#lgbt pop culture

[theblvcksupreme]

janelle monae

#lipstick lover #janelle monae #the age of pleasure #2023 #pop #pop music #pop culture #melanin #lgbt #gay #my posts #posts #theblvcksupreme #photography #art

[crossdreamers]

Lady Gaga turns jazz version of ‘Born This Way’ into trans rights rallying cry

Pink News reports:

At the opening of her Lady Gaga Enigma + Jazz & Piano concert residency on Thursday (31 August), the iconic singer-songwriter dedicated a beautiful piano rendition of “Born this Way” to trans rights in America.

#transgender #trans #lgbtqa #lgbt #queer #lady gaga #art #culture #pop

[patron-saint-of-lesbeans]

Very interesting (concerning) that while there’s a general consensus of “of course there’s queer Muslims and Jews and Christians we love them!” But that love is conditional. You can be religious but not too religious. You can be spiritual as long as it’s not actually that important to you. You can be observant of your religion’s dogma and traditions as long as you keep it away from everybody else.

But I don’t want to cut myself into smaller pieces. I don’t want to take a part of my life and culture and being and hide it away behind closed doors. It’s just…hypocritical and disappointing when people, who clamor about their love for the contradictory and self-authentic, hate when they’re confronted with it.

#tower of babble #catholic #lgbt #side b #sorry I saw a very good post pointing out the way queer Jews are often cited with the caveat that they’re not observant Jews #and how there are queer observant Jews but I didn’t want to derail so I made my own post #because fuckin hell how often do you see white queers telling queer Muslim women to stop wearing their hibjabi (unless it’s for ~cultural~ #purposes). it’s disgusting and demeaning to assume queer people don’t have deeply meaningful spiritual lives. #side b Christians 🤝 observant queer Jews 🤝 devout queer Muslims #me. happily trans and gay: I’m so happy and blessed to have this body and life - #homo/transphobes: you’re going to hell you’re evil you’re stupid you’re faking it #me: huh. oh. um. well I’m still blessed because I know you are not speaking with Christ in your heart- #a surprising number of self proclaimed radicals: uhhhh please don’t acknowledge that you’re Christian it makes us. uncomfortable. #me: …being uncomfortable and confused about others is the pride of Pride? the queer community thrives on contradiction and self definition? #anyways. prof put my pronouns down as he/she/they on the syllabus and I am popping the biggest gender affirming bottles tonight #(praying a chaplet and eating rice like the grad student peasant I am)

[bisexualbreakdown]

Hello Bisexual Besties! We are back with a brand new episode, this time we are joined by our good friend Em (@merlinoutofcontext) to talk about all things Merlin! We discuss how we discovered the show, why it's still so beloved after so many years, and share some hot takes about queer baiting.

#merlin #bbc merlin #podcast #podcasts #pop culture #fandom #bisexuality #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia

[whatiwillsay]

I’m new at gaylor and your work seems to be the only sane thing on this site so do you have any specifc recommendation on episodes of the podcast or masterposts explaning the whole thing in general? Or maybe a list of what you consider to be your most relevant works here? Congratulation on everything btw, love your work, so commited to the truth and being so ethical while doing so, you became my fav taylor related context online.

anon you just completely made my day thank you so much for sharing all this i have been traveling home for a funeral (my grandmother died while i was in spain) over the last day and the airline lost my bag and ugh y'all just don't understand how comments like this can really shine a light on a hard week so THANK YOU again.

anyway i would recommend this gaylor 101 episode maybe?

or click here for goylor 101 on apple

and all my timeline series:

we have a 9 part series on kaylor that starts here:

or click here for kaylor series on apple

a 6 part series on swiftgron that starts here:

or click here for the swiftgron series on apple

and a series on tily that's going on right now!

or click here for the tily series on apple

also our gaylor 102 episode is extremely popular with over 10k downloads!

or click here for apple

and lastly this is off topic but my fav episode i've ever done is my non taylor related episode on lesbian vampires here:

or click here for apple

#gaylor swift #kaylor #swiftgron #friends of dorothea #lgbetty #gaylor #dianna agron #achele #kaylor is real #taylor and karlie #swiftgron is real #tily #lily donaldson #gossip #pop culture #lgbt #sapphic #wlw #:)

[asshole-rebel-psycho]

Gay art and culture was best when it was underground.

The gays are in popular culture now and we've sold out. Like a bunch of commercial posers over saturating the market with our narcissism, politics and bad lesbian movies.

Sad but true.

The Disney movies had gay coded songs written by lgbt people about their own struggles, psychology and being against the grain. Being different from the norm.

When you blend into the norm you lose a part of yourself.

