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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY
based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … March 3
1873 – Censorship: On this date the U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail. The law was named after its chief proponent, general busy-body prude, anti- obscenity crusader Anthony Comstock. The enforcement of the Act was, in its early days, often conducted by Comstock himself or through his New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.
People literally committed suicide because of this law. Ida Craddock committed suicide on the eve of reporting to Federal prison for distributing via the U.S. Mail various sexually explicit marriage manuals she had authored. Her final work was a lengthy public suicide note specifically condemning Comstock.
This law was used to suppress LGBT literature until the January 13, 1958 Supreme Court ruling in which the Court delivered an astonishing unanimous pro-Gay decision, overturning the rulings of the two lower courts against the magazine One, and limiting the power of the Comstock Act. As a result, Lesbian and Gay publications, like White Crane (at the time, the mere discussion of being Gay was considered "pornography") could be mailed without legal repercussions, though many continued to experience harassment from the Post Office and U.S. Customs.
ONE, Inc., a homophile educational organization, was founded in Los Angeles in 1952 by about a dozen members of the Mattachine Society who wished to publish a monthly magazine. The name "ONE" (also the magazine's name) was chosen from a quote by 19th century British essayist Thomas Carlyle: "A mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men one."
1903 – The American fashion and costume designer Adrian was born on this date (d. 1959). Born as Adrian Adolph Greenberg (sometimes credited as Gilbert Adrian) in Naugatuk, Connecticut, he studied at the School for Fine and Applied Arts in New York and in Paris.
His most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer films of the 1930s and 1940s. The photo below shows the and the iconic ruby slippers he designed for Dorothy!
During his career, he designed costumes for over 250 films and his screen credits usually read as "Gowns by Adrian". On occasion, he was credited as Gilbert Adrian, a combination of his father's forename and his own. Among the many he dressed were Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Greta Garbo and Katherine Hepburn.
Though he was openly Gay, he married Janet Gaynor in 1939, possibly in response to the anti-Gay attitudes of the movie studio heads and the sex-negative atmosphere created by the Production Code.
In 1942 Adrian retired from the cinema and opened a shop in Beverly Hills, California. His reasons for leaving Hollywood? They wanted to mess with Garbo. He famously said "It was because of Garbo that I left M-G-M. In her last picture they wanted to make her a sweater girl, a real American type. I said, 'When the glamour ends for Garbo, it also ends for me. She has created a type. If you destroy that illusion, you destroy her.' When Garbo walked out of the studio, glamour went with her, and so did I."
1940 – On this date the American fashion designer Perry Ellis was born (d. 1986) He founded the influential Perry Ellis sportswear house in the mid-1970s. Throughout the 1980s the company continued to expand and include various labels such as Perry Ellis Collection and Perry Ellis Portfolio. By 1982, the company had more than 75 staff. In 1984, Perry Ellis America was created in cooperation with Levi Strauss. In 1985, he revived his lesser-priced Portfolio line. In the early 1980s, wholesale revenues had figured at about $60 million. By 1986 that number had risen to about $250 million.
In his early career in New York, Ellis began to explore the homosexual side of his nature. He had previously dated a few women but had never developed a serious relationship with any of them. He now also started having affairs with men, including one with Robert MacDonald, a young man then working in the film industry. Their romance faded after about six years, but MacDonald would remain one of Ellis's closest and most trusted friends for the rest of his life.
As accolades and award nominations for his designs came Ellis's way, he negotiated a complex deal with Manhattan Industries that gave him his own division within the corporation, Perry Ellis Sportswear, Inc., and also created Ellis's own company, Perry Ellis International. The agreement was signed in August 1978. The arrangement would allow Ellis to branch out, eventually adding lines of men's sportswear, evening clothes, shoes, furs, fragrances, and linens.
Ellis presented his fall collection in April 1978. The show was the first to feature Ellis's men's wear designs. The first model to wear them on the runway was Robert "Beau" Tropper, who had recently become Ellis's lover. Although Ellis was not out publicly as a gay or bisexual man, the nature of his relationship with Tropper, some sixteen years his junior, was an open secret in the fashion world.
A key player in the expansion of Ellis's enterprises—and in his personal life—was Laughlin Barker. The two met in 1980 and immediately fell in love. Shortly thereafter Ellis retained the law firm for which Barker worked as corporate counsel for Perry Ellis International. In June 1982 Barker began working directly for the company as its president and legal counsel, a position created especially for him by Ellis, who held the title of chairman.
Barker proved to be an astute businessman. By the beginning of 1986 sales were up to approximately a quarter of a billion dollars.
Ellis was briefly hospitalized with hepatitis in early 1981 shortly after he and Barker returned from a trip to Africa. Ellis recovered, but following the episode both he and Barker started showing more concern about their health.
Within a few years the two men began to decline visibly, Barker in particular. Although they kept up the demanding task of guiding Ellis's fashion empire, they spent more and more of their time running it from Ellis's luxurious beach house at Water Island, a tiny and isolated community on Fire Island.
Ellis and Barker nevertheless continued to travel frequently. They made several trips to Paris in connection with the development of Ellis's fragrance line, but according to close friends they were also going to the Pasteur Institute, a leader in AIDS research, where patients (including actor Rock Hudson) were able to obtain experimental drug treatments unavailable elsewhere.
Barker was hospitalized in late 1985, but Ellis brought him home at Christmastime. Barker died on January 2, 1986 at the age of thirty-seven. His death was publicly reported as due to lung cancer.
Although Ellis himself was desperately ill, he insisted on attending a benefit for the American Foundation for AIDS Research in late April. A longtime friend later speculated that Ellis may have intended this as a tacit acknowledgment that he had AIDS.
Elis presented his final collection on May 8. Far too weak to close the show with his traditional skip down the runway, he could only walk to the top of it with the support of his two design assistants. The audience rose to give him a standing ovation.
Fashion critics praised the collection, but before the writers had even written their reviews MacDonald was driving Ellis from the showroom to the hospital. He remained there, eventually lapsing into a coma. Ellis died on May 30, 1986.
His demise was attributed to viral encephalitis, a common immediate cause of death in AIDS patients.
Bettel (R) with husband Gauthier Destenay
1973 – Xavier Bettel is a Luxembourgish politician and lawyer, serving as Prime Minister of Luxembourg. He has previously served as Mayor of Luxembourg City, member of the Chamber of Deputies and member of the Luxembourg City communal council. Bettel is a member of the Luxembourg Democratic Party.
Portrait de S.A.R. le Grand-Duc Guillaume de Luxembourg
In 2013, Bettel was elected leader of the Democratic Party, and in the 2013 election, led the party to a third-ranked position in parliamentary seats. On 25 October, Bettel was designated by Grand Duke Henri as the formateur for the next government. He assumed his post as Luxembourg's Prime Minister on 4 December 2013. In the government's coalition of the Democratic Party, Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party and The Greens, he also holds the functions of Minister of State, Minister for Communications and the Media, and Minister of Worship.
His policies were expected to include reforms on same-sex marriage in Luxembourg, replace religious instruction in schools with general ethics classes and cut spending to maintain Luxembourg's AAA credit rating.
His government legalized same sex marriage in 2015, allowing Bettel to marry his male partner.
Bettel is openly gay, and has stated that increasingly in Luxembourg "people do not consider the fact of whether someone is gay or not". Bettel is Luxembourg's first openly gay Prime Minister and, worldwide, the third openly gay head of government following Iceland's Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir and Belgium's Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo. As of October 2014, he was the only openly gay world leader.
