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hard--headed--woman · 1 year

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4rd day of Pride Month - 3rd LGB history 🏳️‍🌈

Today is the 3rd day of my special Pride Month thing, and after talking about Tracy Chapman, and Elisa y Marcela (first lesbian wedding in Spain, that happened in 1901 after Elisa disguised a man), I am gonna talk about another female LGB artist, that is also very famous but less talked about on tumblr :

Lesley Gore !

Born Lesley Sue Goldstein on May 2, 1946, in New York City, coming from a jewish family, she is an american singer, composer and song writer, known for example for her song "You don't own me" (amazing song that I love, by the way) and many others. She died of lung cancer on February 16, 2015, in the same town where she was born.

At the time of her death, she was in a 33-year relationship with the woman Lois Sasson, a jeweller.

She was still in high school when her single "It's my party" (1963) reached number 1 in the charts, was sold over a million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. After that, her career was succesful! Her songs were widely covered, in English by Amy Winehouse and many others, but also in a host of other languages, including French, English and Italian, by artists such as the singer Dalida. In 1967, she also had a role in the TV series Batman, and in 1980, she wrote with her brother the song "out here on my own" for the movie "Fame".

In addition to her musical career, Lesley Gore participated in LGB activism too. In the mid-2000s, she took part in the PBS series "The Life", on the subject of homosexuality, and was involved in the defense of the right to same-sex marriage.

She came out in 2005, in an interview with After Ellen, when she clearly said that she was a lesbian, and told the world about her relationship with Lois Sasson (that lasted from 1982 to her death). She explained that She had known about her attraction to women from the time she was 20, and stated that although the music business was "totally homophobic", she never felt she had to pretend she was straight.

"I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do. I didn't avoid anything, I didn't put it in anybody's face."

Lois and Lesley were planning to get married, in the summer of 2015, when Lesley died.

(i never know how to end posts)

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alphabetsoup-blogposts · 2 years

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#Brittney Griner #Phoenix #Mercury #God of Speed #basketball #vape #smoke #cannabis oil #Griner #Cherelle Griner #LGB icon #russia #PHX team #hoops and balls #US news #sports news

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transbro · 4 months

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Various gay icons from glitter-graphics.com

#icons #old internet icons #old internet #old web #webcore #eyestrain #fast gif #gif warning #colorful #rainbow #lgbt #lgbtqia #why did lgb drop the t come up... fuck that bs #flashing

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imdawndenbo · 2 years

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What? I’m not looking at Bette.

#the l word #alice pieszecki #tina kennard #bette porter #shane mccutcheon #tibette #bette x tina #ICONIC #s05e01 lgb tease #thelwordedit #100

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lgbstims · 1 year

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febfem Utena Tenjou stimboard, for me

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crispypea · 2 months

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Call me mommy and I will pamper you like a baby doll...

#lgbtqi community #lgbtq poetry #lgbtq community #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgb alliance #lgbt pride #lgbt nsft #lgbtqiia+#lgbtq icons #lgbtq issues #lgbtq artist #lgbtq artwork #lgbtqai #lgbtq authors #lgbtq ally #transgender

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anyataylorjoys · 8 months

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I need people to understand that when I talk shit about men I'm talking shit about a specific breed of men. they are cisgendered, they are in many cases anglo with conservative views, they are almost always hetero-identifying, they assert their (fragile) masculinity when threatened and use it to their advantage while they fear the liberation of femininity or genderless concepts, they see the world as a conquest, and everything in it for the taking. "just say dudebro" well. that word doesn't hold enough weight to me.

#someone got mad at me for writing something that could be interpreted as transmisogynistic which went over my head when I wrote it #bc I have a one-track mind about the breed of men I'm speaking of when I'm speaking of them. this is the breed.#I'm trans/masc/nb tho so yeah? I am excluding transmen when I talk about dudebros because I don't view myself that way #also bc people who have the lgb(t) experience don't behave like this. I said what I said #'you talk shit about white men a lot for having a white man as an icon' yeah not him<3 he is not of the breed. bye #if I've ever made any of my fellow he/him lesbians or trans men mutuals feel some of way I do apologize so yeah putting this out there #💭

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lg-ball-t · 2 years

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#Bisexual #lgballt #LGBallT #lgbtq #gay #bisexual guy #raine’s art #my art #bisexual icons #bi ball #Don’t discriminate against antone #lgb rights

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keanslutsuckerr · 29 days

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Get you an appointment with my cock...i promise everything will be fine 🍆😋👅💦💦

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the-t-boy-king · 1 year

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I will die on this hill, but we as queer people wouldn't have come this far if it wasn't for trans people, ESPECIALLY BLACK TRANS WOMEN like Marsha P. Johnson. They were beaten, assaulted, spit on, and shunned by society and they still fought for our rights. Yet, there's people who want to remove the T from the LGBT community.

