Yakudza Zolotaya Seredina of Prajd Amur
🐱 Kurilian Bobtail
📸 Naumenko Aleksej [of Pride Amour]
🎨 Black Golden Classic Tabby with White
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Mayor LaGuardia throws out the first ball at Yankee Stadium, April 22, 1943. The visiting team was the Washington Senators. This officially opened the Yankees' 1943 season.
Photo: John Rooney for the AP via Newsday
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Welcome back, DJ Lemahieu!!! We missed you!! As I wrote this, DJ just scored to tie up the game. As I said, we missed you, DJ!!! Thank you, Juan Soto, for getting that RBI!! I LOVE THIS GAME!!! ❤️
LET'S GO YANKEES!!!!! I love these guys 😍🥰😊😍
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Leonard Bernstein, music director of the New York Philharmonic, rehearses the orchestra in Arthur Honneger's Joan of Arc at the Stake in Carnegie Hall, April 22, 1958. The Chilean-born actress Felicia Montealegre is the narrator, Joan. Montealegre was then Mrs. Bernstein.
Photo: Associated Press
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There's a swingset in there, if you look hard
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Hi Gina. I know the NYT article shames Harry for being in the closet but I'll take that any day over an article like Dan Wootton's lol. The shaming isn't that bad because it might make readers sympathize with him.
Hi love. I'm so grateful for anyone looking deeper at what's going on for him. And I'm very happy that the author opened the door to discussing the possibility of the closet insofar as Harry is concerned.
In private, Mr. Styles could, of course, claim any — or many — of a spectrum of gender identities and sexual orientations. But the issue at hand is that Mr. Styles asks us to revel in his performance without giving us the key with which to unlock that performance’s true meaning. It’s worth asking why his door is locked.
If Mr. Styles contends with a closet, it was built by a homophobic culture, not any action of his own. Accusing him of queerbaiting his fans works like a kind of trap; he can only really deny the accusations by coming out and identifying himself in a way that would not be wholeheartedly accepted by the public.
So consider this for a moment. Is it really so inconceivable that one of the most famous people in the world could be trapped in the same closet as you or me?
As a queer person, it’s impossible for me to look at Mr. Styles’s use of our symbols with such dexterity, consistency and precision and not see those symbols for what they surely must be — evidence that he is one of us.
But I'm a little frustrated that she seems to both say we should hold an empathetic understanding that he may be in the closet, but in the next breath admonishes him
In displaying queer symbols as he does, Mr. Styles may indeed be navigating a culture and its closet as best he can. But he also sends young, questioning fans a message that it’s acceptable, perhaps even advisable, to reject the Harvey Milk mantra that has guided so many in the L.G.B.T.Q. community in our struggle for collective freedom: “Every Gay person must come out.”
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If our community seeks true liberation, Mr. Styles’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” queerness must not be something to which we aspire. It should instead be something that we mourn.
Coming out can be an act of political resistance, but it’s also a celebration. We exclaim to the world: “I’m here! I’m queer! You must accept me!” Maybe that isn’t always a palatable, salable message, but if it is offensive to those who hate us, we must shout it.
No matter how he identifies, if Mr. Styles wishes to dance with our symbols, he would do well to pay more attention to their politics, regardless of whether he dreams with us of liberation.
I can't expect someone who isn't in the fandom to truly understand how complex it is to navigate a closet you were forced into at 16, in an aggressively homophobic industry you are still a part of at 28, and as your music label's highest grossing artist. But it feels just a bit like she's doing exactly what she's accusing Harry of doing: making a statement, but covering her ass at the same time.
Full article here
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