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ivygorgon · 11 months

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"No Pride for some of us without liberation for all of us." -Marsha P. Johnson

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animentality · 9 months

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#twitter #stonewall #stonewall riots #protests #lgbt #lgbtqia

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emma-dennehy-presents · 1 year

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Celebrating Black Queer Icons:

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Born on October 25, 1940, Major is a trans women well known as a leader in the broader trans community and an activist, with a particular focus on black and incarcerated trans women. Major grew up in Chicago's South Side and participated in the local drag scene, during her youth. Major described the experiences as glamorous, like going to the Oscars. While she did not have the contemporary language for it, Major has been out as a trans women since the late 1950s. This made her a target of criticism, mistreatment, and violence, even among her queer peers. Majors transition, especially getting her hands on hormones, was largely a black market affair. Given the lack of employment opportunities for black trans women at the time, she largely survived through sex work and other criminalized activities. At some point Major moved to New York City and established herself amongst the cities queer community, despite the prejudice against trans women. She participated in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. Later, after getting convicted on a burglary charge, Major was imprisoned with men at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, NY. There she met Frank "Big Black" Smith, a participant in the 1971 Attica Uprising at Attica Correctional Facility. He treated Major, and her identity as a woman, with respect and the two built a friendship. Smith also taught Major a good bit about advocating for herself and other trans women being mistreated by the US Justice System. Major was released from Dannemora in 1974. Major moved to San Diego in 1978 and almost immediately began working on community efforts and participating in grassroots movements. Starting by working at a food bank, she would go on to provide services directly to incarcerated, addicted, and homeless trans women, and would provide additional services after the AIDS epidemic started. In the 1990s Major moved to the San Fransisco Bay Area, where she continued her work, alongside organizations like the Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center. In 2003 Major became the Director of the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project, shortly after its founding by attorney and community organizer Alexander L Lee, a trans man. The group works to end human rights abuses in the California Prison System, with a focus on trans, intersex, and gender variant POC. The position has since been passed on to Janetta Johnson, a previously incarcerated trans woman who mentored under Major. She is the focus of the 2015, award winning, documentary Major!. Major has five sons, two biological and three runaways she adopted, after meeting them in a California park. Her oldest son, Christopher was born in 1978, and her youngest, Asiah (rhymes with messiah) in 2021. At 82 years old Miss Major Griffin-Gracy continues to be an active member of her community and an advocate for our rights as trans people.

Haven't settled on which yet, but Willmer "Little Ax" Broadnax or Victor J Mukasa will be next!

#celebrating black queer icons #black history #black history month #black history is queer history #black history is american history #abolish the police #abolish prisons #decriminalize sex work #miss major griffin-gracy #major!#really disappointing to find out she doesnt show up in Popular Tags #stonewall inn #stonewall riots #stonewall uprising #transgender gender variant intersex justice project

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ro-ro-bbbi · 5 months

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Can we talk about how if hobie is from the '70...

He defintly saw Stonewall riots

maybe in his universe they could even started in england, maybe because he strated them.

And how cool is that? He would just casually mention that he saw, or maybe even fucking started the most well known lgbt riot in the world.

And, if gwen is anything like me, as a futuristic queer kid, she would scream, ask him about it, if he is fine, how it went ecc.

Bc she been told about this big riot and how brave it was bc no fucking body would give a shit about gay rights at the time and how all the rights that she has now are possible thanks to the fight and the sacrifices that queer people did for creating the whole damn lgbt+ movement... and now she has a friend who might have been the one who started it.

Hobie ofc is always ready to rant about his riots so he tells her everything and if hobie was cool before now he is gwen's idol.

(This doesnt last forever, especially when she realizes that he is a dumb teen who makes dumb jokes just like every other spider-teen, but the respect and admiration for him would never leave, dont tell him though ((he already knows)))

Im projecting but it just has such a strong impact for me listening about queer histrory and i'll never stop complaining about the fact that in my country it isnt taught at school, and yeah... just another reason why i want to be hobie's friend (or more)... As if there werent enough reasons already.

