Recent reports have raised alarm about the use of PatronScan, an ID-checking and face-scanning system, at multiple LGBTQ+ bars in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood. Much of the att…
A house in my town. Apparently the neighbors weren't happy about their Pride yard display, so they decided to show them what they think about bigoted opinions.
Anyone know anything about the Queer pride flag or have a link for more about it? Wikipedia quotes HRC and their explanation only covers some of the colours.
💬 8 🔁 513 ❤️ 841 · This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)
The woman says "Ridiculous..."
If you want to spread it elsewhere, here's the official…
An affordable housing project led by the Edmonton Pride Seniors Group and Right at Home Housing Society now has land and nearly $9 million in provincial funding to build a safe, inclusive development in The Quarters.
Tumblr. Pure effervescent enrichment. Old internet energy. Home of the Reblogs. All the art you never knew you needed. All the fandoms you could wish for. Enough memes to knock out a moderately-sized mammal.
I have just been looking around my SM platforms and noticing the tirade of anti LGBTQ comments almost everywhere nowadays.
I know this isn't new. Most commenters proudly show their own colours or badges of allegiance as if we should be frightened into submission by their ill informed and generally irrelevant issuings...
There is much noise about why Pride exisits, yada, yada.
I came across a handy little visual earlier with simple words and phrases for the homophobes to be able to read.
💬 19 🔁 6196 ❤️ 8179 · Trans history: whatever happened to the other T? · I don’t know how universally relevant this is (I guess no part of queer history ever is) but I wonder how many trans peopl…
I’m not gay but I have two nephews who are and they aren’t hurting anyone by being gay. They’re living their lives like anyone else. But some people just get triggered over the damndest things. #USpol #PRIDE
Ok, this is hilarious, and perfect for Pride month, as crazy as this guy sounds, he's telling the truth, and the thread is hilarious, yes there's a Gay Island, and it declared war on Australia
pride month is coming up soon, so i want to make something very clear, especially for the younger queers and others who might not know the history.
in nearly all of america in the 50s-60s, being gay was considered both a mental illness and a crime punishable by prison time (up to and including a life sentence) and/or "experimental" psychiatric torture (electroshock therapy, lobotomies, and worse). you could lose your job for being suspected of homosexual behavior with no proof, and the fbi and post office spied on you if they knew you were queer. most gay bars were mafia-owned because no one else had the money or inclination to pay off the crooked police.
with that in mind: "stonewall," the event that we commemorate with pride parades today, was a violent riot incited by a police raid on a gay bar in manhattan. the fierce activism that has given us the basic personhood we enjoy today was built on a foundation of desperate physical struggle against unfair policing and stigma, the stakes of which were prison, death, or worse. gays, lesbians, transvestites and drag queens, dancers, kinksters, drinkers and teetotalers, all of them stuck together because nobody else had their backs. we can march peacefully today only because we had to fight for our lives before.
my point is this: there was no room in those days for means-testing who was a Real Respectable Gay, and there's no room for it now either, especially as our rights are eroding again. we have to stick together with people we think are gross but who haven't actually hurt anybody, because the same weapons you use to oust those you don't like will be turned on you in a heartbeat.
💬 135 🔁 3721 ❤️ 5017 · This probably isn't going to change people's minds, but sometimes it is easier to evoke sympathy for dogs than it is to evoke sympathy for trans folks.
Giving money to J.K…
💬 0 🔁 303 ❤️ 362 · THIS is the comic that has been banned · It was flagged as "Eksplicit", shadowbanned, and every reblog turned invisible. The flagging is also unappealable (unless that is an er…
1/2 alttext: "We chose the term "asexual" to describe ourselves because both "celibate" and "anti-sexual" have connotations we wished to avoid: the first implies that one has sacrified sexuality for some higher good, the second that sexuality is degrading or somehow inherently bad. "Asexual", as we use it, does not mean "without sex" but "relating sexually to no one".
2/2 alttext: This does not, of course, exclude masturbation but implies that if one has sexual feelings they do not require another person for their expression. Asexuality is, simply, self-contained sexuality." The Asexual Manifesto, Lisa Orlando and Barbara Getz, 1972.
The clause relates to laws that put restrictions on student pronoun changes at school, on girls' sports, and on medical therapies for young people looking to transition.
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