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🏳️‍🌈 Ruth Ellis (1899 - 2000) was the daughter of former slaves. She came out as a lesbian when she was 16-years-old to the complete acceptance of her family. In 1937, Ruth and her longtime partner moved to Detroit from their hometown of Springfield, Illinois for the promise of higher wages. There, she became the first woman in Michigan to run her own printing business. She printed fliers, posters, and stationary in the front room of her home, which also quickly became a hotspot for Black LGBTQ social life. Before long, Ruth was helping those who came around in any way she could, including by paying for college tuitions. After the Stonewall uprising, 70-year-old Ruth began giving speeches in support of gay and lesbian rights all across the country. She remained an activist for the rest of her long life and even spent her 100th birthday leading the San Francisco Dyke March. At the time of her death at 101, she was recognized as the oldest out lesbian in the US. She is the subject of the documentary "Living With Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100" and is the namesake of the Ruth Ellis Center, a shelter for homeless and at-risk LGBTQ youth in Detroit.

Celebrate Ruth Ellis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis_(activist)

#Pride #BlackLivesMatter

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sansa stark who was always stripped of her identity as a stark. sansa stark who was born with the auburn hair and blue eyes of the tully and looked nothing like a northerner. sansa stark who like most little girls dreamt of a world of songs. sansa stark who went south as a child to become a baratheon queen. sansa stark whose dire wolf was the first to die. sansa stark who saw her father beheaded in front of her while she cried for mercy. sansa stark who married a lannister. sansa stark who was then promised to an arryn and again married to a bolton. everything about sansa stark’s femininity and her journey seem to deviate from the assertive loyal stark ideal that is pushed on us. but it was also sansa stark who was born in the winter. it was sansa stark who never lost her composure while she endured years of abuse to ensure her survival. it was sansa stark who with her love and kindness inspired men and women to fight for her. it was sansa stark who wanted to take winterfell back. it was sansa stark who knocked on every northerner lord’s door to raise an army. it was sansa stark who won the battle of the bastards. it was sansa stark who cared about ensuring her people’s survival above anything else. it was sansa stark who refused to acknowledge the dragon queen as her ruler. it was sansa stark who looked her straight in the eye, showing no fear while fully aware of the consequences her actions might bring and asked her “what about the north?”. it was sansa stark who always fought fearlessly for northerner independence. and it was sansa stark who, in the end, became the first queen in the independent kingdom of the north in centuries.

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Stevie Nicks - Laurel Canyon, 1981 // Photo by Neal Preston

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Men of Mad Men ranked by how likely they are to have worn a neon green leisure suit between the years of 1979 and 1984

1. Pete Campbell

2. Bob Benson

3. Paul Kinsey

4. Michael Ginsberg

5. Harry Crane

6. Stan Rizzo

7. Ted Chaough

8. Roger Sterling

9. Henry Francis

10. Ken Cosgrove

11. Sal Romano

12. Don Draper

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nobody:

scorpio/virgo: due to personal reasons i think everyone is lying

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Donald Sultan, Oranges on a Branch, 1992

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me on my giant lesbian combination alpaca/weed farm in 30 years: hey do you guys remember the internet?

all the other lesbians in unison: no

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it’s so sexy how there’s literally no reason a man HAS to be in my life

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“There is no Frigate like a Book” (Poem 1286), Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears the Human Soul –

Happy birthday to Emily Dickinson, born Dec. 10, 1830.

Girl Reading, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, between 1885 and 1895

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my chaotic gay ass when any of my friends come to me for advice

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Virginia Woolf photographed by Lenare c. 1929

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Sea and Rain, James McNeill Whistler, 1865

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The Morning News, Wilmington, Delaware, July 17, 1950

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Time to get cozy. Sweater weather is here.

“Woman’s Ensemble: Sweater, Skirt and Socks,” 1980s, designed by Jean Paul Gaultier 

“Woman’s Cardigan, Sweater, and Six Button Pins,” 1980s, designed by Patrick Kelly 

“Woman’s Ensemble: Skirt, Sweater and Cowl,” 1978, by designed by Missoni 

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Timothée on the set of CMBYN

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me: poke th cat

cat: mrrhp

me every time: wow.

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