#truth #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bi #trans #non binary #queer #gay culture #lesbian movies #art #pop culture #disney #macy's thanksgiving day parade #musicals

[asteriiasstateofdreaming]

the KOSA bill is not to protect children. it's to harm them. this is harmful to everyone but especially queer youth. if this bill passes the government will have the freedom to censor anything that they seem harmful to children. it also would make you update your id to the internet just so you could look at the internet without the censorships. it's basically forcing us to go north korea. if you care about queer youth or people in general, PLEASE ACT NOW. congress is meeting in september, which is only two days away, to see if this bill should be passed. visit @omarsbigsister on tiktok to find more information on this bill, she has plenty of information and petitions you can sign in order to stop this bill from passing. but do not sign any petition twice, that counts as fraud. it would be extremely helpful if you called and emailed your senators and you tell them that you strongly oppose this bill. most websites will have a script that you can read off. please, act now. or we will not have a fighting chance later.

signed sincerely,

a very scared teenager.

#kosa bill #stop kosa #kosa #bad internet bills #politics #activism #ao3feed #lgbtqia #lgbt pride #lgbtq community #lgbtq #wlw love #gay mlm #mlm #mlp #gay pride #wholesome #fandom #pop culture #stan culture

[orthopoogle]

Why do progressives in fandom spaces go out of their way to consume content that doesn’t have the things they want and then complain about it? What is really so hard about just seeking out content that does include stuff that appeals to you?

[slaket-and-sprash]

I highkey hate how toxic and male driven the pop culture community is.

since coming out I don't relate to what feels like the vocal majority of gamers or movie buffs because It feels like they're entire identity is based on putting down minority groups. acting like the very idea of including other groups of people in popculture is sacrilege and liking movies and games and watching anime or reading comic books is only for "white cishet men"

like it's to the point where I font really like the term "gamer" anymore because it just seems like the calling card of some incel who's upset at the fictional women for not having z cup breasts or something that you can find on a 12 year old boys shirt.

which is a shame because I really like movies and video games and I like them as a vehicle for telling stories. and I consider those my biggest hobbies

#lgbt #video games #animation #anime #movies #comic books #manga #geeks #gamers #gayner #gay nerd #nerd #pop culture #gay #trans #feminism

[theblvcksupreme]

BRANDON KYLE GOODMAN

#brandon kyle goodman #body #melanin #photography #theblvcksupreme #gay #blackboyjoy #art #lgbt #my posts #natural hair #model #butt #jewelzndrugz #big mouth #part 1 #pop culture

[crossdreamers]

Transgender pop star Kim Petras wins Grammy

Kim Petras and Sam Smith won the Grammy award for best pop duo and group performance for the song  “Unholy.” 

“I just want to thank all the incredible transgender legends before me who’ve kicked these doors open for me so I could be here tonight – Sophie, especially,” she said in her thank you speech.

Sophie, the transgender “hyperpop” electronica star,  passed away two years ago. 

Petras also thanked Madonna for her pro-LGBT activism and her own mother for her support.

Kim Petras is not the first transgender woman to win a Grammy, though. Wendy Carlos won three classical awards in 1970.

See also: Wendy Carlos – the transgender synth pioneer

Photo: Getty

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtqa #queer #pop #grammys #culture

[nickysfacts]

Spider Women says: “Trans Rights” and “Protect Trans Kids”!🕸️

🏳️‍⚧️🕷️🏳️‍⚧️

#history #spider gwen #gwen stacy #marvel comics #edge of spider verse #comic book history #super hero #trans rights #disney #protect trans kids #dan slott #marvel history #mcu #lgbt icons #pop culture #pride #disney girl #animation #transgender #jason latour #female character #lgbt positivity #disney history #robbi rodriguez #spiderverse #marvel #nickys facts

[taylorvaughnsaidso]

Protect JVN at all costs, they're so valid for this. Sick of these 'devils advocates' when real issues are concerned. Just get the correct information out there, none of these Joe Rogan talking points that get misconstrued and used as fact all over the media.

#jonathan van ness #dax shepard #armchair expert #pop culture #trans rights #lgbtqia community #lgbt #trans issues

[bisexualbreakdown]

Welcome to a brand new podcast called Bisexual Breakdown, where your hosts Serena and Katie will guide you through an exploratory journey through pop culture, fandom, and bisexuality. In this introduction episode you will get to know your hosts, their fandom history, as well as a taste of what you can expect from future episodes. We hope you'll join us on this journey!

