hey shout out of recognition and validation to all the queer people who didn’t exhibit many queer behaviors or have queer many experiences when they were young!! shout out to trans women and trans men who didn’t feel bad about or uncomfortable with their AGAB when they were younger and didn’t gravitate toward the “opposite side of things”. shout out to nonbinary and genderfluid ppl who felt content with their AGAB all of their childhood or even teen years. shout out to lesbians who didn’t have any crushes on girls growing up and liked traditionally feminine things and shout out to gay men who didn’t have any crushes on boys growing up and liked traditionally masculine things. shout out to bi and pan and omni people who only had hetero attractions growing up. shout out to aros and aces who thought they experienced crushes or attraction or whatever while growing up and didn’t feel excluded by being surrounded by allo people. shout out to literally any queer people who didn’t “show the signs” growing up because that can make you feel invalidated or worried that you’re faking it and you shouldn’t feel worried about that! When we say that everyone’s journey and experience is different, that includes you!! Happy pride month <3
Happy pride, include asexual people in your fandom more often! Make ace headcanons, include asexual characters in your stories, support ace fans, don't erase existing ace rep, call out aphobic or amatonormative writing on your shows and make ace people feel welcome! Specially if you're allo, because it really boosts our voices!
[transcript]: “Well, this is a message for gay men specifically in our community…historically the women in our community have protected you, have given you your rights, have been very gracious with y’all, and would just like the same courtesy back.
Just because you are gay does not give you the right to degrade and/or touch women, um…if anything, I would expect you to have more respect. And it’s very common within our community to sit around and be like, ‘Oh, she doesn’t give,’ or, ‘She doesn’t look feminine enough,’ and this, that, and the third. And that’s exactly what cisgender heterosexual people do to us every day.
Our community should be a safe space for all different types of women. Especially when these women are historically the types of women who have protected you, who have nursed you to health in the AIDS pandemic, who have literally given you your rights, who have marched the streets for y’all, who have mothered some of y’all, who have cultivated some of the most elite Houses in our community…
The next time you see a trans woman, have more grace and give them their flowers because walking the earth as a trans woman is already difficult enough.
It would be great to be uplifted by the men in our community.
Part 1 of the birthday presents I drew for my younger sibling
I love how cute and aesthetic this turned out, everything here represents a part of the lgbtq community
heheheheh, gay alchemy