Bettel has been in a partnership with Gauthier Destenay since March 2010. In August 2014 Destenay proposed to Bettel, who accepted. Bettel and Destenay married on 15 May 2015. (On 1 January 2015, same-sex marriage law reforms that passed in June 2014 had come into effect.)
Interestingly enough, Bettel's deputy prime minister, Etienne Schneider, is also gay.
1973 – Two California police officers have a shootout in a restroom after one attempts to arrest the other for "an act of oral copulation."
2010 – On this date Gay marriage in Washington, D.C. became a reality in the nation's capitol, when Angelisa Young and Sinjoyla Townsend applied for and received a marriage license. The African-American couple had been together for 12 years and were married a week later thanks to years of advocacy on the local level to change the laws and offer marriage to all. Most importantly the election of a Democratic party-controlled Congress and White House assured the law would not be overruled.Gay council-member, and former Republican David Catania had waited to introduce the bill until a friendly Congress was in place that would allow the local decision to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples.
Since the Republicans took the house in the last election they've threatened to put roadblocks on the city's law. That is because Washington, DC is still treated like a colony and doesn't have autonomy in its decisions — although the citizens pay taxes and fight in all the wars.
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I was reading some of Allan McLane's work, for those that don't know, he was a grandson of Alexander Hamilton, being the second son of Philip Hamilton II and Rebecca McLane. I noticed something intriguing about one of his books. In the second volume of A System of legal medicine, by McLane and Lawrence Godkin published in 1894, there is an article titled; ‘Sexual Crimes’. The section is written by one of the many collaborates, Charles Gilbert Chaddock. Chaddock was a Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System, and neurologist to Rebekah Hospital. An additional fun fact, the first known use of the term homosexual was in Chaddock's 1892 translation of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis, a study of sexual practices.
Chaddock discusses a lot of sexual topics but one is “sexual inversion”, which was a theory of homosexuality popular primarily in the late 19th and early 20th century. Sexual inversion was believed to be an inborn reversal of gender traits: male inverts were, to a greater or lesser degree, inclined to traditionally female pursuits and dress and vice versa.
The most common sexological theory of same-sex desire was that it was the result of physical, emotional, or psychological “inversion.” In other words, the gender of persons who desired their own sex was somehow reversed. When a man desired a man, it was actually a woman—presumably existing within the man's body—who was desiring a man. When a woman desired a woman, it was actually a male essence within the woman's body who felt that desire. This metaphysical explanation, accepted as scientific (at this point of the emergence of psychology as a science), had a substantial effect on the public imagination for the next fifty years. It became how many people understood the phenomenon of same-sex desire. Theories of Inversing were published widely, and sexologists were understood by the average person to be the experts on a “new science.” The idea of the “invert,” or “third sex,” also quickly and profoundly informed two popular and lasting stereotypes: the mannish lesbian and the effeminate homosexual man. (Although there were preexisting stereotypes of the effeminate male, sexological taxonomy invented him as a homosexual man.)
Source — A Queer History of the United States, by Michael Bronski · 2011
Chaddock wrote that;
Since in any case sexual inversion is but a phenomenon arising from a neuropsychopathic condition, as previously indicated, it is seldom an isolated manifestation, but is most frequently observed in combination with other sexual perversions. In accordance with this, the medico-legal questions arising in sexual inversion may be identical with those raised in the sexual perversions previously considered. The further possibilities of a criminal character are related to the crimes of pederasty. The individual affected with contrary sexuality satisfies himself with men by means of passive or mutual onanism, or by coitus-like acts (coitus inter femora); if active pederasty is performed, it is only as a result of intense sexual desire, or out of wish to please another. Passive pederasty may be performed by contrary sexual individuals to please the active party, or out of lust where they feel themselves entirely in the feminine role. To distinguish such cases from pederasty not dependent upon a pathological condition, it is but necessary to exclude the existence of psychosexual inversion, and to remember that where this crime is performed apart from perversion it is as a means of sexual indulgence in the absence of opportunity for natural satisfaction, and as a new means. of sexual gratification where natural methods of sexual pleasure have been exhausted by excess. Non-pathological passive pederasty is practiced only for gain.
Source — A System of legal medicine, Volume 2, by Allan McLane Hamilton · 1900
#amrev#american history#queer history#allan mclane#allan mclane hamilton#charles gilbert chaddock#19th century#history#cicero's history lessons
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Before you follow this blog have a reminder that this is just all of my headcanons of the teachers and students!
small reminder that my version of yellow is a CHILD. DO NOT ask anything weird about her! I will also put their age (the students will have their actual age while the teachers are basically ageless)
Mod posts will be under the tag of “mod colin/devil” (main mod), and “mod larriebarie”. Asks post will be about “goofy ahh responses”
BYF:
-This account will not be schedule for updates
-This ask blog will have lore in it I’ll just try my best to do it lol
- may have ships you don’t like oops... I might not put it in here cuz I’ll make it a surprise if I ever get the ask
- the drawings may either be full drawings, if I’m not feeling motivated enough to draw it will just be a sketch, if I’m in school and I want to answer the question I’ll draw it in my sketchbook
- M!A is allowed just don’t add weird stuff :/
- I would rarely draw the teachers in their object forms sorry </3 if I get an M!A about it then ofc I’ll draw them in their objects form
- This might have gore in it and abuse, but I will tag them!
- THIS IS JUST MY AU. If none of the hc’s fits with yours, and you get mad then oops
DNI:
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ABOUT THE CHARACTERS
Yellow - 10, Transfem, aroace, She/her
Red - 38, Transmasc, Gay, He/him they/them [NOT AVALIABLE FOR ASKS YET]
Duck - 32, Cis, Pansexual, He/him, [NOT AVALIABLE FOR ASKS YET]
Sketch - 20-22, Agender, Polyam Pansexual, Any pronouns
Tony - 23-25, Demi-boy, Polyam Pansexual, He/him
Shrignold - 22-24, Transmasc Nonbinary, Polyam Gay, They/them
Colin - 26-28, Transmasc (although dresses feminine) Agender, Bisexual, He/him they/them it/its + neo pronouns (can ask if interested)
Lia (laptop) - 20-22, Demi-girl, Lesbian, She/her they/them
Gilbert - 20-22, Cis, Gay, He/him they/them
Stephan (steak guy) - 33-35, Cis, Pansexual, He/him
Fredrick (fridge) - 38-40-, Transmasc, Gay, They/them
Vegaline (spinach) - 8-10, Transfem, Lesbian, She/her they/them it/its
Benson (bread) - 18-20, Nonbinary, Aroace, They/them
Lazarus (lamp) - 24-26, Nonbinary, Polyam pansexual, Xe/xem
Keith/Mean Steve (key guy) - 28-30, Cis, Omnisexual, He/him
?? - 22-24, Cis, Lesbian, She/her [NOT AVAILABLE FOR ASKS YET]
?? - 67, cis, gay, he/him [NOT AVAILABLE FOR ASKS YET]
Stan (briefcase) - 24-26, Cis, Aroace, He/Him
Unemployed Brendon - 30-32, Transmasc, Bisexual, He/Him
Telly (carehound dog speaker) - 34-36, Agender, Bisexual, it/its
Morgue (Coffin) - 27-29, Nonbinary, Polyam Bisexual, He/Him She/Her
Lilith (Tissue box) - 32-34, Nonbinary, Lesbian, She/her
Todney - 10, transmasc, questioning, he/him
Lily - 10, cis, lesbian, she/her
Warren - 25-27, Transmasc, Bisexual, He/him it/its
Tank (train) - 78-80, Cis, Straightie…, He/him
Electracey - 25-27, Agender, She/her it/its
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thesis, novel in progress [excerpt]
Purely out of excitement of having finished my last residency and graduated with my MFA, I wanted to share the two sections of my thesis, The Shapes God Will Take, that I read to my cohort and the BWS faculty. [Word Count: 2,166]
Below is the excerpt as well as the context I provided prior to the reading.
