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dadstielkline · 2 years
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roboticchibitan · 1 year
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I remember when same sex marriage was legized in my state (3 years before obergefel vs Hodges which legalized it nationwide). It won by a very narrow margin.
People who had taken care of me when I was young, people who were like second parents to me, (along with half the other people I knew) were saying it was the end times because I could now get married. And I couldn't help but wonder... would those people have protected me, cared for me, let me play with their children, if they had known I would grow up to be queer?
I came out in 2011. I was lucky. My parents were accepting. My mom was clearly uncomfortable at first but she made it clear she loved me no matter what.
Except.
My dad didn't care if I was queer and assured me that didn't mean there was anything wrong with me (in a speech I didn't need to hear but I think he needed to say). But he still said "that's gay" and "that's faggy" anytime my little brother showed vulnerability.
And I was a lucky one. My father used homophobic slurs around me regularly. He turned the word gay into a slur with his homophobic mouth. And I was a lucky one.
When I came out publicly, my grandmother stopped speaking to me for a while. I'm lucky that she changed her mind. I'm lucky that my grandparents let me bring my girlfriend with me when I went to visit them in October. October of 2022 and I still consider myself lucky that my grandparents let my queer partner into their house. My other grandma likewise visited with us, and was polite and friendly, but she still refused to call my gf anything other than "your friend." Still lucky. Incredibly lucky.
People don't understand just how bad things were as much as ten years ago. When I came out at school, I was lucky. No one bullied me. No one shoved me into lockers or called me slurs. They all just stopped talking to me. I became invisible. I went to a small school. I was the only person who was out. Exactly one person talked to me the rest of the year. And I was a lucky one.
When I was in middle and highschool, the go to insult was "that's gay." I heard it constantly. Every day. Sometimes people said it to me to insult me, long before I even knew I was queer.
I was lucky because the worst that happened to me was social isolation and people using slurs around me or turning my identity into a slur. No one called ME faggy. No one beat me up behind the school bleachers. I was incredibly lucky.
I have experienced the word "gay" used as a slur far more than I ever heard the word "queer" used as a slur. Young "queer is a slur and only a slur" people need to know the world you live in is not the world the rest of us live in. Why is "queer" a slur but "gay" isn't? My homophobic father thought the word "gay" conveyed just as much offense and disgust as the word "faggot." So why is queer the horrible word that can never be reclaimed but people say "that's gay" as a compliment now? The loneliest I have ever felt was in a room full of teenagers who thought my identity was the height of insults. So why is gay fine but queer isn't?
I am a fat butch queer and I do not hide that. My shoes have a pride flag on them. I have a masculine haircut and wear men's clothes. I look queer.
And I am afraid. I dress like this anyway, because I want other queer folks to know I am a safe person. I dress how I do partially because I like it but also partially so any queer person in the room, no matter now closeted, can see me and feel a little bit safer. Because I will protect other queer people with my life if need be.
Because I am openly and visibly queer and live in a world where being queer can get you killed. Because it can. Gay bashings still happen. The alt right are getting bolder in their violence, and that includes homophobic/transphobic violence. There are organizations in the US that are actively pushing to make homosexuality punishable by death in Africa. They know they could never accomplish that here. But they would if they could. People want us dead.
Young people need to understand that. And they need to understand that the people who did the most work to free us from criminalization were queer. They identified as queer. And they weren't the perfect law abiding queers toeing the line of what's acceptible. Because being queer itself was illegal. You could end up on the sex offender registry for being gay. In fact, there are queer people who are STILL registered as sex offenders just because they were queer in 2001. Pride wasn't a permitted parade with wells Fargo floats. It was angry queers illegally marching down the streets, screaming "We're here. We're queer. Get used to it."
Being openly queer is a radical act. It is still a radical act.
I did not live through Windsor vs the united states, the referendum 74 debate, my father punishing my brother for being human with homophobic slurs, and the pearl clutching fearmongering about "the gay agenda" (that was a go to phrase for 2012 homophobes) for some LGBT kid to come at me with TERF bullshit they got off tiktok about how my identity is a slur and I'm a horrible person for using it.
