#THAT'S WHAT QUEER MEANS

[roach-works]

so many young trans men out there wanna be Normal so damn bad and it blows my mind. they’re really out there like, being normal is good and correct! but i am trans. so being trans must be normal! so i am still good and correct! and then they see the rest of us trans freaks who figured out that being Normal is a ridiculous goal in life, just cheerfully going along being weird as hell and it outrages them. like, how dare we. what’s wrong with us. why don’t we want to be correct, why won’t we stand for being corrected? why aren’t we normal?

like, my dudes. my trans dudes. my one in a thousand brothers. you are a freak too, you just still hate yourself for it and you’re being a real pain in our ass as a direct consequence. you aren’t going to clean us up. you aren’t going to save us from ourselves. we’re more ourselves than you are. the best thing you can do for yourself and your community is learn to love the other, both in yourself and in your community and in the whole entire world. so what if you’re an alien, a monster, a freakshow? once you divorce normal from good, you’re free.

#YOU ARE STATISTICALLY ABNORMAL #BEING TRANS IS RARE #THAT'S WHAT QUEER MEANS #IT MEANS WEIRD #IT MEANS DEVIANT #AND SO WHAT? THAT'S THE POINT #you don't save a three leaf clover #you don't throw a party for when it's not your birthday #we're rare #we're strange #that's what's so valuable and exciting about being this way

[samd1o1]

My experience with queer media lately:

#/pos btw #Queer #LGBTQ #Hannibal #Interview With The Vampire #IWTV #What We Do In The Shadows #WWDITS #Good Omens #GOMENS #Our Flag Means Death #OFMD #Do I put the main ships? #I'm putting the main ships #Hannigram #Loustat #Nandermo #Ineffable Husbands #Aziracrow #Blackbonnet #Gentlebeard

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

#transgender #trans history #transsexual #transphobia #Magnus Hirschfeld #holocaust #holocaust denial #book burning #j.k. rowling #jk rowling #just in case you missed what i mean by all this: go fuck yourself anon :) #trans people have always existed #and we will always exist #if you really wanna pick a fight with me over well-documented history then you better bring in some sources to back your shit #queer history #queer #lgbt+ #lgbta+ #lgbt #lgbt history #edit: i finally got around to those damn image IDs. i am so very sorry for totally forgetting that's my bimbo moment of the month #also real quick i thought about adding an image of the actual building but the only one i can find has a Nazi parade in front of it #it was taken the day of the book burning raid and honestly if i were to include it then i'd add it to the first few paragraphs #and i think the story's better told when you uphold the hope Magnus Hirschfeld and all the researchers he worked with had #also keeps being brought up: yes Hirschfeld was a eugenicist. it was a popular belief set that was only discredited after WW2 #Hirschfeld died in 1935. he literally didn't live long enough to see science turn against those beliefs and practices #considering how he changed his mind on transitions i like to think he would've changed his mind on eugenics too if he'd lived

[identitty-dickruption]

yeah? well have you tried being a dyke about it?

#sorry I don’t even know what this means #it just came to me in a vision #queer #queer stuff

[cinematicnomad]

was lou supposed to say that????? (x)

#WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT WAS ORIGINALLY SUPPOSED TO BE EDDIE #911 abc #911 #tommy kinard #lou ferrigno jr #eddie diaz #buck buckley #evan buckley #my theory is that tim had an idea for buck's relationship with natalia and/or lucy for s7 #but then the actress who played natalia didn't want to or couldn't come back #and the actress who played lucy got cast in a different show #so then tim flipped the story so buck would have the queer arc and eddie would be the one in a relationship for the time being

[flashbastardsramblings]

I made some adjustments to this meme so check it out <3

#i was watching the sandman when the idea came to me #like even the guest actors are not straight #i love queer people so much #our flag means death #ofmd #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #the sandman #blackbeard #edward teach #stede bonnet #the gentleman pirate #lucius spriggs #laszlo cravensworth #nadja of antipaxos #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #colin robinson #dream #dream of the endless #lord morpheus #desire of the endless #death of the endless #neil gaiman #taika waititi #jemaine clement #david jenkins

[trinity-trouble]

A Comparative Guide to OUR GOOD SHADOWS

A simple guide for queer (masc) people in search for some new show to watch!

23/08/29 UPDATE! - I've added Leverage and another question to the table.

List of series for future updates.

I hope you find this useful or at least entertaining, I thought of it while lying in bed half awake at 8am :)

#our good shadows #ourgoodshadows #our flag means death #ofmd #good omens #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #leverage #leverage redemption #hannibal #black sails #queer #gay #bisexual #non binary #polyamory

[bluebeetle]

I saw someone say Astarion bg3 is "the most queer coded man ever" and yeah. Its. Its because hes queer. He has canonically slept with men. He will date women, men, and nonbinary folks. "Queer coding" you mean the literal text they coded into the fucking game?