My thesis is a story about a trans man, Clyde, who is a recently graduated botanist. He’s broke and working in a coffee shop and the local college pool as a lifeguard. His boyfriend’s name is Pace. During the span of the novel, he rediscovers Euripides’s The Bacchae, a play he read in his undergrad in the beginning of his transition.
For primer of the play: Dionysus wreaks havoc on Thebes because his demigod status isn’t being recognized, mostly because no one will believe his mother when she says that Dionysus was born a second time out of the thigh of Zeus. Cadmus is the King of Thebes; Agave is the mother of Pentheus. Terror and chaos ensues.
Important bit: There is a line in the play where Gilbert Murray [translation used in-text] has Dionysus saying that through this denial “who on my body [Cadmus] hath begun / A war with God.”
Below are two sections: when Clyde comes out to his parents and a later that responds to the strife of that section.
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THE SHAPES GOD WILL TAKE
It had been seven years. Clyde told his parents on Easter Sunday. His mother was sitting in her bedroom, sewing and listening to music through the television; loud and crystal clear, unlike a whining, easily spoken over, radio. Each time he remembered the scene, he tried to remember who was singing. Sometimes, it was Paul McCartney, other times it was swing music. That time it was Elton John. Philadelphia Freedom, if anyone was keeping a setlist.
When Clyde came into her room, she smiled up at him but didn’t turn the music down. He was fighting the melody, feeling as though his own speech was discordant and an interruption. He told her in a sentence: I wish I looked like a man. Then struck another chord, twisting the sleeve of his shirt so tightly, the stitches began to pop. I am a man, Mom.
His mother took her time to speak. She didn’t seem surprised—shocked in the sense that she was beside herself—but rather calculated with her rejection of the idea.
“No.” was all she offered. Clyde expected a huge clap of thunder, a bolt of lightning to strike him down where he stood in her bedroom. Instead, it was a quiet storm, barely a sun shower.
There was nowhere to argue, nothing to bite. He felt like he could tear into any rebuttal—except the one that was a lecture. One that was a kind retelling of his feelings with a stern look and one word. Every moment he’d spent building up the courage to share himself was twisted into a malicious, meticulous planning that had to be squashed by the “sensible” decision to deny his “choice.” There was no courage in the rejection, only power. Overpowering.
“Listen to us, we’ve been in this world a lot longer than you and we don’t think you understand. You think you know what you’re talking about, but you’re just different, honey. And this is not the way to be different. Don’t listen to those people at school—they’re telling you who to be, CC. You can’t do this—you’ll never be happy. Life will just be so difficult for you now. And if you keep dressing how you want—feminine as you say you like to—not even the gay community is going to want you, CC. They’ve very particular. The gay men don’t want someone with a vagina. And the lesbians won’t want a super masculine woman either. You’re just going to make yourself so upset, baby, you don’t want this. You can’t start going around introducing yourself as a boy—I can’t introduce you as my son. You know I can’t. It’s not something you really want. You’re just feeling a bit different right now. It will all straighten out soon, CC. Just trust us.”
“Okay.” was the most cutting retort Clyde had inside himself. Every part of him was numb. His eyesight seemed to pulsate with each pounding beat of his heart.
As he tried leaving his mother’s bedroom, his father entered, soon hearing the news—without hesitation—from a far crueler mouth. After being called back, his father accused him of “going off the deep end.” Immediately, and with the feeling of Clyde falling—down, farther and farther toward unturned dirt—the familial tether was cut. Clyde became singular. The truth stuck in his throat and choked him. On the anniversary of the supposed revival of Jesus, Clyde was left to fall away, almost guaranteed to be buried with a false idea and name stamped across his grave. Even death couldn’t offer him escape or rescue.
Perhaps that was where his war began: Jesus’s day of blessed return. Clyde became the next son to die. He replaced the empty grave, easily and without a word.
He never argued with his mother, never told her she was wrong. The only thing left to do was to continue on his path to meet Clyde, his future self, and leave them to hold the I told you so in their teeth.
Their warning—the fact they were hopeful in being right—was like a cancerous stone, sinking lower and lower in his stomach. A secret shadow inside him, like a hidden battlefield.
Clyde would always remember exactly where those initial lines were drawn. When he was made to fire the first shot into the sky, harming no one, but being found a threat: an action against all nature, not just his own. Looking back over the years from that first shot, he had lost ground—and was close to losing all of it if he defaulted on his rent payments.
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Pace joined Clyde after half an hour, pulling two blankets out of his backpack. He spread one out and sat with his legs stretched out. He invited Clyde to lie back and rest his head on his lap, pulling the other blanket over Clyde. They sat in their newly favored silence, listening to the lapping of the river against the bank and Clyde’s intermittent page turning. Agave was on her way back to Cadmus, unaware that the blood she was drenched in was once her own, had grown from her. She had been deceived to murder, and still brimming with pride. Oblivious to the guilt creeping up from the tree line, moments from lifting the dream from her eyes.
It was all too convenient that Pace began to shift under Clyde, disturbing his concentration. A chance to stop the impending terror from striking Agave, but also Clyde all over again.
“Are your legs falling asleep? We can get up and go back.”
“No! No, I’m just trying to lean back… You’ve been really still. I sort of want to see what’s going on.” Pace sank back on his elbows to try and see the pages. “Oh Jesus. ‘Tis? Thou? O? You have footnotes for this?”
“Yeah, but it’s not for that. The translations from 1900 or something. That’s how it all sounds.”
“I mean, I guess.” Pace muttered. “God, I almost said: well, that’s how Julius Caesar sounds but… Obviously that would be the dumbest thing I could’ve ever said.”
“Did you just momentarily live in a world where Shakespeare didn’t exist? The guy’s practically your co-worker. I’ve seen his section at the library.”
“Let’s move on, shall we?” Pace laughed, lifting the play from Clyde’s hands. “Let me see what I can get here.”
“I think you can get it. It’s not too bad.” Clyde folded his hands over his chest. “Except for the part where Agave is returning to the kingdom carrying the head of her son.”
“Oh, great. The best part.” Pace muttered. He slotted the book open with his thumb and pinky finger, but more in his own field of vision than Clyde’s.
“She doesn’t know it yet though; she's still talking to Cadmus. Top of page seventy-four. Give it a shot.”
“Out loud?”
“Sure, if you want. I’ll be your footnotes.”
Pace began to hesitantly read, changing voices as he went and discovering the personality of Cadmus and Agave with each line. At first Cadmus was blindly stern: “Alas, if ever ye can know again / The truth of what ye did, what pain of pain / That truth shall bring! Or were it best to wait / Darkened for evermore, and deem your state / Not misery, though ye know no happiness?”
