Well, they can’t be all gay-y and devianty when they’re dead, so it’s safe to allow them people status then. Plus, if anyone calls you out on being anti-gay, you can point to how emotional you got over dead gay people. Win win!

To be fair, the dead don’t generally try to get their stolen civil rights back.

Her attempts to elide the queerness of most of the dead (and thus why they were targeted) by insisting that the dead were merely “Floridians” and “human beings” was maddening. Oh, so LBTQ people are sex deviants when they want to marry, and child molesters when they want to use a bathroom, but it takes dying to be…