#to the lgbt community i am queer

[uncanny-tranny]

Not a day goes by where I do not think about the advent of medicine like PrEP and wonder just what the people - especially queer people - who passed from HIV/AIDs during the AIDs crisis would think

And then, I read this survivor's testimony and it just makes me emotional. I think this is the closest answer we have. HIV has changed, and we must always remember the people who didn't see that change before it happened.

#gay #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #described images #image description in alt #i do try to learn from older queer people about this tome period because i wasn't around for it #but i always wondered what the people who didn't make it would have thought of where we are now #there's this weird grief and celebration because i am so glad we are where we are. i just wish everybody cpuld have seen this #this is why it's so important to learn from each other about everything #it takes a village to create community #i have been thinking about that twitter post at LEAST once a month since i first saw it #very complex feelings on this one folks #there is so much left to learn i think but this just hits me in a specific way

[citricacidprince]

Y'all need to be fucking nicer to men/masc queers

I was talking to an old friend/short lived boyfriend from highschool and the topic of sexualities came up. He identified as bisexual throughout highschool but told me that recently he doesn't know what he was and just preferred to remain 'unlabeled' until he figured it out. I told him to his face "thats valid man and being unlabeled doesn't make you any less queer than when you were labeled"

God you should've seen his fucking face, he looked so happy and also like he was about to goddamn cry. He told me that no one ever told him that. That he tried to join queer spaces but they said he didn't fit in cause he wasn't 'gay' enough. Told me that I was the first person to ever confidently tell him he was queer and that he didn't need to change himself to 'fit in'.

I gave my friend one of my mini pride flags I had lying around and the dopey grin he had on his face while waving that thing around for the rest of the night made me smile too. When he finally went home he thanked me for the flag and for reassuring him when he felt insecure for 'not being gay enough'.

I want y'all to know that whole time he telling me about people not accepting him for "not looking queer" made me fucking pissed. Oh, because he's not petite, feminine, and white he can't be queer? Because he doesn't look like a fashionable and conventionally pretty gay on you'd find on your TikTok homepage he can't be queer?

THIS ISN'T EVEN THE FIRST TIME I'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION WITH A FRIEND BEFORE

In highschool I had ANOTHER friend who had this same problem but in a different font. He liked cute things, he liked flowing fabrics and skirts, he even liked being called princess! But because he was fat and not conventionally attractive he felt like he couldn't be queer. Because from what he saw, queer people don't look like him.

If you're one of those people who would gatekeep ANYONE who doesn't fit into your Pinterest board ideal version of queer from the LGBTQ+ community, you can fuck right off because anyone who would just shut of someone out of our community for something so petty and dumb and ignorant doesn't deserve the keys to the fucking door in the first place.

Start treating people who don't fit into your saturated and commercialized view of queer with more respect and kindness before I start biting off your fucking arms

#i made this at like 7am cause i was in am anger spiral so theres probably spelling errors but i cant be bothered to check them #this has been nawing at my brain for days now and i dont get it one paper its gonna kill me #im not gonna tag this with 'que slur' or whatever you guys are tagging it now cause its not a slur stop treating it like its one #its an umbrella term for the whole gay community and i will smack you witb a broom of all you take from this is 'oh you said a slur 😶' #i will attacka and killa you dont test me #im not normally this violent i swear; i just get violent when people start upsetting my friends #lgbt #lgbtq+ #lgbtq positivity #masc enby #masculine enby #masc nonbinary #queer #queer representation #queer community #tw cursing #tw swearing #tw arguing #tw aggressive #prince rambles in this chilies tonight #lgbtqia #nonbinary #non bianry #enby #amab nonbinary #amab enby #prince's gold star posts

[gayvampyr]

“queer spaces should be inclusive of people who don’t enjoy sex and who have “strange”, negative or repulsed relationships with sex” and “sex is an important aspect of lgbt community, history, and activism and queer people should be allowed and able to talk freely about sex without stigma or shame” are ideas that can and should coexist.

