-finally-given-me-a-queer-space-im-comfortable-in_62c94663e3090-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tiktok-has-finally-given-me-a-queer-space-im-comfortable-in_62c94663e3090-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a lot of casual biphobia played off as harmless jokes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tag\/lgbtq\/\">LGBTQ+<\/a> community this Pride Month, with plenty of comments particularly aimed at bi women, saying they don\u2019t belong because they\u2019re dating men. As tiring as it is, those comments are nothing new, and it\u2019s a big part of why I\u2019ve always been averse to getting involved in queer spaces. When I was dating a woman, I always felt like an outcast, like I wasn\u2019t queer enough to belong or to be \u2018proud\u2019, as though my relationship undermined my queerness. But this year I had TikTok and my for you page was flooded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/bisexual-day-of-visibility-animation-queer-owl-house-korra-harley-quinn\/\">with bisexuals<\/a> calling out these so-called jokes, exclusionary comments, and standing up to biphobia. I\u2019ve never felt so welcomed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tiktok-has-finally-given-me-a-queer-space-im-comfortable-in\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lot of casual biphobia played off as harmless jokes in the LGBTQ+ community this Pride Month, with plenty of comments particularly aimed at bi women, saying they don\u2019t belong because they\u2019re dating men. As tiring as it is, those comments are nothing new, and it\u2019s a big part of why I\u2019ve always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7007,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions\/7007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}