I was a lucky one and I'm still saying "no, absolutely not" to this bullshit.
Queer is more inclusive. Queer accounts for any possible fluidity because people change. Identities change. Queer is there for people who know they're Something Different but are not sure of the details yet. Queer is intentionally vague. When you're young you want everyone to know exactly who you are but as you get older you realize actually my identity is none of your business. In fact, sometimes when you tell someone your identity, you're handing them a bludgeon for them to hurt you with.
If you have trans classmates, you do not understand the world the rest of us grew up in. Trans people were not a public topic. They were not even acknowledged as existing by most people. I didn't know what being trans was until I was like 17. I'm nonbinary now and consider myself trans 10 years later.
And I didn't even have it that bad. But you know what? It still sucked and it was still hard and I can't imagine what it was like to grow up a decade before I did. I had it easy compared to most people.
If you can jokingly say "that's gay" when someone expresses queer love, then you can fucking handle people using the word queer as their identity.
The infighting and policing each other has to stop. You're oppressing queer people with this bullshit. It does not matter what words queer people use to describe themselves when there are people actively killing us. What are you doing? For fucks sake look at the bigger picture. Direct all that rage at our oppressors and the people who mean us harm. Queer people and he/him lesbians and bi lesbians and people who use neo pronouns and whoever else is the discourse of the day do not deserve this kind of treatment. Punch a homophobe and maybe you'll feel better.
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emptymasks · 18 days
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The Ghost stickers I've spent 2 months drawing are finally done! 69 different characters/designs available as both stickers and badges. It took so long because I wanted to be a completionist and get every Papa in all/most of their outfits and every ghoul in each outfit.
(I didn't include young Nihil's ghouls because I didn't think there were proper designs or pictures until I accidentally came across a photo-op exhibition they did with young Nihil's costume and ghoul costumes on mannequins but by then I'd almost finished all of these and they don't have names and I didn't want to add more work for myself so I know this isn't 'technically' a complete list but please I've been drawing ghouls for so long please let me rest).
As always with my little chibis, they’re available as stickers, and as badges with customisable backgrounds of any colour of pride flags that you want. I can’t link to my Etsy without risking Tumblr hiding the post, but the link is in my pinned post, my carrd, I’m emptymasks on Etsy. Reblogs help support artists more than likes ❤️
[ID: Individual chibi drawings of 69 characters (or the same character in different outfits) from the band Ghost that are available as stickers. Also as badges where they are placed inside circles to show what they will look like as physical button badges, some of them with plain colour backgrounds and some with 1-3 different pride flags as examples of how you can customise the backgrounds.]
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Queer League of Legends Champions (with explanations) - Part II
Check out Part I
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Confirmed Pansexuals – Twisted Fate
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Twisted Fate was always speculated to be part of the LGBTQ+ community due to his, uh, flamboyancy. The sentiment that he felt something more for Graves was always there, portrayed in their stories through regret, friendship, and loyalty. The Boys and Bombolini color story officially confirmed him as queer, making TFGraves the faces of Pride 2022. This year, he was also seen with the pansexual flag in official pride art, with Riot finally labeling him. It's worth noticing a cute detail (that I doubt was intentional) where his card deck's colors form the colors of his flag!
Confirmed Queers – Ahri, Ekko, Evelynn, Ezreal, Kayn, Nidalee, Renata Glasc, Samira, Taric, Udyr
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Ok, this is a long category. Here we have every champion we know for sure is queer, either through external confirmation (Ekko, Ezreal, Kayn, Renata Glasc, Taric), in-game dialogue (Nidalee, Samira, Udyr), or basic lore (Ahri, Evelynn). Let's start with the first group.
Throughout the first half of 2020, Riot released multiple chapters of a Pulsifire color story focused on Ezreal. It explored his relationships with numerous champions of the universe, but especially Ekko. The subtext was strong in this one, and the writer later took to Twitter to talk about how tough it was to have queer stories be censored when working for IPs, not so subtly mentioning Ezreal and Ekko after doing so. Even though Riot might not have agreed with making the Ezko relationship undeniably romantic, their love for one another is still an important part of the story, not to mention that it was the creator's intended vision to begin with. 