#‘queer people were banned from and shamed for having sex and that’s where a lot of our activism stemmed from’ and #‘not liking or having sex is considered abnormal and a mental illness and also needs to be destigmatized’ are concepts that not only can but #often do coalign #it’s esp important to consider that a lot of lgbt ppl who have a tricky and strained relationship with sex are like that because of trauma #which is very common for queer folks #it’s really not an ace-only thing #like i am sex repulsed but it’s very hard to discern if it’s because i’m asexual or if it’s the trauma. either way i deserve to have those #feelings and be included in lgbt spaces and discussions about sex and treated as just another queer person with a different experience #instead of being alienated because my feelings about sex don’t directly line up with yours #im so sick of people in this community trying to pit us against each other. as an ace lesbian that shit is so toxic and harmful #my relationship with sex is fluid. im sex-positive always‚ but i often find myself sex repulsed. im otherwise neutral about it but im sick #of people acting like it’s either you enjoy sex and have it frequently or you hate it and you shame everyone who has it like youre a puritan #and it’s often aphobes who bought into that ‘aces are puritanical celibate straights who want ppl who have gay sex to die or think they’re #‘dirty’ or some shit. and it was literally 90% crypto-aphobes pretending to be aces to get people to adopt that into their belief system #the same way crypto-t/rfs pretend to be trans women who want to prey on the ‘innocent women’ #and y’all will use those posts/screenshots as ‘evidence’ that whatever scapegoat you’ve selected is actually inherently bad/homophobic/ #misogynistic/etc and not even #acknowledge the giant hole in your logic cuz you’re too busy trying to find a scapegoat #it’s the same tactics and y’all fall for it every time #text post #like. lesbians are CONSTANTLY getting hounded and told that we’re broken or mentally i’ll for not showing interest in (having sex with) men #for the same reason asexuality is considered bad or wrong or weird #not showing interest in heterosexual relationships or sex is why this is so important #anyone that falls outside the scope of heterosexuality is part of this community whether you like it or not

[fandomcat2930]

i am very queer. in the gay way, but also in a I Am Very Fucking Strange way

#funny #is this the funny? #i am wierdo #queer friendly #queer #queer community #lgtbqia+ #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #lgbt pride #lgbtqia friendly #lgbt friendly

[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)

[thief-of-eggs]

Was talking with my coworkers today, and I forget how it came up, but one of them was like “Wait, are you gay?” (I’m bisexual)

And instead of just saying that to him, I panicked and replied “Yeah, sometimes”

#i mean it’s true #i am sometimes gay #when a pretty woman walks in the room #but tbh even the way i like men seems to be in a homosexual way #idk if that makes sense #anyway #bisexual #queer #lgbtq community #lgbt #lgbtqia #text post

[bromantically]

the point of slur reclamation is not to take away its status as a slur, but to take its power from the hands of oppressors and put it into our own. i do not reclaim words like fag because my goal is to normalize it and get rid of its status as a slur, i reclaim it because im making it mine now. im taking it so the power over it is in my hands, im taking their weapons from them and i dont intend to give them back

#kitty purrs #also before someone says something NO i am not saying u should call people these things just bc ur reclaiming it #i believe in respecting peoples boundaries and preferences so no im not saying to call a person queer or a fag if theyve asked u not to #but ultimately im not going to stop using those words to describe me and my community #if u can handle people using 'transsexuals' to refer to trans communities #and 'dykes' to refer to sapphic communities #u can handle people using 'queer' to describe broad lgbt+ communities #u have to understand that there is important context and that its not always specifically about u

[milomilesmib]

If sexuality was a choice there would be way more lesbians in the world because men kinda suck

#i am a man btw #lgbt #lesbian #gay #queer #lgbtqiia+ #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #lgbtq #shitpost #gay jokes #queer jokes #queer humor #gay humor #lgbt humor #men ☕️

[prettybambifemme]

I 🩷 being a hairy femme

I 🩷 having hairy legs

I 🩷 having hairy armpits

I 🩷 confidence and beauty and embracing my body for what it is instead of conforming to the societal expectations of what feminity should look like

I LOVE YOU HAIRY FEMMES!!! I FUCKING LOVE YOU!!! MWWWAAAH 💋💋💋

#lesbian #lesbian blog #wlw blog #queer #dyke #lesbo #queer community #wlw #sappho #dykeposting #hyper feminine #femme lesbian #femme dyke #high femme #lesbianism #femme appreciation #hairy femme #I say this right now because my own mother tried to call me gross for having hairy armpits #I simply dismissed her by saying that I am comfortable enough in my own body to not feel a desire to shave my body hair 💕 #I love embracing the parts of myself that are considered unacceptable by societal standards #wlw community #lgbt

[ruskatartx]

Did y’all hear about this law Russia made few days ago?

LGBTQ+ in Russia now is an extremist move.

Now you can get 12 YEARS IN JAIL only bc you wear rainbow pin without one specific color.

Now you can get 12 YEARS IN JAIL only bc you love, meanwhile murderers get 6 years (to 15, but it depends; ANYWAY THE MIN ONE IS 6 YEARS, NOT 12.)

I dont live in Russia, but i speak russian and live in half-russian family. Biggest part of my family and close people lives in Russia, and part of them are queer. I dont want to believe im illegal in country with my close people only bc of who i am. In Russia me and my trans/queer brothers, sisters and siblings taken as someone like murderers. Is that ALRIGHT, RUSSIA?

