#lbtqa

[dudemantzu]

#colorado #merrick deville #gay #queer #lgbtqiia+ #lbtqa

[dinosaursmatelarry28]

I'm not crying, you are...

#heartstopper cast #heartstopper #tao xu #elle argent #charlie spring #nick nelson #tara jones #darcy olsen #netflix #lbtqa #lbtqia #not my art #not my pictures

[windtooweem]

Omg I just read the first heartstopper book and it’s so good!!!

It’s so relatable too!

I also might start doing x readers for it but only male readers or platonic.

#heartstopper #gay men #gay love #love wins #lbtqa #lgbtq #lesbian #gay #male reader #platonic #heartstopper x reader #book #x male reader

[mafiamono]

i really have to write my own switch-couple fanfiction because bl-series could never ... :/

#kinnporche the series #love in the air the series #fanfic #lbtqa #the eclipse the series

[mysweetsinfulobsessions]

Excuse the quality but just wanted to say that America’s jacket says: “amor es amor” meaning “love is love”

#maybe it’s cuz of her moms or maybe it’s cuz of her #hopefully both #if anyone can get a better pic please send it no joke #doctor strange #dsatmom #doctor strange in the multiverse of madness #america chavez #xochitl gomez #mcuedit #marvel #love is love #lgbt #happy pride 🌈 #pride month #lbtqa

[crossdreamers]

The Washington Post writes about Bette Midler, gender language, trans people and TERFs

The Washington Post has published a pretty decent article about the TERF attacks on transgender people.

The article was instigated by the panicked attacks on trans women from Macy Gray and Bette Midler.

Bette Midler parroted TERF propaganda in her tweet:

WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call us “women” anymore; they call us “birthing people” or “menstruators”, and even “people with vaginas”!  Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!

These are the talking points of right wing extremists, too. Apparently a few attempts to develop a more inclusive language in some selected arenas (mainly in health services) is presented as a ban of the word “woman” in general. For both religious fundamentalists and “gender critical” this is seen as a threat against imaginary natural and social orders.

This kind of propaganda is effective, too, as shown in Midler’s uninformed tweet.

I personally know of no transgender person who has argued that people should not use the word “woman”. Indeed, many of them are transgender women who want to be respected and accepted as women, so why on earth would they want to ban the word?

Anne Branigin of the Washington Post follows up the debate on inclusive language, talking to Jules Gill-Peterson, an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University (photo above).

According to [Gill-Peterson], Midler’s tweet — and the New York Times opinion piece that inspired it — are rooted in a panic over language. But that focus actually diminishes the concerns of trans people at large, Gill-Peterson said.

“My reading on the panic around gender-neutral or gender-inclusive language is that it’s basically disingenuous,” Gill-Peterson said. “I don’t think any trans organizers, advocates or trans people would name gender-inclusive language as the No. 1 most urgent issue trans people are facing in the United States.”

In recent years, many U.S. medical and governmental institutions, advocacy groups and media organizations, including The Washington Post, have moved to adopt more gender-neutral language — part of a larger, worldwide trend of making gendered language more inclusive of transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people. The fight over abortion rights has magnified this effort — as well as criticism of it.

While LGBTQ advocates and allies have noted that trans men and nonbinary people also seek abortions — and often encounter systemic barriers and discrimination along the way — these same individuals and organizations have often reiterated the importance of recognizing cis women in these conversations.

In recent guidance shared on Twitter, the Trans Journalists Association wrote: “It is unnecessary to avoid the word ‘women’ by substituting phrases like ‘birthing people,’ ‘people with uteruses,’ and the like. This language can offend both transgender and cisgender people.”

Read the whole article here. It seems to be outside the paywall.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lbtqa #queer #lgbt+ #transphobia #gender

[hyd1850]

HII HAPPY NEW YEARS.

Here to announce that I just posted chapter 5 "Deep" of my DNF Fanfiction "Just the Truth.