And Agave soft but confident: “What seest thou here to chide, or not to bless?”
Then Cadmus spoke with a booming command: “Raise me thine eyes to yon blue dome of air!”
Clyde’s view of the sky was interrupted by trees, the clear blue almost washed out by a thin whisp of clouds. Clyde could almost taste the winter sun. The breeze let up for a moment to let it all seem, for a moment, brighter and warmer. He inhaled deeply, lifting his folded hands up with his rising chest.
After a short debris-clearing of early 20th century English, Pace continued, “Look once upon it full, till all be clear!” and in a snap, he was back to Agave. Her softness gone. “I see . . . most deadly pain! Oh, woe is me!”
Most deadly pain Clyde knew wasn’t physical, but an intangible twisting of a knife he could never find. He used to think it was a splintered rib or something just as permanent and irreversible. Something innate and full of fault. Suffering could have intellect, though, could have patience. Could lie dormant in the body like a virus, waiting to be jumpstarted to begin disrupting and deconstructing the body from the inside out. Worst of all, the most deadly pain didn’t have to be deadly at all. You could live.
Pace read on, Agave begging to know who killed her son—not thinking she could have done it herself. Clyde’s favorite line—memorized from his first, more modern translation—passed without much hurt: “Blood-drenched ere thou wouldst know him! Aye, 'tis his.” Of course, they would know Pentheus, dismembered or in disguise or some combination therein. How could she not? Wasn’t a mother’s love the holiest, the strongest force the Heavens and Earth had in their grasp? Wasn’t that the core of Dionysus’s rage and purpose: his own mother’s love had been disrespected and ridiculed as tainted and untrue. A second birth was not possible; his father not a powerful God and him just a mortal bastard.
Clyde had never thought of Dionysus’s revenge to be so one-to-one.
Except here, in this story, the mother cried out in agony how badly she wanted to see the body of the son she loved. Her love attempting to prevail. Her love failing to provide Pentheus with life—as it once had at birth—but persisting, nonetheless.
Pace kept reading, but Clyde had stopped being able to listen. A parent inflicting mortal injury without seeing the victim, their child, for who they are—were—haunted and reverberated within Clyde. He had become something faceless to his parents, a wide-eyed creature living only in static memories. Able to be killed through lack of recognition.
Except it was Clyde that kept brandishing the blade. He felt and was reminded of the most deadly pain and thought it could only be a mimicry of their blindness, their desire to slay the king. But he was the one who made sense of it, who continued their desire to hurt him in a way that thought it could make sense to the senseless. It was a cyclical rage he felt every time he was addressed by a name other than his own. It was shame that he, himself, kept alive, trapped until two separate funerals, decades in his future.
Clyde felt an impossible fury and sadness engulf him. He was still looking up at the graying sky, just as Agave did, but wasn’t ready to see the internal carnage he had done. His war with God hadn’t ended, but maybe it didn’t have to be so violent. He could rage, quietly and sternly, against the ways his parents—and their world—wanted him to be. The war would never end—he had started something he couldn’t finish—but that was because neither side was going to die.
He would never come apart at the seams, never disjoint into purer, primitive pieces. He would always belong to the same body and soul. That was non-negotiable. No matter how many doctors had touched it, it was still his body. Whole and complete. Born under one name, living and growing under another. It wasn’t murder, there had been no death; it was a second birth. Not from a woman, but from a separate deliberation and agony. A birth from a previous self, lifted high above before dropping back down into life, directly in the reach of his eager hands. The chance to see with exceptional clarity and ecstasy. The chance to be alive longer than the name that haunted him—that twisted up in a shadow not behind, but inside of him.
He had swallowed it long ago and could never regurgitate it. There were other men like Clyde that had swallowed the same ache. Living men that held that darkness at their cores like a celestial balance, rather than a concrete doom. The blackness, the shame, was only one spec—a nameable offense—but it was no longer able to outsmart the joy buried just as deeply in Clyde.
Everything was unearthed, risen from a funeral he didn’t know he was preparing for. It was pointless to prepare a body for a grave undug.
Clyde closed his eyes. He couldn’t look at the sky any longer. He knew what he’d been doing, beyond the scars and the fear. He closed his eyes and listened to the shuffling of the grass, to the wind, to Pace’s voice. To the life created in the pause of his shame and guilt. The happiness that had outsmarted the loitering suffering, the trenches of a raging war.
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Proust's heroines from "In search of lost time":
⚜ Odette de Crecy - a cocotte who marries Charles Swann, an art collector, member of the exclusive Jockey Club; after his death she marries again and becomes Mme. de Forcheville
⚜ Gilberte Swann - the narrator, Marcel, falls in love with her, but her mother, Odette, encourages her to go out with another boy
⚜ Oriane de Guermantes - duchess, beautiful, elegant, intelligent, sarcastic; her husband has numerous mistresses; the narrator is fascinated by her and stalks her before becoming friends
⚜ Albertine Simonet - a young orphan of average intelligenge and beauty, liar, vicious; Marcel is not sure if he really loves her, but jealous of her lesbian affairs, he grows more and more irrational in his attempts to control her, keeping her prisoner in his parent's apartment and buying her expensive things like dresses from Fortuny, silver tea sets, furs, a vanity bag from Cartier; he promises her a yacht and a Rolls Royce
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– Mikaelson Mansion – Millennial Children –
Klaus: Hi Rebekah! So I hear you went after my Werepire Blood Supply last night! And I also hear that you’d like to spend the next century with a magic dagger in your heart!
Kol: Really? You plan on daggering someone? Because I have six cans of whoop-ass that says the only one sticking anything into Rebekah tonight is Damon Salvatore.
Esther: Yeah, if we can all stop with the “thousand year old child” routine? That would be sweet.
Klaus: But mooooooooooom, she almost broke my tooooooooy.
Esther: Yeah, and you rammed magic metal into their chests and carted them around in boxes for a few centuries. No one’s perfect here, so let’s forgive and forget. Now! Who are you bringing to the ball?
Klaus: Mooooooom! Girls are icky! They have cooties! Blushes.
– The Gilbert House – Invitation to the Trap Party –
Stefan Salvatore: So, who wants to throw Elena to the lions?
Elena Gilbert: Oh, me! I do! I do!
Damon Salvatore: …I’ll get my tux. Idiots.
– Chateau Forbes – Say It To Her Face –
Tyler Lockwood (via voicemail): Hi Caroline! Sorry your father is dead, and that I’m at least partially responsible. Anyway, I thought you’d like to know that I’ve decided his advice was a steaming pile of crap, so I’m going to go out into the woods and fix myself, then come back and hump you like the mailman’s leg. -xoxo Tyler
Klaus (via note): Hi Caroline! Fancy a shag? Then throw on this fancy dress! See you at seven! -xoxo Klaus (who’s way better than Tyler, by the way)
Neville the Devilcorgipire: This episode suffers from a distinct lack of werewolves!
– Mystic Grill – Lesbian Bodyguards and Lost Boyfriends –
Elena Gilbert: Hi Caroline! Esther wants to see me for no nefarious purpose whatsoever! Wanna be my bodyguard?
Caroline Forbes: Well, as much as I think we’d make an awesome lesbian couple, I think you should take a Salvatore! And as much as I know Stefan has harassed you, threatened you, and endangered you in the last couple of months, I still think he’s better for you than Damon!