#hobie brown #across the spiderverse #spider punk #gwen stacy #atsv #stonewall riots #queer history #spiderverse #spider gwen #ghost spider #hobart brown #trans hobie brown #genderqueer hobie brown #trans gwen stacy

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genderfcker · 4 months

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just saw the insane take on that aphobic post that's traveling around that lesbians and bisexuals are the ones that built the queer community which is INSANE. anyone who's spent any time reading anything about stonewall and the queer community here in the us knows that its transwomen.

women like marsha p. johnson and sylvia rivera are the reason we can publicly call ourselves lgbtq+ today. and women like them truly understood community and intersectional feminism in a way terfs could only dream of.

on that note: any asexual or aromantic person is automatically queer, and fuck you if you think people like us are a burden on our community—because, in all honesty, it's the other way around.

#aphobia #transphobia #aromantic #asexual #marsha p johnson #sylvia rivera #transgender #trans #history #stonewall riots #its like how do u ever get to a point where u can just ignore history like that #do you not know ur roots

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partly-hueman · 1 year

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LGB rights

LGB Pride was started by four homosexuals: Craig Rodwell, Ellen Broidy & Linda Rhodes and Fred Sargent.

Stormé, a lesbian, started the Stonewall riots.

The LGB flag was designed by a Gay man, Gilbert.

Before you pull Marsha out of your ass. Marsha was a gay man, & was not trans. He claimed that he had nothing to do with Stonewall riots as he was not present there.

TQ+ cult keeps abusing LGBs lying that we got our rights because of a 'transwoman' Marsha who was not even trans, nor was present for any first LGB riot.

#lgb without the t #cope and seethe #gender critical #stonewall riots

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 1 month

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WOKE politicians 'support gay CONVERSION therapy' as confused kids 'fast-tracked to STERILISATION'

Andrew Doyle: On Friday there was a heated debate in the House of Commons about conversion therapy. Emotions ran high and few were more impassioned than the conservative MP Alicia Kearns who berated Alba MP Neil Hanvey for appealing on behalf of the LGB community.

So, here's how that exchange went.

Hanvey: People in the LGB community are often referred to as bigots and transphobes and other slurs just because we have concerns about legislation such of this. And we want to make sure that young LGB people are protected. And trans people. Does she agree with me that that must apply, that rule must apply, to all sides of any debate and not just one side that she favors.

Kearns: ... absolutely right, but there was one digit missing from his LGB: LGBT. We do not divide the LGBT community in this place. You can say that you have concerns about we doing. But by removing the T, you are suggesting that transgender people do not exist. You are suggesting they are lesser than other LGB people. And I will not stand for that, because it was trans people who stood with gay people at Stonewall. It was trans people who fought alongside for LGBT rights. So, when you say LGBT, when you remove the T, you suggest that they are lesser.

Doyle: Now it's clear to me that Alicia Kearns is well intentioned and sincere, and I mean no disrespect when I say that this is a subject about which she clearly knows very little. And that is dangerous, because if she gets her way on this issue, it will set back gay rights by decades.

So, let's address some of the key misconceptions. So, firstly, Kearns claimed that Hanvey was suggesting that transgender people don't exist, and at no point did he make such a claim. Sexual orientation and the belief in gender identity are totally unrelated concepts. Kearns seems to be suggesting that gay people have no right to campaign for their interests unless they simultaneously campaign for trans people. But why? Groups such as Mermaids campaign solely for trans rights. Are they therefore homophobic? Perhaps Alicia Kerns would like to berate them in Parliament. I look forward to seeing that.

Kearns went on to say that it was trans people who stood with the gays at Stonewall. Trans people fought together for LGB rights. Did they? I mean there were some trans people involved in the struggle for gay rights, certainly. But not all that many. The activists who changed history for the better were predominantly lesbians and gay men. At the Stonewall Inn, it was mostly gay men with some lesbians and drag queens who were involved in the riots. And it was likely a lesbian, Stormé DeLarverie, who sparked the whole thing. After the police raided the bar, she was being forcibly arrested and is said to have shouted to the crowd, aren't you going to do something?

