June 15 is the anniversary of both the Night Vale and Gravity Falls pilots, as well as Vanessa Doofenshmirtz’s birthday and “give it up for day 15” day

FUN FACT: I’m actually *further* to the left now than I was in my 20s!

I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.

Inclusive language is for everyone!!

with every episode it becomes clearer that kenobi was not written for the star wars dudebros who want to see darth vader and obi-wan kenobi duke it out. it is made for the ani and obi girlies who want to see their boys as pathetic middle aged men going through a divorce and as one of those girlies i am THRIVING

MINOR KENOBI SPOILERS AHEAD

I haven’t heard a lot of talk about this but did anyone else notice how similar the screams that Obi Wan and Anakin made while being burned were?

Just another sad parallel in Kenobi 😭

This is why I haven’t posted on ao3 in a hot minute 🤣

spent an hour making these instead of writing

Bad batch season 2 trailer just dropped!!!!

Kenobi Episode 1 and 2 Spoilers ahead

No seriously, don't even look at the tags. Just keep scrolling if you haven't seen Kenobi yet.

First off,

Those flashbacks killed me. The recap before the first episode and the end of the second episode with talk of Anakin (I didn't think anyone except Palpatine and maybe Tarkin knew that Anakin was Darth Vader but I guess Reva does? idk)

But seriously, I love little Leia so much, she's the perfect mix of Anakin and Padme. Fearless, sassy, perhaps a little impulsive, etc. and the relationship between her and Bail, *chefs kiss*

Kenobi hype train!! Reblog if you’re excited to watch Kenobi 🚂

bonus:

1-800-r-u-slappin

LEGO STAR WARS INTERACTIONS ARE THE ONLY CANON I WILL ACCEPT NOW

The Batman + Letterboxd.

Somehow you make me love you more and more, @same-heart-same-blood

(Beautiful art by @cobaltbeam )

sorry i can’t do anything today i have to be somewhere at 6pm