Rebekah: Hi girls! You both dated Matt at one time, right?
Elena Gilbert and Caroline Forbes: Uh huh…
Rebekah: Great! Hi Matt! I have boobies! Wanna come to the dance with me! I promise not to kill you at all!
Matt Donovan: 😀
Elena Gilbert and Caroline Forbes: D-:
– Mikaelson Mansion – Perfect Planning Powers Activate –
The Lady of the Manor: Look! They imported classy people!
Damon Salvatore: Hi Carol! So tell me, how does Klaus’ butt taste? You know, since you spend so much time kissing it.
Carol Lockwood: It tastes a lot better than my own blood, which is what I’d be choking on if I actually grew a spine and stood up to them!
Kol: Hi Damon! You’re totally unimportant!
Elena Gilbert: Hi guys! Despite all common sense I decided to show up at Murder Mansion for the Genocide Gala! Would you boys care to bookend me?
Damon Salvatore and Stefan Salvatore: I get to be on top.
Damon Salvatore and Stefan Salvatore: …
Damon Salvatore and Stefan Salvatore: Dammit.
lmfao!! 3x14 is hilarious, yet tragic. Stefan is prolonging the inevitable. Thing is... he doesn't allow anyone to know what he knows, but he remembers everything by that episode. Like Elena, who remembers everything before focusing on her hate. Stefan remembers every Delena moment from the very beginning.
I agree, Klaus is better than Tyler even on his worst day. I didn't like Tyler as a character. He felt more like a plot device. Well.... we need a werewolf to bite someone, so...
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The Pride Month We Know & Love
In 1969, the Stonewall Riots occurred. This is considered the beginning of the modern queer rights movement. At the time, it was called the gay rights movement and the word gay, while meaning homosexual, also was an umbrella term that included all of what we now call the queer community.
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On November 2, 1969, a group of people proposed the first gay parade be held in New York City, both to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots and to be an annual reminder that we are in a struggle for fundamental human rights. They called on homophile organizations throughout the country to hold demonstrations the same day to show nationwide support.
On June 28, 1970, the Christopher Street Liberation Day marked the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots with a march. Christopher Street is the road in front of the Stonewall Inn and the road participants marched down. The New York Times reported (on the front page) that the marchers took up the entire street for 15 city blocks. Marches were also held in Chicago & Los Angeles while San Francisco held a “gay-in.”
In 1971, marches took place in Boston, Dallas, Milwaukee, London, Paris, West Berlin, and Stockholm.
By 1972 the participating cities included Atlanta, Brighton, Buffalo, Detroit, Washington D.C., Miami, and Philadelphia, as well as San Francisco.
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The first marches were both serious and fun and served to inspire the widening activist movement. There was a dramatic increase in the number of people organizing for queer rights. In 1969, there were 50 to 60 gay groups in the country. In 1970 that increased to at least 1500. In 1972 it was 2500.
Prior to 1969, the organizations called themselves the homophile movement. They focused on showing that gay people are respectable and politely asked for discriminatory policies to be removed. Their marches had dress requirements, age limits as to who could participate, and even the signs held had to be pre-approved.
The Stonewall riots with images of gays retaliating against police changed things and inspired new activists. They considered the movement an uprising and renamed it the gay liberation movement. We are gonna be who we are and live as we want, respectability be damned. Parades and festivals were to specifically to not have dress requirements or age limits.
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In Nazi Germany, gay men were prisoners in the concentration camps and their clothes had inverted pink triangles sewn on them to mark them as homosexual men (this also included bisexual men and trans women). This pink triangle was extra large so they could be easily identified from a distance.
After the concentration camps were shut down at the end of World War II and prisoners freed, the gay survivors were not released but locked up in prison. Homosexuality was illegal in Germany. West Germany continued to imprison them until 1994!
In 1973, Homosexuelle Aktion Westberlin, a German gay liberation group, called for gay men to wear the pink triangle as a memorial to past victims and to protest continuing discrimination. This pink triangle became a symbol of the gay rights movement and many displayed it proudly, but the symbol couldn’t shake its association with the horrors of the Nazis.
Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the U.S., urged artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, to create a new inspiring symbol for the gay community to replace the Nazi symbol.
It’s thought that Baker was at least partially inspired by the Judy Garland song "Over the Rainbow" (Garland being among the first gay icons). He also liked the idea of a flag, as that is a way of being visible. The rainbow flag was unveiled at the 1978 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade. After the parade, hot pink was removed from new flags due to fabric unavailability. The murder of Harvey Milk in November 1978 led to a surge of requests for the Rainbow flag, which led to it being adopted by people around the country.
For the 1979 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade, the organizers reduced the number of colors from 7 to 6 so that they could divide it in half and have 3 colors decorating one side of the street, and the other three colors on the other side. This 6-colored rainbow flag became the standard and quickly replaced pink triangles.
In 2003, a mile-long version of the rainbow flag was made by Baker for the 35th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, this recognized the rainbow flag as THE international symbol for LGBTQ pride, it can be seen all around the world.
On June 26, 2015, the White House was illuminated in the rainbow flag colors to mark the legalization of same-sex marriages across the country.
In June 2017, the city of Philadelphia adopted a revised version of the flag that adds black and brown stripes to the top of the standard six-colors to draw attention to issues of people of color within the LGBTQ community.
In June 2018 designer Daniel Quasar released a redesign incorporating elements from both the Philadelphia flag and trans pride flag to bring focus on inclusion and progress within the community.
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But when did it go from Gay Liberation to Pride?
Meetings to organize the first march in New York City began in early January 1970. Brenda Howard, a bisexual activist, is known as the "Mother of Pride" for her work in coordinating the march. She also originated the idea for a week-long series of events around the march.
She wanted to create a number of events to bring in people from out of town and wanted to unite the events under a label. The first idea was 'Gay Power,’ however gay activist L. Craig Schoonmaker didn’t like that suggestion. He explained, “There's very little chance for [gay] people in the world to have power...But anyone can have pride in themselves, and that would make them happier as people, and produce the movement likely to produce change."
Brenda Howard, L. Craig Schoonmaker and bisexual activist Robert A. Martin (aka Donny the Punk) are credited with popularizing the word "Pride" to describe the festivities in New York.
As the 1980s approached, there was a cultural shift in the gay movement. Just as the elections of Ronald Reagan & Margaret Thatcher indicated a conservative shift in their countries, activists of a less radical, more conservative nature began taking over the march committees in different cities. They dropped "Gay Liberation" and "Gay Freedom" from the names, replacing them with Schoomaker’s idea of "Gay Pride." This also coincided with the replacement of the more radical pink triangles for the more positive rainbow flags.
The word "pride" was embraced as it defies the bigotry and hatred against the LGBTQIA+ community. It also teaches people they should be proud of themselves rather than feel shame. Replacing shame with pride helps people to come out and to be more assertive about who they are and that they deserve the same rights as others.
In 1999, President Bill Clinton issued a proclamation declaring that the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies would "celebrate the anniversary of Stonewall every June in America as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month." President Barack Obama issued a proclamation in 2009 declaring June LGBTQIA+ Pride Month.
This is how we got Pride Month!
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Part of the original ideas of parades was to bring queer people and queer culture into what was considered heteronormative spaces. Queer lives were seen as dissident and radical.
Today Pride events have taken on a festive character and it’s fun to join hundreds or thousands of other queer people.
