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"The Native Population of the America's 1492" 2nd edition, University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. You wanna Cite an actual source or just use Wikipedia? Further, you got put in concentration camps once if you were stupid enough to admit to being gay. We got put onto reservations regardless of what we claimed to be, because we are all Indians. And we never got liberated. We're still in the camps. Drag queen story hour is an issue of years. The oppression of my people is an issue of CENTURIES. it's not even remotely similar.
That book refers to the population of ALL of the Americas, including central and south america. To say the native american population went from 112 million to 7 million is a LIE. The wiki page cites actual sources for the figures, or have you never used Wikipedia before?
And we're moving goalposts again I see. You didn't need to admit to being gay, you'd just have to be suspected of being gay to end up in a concentration camp. Today, LGBT people are still being killed, raped, imprisoned, beaten the world over. That's been happening for THOUSANDS OF YEARS, I mean it's in the fucking bible, qran, torah, etc for fuck's sake. And trust me they weren't stoning drag queens and twinks back then. Just because there's LGBT acceptance in -some places- now doesn't mean everything is peachy. So no, your problem isn't remotely similar, but if you want to play oppression Olympics against a group of people who have been persectured for literal millenia, AND STILL ARE, you don't have much of a leg to stand on. But this isn't about who's more or less oppressed. This is about you coming here and faulting the LGBT community for speaking for ourselves, as if it's somehow our fault everyone else is ignoring your people's problem. Take it up with the mainstream media dude, they and the people in power who maintain the status quo are your real enemies, not us.