You can find it on Ao3:

And Wattpad:

ENJOY

#fanfiction #dreamnotfound #dnf ao3 #dteam #dtqk #georgenotfound #wattpad #christmas #dream #dreamwastaken #karl jacobs #karlnap #sapnap #quackity #lbtqa #dsmp dnf

[shartgod420]

hey for reasons can everyone reblog this and in the tags put your sexuality and your favorite cryptid

I'm bisexual and mine's Bigfoot

#lbtqa #reblog post

[wayfareragain]

This idea of a viking age comic is circulating in my head so frequently, that it may well be the next project I´m going to start. Reason for this is the great book Children of ash and elm by Neil Price. The idea about the great heathen army which ravaged the France and Britain in the 9th century as a similar army of outcasts like the Caribbean pirate states of the 17th century really made my imagination fly. Also I'm once again irritated by the utterly boring way Viking age still is being portrayed in the fiction. I mean, yeah the warrior culture is filled with ultimate machismo, but it wasn't all that and the raiding pagan armies were also ethnically a very diverse lot. So, you can forget the Aryan super-human fantasies, black leather clothing, eye make-up and constant grittiness. It's time for something different. Also, let's make it a bit more gay! About the pictures: For the longest time I have been wanting to make a action comic with a fat woman as one of the main protagonist. A big, butch berserker feels like an obvious choice.

#viking #history #comic #female warrior #action comic #barbarian #lbtqa #queer fiction #feminism

[luisamariatraumer]

For those complaining about "The Whale"

If you are offended by Aronosfsky´s "The Whale" .... or even worse, you are offended but haven´t watched it yet, please check this article:

*Spoiler alert

Then watch these videos in which Samuel Hunter explains a bit about his play

.... if you are still have doubts maybe you would like to watch the play (watch it on youtube)

... and if you are still offended after all these stuff ... then you can:

stop being offended by a movie ... or:

2. .....

#darren aronofsky #the whale #brendan fraser #canceled #cancel culture #no hate #easily offended #sjws ruin everything #free speech #hypocrisy #bodypositivity #body positive #fatphobia #lgbt #lbtqa #gay movies #lgbt movie #obesity #so true #sorry not sorry #the mummy #george of the jungle #social media #body posititivity #oscars #hollywood #Youtube

[sassybell]

#hbtq #onlytease #onlyf@nz #aesthetic #lbtqa #lbtqia #sfw interaction only

[cosmicbunne]

Bam!

Animation Meme (3/3) I've made, be cautious watching cause there's warnings such as:

- Hints of Abuse

- Hints of poisoning of lots of people (or mas murder)

Original Creator:

Original Audio:

Uploaded Version:

#OC #Animation #Youtube #flipaclip #lbtqa

[windtooweem]

Hey I kinda need help. I’m thinking about getting a binder and I don’t know much about it so if you can tell me information about it I would appreciate it so much

#lbtqa #non binary #binder #lgbtq

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

Paper Cranes

TW: homophobia, bullying, church abuse, swearing, assault, ED, SH, compulsive exercising, Republicans, purity culture, evangelical crap, but most of all middle school. If I’ve failed to include anything, just let me know. Fr I wrote it for me and posted it for those who might find my experience affirming. I’m all good if you need to scroll right on past a trauma post.

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The first time I ever watched homophobic bullying was in my pastor’s office. All the teens were waiting around a table for our youth pastor. There was one gay boy, a close friend of mine in a relatively small group. From the first week his family joined our church, an older girl in youth group announced to the rest of us that she couldn’t stand him because “he’s too happy and sings too much.” It was true. The new boy was the most cheerful, outgoing person I’d ever met. And he loves to sing.

The same girl gave a similar PSA behind my back when I was new. “We shouldn’t play with her because she’s weird and wears dress up clothes.” I was six. And it was true, I did wear a princess costume every day. Eventually I traded in my tutus for some looks that better reflected internalized misogyny and everyone figured out I’m funny as all shit and can get along with most anyone. I graduated from the bottom of the food chain.

So I shrugged off her hot take on my new friend. I don’t think she liked that her plans to cancel the new guy flopped. Because as we were waiting around that table she jumped up and grabbed his earlobe between her finger nails. She was super proud of her nails. They were long and scraggly like a cat and she was into filing them in public in case anyone felt too safe.

She dug her nails in on either side and no one said anything. You don’t stand up for a boy to a girl. I can’t remember if he tried to swat her off or just took it. It was only a minute but it was a damn long one. Blood started to bead around her nails. Then the door opened and she sat back down. Sunday school started.

Nothing I believed, no books, no paper, no concept of abomination could override what I’d just seen, the revulsion deep in my gut. It was more than rage. More than disgust. I still have no word for it. I was too young and the feelings that well up are still those of a thirteen year old.

It doesn’t matter what you call it. Anger like that is like walking around dead and suddenly finding your pulse because it’s roaring in your ears like a jackhammer.