Now, some trans activists have since attempted to rewrite history, claiming that a transwoman called Marsha P. Johnson threw the first brick at the Stonewall Inn. The trouble is, Marsha P. Johnson wasn't trans. He was a drag queen. And he wasn't even there when the rioting started.

Now, if Alicia Kearns wants to know about the actual history of Stonewall, not the revisionist fabrications of activists, she could read "Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution," by David Carter. Or, she could talk to someone who was actually there, such as the gay rights veteran Fred Sargeant.

Now let's talk about the confusion that's at the heart of this parliamentary debate. What exactly is conversion therapy? A YouGov poll last year revealed that 65% of voters believe that gay conversion therapy ought to be banned, and 62% feel the same about "trans conversion therapy." And this would suggest that most voters do not recognize the difference between the two, and nor do many politicians. Now this photograph was taken in Westminster Hall. A cross-party collective of dozens of MPs with a placard that reads, "I support a trans inclusive ban." The image was posted on Twitter by Laboir MP from Nottingham East, Nadia Whittome.

In truth, and without realizing it, the these politicians are supporting a new form of gay conversion therapy, something that most of us thought would be consigned to the history books by this point. When we hear that phrase, "conversion therapy," most of our minds leap to a variety of horrific practices. So, in America, Christian fundamentalists have established programs to address the "problem" of homosexuality, there are camps where young people can "pray the gay away." Which I suppose is at least a step forward from brain surgery, castration and the kind of electric shock treatment favoured by scientific practitioners in the 20th century, or the corrective rape of lesbians to "cure" them of homosexual tendencies that still goes on in some countries.

Such practices are of course already illegal in the UK. So, why the need for a conversion therapy ban? Well, what's happening is there is a conflation of sexual orientation and gender identity and this is why so many are confused. In her book, "Time to Think," Hannah Barnes revealed that between 80 to 90% of adolescents who were referred to the Tavistock pediatric gender clinic were same-sex attracted. We've known for a long time there's a strong correlation between gender nonconformity in youth and being gay in adult life. Members at the Tavistock itself joked that, "soon there would be no gay people left." Whistleblowers revealed that homophobia was endemic. In other words, children who are likely to grow up gay are being "fixed" by medical practitioners to better conform with stereotypical heterosexual paradigms.

Barnes's research shows that the Tavistock clinic -- and this is a quote -- "ignored evidence that 97.5% of children seeking sex changes had autism, depression or other problems that might have explained their unhappiness." They are only 2% of the country's children that suffer from an autistic spectrum disorder, so why is it that 35% of referrals to the Tavistock fit into that category?

in almost all instances, children who are prescribed puberty blockers go on to cross- sex hormones, which in some cases leads to irreversible surgery. We're dealing here, overwhelmingly, with gay and autistic children fast-tracked onto a pathway to sterilization. This is what MPs such as Lloyd Russell-Moyle and Alicia Kearns and Keir Starmer are supporting. Whether they realize it or not.

Now, thankfully, more and more people are waking up to the scale of this problem. So, recently the equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch wrote to the Commons Women and Equality Select Committee about her discussions with former clinicians at the Tavistock. And the conclusion? So-called gender affirmative care amounts to what she described as, "conversion therapy for gay kids." And crucially, she cited a survey of detransitioners -- these are people who have been pressurized into transitioning and they later regret it -- in which 23% of respondents put their determination to transition down to experiences of homophobia.

Badenoch quoted a gender clinic in Germany. They said, "it must be understood that early hormone therapy may interfere with the patient's development as a homosexual. This may not be in the interests of patients who, as a result of hormone therapy, can no longer have the decisive experiences that enable them to establish a homosexual identity."

It is profoundly disturbing that Starmer's Labour party is now officially supporting gay conversion therapy in the form of a ban on "trans-inclusive conversion therapy," and that he's gaining cross-party support. Now, a charitable interpretation is that Starmer, Kearns, Russell-Moyle, Whittome, all the other MPs who are supporting this, simply do not understand that they are advancing dangerously anti-gay proposals. They are supporting the new Section 28. And all the while, they think they're doing the precise opposite.