Read about Stonewall, you know the riot that was a huge step in queer liberation and queer history, and see who was there. Read about Leslie Feinberg. Zie wrote some of the most important books in queer literature like Stone Butch Blues. Lou Sullivan, the first trans man who was openly gay and is responsible for the modern understanding of gender and sexuality being seen as separate ideas. If you want more modern trans icons there's Laverne Cox, Elliot Page, Kim Petras and so many more.

We as trans people have been here the whole time. You can't write us off and act like we're new. We have been here the whole time.

THERE'S NO LGB WITHOUT THE T.

#miles talks #transgender #nonbinary #lgbtq #queer #lgbtqia #pride #queer history #queer liberation

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workingclasshistory · 11 months

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On this day, 2 July 1951, transgender revolutionary icon Sylvia Rivera, of Puerto Rican and Venezuelan descent, was born in the Bronx, New York (content note: child abuse). Rejected by her family due to her "effeminate" behaviour Rivera ran away from home aged 11, and was sex trafficked in the Times Square area. In the 1960s, Rivera became involved in movements against the Vietnam war and for Black liberation, then with the Stonewall rebellion threw herself into the burgeoning gay liberation movement, taking part in activities with the Gay Liberation Front, and later the Gay Activists Alliance. With her friend Marsha P Johnson and others, she co-founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries, a radical group which raised money to rent an apartment to house and support homeless gay and trans young people. Much of the funding was provided by Rivera and Johnson engaging in sex work. Rivera was a critic of the more middle-class, cis gendered (i.e. not transgender) leadership of much of the gay rights movement, especially when a Gay Rights Bill which was eventually passed in 1986 omitted trans people, commenting: "They have a little backroom deal without inviting Miss Sylvia and some of the other trans activists to this backroom deal with these politicians. The deal was, 'You take them out, we’ll pass the bill'". After the suspected murder of Johnson in 1992, Rivera's life went "off the rails", according to her friend, historian Eric Marcus, and she ended up homeless again living on an abandoned pier in Manhattan and drinking heavily. She did get involved in movement again, and in 2001 relaunched STAR, renamed Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries, but she died the following year of liver cancer. Rivera is today remembered as one of the key activists who "who made sure there was a 'T' with the 'LGB…'". Learn more about the LGBT+ liberation movement in our podcast eps 25-26: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/05/13/e21-22-the-stonewall-riots-and-pride-at-50/ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=654512196721999&set=a.602588028581083&type=3

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hadesoftheladies · 3 months

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One of the biggest reasons that I know majority of current transgender ideology is faux-oppression is because of how copy-paste it’s analysis is, which makes its lack of serious academic thought that much more obvious. it’s activists use buzz words from other activist movements like the black liberation movement and feminism (“black trans lives matter”/“cis women can’t identify as transwomen”), co-opt terms from other oppressed groups like the intersex community (AFAB/AMAB), and when it comes to creating their own language, the words are utter nonsense, like “transmisogyny��, which is a nonsense word that pairs two charged words together without considering the internal meaning of either.

what oppression do trans-people face for being transgender? being trafficked (that’s usually black, homosexual people in poorer areas), refusal of hormones or surgery (which are damaging to your body), perception of transness (usually homophobic or misogynistic hatred), being killed (black people again), being the wrong gender (gender is made up you can act and wear whatever you like, and if it is harming you, is it not more helpful to reject gender than redeem it?) And yea, there can be issues of intersection, but what about transness is specifically targeted or resisted on a structural level? The analysis has to keep borrowing from other struggles (being a woman, homo/bisexual gnc person in a patriarchal misogynistic world, being black, the taboo of being intersex) and then labeling those issues as “trans” or “gender” issues. Dysphoria is disorder brought on by existing in a sick social environment, much like dysmorphia and depression can be (because gender isn’t innate). It isn’t about “female” or “male” brains. These are very real issues that women, gnc LGB and intersex people have gone through. Is it a coincidence that these demographics are where dysphoria most thrives? but they’ll never analyze that. gender has to be innate. they won’t analyze how consumeristic trans culture is. they’ll cry about how awful the trans genocide is, but the black trans-identified people dying in brothels won’t push most of them to criticize porn culture or criticize the pro-porn trans icons in their group. interesting.

