#lgbtq culture

[whiskeywithrayna]

Jodie Foster photographed by Daniel Jack Lyons for The Atlantic, 18 February 2024

She’d been looking around the room at the meticulously diverse group of women Elle had chosen to honor, and wondering to herself why she’d been included.

“Finally I realized, like, halfway through; I leaned over to Alex and was like”—her voice dropped to a whisper—“I’m the old queer one!”

“How does that feel?” I asked.

Her eyes were bright. “Feels good! I think it feels good.” .

#jodie foster #dykonic #lgbtq culture

[kittycathat]

"love always wins!!!!!!" is a lie, because tell me how i'm destroying everyone in my class in kahoot

#/j #aroace #non sam aro #aro #arospec #lgbtqia #aromantic #lgbtq #queer #asexual #aspec #aromantic asexual #lgbtq culture #queer culture #aro culture is #joke #but i AM so good at kahoot

[larphis]

So I know a lot of Lgbtq+ peeps love Hozier and that a lot of his songs have the “homoerotic longing” vibe, so I just did a quick google search about his own sexuality because I was curious and instead I found an article that said that he was rumored to have dated Saoirse Ronan at some point in time and I literally gasped out loud and said “you lucky, lucky little rat” to myself because I lacked the words to properly phrase my jealousy.

So anyways I hereby petition “you lucky, lucky little rat” as the new catchphrase for gay jealousy

#hozier #saoirse ronan #is on my 2nd place of hottest women ever #1 is obviously: #winona ryder #thanks for asking #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtq community #lgbtq culture #wlw #sapphic thoughts

[the-yuri-librarian]

Can I ask, why do you love WLW romance better than Het romance? What makes them better? I did not mean anything negative, and I know everyone have their own like and dislike but I want to know your thoughts....

Also what do you think that made Asian WLW (GL manga/manhwa/manhua) romances different than western WLW romances?

This is a very good question on both fronts!

Answering the first part is easy: I prefer WLW relationships because I'm a lesbian. That's sort of all there is to it? Like, on some level, I have only been reading WLW novels for the past several years (and WLW comics since Sept '23), because hetero relationships in fiction have sort of dominated culture my whole life? I can't name a movie or a book series off hand from my childhood/teen years that did not contain a straight relationship. I would genuinely have to think about it. But, when I graduated from grad school for the first time and started to connect with reading on a level I hadn't since I was a kid-early teen, I made this very conscious decision to focus really really heavily on sapphic fiction, even more so than trans fiction even though I am trans, too. I think part of this is because I just wanted to see myself represented in the works I am reading. Another part of this is I relate more to sapphic romances. For all my life, I have only ever loved women as a woman, and that makes straight romances feel somewhat foreign to me? I think maybe it's because the way relationships are talked about in queer culture versus the way relationships are talked about in straight culture; it feels very different, though I don't have an example offhand to point to. On top of that, there is also a lot of historical precedent for lesbians feeling like their sexuality and their gender identity are somewhat meshed or intersected (if you want to know more I'd have to do like actual research lol), and I think I definitely feel that. The lesbian label is really important for me, and I think that importance draws me to WLW fiction

In terms of what makes eastern and western comics/yuri/sapphic romances different, I think that you could write an entire dissertation on this (but I'll try not to lol). Now, I am by no means an expert on Japanese or Korean cultural studies, in fact I am far from that, but I think the way the romances play out really highlights the way their cultures function differently from cultures in the west. Firstly, I think that eastern cultures place a much higher focus on cultural expectations. I would not say that eastern cultures are necessarily more conservative than western cultures (I mean, just look at any news coming out of the US, we're practically a theocracy). Instead, I would say that people living in eastern cultures are more bound by their culture. For example: in the US, or a similar western culture, it is generally ok to be gay in the 2010s and 2020s. From my understanding, this is also the case in Korea and Japan, but there is more cultural push back. I think this reality is represented in sapphic romance stories from the two places well. Look at any fiction featuring a lesbian main character coming out of America: their sexuality is never treated like some weird thing (unless the story is trying to realistically represent discrimination); instead, they just are gay. And, when a character is beginning to realize she might be a lesbian, she might have to adjust her view of herself, but it's really no big deal. On the other hand, look at Japanese yuri, especially high school stories: there is almost universally a moment where one of the characters will be like "but we're both girls!" to which the other character will be like "it's fine." I think this moment is included in those stories because the mangaka are consciously pushing back on the idea that it's wrong to be gay. A really good example of this can be seen in Rei's "it's ok to be gay monologue" in I'm in Love with the Villainess. In American fiction, something like that would likely feel unnecessary (though, for the record, I think American TV shows and movies are at the point where such a monologue is necessary, but that's a different story).