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Renata Glasc was confirmed as sapphic by one of her creators when sharing concept art of her design. Checking the link to the original post, they seem to have deleted the excerpt that mentions it, but people took screenshots before they edited it, most likely because of Riot. Taric, on the other hand, has been speculated to be queer since forever, although the motives are not that pure. Many people saw this hairless, beautiful man that likes jewels and was like, "Huh, that sounds kinda gay," which was the common dudebro mentality of the fandom at the time of his release that caused a lot of homophobia within the player base (more than usual). They weren't wrong, seeing as Riot did include Taric in official 2023 pride art, but he was not seen wearing or holding any flags. After all, it would make sense that he likes everything—and everyone—beautiful. But either way, both Taric and Renata are non-specified queers.
Shieda Kayn is a weirder case. I thought a lot about whether I should even include him in this category at all. There are many accounts of people affirming one of Kayn's writers pictured him as having fluid sexuality, but since then, wherever it was posted, it's gone now. I do believe it since we can still find Reddit threads on the subject, but the original source is nowhere to be found. I still decided to put him here, but take it with a grain of salt.
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Moving on to our next category, we have Nidalee, Samira, and Udyr. Samira flirts more than once with Elegant Edge in Legends of Runeterra, and her attraction for her is not subtle. As far as I'm aware, she's never expressed interest in men, but we can't say for sure whether she's bi, pan, or gay. Nidalee and Udyr have had speculated romantic interests in other champions for a while now. Nidalee with Neeko, Udyr with Lee Sin. Nidalee and Neeko's story was first portrayed as one-sided, with Neeko rejected by her friend, prompting them to part ways. On the other hand, the addition of both champions to Legends of Runeterra explored their relationship once again, with the two reuniting and Nidalee finally realizing she did love Neeko and simply didn't know how to deal with it all those years ago. A love song, Shine On, even accompanied the update, which narrates their story beautifully. They have many romantic voice lines now, both in LoR and League.
With Udyr's rework, people started realizing he digs Lee Sin through voice lines expressing how he misses his "old friend" and that he's "loved twice, left twice" (which applies to his relationship with Lee Sin). Besides, his design includes memorabilia he exchanged with Lee Sin when they parted ways. It is also important to mention he's had a wife before, so he swings both ways. I think the context gives more than enough clues for us to safely say Udyr is queer. 
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Ahri and Evelynn are spirits/demons that prey on their victims (regardless of gender) through charm and seduction. Ahri is essentially a succubus, and Evelynn is the Demon of Agony, with desire and lust being important parts of their characters. It is also worth noting that Evelynn is genderfluid/agender, taking the form of anyone (or anything) that might lure her victims. So their lore essentially confirms them as not straight and not cis (on Evelynn's case, at least).
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gaypleasantview · 3 months
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Day 5: Wonderful Christmastime // Clothing Set
Set includes:
⋆ spannersims' AF Dawn Sweaters, converted from TS4 on keoni's 4t2 EP11SweaterFrench mesh
⋆ GenericFan's AM Knifty Sweater (Pride & Holiday), converted from TS4 on lowedeus' 4t2 SP17 Sweater Crochet mesh
⋆ Miss Ruby Bird's AM Winter Sweaters for the Boys, converted from TS4 on lowedeus' 4t2 SP17 Sweater Crochet mesh
⋆ Miss Ruby Bird's CU Winter Sweater Recolor, converted from TS4 on RentedSpace's 4t2 EF13SweaterFairIsle mesh
⋆ spannersims' Holly Jolly Hat, converted from TS4 on MDP's 4t2 EP05Santa mesh
Link, swatch and more info under the cut ♡
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Hi! Happy holidays to everyone celebrating! I'm thinking of maybe sharing a couple more gifts before the end of the year now that I have a little more free time. May not be the most traditional way of doing an advent calendar ever but it's more true to my culture that way, anyway. And yay, presents!