#lgbtq #lgbtq community #lgbtq rights #trans rights #transgender #queer #gay #lesbian #bisexual #lgbt #russia #i am gay

[uncanny-tranny]

It's always, like, mildly annoying when people see a het trans couple and go "all that work just to be straight?" like... one, you don't know if they're straight and two, trans people don't owe you a queer sexuality to "make up" for the fact we're trans. Transhet people aren't a subtype of trans people, they're members of the trans community, and the queer one if they so desire!

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #and i don't really vibe with the word microaggression but it's very that #like it just comes across like people think trans folks owe them queerness and cabaret preformances y'know? #and we cannot *be* if it means the way we are being isn't this carefully curated version people have of transness + queerness #and it can kind of warp your desires and understanding of yourself because you *want* community and to be seen and to be allowed to just be #this isn't universal and the 'you' is impersonal. i am aware this is a broad range of experiences and not everybody can/does relate #my overall point is that it's probably not the best move to act like this toward trans people #maybe i read too much into this but it's just something i have seen over and over and over and over . . . again #shoutout to the real ones (heterosexual and/or straight trans people or people in straight-presenting relationships 👍) #back to playing the lelda of zelda (is it bad that i don't even call her zelda anymore i just go 'THERES LELDA!!!') #it sounds wrong to call her zelda now 😭 #the LEG OF ZEG. SWORD SKORD???? BREATH OF THE WEATH!! -my brain 24/7/365

[justdavina]

Sexy makeup worn by a goth transgender girl. I love her dress.. as always I love shear dresses with see through arms. Her hair is magical!

AI ?

#trans community #transgender #transgirl #queer #lgbtlove #trans pride #trans #transgenderwoman #lgbtqia #transfem #lgbt #lgbtq artist #lgbt pride #lgbtq #lgbtq people #lgbtq history #lgbtq community #lgbtqia+ #homosexuality #homoerotic #gay #gay community #gay culture #homosexual #gays #gay fashion #gay girls #gay selfie #gay woman #i am so gay

[aaa-battery-not-rechargeable]

my brother is the only one who actively attempts to use my name and pronouns. he is still a child.

my mother and father, who I've been having the conversation with for years still sigh and shake their heads.

they treat him like the golden child, and me like the first draft they couldn't fix so they made another one. him and I both know it.

they raised us in competition.

and then they wonder why their kids get along so well, and defy them so boldly, and defend one another from them. as if they didn't set it up this way for us on purpose.

having siblings support you as a queer person is the best thing i could ask for. i adore my 6'2 little monster of a baby brother

#my brother is fully tall and big enough to body slam my father #and i am a fairly small adult #i have to hide behind my beanstalk of a baby bro whenever my father gets too mad #lmao #aroace #queer #lgbt #lgbtq+ #lgbtq #lgbtq pride #lgbtqia #parental issues #queer community #siblings #amatonormativity #lilith has the microphone

[someonetooksendnoodles]

i had a much larger thought dump drafted, but as we approach pride month this year, this is your friendly reminder to not forget about small town queers, queers in deep red conservative areas, queers actively fighting legislation against our existence, and all of the queers who continue to exist and create spaces for us by simply existing.

our options for living in a safe community shouldn’t be limited to major cities.

sincerely,

a queer from a deep red area of the US

#sorry for the slight ramble #i’ve been re-examining my relationship with my deeply conservative hometown and in doing so realize how much i’ve given up on the queer #people in my community who have always fought for my right to exist in hometown and now i feel it’s my turn to do the same #also very influenced by the willow news bc i am so tired of compromising my queerness and i don’t want to do it anymore #pride #pride month #lgbt pride #lgbtqa #lgbtq rights #lgbtq community #gay #lesbian #nonbinary #trans pride

[elijah-loyal]

hey guys, small conundrum

i'm planning on coming out to my parents in around 5 months and i need to put together a presentation; i will also be writing a LONG essay about the existence of trans individuals (and validating it because my family is interesting?? one way to put it ig) and i need

suggestions for presentation

sources for helpful studies and information for the essay

good points for the essay (in case i forget any)

if anyone can help, i would greatly appreciate it!!

#yes i am coming out in an uncomfortable household because i have no other choice #for me i would rather finally be free; finally having said it and been done with it #no my parents are not supportive of trans individuals #no i do not think "i'm different teehee they'll validate me!!' #i know what im getting into #trans #transgender #help #trans help #research #ftm #ftm trans #transmasc #trans ftm #tboy #trans man #trans presentation #lgbt #queer #coming out #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #queer community

[ghost-in-the-corner]

sex positive aro 🤝 sex repulsed ace

#they're cuddle buddies #they're besties #i am writing this for no reason in particular #don't look at me #queer #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtq community #aspec #asexual #aromantic #aroace #aromantic allosexual #romantic asexual #a perfect dynamic duo #gay #idk #lgbtqia+ #writing #queer platonic relationship #queer platonic love #queer platonic #corner conversations