Another example can be seen in the way eastern comics treat cunnilingus. This is not a universal thing, but one trend that I've noticed in the more NSFW or smutty comics I've read is that, often, when a woman is about to go down on another woman, the one getting eaten out will protest like "no, not there" or "no, I'm not clean," and I think that this too is indicative of the ways women are entangled by cultural expectations in the east. In an America comic or novel, this would not be treated with the same hesitancy. But, in eastern cultures, there seems to almost be this expectation that the women turns down getting eaten out, only to relent and accept it when their lover insists.

I'm not sure if any of that makes sense, but it's the best I got without doing real research. Also, again, I am not an expert, so take everything I just said with about a tablespoon of salt!

#long post #yuri #yuri posting #lesbians #ask #i may end up doing research on this and making a more formal post about it #sapphic #lgbtq culture

[ashleyfableblack]

To all the trans folkes out there- some damn beautiful things come out of eggs.

Y'all are seen. Y'all are loved. 💜💜💚💛💗 Heres to yall on this Trans Day of Visibility

Watch "Was (Not Was) - Walk The Dinosaur" on YouTube

#trans day of visibility #transgender rights #trans #eggs #walk the dinosaur #was not was #lgbtq rights #lgbtq culture #lgbtq history #hail thyself #love thyself #music #Youtube

[paigebraddock]

Ready for Friendsgiving? 🤓🍗

#thanksgiving day #thanksgiving food #thanksgiving meal #thanksgiving turkey #thanksgiving break #jane's world #janesworld #janes world #janesworldcomic #paige braddock #cartoonists on tumblr #queer community #lgbtq culture #friendsgiving #queer humor #queer family #queer characters #queer comedy #queer creator #gay holiday #gay family #wlw post #wlw community #wlw culture #wlw positivity #wlw art #wlw books

[calilili]

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[ghostacolytev2]

Female dancers at the Second Annual 2-Spirit Powwow

#Two Spirit #Indigenous Dance #LGBTQ Culture #Toronto Powwow #Social Awareness

[man-reading]

Poppy Field (2020)

Original title: Câmp de maci

Director Eugen Jebeleanu

Writer Ioana Moraru

Stars

Conrad Mericoffer

Alexandru Potocean

Radouan Leflahi

Synopsis

Cristi, a young policeman from Bucharest, lives his homosexuality out of the sight of his colleagues. He has a long-term relationship with Hadi, who lives in another town. The same day Hadi comes to visit him, Cristi is called in for an intervention in a cinema, where a fascist group has sabotaged the screening of a queer film. When one of the cinephiles recognizes Cristi, the tension takes on explosive proportions. Using a camera that is generous in long takes, this debut feature by Eugen Jebeleanu embodies a divided and distressing contemporary Romania.

#Poppy Field #gay movies #queer Cinema #lgbtq culture

[whiskeywithrayna]

Jodie Foster and her wife Alex Hedison at the SAG Awards, 24 February 2024.

#jodie foster #alex hedison #lgbtq culture #nyad #true detective: night country

[kittycathat]

a perk to aromanticism nobody talks about

ITS TRUTH OR DARE

everyone else is getting all flustered about having to expose themselves about their crushes, while meanwhile you sit there like 😎

because everyone's "truth" question is always about crushes??? (and its kinda concerning how obsessed everyone is with this whole romance thing)

but yeah truth or dare as an aromantic person is great i promise

#aro #aroace #aromantic #non sam aro #lgbtq #lgbtqia #asexual #queer #lgbtq culture #lgbtq community #life #haha #relatable

[brasskingfisher]

Queer M*A*S*H

So, inspired by @writtenbyalanalda I've been thinking about the queer identies presented on M*A*S*H and so here's my own random musings as to where characters feature in the LGBTQIA+ community:

Hawkeye: Aromantic allosexual. I know some people read him as a closeted gay man (and I see where they're coming from), but given his fear of commitment and the way he recoils from approaches by women I feel it's more that he's interested exclusively in sex and doesn't want/ know how to respond to any kind of deeper connection. Add into that the obvious importance he places on his relationship with Trapper and then BJ.