Pride events still have some of the original political or activist character. Most offer some aspect dedicated to remembering victims of AIDS and anti-LGBT violence. Booths are often on hand with people collecting signatures in support of constitutional amendments or petitions for laws & policies to change.
Large parades often involve floats, dancers, drag queens and amplified music, and they usually include political and educational contingents, such as local politicians, and groups from LGBT institutions of various kinds, such as PFLAG. Other typical parade participants include local LGBT-friendly churches and LGBT-employee associations from large corporations.
The Stonewall riots, as well as the immediate and the ongoing political organizing that occurred following them, were fully participated in by lesbians, bisexuals, transgender people, and gays, from all races and backgrounds. Pride festivals and parades continue to be inclusive spaces.
Historically these events were first named Gay, the word at that time being used to cover the entire spectrum of what is now called the queer. Today these festivals & parades are often called Pride.
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Anne with an ‘E’: a personal review
I loved this book as a child (well, as a teenager....I discovered it very late into my teens). I loved the Kim Braden BBC TV version too, which was very faithful to the book, if memory serves me right. So it was with a certain amount of trepidation that I began watching the CBC/Netflix version produced by Moira Walley-Beckett and staring Amybeth McNulty as Anne, because I knew it had taken liberties with the Book and injected a lot of late 20th and 21st Century ‘woke’ issues, into what I remembered as an innocent, sweet book about an odd little white orphan girl adopted by an elderly spinster and her brother, growing up in a late 19th century all-white farming community. in Canada’s smallest province, Prince Edward Island.
Would revisionist Anne of Green Gables therefore be a Afro-Canadian or First Nations (that’s Red Indian to you, if you are still asleep) girl with a physical disability, adding to her already disadvantaged status as the abandonned waif reluctantly adopted in place of the boy that Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert had asked for? Would Anne and Diana, her bosom pal, discover the delights of teen lesbian sex? Would we be treated to Anne indulging in a bit of onanism, or giving Gilbert a hand-job, or worse, and Marilla and Matthew ejoying incestuous relations (see ‘Sanditon’ for more of this kind of revisionist and grindingly ‘woke’ television)?
Fortunately for lovers of Anne of Green Gables, the wildest excesses of ‘woke’TV were avoided. We DID have one of the schoolboys, Cole the pretty, artistic type( spot the cliche!),
being bullied by the sporting jock Billy Andrews and his gang of brainless acolytes (more cliches), before finding shelter and a release for his artistic talent at the home of Diana’s Aunt Josephine, who in this series is a Sapphic and hosts amazingly decadent parties for her gay and arty friends ( I had no idea PEI was so advanced in the late 19th Century: gay central and great fun!). We had the minor character of the French boy Jerry Baynard (Buote in the book?) become a major character, in love with Diana but spurned because ...well, he’s French, and of course the English people are baaaad (all the wealthiest people are English English with cut glass accents with which to cut people dead, the snaaabs).
And, we are introduced to Sebatsian (’Bash’) a Trinidadian friend of Gilbert, who starts his own Afro-Caribbean family , also outsiders in Avonlea and struggling with racism and former slave cultural cringe whilst setting his hand to farming.
Plus, lest we forget, we have the horrific tale of Ka’kwet, the Mi’kmaq friend of Anne whyo is forcibly sent to a government boarding school to have the Indianness beaten out of her.
Naturally the perpetrators are Catholic nuns (hiss, boo!), whilst the character in the book who Anne describes as her kindred spirit, Rev. Allen, is of course here a bigotted clergyman leading the group of reactionary old white men (hiss!) who endeavour to get beautiful, trouser wearing, motor-bike riding feminist teacher Miss Stacy fired, and burn down the school for good measure. (Yah boo and double hiss! )
So much for the wokeness. Which is what we old snaaabs who like traditional opera and theatre performances find infuriating, where for example the director strives desparately to make things relevant by dressing Puritan-era soldiers in Nazi uniforms (see! fascist parallels! Boo, hiss!) , or having the cringingly ‘woke’ Shakespeare you can see these days at London’s Sam Wanamaker theatre, with HenryV played as a transexual-of-colour. just in case you needed to be woken from your slumber with right-on wokeness beaten into your brain with a mallet. Ah, it’s such fun to ‘epater les bourgeois’ and signal your virtue at the same time.
But in this version of Anne’s story I’m glad to say that although forced and didactic at times the new characters and novel situations, were extremely well acted and put together, ( notably Bash and his tragic wife Mary) whilst for the most part fans of the original book will be very, very happy.
All the leading roles, especially Matthew (RH Thomson) and Marilla (Geraldine James). (spoiler alert: Matthew doesn’t die in the only three seasons allowed us by those buffoons in Netflix), were well played.
Fascinating, character revealing back-stories were put into the basic story. I loved the evocation of 1880′s Prince Edward Island (I can’t wait to go there), and what is was to be school-children in a one-room school-house. I liked Rachel Lynde’s feisty character and her love for her bumbling husband. And I’m always fond of dear old dutiful Diana,
and earnest Gilbert Blythe.
But the crown should go to AmyBeth McNulty for her sparkling performance as Anne, struggling with her insecurity, her awkwardness, her gaucheness, her worldly knowledge of how cruel the world can be, and her determination to do something about it, all among the perils of growing up from innocent child (the first period episode is priceless) to barely adult college student. Anne. With an E. I think you’ll love it
#anne with an ‘e’# anne of green gables #anne cancelled after only three seasons
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comprehensive list of characters that truly encapsulate how I experience womanhood
kissin kate barlow
dani midsommar
anyone sophia lillis has ever played or ever will play
that girl from ready or not when she sat at the bottom of the steps covered in blood with her ripped wedding dress and converse while the house burned to the ground behind her
any of the march sisters, but specifically jo and amy
eleven stranger things, but like especially when she just screams in rage and also that entire episode where she just runs around the mall wreaking havoc
hailee steinfeld in the edge of seventeen when after she completely loses her shit in front of her history teacher and has to go calm down with a frozen yogurt
juno macguff every second that she didnt have to pretend to be sexually attracted to michael cera, but specifically when she shakes around her hamburger phone and drags an entire living room set across several blocks after drinking like 6 jugs of sunny d
max caulfield but when she says really dumb shit like "are you cereal" and kisses her childhood best friend on a dare
amy from booksmart
any female aligned character from the extended moomin universe. like any time little my is being a little freak, and tooticky ice fishing I fucking love her
wonder woman but like specifically when she broke a machine gun with her shield, screaming in fury
anything any of the women in birds of prey do. like I swear to god, every fucking second of it.
when anne shirley loses her fucking shit and smashes a chalkboard over gilberts head
when kate messner's under the black lights after she kisses luke and shes got like smeared neon makeup on her face and luke is in awe of her and shes just like "I think I'm a lesbian"
that one part in the breakfast club where allison dumps a bunch of captain crunch on her sandwich
brie larson in unicorn store
when jessica day is in the bathroom with a pair of safety scissors and nick walks in and shes like "just cuttin off my underwear! girl stuufff...!"
when rue bennett embarrasses herself in front of her crush and shes like squinting into the sun and gripping the handlebars of her bike and her internal monologue sighs and says "I'm such a loser"
when the 13th doctor is sitting criss cross on the floor making daisy chains w dandelions in her hair and shes like "I never did this when I was a man!! :D"
basically all of the women in terminator dark fate
when saorsie ronan just throws herself out of the fucking car in ladybird
everything the ladies in ghostbusters (2016) did
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AWAE S3E4
Please, please let something happy happen this time.
