Well, some parts of the US could be proud, and some parts of Israel could be proud. But Israel also contains loud minorities of Orthodox Jews with despicable religious ideas about queer people. Yes, the United States and Israel do better than Arab states on queer issues, but the US is still filled with despicable religious extremists, like Israel has to deal with despicable religious extremist in its own ranks.

We can recognize that and work to better it, which I do a lot of myself as far as U.S politics go. I constantly call out Evangelical Christians as homophobic monsters. Yet in certain places in the United States they're in political ascendancy right now. Queer rights hang in the balance. I've personally interviewed families in Texas who've had to flee the state to protect their LGBTQ children from politically powerful religious extremists.

If I lived in the Arab world, I'm sure I'd be doing the same thing. If I lived in Israel, I'm sure I'd be confronting the homophobic Orthodox creeps who oppose full queer equality.

I'm sure I'd be screaming at Netanyahu for enabling those religious extremists by allying with them politically.

And you know what?

None of that would have anything to do with the fact that I utterly and intractically oppose genocide. I don't care if you call casualties "collateral" or accidental.

If you are killing tens of thousands of civilians, no amount of queer equality makes up for that.