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #i mean we know what they really meant which is #“i think he acts Too Gay so he cant into women or anything and also i dont respect Bisexuals as queer ppl obvs” #but like. cmon. #txt #q slur #hall of fame

[achillys]

#the queers are being FED #good omens #good omens 2 #our flag means death #ofmd #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #loki #loki season 2 #heartstopper #heartstopper season 2

[caramel-cream50]

I’ve finally watched all 3

#very important #good omens #david tennant #michael sheen #ineffable husbands #our flag means death #ed x stede #stede x blackbeard #ofmd #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #guillermo de la cruz #nandor x guillermo #nandermo #gay shows #queer stuff

[potato-lord-but-not]

epic wife moment

#I SCHEDULED THIS AT 11 AM INSTEAD OF PM GOD #that’s why you may be seeing this twice sorry I like my schedules #anyway she’s got the whole galaxy in her skirt and bestie I’m a deep space explorer #I mean what #traditional art #artists on tumblr #lgbtq #queer art #sapphic #sapphic art #starry eyed

[theartsyghost]

Self care is overrated let’s have a mental breakdown over our favorite shows and then yell at the moon

#good omens #ofmd #our flag means death #supernatural #ineffable husbands #queer artist #bbc sherlock #bbc merlin #bbc ghosts #doctor who #superwholock #hannibal #what we do in the shadows #the sandman #stranger things

[theindefinitearticle]

Still not over the part in the Todd in the shadows video where James Somerton claims that the success of rocky horror saved the film studio. Girl she flopped. Famously she flopped.

#hbomberguy #like how do you have a career as a queer media critic and you think the rocky horror picture show was a successful film release #does he also not know what cult classic means

[buckyeagan]

Please know no matter how much I ship my little gay ships, I am also secretly pushing my aroace agenda onto every favorite character I have

#yes i know you can be in a relationship but you know what i mean #aroace #asexual #aromantism #ace #aro #asexuality #aromanticism #queer #lgbt #lgbt+ #lgbtq #lgbtq+ #lgbtqia #lgbtqia+

[redysetdare]

A character looks straight into the camera and says "I'm not interested in romance" and people will still say "No, it's not confirmed they're aromantic!!!" "They could change their mind!!!" "it's a challenge for them to overcome!!!" "They'll have character development that makes them fall in love"

It's like they are given the most blatant answer to a character romantic orientation and they actively ignore it. all the while all it takes is subtext for people to speak as if it is fact for a character to be any other sexuality.

#text #yes I'm calling out the hypocrisy within queer readings of a text and how often people dont see aromanticism as queer #and thus they will hear a blatant omission that a character is aromantic and still say it is not enough #mean while a character saying 'im not interested in the opposite gender' is rightfully taken as the character being queer #the queer community hates aspec characters because they don't match their perfect idea of sex sex relationships as being peak queerness #aphobia #aro #aromantic #aspec #aroace #im sorry but n oit isn't a difference of opinion if you blatantly ignore a character outright saying 'im not into this' #like y'all complain abt ppl turning gay ppl straight but will defend ppl erasing aro identities all the time #fandoms will throw a fit if you ship gay characters in straight relationships but ppl shit aro characters and we r told to shut up #im so fucking tired of this bs #I will keep complaining and keep calling this shit out #until it is drilled into ur skulls that you are being APHOBIC becaue WHAT? You want to REALLLLLY SHIP a character? #Because you'll die if you dont??? #fuck man just say you hate aspec ppl and move on #it's easier than dealing with your 'im not aphobic ur being unfair i supposed aspec people really' bs

[flashbastardsramblings]

I've realised that the thing I love most about the new popular queer media (and for this I'll use as an example wwdits, good omens and ofmd), is the fact that the difficulties these characters are dealing with aren't connected to their sexuality. The problems don't stem from their queer sexuality. They are not being punished for being queer.

Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship isn't forbidden because they aren't a cishet couple. It's forbidden because they are both victims of an opressive and unjust system (heaven) who's afraid of their combined power which is a direct result of their love for one another.

Guillermo and Nandor's relationship is so nuanced and complicated. There's lots of things to unpack that have been piled up for more than a decade, but again their queer sexualities aren't the problem. Same goes for the rest of the vampires, who are also queer.

Sure, in Stede's case he has to deal with queer trauma, toxic masculinity and the realisation that he's gay, and therefore doesn't conform to the ideal archetype of the straight, masculine man with the heterosexual family. But after realising that and coming out to Mary, the show isn't really about ‘oh, look how difficult it is to be queer, poor guys'. Like Con O'Neil said in a panel, the obstacle here isn't that we have two men who are in love. The difficult thing is to let yourself be in love and become vulnerable.

Both Stede and Ed are dealing with their own trauma, which has affected how they see themselves and by extension their relationships with other people. They are dealing with self doubt, even self loathing, and the belief that they aren't good enough or that they don't deserve love. However, none of that is because they are queer. Being queer sure isn't easy (especially then) but it's not the source of their pain and I fucking love that.

I'm all about the exploration of sexuality, dealing with internalised homophobia and transphobia, coming out etc, and that's why we have series like Heartstopper. But it's still so fucking refreshing to see queerness not being depicted as a ‘big deal’, but rather one of the many aspects of one's self.

That being said, I love being queer and fucking love my insane little queer characters.

#just something I've been thinking about lately #god i fucking love being queer #it sure as hell isn't easy #but i wouldn't change it #queer media #our flag means death #ofmd #edward teach #blackbeard #stede bonnet #gentleman pirate #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #good omens #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #crowley x aziraphale #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #nandermo #guillermo de la cruz #nandor the relentless #nadja of antipaxos #laszlo cravensworth #colin robinson #taika waititi #rhys darby #david tennant #michael sheen