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petitetimidgay: shoutout to all the people who have to lie about or omit their sexuality/gender during the holidays your identity is still valid and I love you
chupaflora: pondprincen: bottomjared: Hey! So, Coming Out Day is coming up soon (Oct. 11) and I just want to post a very stern reminder to NOT out anyone without their explicit permission. Do NOT out anyone. Got it? Okay.
this is also a less important point, but still worth noting: DO NOT “come out” as an ally. don’t you dare.
Also - don’t feel pressured to come out. You don’t have an obligation to put yourself in an unsafe situation for any reason.
 Anonymous asked: Why are you using "q***r" as an umbrella term? What's wrong with LGBT? Will you be covering the history of cishets who try to horn their way into LGBT spaces as well? Because I can't donate to you in that case. makingqueerhistory: I want to make it clear first that I do not want your donation. I use the term queer because it is more inclusive than lgbt, outside of lgbt excluding anyone who just isn’t included in that tiny acronym I have found it very white-centric, and to be honest to the point of erasure. In one of our more recent articles we discussed the bate, and transgender people in native american communities. And in that research I found many other cultures that had and used terms that were different than transgender, or gay. And this is not the first time that white people have tried to label other communities and it is never a good thing, so I am not comfortable overriding any label they gave themselves, and queer is very purposefully non-specific, whereas LGBT could be one of four things queer is any sexual or gender identity that strays outside what society considers “normal” and does not attempt to label anyone, just say that their label is outside of what society may have expected. And it is my slur to reclaim for myself and my art and it is no ones job to police how I decide to use it. Also I know what dog whistle terminology you are using here, and yes, I do include asexual and aromantic people in my articles, and I do not care if you do not like that. Asexual and aromantic people have a history as well and they deserve to be able to learn about it. And now I want to explain why I do not want your donation. This is my project, and it is run along with my amazing business partner Grace, but in the end it is mine. I choose in which direction it goes and what I write about, and I am not going to be pressured by money into changing my mind. There is a reason I have made the decisions I have, I am on patreon so I am very firmly my own boss, my patrons are there to support my project, and I love all of them for it, but they do not get to decide where this project goes. I do. And if they don’t like it I understand them withdrawing their support but will not change my art to avoid that. And you clearly feel very entitled to decide where my art is going, and I want to say-as kindly as possible- I don’t want your support. I don’t want support that is an attempt at control, and there is no amount of money you could give me to sell out the asexual/aromantic community. So go support some other project, because you can’t control what happens here.
out-there-on-the-maroon: adayinthelesbianlife: Sage Sohier chronicled the love of gay couples in the 1980s in her collection At Home With Themselves. Spurred by the AIDS crisis and the media representations of promiscuity and disease in the community, the project aimed to dispel stereotypes about gay love and showcase lesbian and gay couples of all ages, backgrounds and proclivities, capturing a visual that often went unseen. “I was interested in how, as a culture, we weren’t used to looking at two men touching, and was struck by the visual novelty yet total ordinariness of these same-sex relationships. The visual ambiguity of same-sex relationships also intrigued me: were these sisters or friends or lovers or a mother and daughter?“ The photographic endeavor was also prompted by Sohier’s father. The book is dedicated to him and his partner Lee.
1. Very important piece of history, very moving project.
2. Shout out to fellow child of a gay dad! People don’t talk about us much, but we exist. Thankfully, the whole closeted business happens less and less these days, and kids of gay parents tend to be via the aid of science and happiness, not repression and concealment. As happy that I am for the kids today being born into a much more accepting world, I sometimes feel … I don’t know, like people like me will be forgotten in history, glossed over to jump right to the happy kids born via surrogacy and joy. It’s an odd thing and nobody really ever talks about people like me in these conversations. Not even the “think of the children!!!” conservative assholes. We’re the awkward problem nobody wants to talk about. 3. Those two ladies and their dogs: life goals.
Anonymous asked: Today my family was talking about homosexuality in religion (they're all devout Jews) and my grandpa started speaking up, which I was dreading because he's the most religious in my family, but he said "now the modern belief is that people aren't created as 100% of this or that but created all over a spectrum like a coordinate plane, and some people are created right in the middle between the axis' and they're asexual" and as a young Jewish ace this meant so much to me an I wanted to share it
Asexuals: *exist*
Sigmund Freud: *pterodactyl screeching*
Anonymous asked: kinda important, a boy and i have a mutual like of each other but i'm a nb boy and he's bisexual. he thinks i'm just a trans boy. i still like him, but i'm worried that if i tell him i'm nb he'll either not like me anymore or he'll do that thing people do sometimes where they're like 'we're dating but i'm still straight because you're afab" but like "we're dating but i'm still bisexual because you're kind of a boy" i can't tell if it's just my anxiety blowing it out of proportion what do i do
transgenderteensurvivalguide: Kii says: Well, bisexual is the attraction to two or more genders, so if he dates you (and assuming his attraction to other genders doesn’t change) he is still bisexual by definition. However, if you don’t want him referring to you as simply a boy (or boyfriend, etc) then tell him! He should respect your wishes.
queer-all-year: yayponies: It’s a time-honored tradition at Navy homecomings – one lucky sailor is chosen to be first off the ship for the long-awaited kiss with a loved one.
Today, for the first time, the happily reunited couple was gay. The dock landing ship Oak Hill has been gone for nearly three months, training with military allies in Central America. As the homecoming drew near, the crew and ship’s family readiness group sold $1 raffle tickets for the first kiss. Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta bought 50 - which is actually fewer than many people buy, she said, so she was surprised Monday to find out she’d won. Her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell, was waiting when she crossed the brow. They kissed. The crowd cheered. And with that, another vestige of the policy that forced gays to serve in secrecy vanished. By Corinne Reilly
The Virginian-Pilot
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tsaucey: pyromantix: fr33tobm3: Inspiring HRT journeys from Instagram and Tumblr. Estrogen and Testosterone have varying degrees of impact on each trans person, but there’s no denying the influence they have on living our truth. Check out each personal account for more information on their respective transitions.
Oh my 💕
They are all so beautiful!!
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