#bisexuality #fandom #pop culture #podcast #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbt community #lgbtq community

[trivag-hoe]

Propaganda Magazine

Propaganda was an American gothic subculture magazine. It was founded in 1982 by Fred H. Berger, a photographer from New York City. Berger's photography was featured prominently in the magazine. Propaganda focused on all aspects of the goth culture, including fashion, sexuality, music, art and literature. Propaganda was, at the time of its final issue in 2002, the longest running and most popular gothic subculture magazine in the United States.

#magazine #fashion #pop culture #high fashion #propaganda magazine #lgbtq #gothic #fred h berger #goth culture #lgbt representation #sexuality #art #literature #nine inch nails

[hussyknee]

I'll be honest. I didn't expect Red, White and Royal Blue to be this fucking good. I know it was always the number one rec in the gay romance rec lists but I kinda carried a grudge that Boyfriend Material was relegated to number two. I also thought it would be a typical romcom about "yay rich white cis gays" representing the most devastatingly colonizing nations on the planet. I didn't realise one of them would be the biracial grandson of Mexican immigrants and they'd interrogate that shit. Or that it would be a legitimately beautifully written book with a whole host of complex characters that didn't feel like token minorities.

It's an actual queer story about identity and politics and tapestries of unacknowledged, suppressed loves reaching across time. Blended families and ambition and duty and authenticity. A moderate and rather thrilling dive into US politics, although a little bit more work into the institutional nature of Buckingham Palace would have been nice, instead of simply making the Queen a stock bigot. The royal family exists in a very precarious yet entrenched power balance with Westminster and the Church, and the queen is herself a sovereign entity managed by a rigid power matrix.

However, while the first half of the book was very funny and lively, I was pretty lukewarm about the pairing itself until the second half. I only felt invested in them after the stakes escalated into an emotional precipice and spiralled into angst and pining and yelling in the rain and "don't you tell me I don't love you bc I can't be with you" "then tell me to leave" and nearly being outed and having state-mandated beards and being miserable and desperate. And I only got gooey because Henry writes emails like the kind of anguished, repressed Victorian poet halfway to manic depression and a laudanum habit. But I have to say, the second half of this book really delivers. The actual climax of the book being the 2020 election rather than a dramatic denouement was somehow both unexpected and inevitable. Nothing could ever have come close to the historic experience that was Destiel Putin Total Landscaping 2020 (also it was pretty funny what happened to Nevada in the book vs real life), but the fictional election was still a nail-biter because the book is just realistic enough to not make you complacent about the outcome. It makes the characters earn their stripes, no pun intended.

This book is first to last a political wish fulfillment fantasy, where the characters openly say, "aren't we glad we're not in some darkest timeline where the USAmerican people betrayed each other right after Obama's term was up?" (Apparently the idea for the book came to the author in mid-2016. Ouch.) Its primary conceit: What if Washington doesn't completely ruin or reject everyone who starts out with good intentions? What if a non-traditionalist union in the '80s turned out a couple of Royal kids who ended up decent people who interrogated their privileges? That most fantastical of premises – that at least a handful of people who attain power and privilege could hold onto their values and compassion. It is, achingly, sorrowingly, the ultimate wish of the disenfranchised and disillusioned the last few years: that just enough people had stepped up where it counted and turned the tide of history. And that they might continue to do so, more often than not.

Overall, a very good, solid, compelling read, far, far better than Love, Simon or whatever else the white cis het mainstream inexplicably latches onto. I won't say better than Boyfriend Material. Alexis Hall is still the better writer. But it's such a completely different book, speaking to a different demographic with different expectations, that it's a chalk and cheese comparison. The London Calling series (Boyfriend Material, Husband Material and the upcoming Father Material) is a quintessentially British romantic comedy with a deeply queer beating heart for an older Millennial audience, interrogating the UK's systemic class and colonial issues, delving into the universalism and diversity of the human condition with richness and complexity. Red, White & Royal Blue is an extremely USAmerican Zillennial fantasy, caught somewhere between YA, US political intrigue and queer romance with a dash of British glamour – high quality escapist pop culture. I might be biased towards LC because I'm its target audience; but the exponentially greater popularity of RW&RB is definitely due to the power of the USAmerican cultural hegemony. I was complaining about fandom refusing to engage with actual queer art and literature before; all of Alexis Hall's work merits only a handful of pages on AO3. RW&RB alone has 154 pages on AO3 no I am not bitter that y'all are tasteless and disgraceful and if that doesn't speak to the power of having a USAmerican base then nothing does.

Edit: THERE'S A BONUS CHAPTER????

#queer lit #red white and royal blue #casey mcquiston #lgbtqia #mlm romance #alexis hall #london calling #pop culture #usamerican imperialism #us politics #YA #lgbt representation #queer media #review #red white and royal blue spoilers #book recommendations #knee of huss