They made the damn cliff gay. Because of woke
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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I can see why people who spend their lives, through no choice of their own, between a rock and a hard place, would find lifting themselves like magic up a massive rock face with only the sun and glorious air at their backs elating in comparison.
It takes only a cursory look at the strange, outcast filled history of rock climbing to see why the community might understand the importance of solidarity with people that just can't fit into the box.
Obviously we can never know if the first rock climbers were queer, but to wonder if maybe your heart desires to climb straight up a cliff into the sky and then develop the skill, knowledge and support to do so is certainly a queer thing to do.
There is zero sexual orientation associated with climbing a rock
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I don't think you'd find any bigots that could make the mental or physical effort to take it down.
Unfortunately I've met a few.
I was a search and rescue mountaineer/EMT for a decade. There are bigots in the field. You get a lot of "conservatives" with military or law endorsement backgrounds.
Also, to take something like this down, you'd start from the top and rappel down to it. It's how they do most rescues on El Cap (or any cliff for that matter)
I don't think you could make the physical effort to tear it down either
Neither could I but I still don't want to anyway.
They'd probably shoot at it though.
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