Spoilers Below!
-Oh man, all those openings had me. Listening to Ms Stacy talk about what a cherished relationship she had with her husband, Gilbert and Bash just trying to make it through the morning, and then the whole Ka’kwet goodbye scene, I CAN’T
-Imma be real for a moment Bash is exactly how I felt when I lost someone and seeing it was something I wasn’t prepared for.
-I hope Rachel later finds out just what goes on in those schools and actually starts to repent her constant interference and judgement. Same with her storyline with Ms Stacy.
-Anne gave her the dress and has been visiting Ka’Kwet! That’s so wonderful and I’m not ready for the truth to hit these two pure wonderful girls.
-Is Anne not grounded anymore? Oh nope she definetly is if she’s that worried about Rachel seeing her lol.
-Oh these poor awkward school boys. I feel for you Moody and Charlie, talking to smart, pretty, amazing girls is scary. Also, Moody can play the guitar?
-YES DIANA
-Oh no no no not the fight between Anne and Marilla again no no no no no
-Not gonna lie I thought this was going to be Jerry comforting Anne and I was HERE for some sibling bonding but I’ll settle for his look of total concern and then the scene with Matthew. We need more Jerry and Anne interaction this season though.
-Matthew’s face when Anne said she would LEAVE AND NEVER COME BACK ANNE DON’T SAY THAT TO DEAR SWEET MATTHEW
-Matthew is DONE and also 100 percent right Anne deserves all the happiness
-to those on the train: fuck yall. And Anne, knowing a simple gesture can be enough? Our girl is growing up so well guys.
-Jerry I know you’re excited for Anne but her finding her birth family is NOT what Marilla wants
-Everything about the bog was painful and also fuck Elijah “I guess that’s that then.”
-Cole is wonderful and I hope we still see more of him this season. “Not with those braids, Aunt Jo?”
-I know a lot of people are upset about Winifred but seriously Gilbert is hurting and yall are gonna deny him a person who has been kind and supportive to him? We literally know our ship is endgame, let these kids live.
-YES DIANA
-ANNE LOOKED SO GROWN UP!!!! that whole scene was just beautiful; I’m glad she found her closure
-Wait is this Jerry’s family?
-YESSSSSS DIANAAAA
-Ka’kwet is being so fucking brave and everything in this scene is sickening. She looked so desperate when she spotted Anne out the window
-I’ll admit it I went from “eh Jerry and Diana are cute but I kind of want single lesbian Diana more” to full out shipping it cause this was so damn CUTE. And we still get at least one more scene with them where he’s walking with her.
-We all know Jerry’s brothers just teased him mercilessly after this right? His sisters all ship it.
-MARILLA AND ANNE MADE UP MARILLA AND ANNE MADE UP MARILLA AND ANNE MADE UP MARILLA AND ANNE MADE UP
-”I love you forever and a day” wow the tears
-Look I got so swept up in Anne’s adventure and Diana and Marilla that i forgot we still had a funeral and I was NOT PREPARED
-But also look how many people came from Avonlea alone, I liked that
-This is not the last we will see of Elijah, and I hope for Mary’s sake he turns around
-Bash and the Minister and the story of Mary was wonderful; “and young Mary she was not having it!” Mary was just such a great character.
-What are the three for Nova Scotia?
-All in all, this episode was not all light and sunshine, but of course it wasn’t with Mary having just died. But I’m glad Anne got her closure, that she and Marilla made up and their bond is even stronger now, and that Diana is TAKING CHARGE OF HER LIFE YES GIRL
#anne with an e season 3#awae s3#awae#awae spoilers#anne shirley cuthbert#Marilla Cuthbert#matthew cuthbert#diana berry#diana barry#jerry baynard#gilbert blythe#bash lacroix#mary lacroix#cole mckenzie#aunt josephine
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First watch-through: Anne with an E, episode 14
- What’s wrong with Marilla??
- Anne’s hair is looking cute.
- Oh my god, Gilbert wants to be a doctor? Is it because of the baby.
- Oooh, Gilbert you are being very sassy- oh shit the teacher said “your father”
- My father’s dead, Sir means that you back off.
- Anne, you’re right. He needs a hug.
- Cole’s hand still hurts? That poor kid.
- They already did the Anne’s parent almost dying thing.
- Wow, they came right out and said it. I like the representation.
- Anne gets to recite something??
- I like that Cole gets to be friends with the girls. I never understood straight men’s not wanting to be friend with omen. It would make them much better romantic partners to realize women are real people.
- I hope Diana can be a pianist. Her realizing her feminine potential would be very cute.
- Saying that Anne has a Pixie haircut? It’s awesome. She can make a story out of that.
- Cross dressers. Maybe he’s transgender? I thought maybe when he tried on the dress?
- That would be very nice, if he could find someone to accept that. (Anne)
- An LGBT party in the 1800s? Very woke.
- I think that Diana just realized that “gals being pals” wasn’t what was up.
- Kindred spirits, Cole and Aunt Josephine.
- Oh my goodness, their dancing is beautiful.
- And she’s holding him in the male position. Maybe he is a she? Will it be confirmed?
- I hope that Matthew knows how to cook.
- Diana, she was gay and it is okay. You can realize this.
- Matthew sleeping on the floor is adorable.
- I hope that Cole realizes how he feels.
- Cole, you’re very sweet. Good for you, setting Diana straight.
- Maybe Cole is a lesbian? Can he be in love with Anne?
- Note, I will continue to call Cole a he until he comes out.
- So Mathew sucks at cooking.
- Oh my god, he’s feeling guilty and angry and this is the most he has ever expressed and I love him.
- Matthew is a son as well as a father and it’s easy to forget that.
- Marilla wants to hear about the adventure.
- Marilla is a very sweet woman. And I like that Matthew gets to see it.
- YES, apply it to you and Matthew. (and Gilbert, Anne. Please Gilbert).
- Cole too, but I’m excited about Gilbert.
- He’s reading! Yay.
- The teacher confuses me.
- Ooh. Now everyone knows Gilbert wants to be a doctor AND we get more Blythe-style sass.
- Plus creep-ass teacher gets shown up.
- GILBERT TIME. “Feels good to know what I want.” (AKA Anne- thank you, thank you. I know I’m so smart.)
- Cole, tell her she likes Gilbert.
- Also, Anne should be a reporter.
The fact that Cole is some sort of LGBT rep makes me happy. Also that Diana has to face that her aunt was totally gay? Very happy about it. The whole show is so gorgeous, really.
Marilla and Matthew are coming out of their duty and grief-fueled fog, Cole is coming to himself, Diana is opening her possibilities, and Anne is a beam of moonlight in the winter, setting everything to sparkle.
That being said....
More Gilbert, please.
#Anne with an E#Anne of Green Gables#First watch through#First watch through AWAE#First watch-through#First watch-through: Anne with an E#First watch-through: AWAE#spoiler#spoilers#episode 14
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1, 8, 11, 15, 21, 27, 29?