I prayed to be like everyone else. To care about the same social issues in the same way. The only way I could make sense of my loneliness was that I was cursed in some way. If God loved me, he would make me content with the same values as my peers. But I had just seen someone harm someone else and not a single one of these fine, upstanding kids I’m supposed to make friends with say a damn thing.

A few years later, there was some kinda touchy-feeling Jesus shindig where everyone got real sugared up at night and had a big sing along with some college kids who were supposedly qualified to talk about the deep shit with us. If I mentioned their university you’d recognize it. Hint: assault cover ups

One guy, nineteen or so, must have gotten particularly inspired in the spirit because he starts preaching off-the-cuff about the sins of anorexia, binging, purging, and cutting. I inched backward. I tried hiding behind a football player; I was about half his width after all.

Peggy, what’s up with the bandaids?

I guess I tripped over a wall.

Hey I have a joke. How many Peggies can you fit in the shower? No one knows because—-

— I keep slipping down the drain. Heard that one.

Eat a fucking sandwich, you skinny cunt

The best part of the speech is it was addressed to us about the bad, vague other kids who barfed and otherwise screwed around. Those poor fuck-ups, insulting God’s creation by choosing to defile their bodies.

I couldn’t wait to get home and go for it, but felt a whole lot more like a compulsion than a choice.

I’ve heard this sermon twice, by the way. The second time, the pastor held up a paper crane and asked us to admire its delicacy and the skill it took to make it before shredding it up. Guess he worked hard on that metaphor.

That was me. A paper crane. Pure white, crafted precisely, folded up small. You could pinch my wings between your fingernails and pull them off. I wouldn’t bleed and you could vacuum me up. That was my power. The control in the fine lines and tight folds.

Anyway here I am squirming on my butt and waiting for my chance to burn off my two bites of pizza and Oreos. I’m pretty sure I’d made everyone laugh by scooting the cookies into my mouth from my forehead with no hands. See, everyone, I eat. Yeah, I was gonna have to get in some crunches tonight.

I wondered if I could chug enough lemon water to get diarrhea without being noticed, when somehow, we were looking at each other. The boy’s eyes were bright blue. Ice blue, like in cheesy books. Gay.

Skinny.

Leviticus. The apostle Paul.

Cutter.

It’s a powerful feeling, that two seconds of eye-contact that lets you know you aren’t crazy. That you aren’t the only one in the room who is angry. It is taking a hand to find it as wounded as yours.

Whatever is divine in this world, whatever is true and special and outside of ourselves, it is in the rage you can’t shake. If a voice is telling you that no one deserves to be treated this way, that you inherently do not deserve this, and you say shut up and shut up and shut up and it won’t

Shut up, shut up,

and your only answer is this is bullshit. You should get up and leave

Shut up

I said you are free to walk out,

I can’t,

well then I say you can. I say Truth never left you and you’re not dead.

disclaimer: I did not write this to shit on Christians (I am a Christian) or any tradition in general but the corruption that exists in specific systems

other disclaimer: the other kids in this story were literally also just kids, even the mean ones. I’m pretty sure all of them have grown into sensible adults I’d hang out with. I did not write this to shit on them either.

#personal post #so personal #lbtqa ally #queer affirming Christian #spirituality #religious trauma #church trauma #tw: ed mention #tw: evangelical crap #tw: bullying #tw: homophobia #eating disorder recovery #Peggy Sue for the win #feminism

[why-hell-no-there]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#its pride month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #time to discreetly come out to everyone #gay #lbtqa+

[gaymormonmike]

Pendulum Swings

Nothiing I say here is meant to discourage you from pursuing what is right. You should always do whatever you are comfortable with to make things better, especially when we are marginalized and forgotten.  I want to share some thoughts about pendulum swings in political matters. I have lived through so many swings and  changes in my life. Often, I have seen all my dreams dashed by sweeping changes in local, state and national elections. Right now, Florida has swung to an extreme reaction in the legislature. Minnesota has also swung to an extreme position in the opposite direction. We are seeing division and devisiveness like I have never seen. Do not panic. I have watched and been a part of the myraid changes in African American and queer politics. If you google about change theory and swings in political matters, you will see what I am talking about. I bemoan, even have remorse, when things don't go the way I want them to. But I have survived through all these swings and changes. The pendulum swings have inspired me to take actions that I feel good about. Right now, I am trying to help individuals and my church family. Please understand that political views and elections swing from one extreme to another. There is some truth and good in most points of  view. The LBGTQ+ community has made light year changes since I was born, and there will be better things in the future. I am not discouraged and will not stop advocating for what is right.

#queerstake #LBTQA+ Politics