If any of these politicians would like to come on to this show and discuss these issues, I would be delighted to have them. Consider it an open invitation. In the meantime, I'd like to remind Parliament that homosexuality was removed from the World Health Organization's list of psychiatric disorders back in 1993. Being gay is not a medical condition that requires treatment. Unfortunately, activists have been remarkably successful in confusing the issues through semantic ambiguities and the redefinition of terms. And so, although it sounds desperately counterintuitive, the truth is that in order to oppose gay conversion therapy, one must be opposed to a ban on "trans conversion therapy."

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teethburger · 7 months

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the electric mayhem 100% participated in the stonewall riots

#idec how old they are it’s just objectively true #I don’t think they even knew that there was a riot going on.#i think they just went to the gay bar expecting to have a fun time chilling with the other gays #and then they arrived to see everyone going crazy throwing bricks at the police #and dr teeth went ‘well allright 😎’ and then they joined in #joey says some sh #shitpost #muppets #muppets mayhem #electric mayhem #stonewall riots #pride

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elierlick · 4 months

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Robert Amsel took part in the Stonewall Riots while working as the president of The Mattachine Society. In 1987, he recounted the stories of Stonewall and how the uprising became legendary. It's important to highlight the rioters' impressive physical resistance and how these same officers targeted Black and Latine bars. Read the full article at transreads.org/backtoourfuture/

#stonewall riots #history #lgbtq

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widebruh · 10 months

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#I love voting #we do a little trolling #stonewall riots #I'll serve crack before I serve this country #196 #apartmentofawesome #r/196 #rule

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thefallenangelsgang · 10 months

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Today, 54 years ago, the Stonewall Riots began

The police raided the bar and our queer elders fought back. Today the gay rights movement is considered to have started.

It's been 54 years and all of us are still in danger. Sweeping anti-trans legislation is happening in the US. Anti-Trans sympathies are still largely the norm in the UK. Homosexuality is still criminalized in 64 countries.

Don't forget your history. Don't forget your elders. Don't forget your queer siblings. And DO NOT forget those who have died due to the neglect of issues that impact us.

They can try to kill us, beat us, jail us, but we will not break.

Throw bricks, suck dicks, and never forget your history <3

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craycraybluejay · 1 year

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Just blocked likely around 100 or so people and there's more on that post. I'm tired. Fuck puritans. Yall think you're so progressive when you spout the exact same shit as conservatives. You are conservatives. You call people "freaks" and "weirdos" in a derogatory manner and scream "think of the children!" in an inflammatory attempt to increase censorship or eliminate people you don't like. Your fake queer fake tranny asses will be next and you're going to act so fucking surprised when people are calling YOU a pedophile for holding hands with your partner in public or dressing funny. And yknow what? I commend the "freaks" that will try to protect you like we historically did AGAIN despite you being an asshole assimilationist. But I will not. And I will not encourage anyone to. Assimilationism and purity culture kills queer people. If you want to live with and assimilate to cishetero Christian norms that is up to you but you cannot have it both ways. The same way a real feminist does not support terfs, I flat out do not support purposeful assimilationists and puritans that try to act like the poster child of queerness. You are a token queer. You are one of those people a company or political party might pick to use so as to act as if they are progressive while continuing to murder queer people. You may be queer, but you have long opted out of the pro-queer movement. The moment you start spewing reactionary anti-kink, pro-censorship, or thought crime rhetoric, is the moment you work against queer liberation. Queer liberation IS NOT "only for the acceptable, polite queers who stay in their lane."

Fandom is not some isolated island of inconsequential internet shit. It is a scary reflection of how young and impressionable people forget their roots and think that the privileges other people fought for are immutable rights. People fought for your right to make whatever art you want, and for your right to decide who to kiss or not, and for your right to identify as whatever gender ever. And now you're fighting against those rights because you don't understand. But I cannot make you understand, and am tired of trying. And it will hurt when you are hurt by the policies you so fight for. But it hurts even more when people who have always been pro liberty and pro freedom and pro art and pro queer are suffering for your stupidity and cruelty. So you are like me. But you are against me, and other people like you. So you are not like us. And if you so despise freaks maybe you at least somewhat deserve what's coming. Maybe I won't have to feel all that bad for prioritizing those who want to prioritize me and each other. History will repeat itself. And those of us who are united will survive. And those of us who are not will be converted and murdered out of existence. It hurts but the only thing that I can do is protect and fight for the people who know what they are fighting for.