1. if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to?unfortunately homestuck is a must and a given, god forgive me. squalloscope’s discography is another one (my url is one of her songs) but i talk about that more in the next bit. also i made a sicknasty little playlist of me songs on spotify so like message me for that one if you want it. margaret atwood’s short stories are good ones to look at. if i am permitted to cite video games, world of goo and sword & sworcery are both some important ones. also the first pokemon movie prolly sdkfjjds. there are a lot of things and i’m most likely forgetting some important ones but like. eh
8. what musical artists have you most felt connected to over your lifetime?100% it has to be squalloscope. she just says some shit that she pulled out of the void and it’s hopeful and rueful and loving and angry all at once and it Fucks Me Up. one of the songs on my ow ouch my absolute me playlist has a detuned little chord sequence going on in the background and it’s not perfect, it’s raw, and i love her for it
11. describe your ideal day.this is based in my hometown but, with variants it could be good too. i’d like to roll out of bed at maybe 9am and go to my favorite coffee shop, whether it be with friends or not, but i’d sit there for a while and draw and hang out. then i’d go get lunch somewhere and eat it next to the river, and walk around down there until i get tired of it. after that i’d go home and make something that i feel proud of making, and share it with people i care about. the later of it doesn’t matter- the idea would be fucking around and having fun with people who love me until i finally pass out.
15. five most influential books over your lifetime.hnghhhh thinking about your answer to this, nastybook by barry yourgrau is probably in there somewhere for fucking me up. the year of the flood by margaret atwood is always gonna be important to me because margaret atwood slaps. fahrenheit 451 i only read once but like it made ray bradbury rly important to me so. there’s one i can’t remember the title of but it was by malinda lo i think, and was a retelling of cinderella where it was gay and like i’m a lesbian babey. and uhhh i hate to say it but a lot of the early bit of naruto
21. do you love easily?depends on how we’re defining it but basically the further along my fun little platonic-romantic closeness gradient you get the harder it is for you to get there. i’m good at caring but like? something like the far end where i don’t know what i’m feeling and whether it’s romance or just Big Friendship? that’s difficulti also find it easy to minorly swoon over particular people but. i guess that’s more infatuation than anything, and it tends to just be for a few seconds. put the song someone new by hozier here.
27. do you feel like your outside appearance is a fair representation of the “real you”?sometimes and, very rarely? it’s not easy for me to dress the way i feel so i just default to what makes me feel comfortable. my hairstyle is doing a good job about it at least with the half long half undercut. i like my face and my eyes but other times i just get real dysphoric about my height and that’s, great
29. three songs that you connect with right now.i’m gonna try not to pick from the me playlist now so, Challenge Modethumbnail by louie zong and brian david gilbertheirloom by sufjan stevensand uhhhhh let’s go with, 2310 by paper bird
thank you for the asks lydia i love you
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what do you think about the anne lesbian headcanon?
Hello anon :)
for Anne with an E? I think you're referring to this post and honestly I don't necessarily agree with it. The reasons being similar to my answer about her possibly being ace. Her feeling different has less to do with her sexuality and more to do with her trauma. I also don't like the implication of the post that if you rebel against femininity you're a lesbian (not to mention I don't really think Anne is rebelling against femininity), like that's some requirement or proof.
Like obviously I haven't read the books so maybe it's different there but in the show, her feeling different and her complicated relationship with femininity is related to her past and her traumas. She has been told over and over again she is ugly, she has been abused by the adults as well as her peers, she has lived in an orphanage or as some kind of slave/maid and never known a kind word, never owned nice things. So she dreams of dresses with puff sleeves and she puts ribbons in her hair because that's what she read about and the characters she read about were likeable and she wants to be likeable. I think that her learning to be okay with her short hair or letting go of her dress is not a rebelling against femininity but a growth of an abused child who has learned that people will like her even if she doesn't have long hair and pretty dress. For me, her relationship with femininity is related to what she was told as a child (how she's not pretty and that pretty girls own pretty things etc.) and the show is about how she is learning to overcome those opinions and learning to love herself. And I don't think that in and of itself makes her a lesbian.
my headcanon is that she's bi, she loves Diana and she will love Gilbert and that's okay. Of course, she could also be lesbian but I don't think that in the show there is some strong subtext for this headcanon. That's my answer. Sorry if it's not diplomatic or whatever.
Thank you for asking and I hope you have a nice day
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LGBTQ+ Books for the 2018-2019 School Year
By Sara Schmidt-Kost
The start of the new school year is upon us, and as such, it’s a good time for educators, families, and students to update their libraries with both fiction and non-fiction books. It is so important to keep our classroom libraries stocked with all types of diverse books to give our students the opportunity to see themselves and their families in the stories that they read. So if you’re a teacher gearing up for the school year ahead, I hope you consider adding any and all of these to your classroom bookshelves!
Elementary Fiction - Reading Level Pre-K - 5
Heather Has Two Mommies
A classic children’s book about a young girl with two moms.
And Tango Makes Three
Another classic children’s book about two male penguins who adopt an orphaned baby penguin.
Red: A Crayon’s Story
A story about a blue crayon with a red wrapper that doesn’t know what it should be.
King and King
A book about a Prince who decides he’s not interested in marrying a Princess, but instead longs for another Prince to marry.
Worm Loves Worm
A children’s book about two genderless worms who decide to get married, but who will wear the tux and who will wear the dress?
I Am Jazz
A children’s book about a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings, who helped write the book.
George
A chapter book about a transgender child who dreams of playing a girl in the school play. (Read our own review of it here!)
The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher
A chapter book about a family with two dads, and four adopted sons, each with their own interests, and a school year of hilarious and unexpected adventures.
Secondary Fiction - Reading Level 6 - 12+
These three are classic stories of coming out and teenage love for lesbian and bisexual women.
Empress of the World
Annie on My Mind
Keeping You a Secret
These three books are stories of coming out and teenage love for gay men.
Will Grayson Will Grayson
Rainbow Boys
Boy Meets Boy
These three books are about trans or gender non-conforming teenagers.
I Am J
Parrotfish
Luna
Non-Fiction for Students
Who Are You? The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity
Drawn like a story book, this non-fiction book helps younger children understand gender identity and expression.
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
This book chronicles the true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in the United States, and Gilbert Baker, the designer of the pride flag.
Gay & Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights
An easy-to-read textbook-style history book for kids about LGBT history with pictures and activities.
Queer: A Graphic History
This non-fiction graphic novel chronicles queer theory and history in an engaging way for older students.
Queer, There, and Everywhere
An illustrated collection of profiles of queer historical figures for middle to high school readers.
Being Jazz: My Life as a Transgender Teen
The memoir of Jazz Jennings, YouTuber and trans teen.
Non-Fiction for Educators
One Teacher in Ten
A collection of short stories by and for LGBTQ+ Teachers.
A Queer History of the United States
A must-read to understand the history of queer people in the United States, and why it hasn’t been included in textbooks and taught in history class.
School’s Out: Gay and Lesbian Teachers in the Classroom
This book explores how queer teachers struggle to reconcile their classroom persona and their personal identities.
We hope you have an exciting school year ahead!!
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Sara Schmidt-Kost is an out, queer teacher in Minneapolis, MN. She spent five years as a leader in the LGBT student organizations at St. Cloud State University where she completed her undergrad in Secondary Social Studies Education. Sara currently leads the after-school GSA at the high school where she teaches, and she is thankful for the opportunity to support her students as they grow into amazing adults. Sara has also created workshops on LGBT Issues in Schools and LGBT Curriculum in Social Studies and has presented these workshops to groups of Social Studies teachers, other educators, and students alike.
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