which is further evident in the huge absence of internal diversity of thought. the rise of micro identities and the way a lot of “queer” activists speak (the endless virtue signaling and verbal diarrhea) shows that this is an “oppression product.” they popularized oppression olympics. having a micro identity is a fad. who is being denied a job for identifying as greysexual? mom and dad I’m so sorry I’m sapiosexual please don’t kick me out.

most prominent trans icons are from the rich white upper class. and also mostly male. they are product influencers, convincing women and children to please buy thing so they can finally be satisfied. isn’t being part of a niche underground “oppressed” group cool? when your oppressed people listen to you, and doesn’t that just feel so good? it’s so white. it’s so capitalist America. it’s so MRA in how it trivializes historic, academic and global human rights movements. like listening to a porn-addicted man ramble on about how feminism is actually just about hating men, and anti-racism is about hating white people.

devoid of any true social analysis, because then we’d actually have to talk about the underlying rot which real activist groups are being killed and censored and disrupted to stop addressing.

#oppression olympics #feminism #radblr #trans #discourse #gender #politics #racism

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positive-radfem-confessions · 9 months

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My mom is a radfem icon! She was a big advocate for lgb rights/funding aids research and treatment while being a college student in the 80's at a very conservative institution in the deep south. She has told off so many men irl because they said something misogynistic to her and always told me that I was filled with potential and could do anything I wanted. My mom is so brave and powerful and cool and loving and kind and I love her very much <3

⭐️

#Ok wow she does sound awesome! What a great role model to have -bee #anon

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animallover4000 · 7 months

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1.how did you start listening to taylor?

3.whats your favorite album?

4.whats your favorite era?

9.whats your favorite swiftie inside joke?

Hiiii tysm for the ask!!! so sorry I completely forgot about it HAHAH <333

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Oohhh, okay so I was always quite neutral about her music, I think lwymmd and Lover were the first 2 songs I remember actually like liking more than just casually hearing it on the radio and thinking "oh that's nice". But I only really discovered how much I love her music like about 2 years ago when the girl I was in love with at the time (awkward story hahah) said she liked her music and I ended up listening to her music for a few nights straight while writing an essay for school, and after that I just kinda found out how much I love her music and her :) Now the girl and I don't talk anymore, and I'm a bigger fan than she ever was so thank you to her for making me discover my swiftie self HAHA. Also New Year's Day was I think the first song that really made me realise I love her music way more than other artists, so that's why it's my favourite song of hers :) (i'm sorry this was an insanely long answer HAHHA)

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Okay my album top 3 is folklore, Lover and reputation, my mood decides which one is my favourite atm haha

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Hmmm I wasn't around for many of the eras cause I joined quite late, but the og 1989 era sounds so fun, with all the social media presence and stuff. There was a lot of bad shit going on in 1989 era too though so I'm not really sure. I love the era we're in now too :)

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Oooh, uh I like the no it's becky thing HAHA. Also the letting her bejeweled thing. Also idk if these counts but 123 lgb and come back to me eli are iconic HAHA

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hard--headed--woman · 1 year

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3rd day of Pride Month - 2nd LGB history 🏳️‍🌈

Today is the second day of my "post about one lgb icon/story everyday" thing for Pride Month, and I am gonna talk about the first lesbian wedding in Spain !

It's a quite famous story, but I wanted to talk about it anyway.

Here's the story of Elisa and Marcela !

Marcela Gracia Ibeas and Elisa Sánchez Loriga got married on June 8, 1901, in A Coruña, at Galicia, in Spain. Their marriage was the first homosexual marriage in Spain since the Roman imperial era (though some documents were found, proving that two men got married in Spain in 1061, I'll talk about it in another post !) and happened more than 100 years before the country legalized homosexual marriages !

To achieve this, Elisa disguised herself as a man, and adopted a male identity, Mario Sánchez, which is the name on their marriage certificate. Their lie was later discovered, but their marriage was never annulled, and they remained married for the rest of their lives.

Here's a picture of them after their wedding :

There is a very good movie on Netflix, called Elisa y Marcela, that tells their story. I watched it and liked it a lot, though there are some little criticisms to be made, and if you're interested, you should watch it too! I really enjoyed it and will probably watch it a lot of other times.

Note that there are some differences between the movie and the real story, and if you watch if, I think you should also read their true story, like reading their Wikipedia page. But the biggest part of the movie (except 1-2 details and the end) is pretty accurate, so if you want to watch it and to discover their whole story like that, don't read the end of this post ! I'll tell their story in details here. Keep reading only if you don't want to watch the movie/don't care about already knowing the entire story before watching it.