BJ Hunnicut: Definitely bicurious of not fully bisexual. Again I can appreciate the arguments that he's gay, but he seems WAY too devoted to Peg and Erin for it to be just him playing it straight in a lavender marriage (especially with the way he struggles with the temptation to cheat). Obviously he reciprocate some of Hawkeye's feelings without being able to fully express them but I can't see him leaving his wife and child to persue a same sex relationship.

Charles E Winchester III: Heteroromantic Asexual. He never really shows any kind of interest in anyone else, and from what we see of his limited romantic/sexual relationships he's far more concerned with bloodlines and continuing the family name/tradition than anything else, to the point he rejects potential partners because his parents/ family wouldn't approve of them. I personally get the feeling he's looking to get married due to the pressure of family/society for the 'heir and spare'.

Margret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan: Definitely bisexual. Although she's depicted as a maneater, a lot of her more personal storylines and character development (and what Loretta Swift highlighted in interviews) relate to her personal relationships. Particularly her unwillingness to be vulnerable and or open up (particularly to other the women in camp). Now this is in stark contrast to the closeness it's revealed she had with her friends as a student nurse/teenager and is in keeping with her background as an army brat and trying to live up to her father's expectations. Also, whilst it's never explicitly started, it's implied that she's an only child and her father (as a career officer) would have prefered/expected a son.

Fathr J P Mulchacey: Clearly Aroace. Without wishing to cast aspersions onto members of the Catholic church, he's clearly not interested in the idea of sex and is noticably uncomfortable with physical contact to the point where he's noticeably uncomfortable about being hugged by a woman and doesn't know how to respond. Even leaving aside his religious views whilst he's comfortable taking about other people's sex/romantic lives the idea of doing it himself seems anathema to him.

Cpl Walter 'Radar' O'Reily: Aspec/Demisexual. His sexuality and inexperience is often treated as a joke (to the point where he gets openly asked of he's a virgin) which is understandable given he's a young man from a small town in the mid West. But he shows a willingness to try and flirt with the nurses and obviously feels some form of attraction to various women he meets. However, he seems reluctant to try and persue them (even when they approach him) and feels a social pressure to try and consumate his relationships.

#this was my obession as a teenager #mash #m*a*s*h #mashblr #mash fandom #mash fans #lgbtq community #LGBTQIA #lgbtq culture #asexuality #aromanticism #bisexuality #aroace #lgbtqia #queer headcanons #long post #long tags

[the-bitchking-of-angmar]

today has been busy beyond reason. It’s Marimo’s birthday, I had a long fucking night and six loads of laundry to fold, a cake to bake and one to decorate, so naturally I’m a bit frazzled and sweaty and don’t have the time to shower before our guests come and took the only thing available to freshen up — some deodorant and perfume.

now Mr Moss comes up, sniffs me and says: “you smell like a gender identity crisis”

upon asking him to clarify, Diesel perfume, raspberry shampoo, sweat and baked goods smell like I’m having a non-gender day and I love that just a little bit for myself

#lgbtq culture #the holy divers in the eldritch flower pot

[calilili]

"Making #HERstory

She wasn’t kicked

out of #Eden -

She WALKED out”©️

Cali Lili

#SustainableMovies™️ #mybodymychoice #AllFemaleCrew #BLM #LGBTQ #ClimateAction

“eVe N’ god

this female is not yet rated ™ ☯️

1 day

in the epiphany

of a 21st Century Girl

Who

Kissed A Girl “

©️

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@calililiindies

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[cletusthurstonbeauregard]

Why US Laws Must Expand Beyond the Nuclear Family | Diana Adams | TED

This should be of interest to Tumblr users.

#youtube #chosen family #equal rights #legal rights #lgbtq culture #what is marriage #evolution #platonic relationships #poly relationships #marriage benefits #2024 family life