#ranty venty rant #personal #anoutherposting #queer as in fuck you #fuck antis #fuck purity culture #puritans #assimilation #purity culture #the intersection between fandom and queer culture as a whole #uncomfortable truths #history repeats itself #don't forget #stonewall riots #weirdos and freaks fought for you

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emma-dennehy-presents · 1 year

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Celebrating Black Queer Icons:

Tourmaline

Tourmaline (formerly known/credited as Reian Gossett)is a trans woman that actively identifies as queer, and is best known for her work in trans activism and economic justice. Tourmaline was born July 20, 1983, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Tourmaline's mother was a feminist and union organizer, her father a self defense instructor and anti-imprisonment advocate. Growing up in this atmosphere allowed Tourmaline to explore her identity and encouraged her to fight in what she believes in. Tourmaline has earned a BA in Comparative Ethnic Studies, from Colombia University. During her time at Colombia U, Tourmaline taught creative writing courses to inmates at Riker's Island Correctional Institute, through a school program known as Island Academy. Tourmaline has worked with many groups and organizations in her pursuit of justice. She served as the Membership Coordinator for Queers For Economic Justice, Director of Membership at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and as a Featured Speaker for GLAAD. Tourmaline also works as a historian and archivist for drag queens and trans people associated with the 1969 Stonewall Inn Uprising. She started doing this after noticing how little trans material was being archived, saying that what little did get archived was done so accidentally. In 2010 Tourmaline began her work in film by gathering oral histories from queer New Yorkers for Kagendo Murungi's Taking Freedom Home. In 2016 Tourmaline directed her first film The Personal Things, which featured trans elder Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. For the film Tourmaline was awarded the 2017 Queer Art Prize. Tourmaline served as the Assistant Director to Dee Rees on the Golden Globe nominated historical drama, Mudbound. Tourmaline has co produced two projects with fellow filmmaker and activist Sasha Wortzel. The first was STAR People Are Beautiful, about the work of Sylvia Rivera and Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. The second was Happy Birthday, Marsha, about Marsha P Johnson. Happy Birthday, Marsha had all trans roles played by trans actors. Tourmaline's work is featured or archived in several major museums and galleries. In 2017 her work was featured in New Museum's exhibit Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. In 2020 the Museum of Modern Art acquired Tourmaline's 2019 film Salacia, a project about Mary Jones. In 2021 the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired two of Tourmaline's works for display in Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room. Tourmaline is also the sibling of:

Che Gossett

Che Gossett is a nonbinary, trans femme writer and archivist. Gossett specializes in queer/trans studies, aesthetic theory, abolitionist thought and black study. Gossett received a Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies, from Rutgers University, in 2021. They have also received a BA in African American Studies from Morehouse college, a MAT in Social Studios from Brown University, and a MA in History from the University of Pennsylvania. Gossett has held a fellowship at Yale, and currently holds fellowships at Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge. Gossett's writing has been published in a number of anthologies and they have lectured and performed at several museums and galleries of note, including the Museum of Modern Art and A.I.R. Gallery. Gossett is currently working on finishing a political biography of queer Japanese-American AIDS activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya.

I originally intended to do separate profiles for Che Gossett Tourmaline, but could not find sufficient information about Che Gossett, beyond their credentials and current academic activity. That means that this will be the last of these write ups for a bit. I plan on picking it back up in October for the US's LGBT History Month and UK's Black History month. With time to plan ahead and research more I hope to diversify my list geographically and improve formatting. I plan on starting to include cis icons as well, like Rustin Bayard. If you come across this or any other of these posts Ive made this month I would love feedback and suggestions for figures you would like to see covered.