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The two young women meet at the Teacher Training College in A Coruña, where future primary school teachers are trained. Eighteen-year-old Marcela is studying there, while twenty-three-year-old Elisa is working there after completing the same course. They become friends, and then lovers. Marcela's parents, fearing scandal, send their daughter to continue her studies in Madrid, but it's not enough to end their love story. Marcela is appointed teacher in Vimianzo, in the village of Calo, while nearby Elisa works as a temporary replacement in Couso, a small parish in Coristanco in the province of A Coruña. They decide to live together in Calo, until 1889, the year in which Marcela leaves to teach in Dumbría while Elisa stays in Calo. The two keep in touch, writing to each other, until Elisa joins Marcela.

They live their love for years, hiding their relationship, until they have had enough, and decide to hatch a plan to get married.

In 1901, Elisa adoptes a masculine appearance and applies to the College of Education under the name of Mario. She creates a past for herself based on a cousin who died in a shipwreck, claims to have spent her childhood in London with an atheist father. She gets baptized as Mario on May 26, 1901 and gets her First Communion under the same idendity.

The couple gets married on June 8, 1901, after publication of the banns. A short wedding ceremony is performed before witnesses, and the couple spends their wedding night in the Corcubión guesthouse on Calle de San Andrés - Elisa and Marcela are officially the first spanish homosexual couple to get married since the Roman imperial era, their plan was a success.

Unfortunately, the villagers begin to have doubts, and realize that this marriage is what they call "a marriage without a man".

The Galician and Madrid press reports the case, the two women lose their jobs, are excommunicated and placed under arrest.

Here's a picture of them after their arrest :

Elisa tries to pass herself off as intersex (using the term hermaphrodite at the time) when a doctor checks whether she's male or female, to no avail. Despite this, and the Civil Guard's attempts to prosecute them, their marriage was never annulled, and the two lovers manages to escape. Their story becomes famous in Spain and many other European countries.

(Un matrimonio sin hombre = a marriage without a man)

After that, we don't know what happened to them. The last thing we know fore sure about them is that they embarked on a ship bound for South America - perhaps Argentina, like so many other Spaniards of the time, where they spent their honeymoon and settled.

But in 2008, a book, Elisa e Marcela – Alén dos homes (Elisa and Marcela – Beyond men), by Narciso de Gabriel, was published in A Coruña, and tells their story from 1901 to 1904. It narrates the events in Porto, Portugal, where they were imprisoned, tried, and later released. They fled to Argentina after the Spanish government demanded their extradition from Portugal. The book tells that before leaving Porto for the Americas, Marcela gave birth to a girl - I couldn't find any other information about that. It also tells that after they landed in Buenos Aires, Elisa (under the alias of Maria) married Christian Jensen, a wealthy immigrant from Denmark 24 years her senior, in 1903 and that Marcela, under the alias of Carmen, pretended to be her sister and stayed there with her daughter.

Elisa refused to consummate the marriage with Jensen. He grew suspicious and tried to have the marriage annulled on the grounds that Elisa wasn't, in fact, a woman. This claim was never substantiated: Three medical examinations confirmed that Elisa was a woman.[11] Since the marriage was between a man and a woman, and therefore valid, no charges were brought against Elisa. After this time, there is no further record of Marcela and Elisa. Still according to this book, Elisa refused have sex with Jensen, who grew suspicious and tried to have the marriage annulled on the grounds that Elisa wasn't, in fact, a woman. It didn't work : three medical examinations confirmed that Elisa was a woman, and since the marriage was between a man and a woman, and therefore valid, no charges were brought against Elisa. After this time, there is no further record of Marcela and Elisa - though some sources claim that Elisa killed herself in 1909.

I'm sorry if some things aren't very clear - sometimes the sources I've found contradict each other, and there are differences in information between French (I'm French), Spanish and English sources. Sometimes even the same source says two different things. I've done my best, and I hope what I've written isn't too far from the truth.

This is a very interesting sorry, that is very, very important in LGB history, and I encourage you all to do your own research, read the book and watch the film! Personally, I'm very happy to have discovered this story, which I like very much.

See you tomorrow for another story/lgb icon :)

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disabledopossum · 1 year

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Reminder that we wouldn't have Pride Month if it weren't for trans icons Marsh P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. Saying this now because I know some LGBs are outright transphobic while also shamelessly celebrating pride. LGBTQIA is not complete without the T.

Trans Rights!

Sauce: https://twitter.com/skarlet_toki/status/1664587135746187264?s=20

#Transgender #Trans Rights #Trans Rights Are Human Rights #Trans History #Pride Month #Pride #Pride was a riot

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