Please Do Not Sign This Petition If You Are Not A UK Citizen With A UK Valid Postcode. If You Are Not

Please do not sign this petition if you are not a UK citizen with a UK valid postcode. If you are not a UK citizen please only spread awareness. False votes will nullify the petition and we will have to start over.

Part of the reason petitions like the original are so dangerous is because they rapidly become a gateway to further bigotry and legislation. They will set a precedent that will be difficult to overturn. Prevention is always, always more effective.

this is so so important to me and mine, and I'm asking you to Do Something so I'll respect your time and keep it brief

in the UK, if 100k sign a a government petition it will be brought to Parliament and debated. y'all know this country is suffering from some 80s-style bigotry right now, and this is one symptom: almost 200k fuckholes have come together to force the government to discuss whether it is 'appropriate' to tell children that queer people exist. this is a big symbolic victory for them. and i am burning with fury.

please, if you're from the UK, sign this counter-petition so they can at least see how much of a minority they are. simply put, the attempt to put these bastards in their place isn't gathering enough steam. there are barely 2000 more signatures now than there were this morning (27th January 2023), and that isn't enough. i refuse to let these people feel even a moment of victory or satisfaction. please help.

The reaction to Harry winning a Grammy literally just proves that people hate him because he's Harry Styles. Its the whole 'resent what's popular' thing in real-time. Beyoncé still made history. She still won, just not that category, and she's still now a literal record-holding POC female artist and you're still not happy because a queer white boy who's ~mainstream~ won something.

Heckling him while he's on stage at an award's ceremony and making him feel guilty for the fact that he's a talented artist who rightfully won an award (because him being friends with someone in charge means literally nothing, Harry's lost out on awards before regardless) is honestly just childish and frankly embarrassing.

I'm not a fan of certain artists. I don't have a good opinion of others. But you don't see me trashing their hard work and their efforts and any well-earned rewards. Beyoncé literally did not "lose out" on anything. She wasn't snubbed from anything. She put her album up for consideration and lost. That's it. If she had been snubbed she wouldn't have attended or been up for anything in the first place.

Pure irony that Tumblr is the only place where bots will get zapped for trying too hard to look like actual people.

Profile pic is of a non-celebrity person? Its a bot. Name sounds like an actual person? Its a bot. Bold proclamations of not being a bot? Its (likely) a bot.

I've been in a lot of fandoms, but I'll be honest there's never been a more spiteful, hateful, judgemental fandom than 9-1-1 for content creators.

And I'm not talking about the rightful attention brought to works that were, quite blatantly, plain ignorance or outright racism.

There's a literal poll going around at the moment trashing certain tropes and the comments/tags are horrific. Let people live. Let people write. Fanfiction should be freeing and fun and it doesn't have to be a direct reflection of canon. The haughty policing of 9-1-1 fanfiction has gotten to the point where the only fanfiction being produced is the same flat, bland, regurgitated styles, concepts and characterisations over and over again.

The limitations authors are being bullied to subscribe to or be publicly blasted and harassed online over are the death of fandom creativity. Its the first and only fandom I've been in there the actual fans themselves have been the reason I've left the fandom.

(Like literally one poll option is that a character is depicted as gay, not bisexual. I think that about sums up the mentality of the fandom.)

I mean Harry does say homophobic things and gets excused because people think hes part of the community.

It's cool of he doesnt want to claim us but he should maybe chill it on the 'ambiguous" answers he gives in every interview, block the question like most celebs do. And also stop talking about us

An excellent way to prove the entire point of my post, thank you, anon.

Re; "not claiming us." We're not a cult. The LGBT+ community isn't regimental. People can choose to live ambiguously, in the closet or as out and proud as they please. Someone choosing to be ambiguous or to remain closeted does not devalue their identity or mean they're against the community. People who are ambiguous or closeted are still as much LGBT+ as people who are out, and are still as deserving of their identities as anyone else. We also need to bear in mind that Harry grew up under the strict management of a company known for being extremely controlling, manipulative and bigoted.

He's been harassed, called a faggot, speculated about, demeaned, ridiculed, sexually harassed, touted as a womanising sex symbol, stalked and physically attacked.

If he wants to maintain his privacy and not declare a label, he had every right to do so. I reiterate; every single person has the right to not proclaim their identity.

Secondly. I can promise you if Harry started blocking questions you'd immediately start branding him as homophobic or accusing him of once again baiting the general public by wearing dresses but refusing to tell anyone why. Its a no-win situation for him, as it has been for many, many other celebrities. He doesn't have to answer those questions and as and when he chooses to, he can answer them in any way he chooses. He's earned that freedom. After years of having what he says controlled, edited and manipulated, he's earned the right to answer questions on his own terms, with his own words.

"And also stop talking about us." Again, refer to the above point. Within weeks you'd been trashing him saying he's another ignorant Hollywood bigot that refuses to acknowledge the LGBT+ community. There's no middle ground.

Imagine this:

You live in a town. There is a park that allows both people and dogs. You live in this town and decide dogs should not be allowed at the park. You complain and push and get dogs banned from the park.

The town builds another park for the dogs. Now there is a dog park and a people park. You see the dog park and think it looks better than the people park. You, a person who neither owns a dog nor likes dogs, begins to use the dog park.

That's okay. The dog owners don't mind sharing their park. Its a nice park. Its definitely better than the people park.

You like the dog park better, but you don't like the dogs, so you tell the dog owners they're not allowed to go there anymore. They're not welcome. Its a dog park, but you personally don't like dogs, so they're not allowed to bring their dogs here anymore. You start harassing the dog owners and trying to bully them out of the park.

"Just go to a different park!" you yell at them. "Go build your own park if you want to bring your dogs in!" you cry.

You are an anti. The dogs are works of fiction. The park is AO3. Your perspective is as ridiculous as the above anecdote sounds. AO3's entire existence was founded on you encouraging sites like Wattpad to purge and ban fanfiction that didn't fit certain, bias-flexible criteria. AO3's core purpose is to host and preserve fanfiction.

If AO3 did not want that kind of fanfiction, it would not allow it. Simple. AO3 itself dictates that fanfiction has a place there. You cannot storm in and demand its not allowed to host it because you've finally realized sites like Wattpad fucking suck, and not just because of their content regulations.

You're a guest in AO3's park. Act like it. Don't like the rules? Their code is open-source. Build your own park.