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So here's the thing; even if Gaza wasn't under constant assault from a brutal genocidal occupation, I still wouldn't want to spend any amount of time there, because I'm a queer person and that's definitely not an environment that I'd feel safe or comfortable in.
And I still say Free Palestine.
The fact that I wouldn't want to live there doesn't change the fundamental human rights of the people who do live there. They're not any less human just because a sizable chunk of them hate me for existing.
A decent chunk of North America hates me for existing too. There are plenty of US states I wouldn't feel comfortable visiting. Doesn't mean I'd be happy to see a genocide in Texas.
Plenty of Jewish people don't like the fact that I exist either. Doesn't mean Hitler was right. He threw queers into the camps right alongside the Jews who hated us. And sometimes the Jews and the queers were the same people, because life is complicated like that. Just like there are queer people in Palestine being murdered right alongside everyone else.
Life isn't easy or simple, but some things are; genocide is bad, even when it's done to people you don't like, or people who don't like you.