Some photos from the To Survive on This Shore exhibit of Transgender Men who are older adults. 👏😃

From Hombres Trans México

🏳️‍🌈 Ruth Ellis (1899 - 2000) was the daughter of former slaves. She came out as a lesbian when she was 16-years-old to the complete acceptance of her family. In 1937, Ruth and her longtime partner moved to Detroit from their hometown of Springfield, Illinois for the promise of higher wages. There, she became the first woman in Michigan to run her own printing business. She printed fliers, posters, and stationary in the front room of her home, which also quickly became a hotspot for Black LGBTQ social life. Before long, Ruth was helping those who came around in any way she could, including by paying for college tuitions. After the Stonewall uprising, 70-year-old Ruth began giving speeches in support of gay and lesbian rights all across the country. She remained an activist for the rest of her long life and even spent her 100th birthday leading the San Francisco Dyke March. At the time of her death at 101, she was recognized as the oldest out lesbian in the US. She is the subject of the documentary "Living With Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100" and is the namesake of the Ruth Ellis Center, a shelter for homeless and at-risk LGBTQ youth in Detroit.

Celebrate Ruth Ellis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis_(activist)

#Pride #BlackLivesMatter

“We stood there and watched and saw the flags, and their faces lit up. It needed no explanation. People knew immediately that it was our flag.”

- US Activist Cleve Jones

It’s 45 years today since the rainbow flag was first flown - on 25 June 1978 at San Francisco Pride - as a symbol of gay pride and the queer community!

[Image: two rainbow flags flying on flagpoles above a group of people out on the street at San Francisco pride. The flags have eight coloured stripes, and one has a blue-and-white star pattern in the top left corner.]

The first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was held on this day, 24 June, in 1978 in commemoration of International Gay Solidarity Day, and the ninth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. A parade of around 1500 people was ambushed by police, ending in 53 arrests.

43 years on, the event has now blossomed into the biggest queer festival in Australia. This year it was celebrated as part of WorldPride, and the original protesters - known as the 78ers - led 50,000 people in a Pride march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

[I mages: police arrest a young man at the 1978 march; 78ers marching at WorldPride with a rainbow, black and pink banner reading “78ers The First Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Australia; still out and proud; 1978-2023″]

Naundorf, Geryllaeyn "Celebration: a look at gay lifestyles", Empty Closet, June 1975.

People is what the gay movement is all about. People feeling free to choose their lifestyles and forming communities with other loving, caring people.

There is an intense pride here a warm continuity of life.

There is a joy in the growing reality of human liberation and a feeling of hope as the constraints of labels begin to fall away and become irrelevant.

People standing together, working together, and loving together.

We are teachers, ministers, truck drivers, nurses, doctors, lawyers, clerks, and factory workers.

We are your neighbors , sons, and daughters . People as people. That's what it's all about. Geryllaeyn Naundorf

Ewan Forbes was a Scottish nobleman who began his transition at age 15, around 1927. He was among the first transgender Europeans to have their gender accepted in court after his cousin sued to inherit his baronetcy. The court eventually ruled in Ewan's favor in 1968 and he inherited his family's 17th century pink castle in Brux. The massive estate was reportedly an inspiration for Walt Disney's castle design.

I was completely captivated by these photos of him so I decided to colorize them. That's him with his wife Isabella Mitchell on the left (1966) and a golden lab named "Stolen Day" on the right (1952).

Ewan published a 1984 memoir, The Aul' Days, which focused on his different journeys. More recently, Zoë Playdon wrote The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes. It follows Ewan's legal case and transition.

The Aul' Days: archive.org/details/auldaysforb00forb/page/n1/mode/ Hidden Case: transreads.org/ewanforbes/

Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, 1971

Transvestite and Transsexual Liberation demands from the 1970s. Not a single one has been fully met.

(Tiktok Profile) A collection of trans women in media and pop culture.

Lick Bush in '92!

Drag persona Joan Jett Blakk, co-founder of Queer Nation Chicago, announces candidacy for US President against George Bush in 1992.

Happy birthday Yona Wallach!

Born on 10 June 1944, Israeli poet Yona Wallach was openly bisexual. She rarely wrote about specific relationships, saying “I want to keep it as an experience, not turn it into words,” but several of her poems are explicitly about sex with female lovers.

When she started publishing in the 1960s, Yona became one of the few female voices in the male-dominated sphere of Hebrew poetry, and one of the first Hebrew poets to write openly about women’s sexuality.

Learn more

[Image: Yona Wallach sitting in a chair, smiling and holding a cigarette, source]

Excerpt from Songs of Ourselves written by Susan Edwards. 1973.

Poster, Fierce Pussy, 1991

welcome to queer undefined, a site detailing the many meanings of lgbtq+ labels and phrases.

"Yes, Transsexual!" is a short zine about the history of the term transsexual, when the term transgender came into usage, and why and how many people still use the term transsexual and how it can be seen as an extremely distinct and important identity for many trans people.

However, scholarship on the history of the body has shown that sexual dimorphism may not have always underpinned scientific or religious thought. (4) In the field of Islamic history, Indira Falk Gesink argues that despite the importance of a gender binary to the realms of marriage, the household, inheritance, and ritual, Muslim scholars from across the spectrum of premodern jurisprudence exhibited flexibility when confronted with morphological ambiguity. They adopted a category of “complex sex” and allowed people to hold different sex designations simultaneously or to pass from one to another. (5) Medieval Arabic medical texts go a step further and elaborate what Ahmed Ragab calls a “sexscape” in which bodies were observed and placed along a continuum from ultramasculine males at one extreme to ultrafeminine females at the other, with plenty of options in between. Although these texts predictably focus on anatomy and morphology, they deemphasize genitalia, at least in comparison to other physical markers, in locating a body on the continuum. (6) This scholarship highlights the inadequacy of a binary construction of sex for understanding the way bodies were perceived and positioned in premodern legal and medical discourses.

Zayde Antrim, “Qamarayn: The Erotics of Sameness in the 1001 Nights” in Al-Usur Al-Wusta