Today I wanted to bring you something really wintery so I converted a bunch of sweaters and a Santa hat! I didn't feel like having another breakdown meshing clothes so I looked for some recolors for TS4 meshes that have already been converted by amazing people in our community. Some of these sweaters have a more holiday-ish vibe, and some are just cute thingies that your sims could wear in cold weather. All of them allegedly work as outerwear, too, but I currently don't have the separates mod to check so let's just hope I'm not lying on the internet right now.
Everything is tooltipped and compressed. I tried to name the files clearly so you know what kind of print every file contains, if I labeled something weird it's because I don't always understand pictures lol. No age convesions today, unfortunately. But feel free to send requests, I'll see what I can do!
Credits: spannersims, Miss Ruby Bird, GenericFan for the textures; keoni, lowedeus, RentedSpace, MDP for the meshes; Julia Dreams for some of the original patterns; 4t2 CAS Conversion Archive for being a super useful and fun tool!
☁ Download
Important: all of the AM sweaters (Knifty Sweater and Winter Sweater AM) share the same mesh (lowedeus_TS4sweater_MESH) so please be careful not to put it in your game multiple times. I put it in the shared folder :)
SFS | Mediafire
☁ Swatch
⋆ spannersims Dawn Sweaters on keoni's 4t2 EP11SweaterFrench mesh - AF, everyday & outerwear
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⋆ GenericFan Knifty Sweater on lowedeus' 4t2 SP17 Sweater Crochet mesh - AM, everyday & outerwear I think I will convert the solid/striped/Halloween sweaters eventually, but for now I only did the Holiday and Pride ones. The colors on some sweaters might not be spread out evenly due to the mesh mapping. I also edited the lesbian ones a little bit to be slightly more orange and resemble the older flag less.
Pride:
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Holiday:
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⋆ Miss Ruby Bird Winter Sweaters for the Boys on lowedeus' 4t2 SP17 Sweater Crochet mesh - AM, everyday & outerwear
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⋆ Miss Ruby Bird Winter Sweater Recolor on RentedSpace's 4t2 EF13SweaterFairIsle mesh - CU, everyday & outerwear
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⋆ spannersims Holly Jolly Hat on MDP's 4t2 EP05Santa mesh - TU-EU, glasses bin, layerable
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vellichorom · 2 months
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HATOFUL BOYFRIEND PRIDE HEADCANONS! ✨ a bit early in the year for it? NEVER !!!!
just a silly set that took WAY too long to do for being a blip of a thought this afternoon
USING SOME SPRITES FROM THE HATO PARABLE because my ass could NOT be asked to dedicate myself to editing on ties & accessories COUGH;;
( flag glossary / few extra details under the cut for anyone that doesn't recognize the flags or just wants to soak up every inch of this post; )
ryouta kawara - open to all pronouns // genderqueer / demiromantic / bi-curious; ( the dressing up + playing up femme characters really got him thinking... ) hiyoko tosaka - uses she/her primarily but anything goes // aroace / pansexual / genderqueer; ( she does not give a FUCK but if she HAD to label herself... wild & free... ) nageki fujishiro - he / they(?) // questioning; ( feels stifled as a ghost & likely forgoes thinking of anything like that, but in an AU where he lives, he's questioning a bit of everything; likely queer ) sakuya le bel shirogane - he / him // demiromantic / queer; ( he's not gotten that far to figure it all out yet, redemption comes first after all! probably into guys ??? ) okosan - he/him primarily but i don't think he cares // aroace; ( i admit i really didn't know what to give him but i don't think he gives a shit about romance OR gender, even if pudding wasn't his ultimate goal - & yet, okosan loves everyone! ) yuuya sakazaki - he/him // omniromantic / demromantic/sexual; ( a massive flirt toward anything that moves, but you're not getting dinner without him getting to know you some! ) kazuaki nanaki - he/him // queer / demiromantic/sexual; ( romance & beyond is the Furthest from his mind at any given time (( like most here )), but hey ) shuu iwamine - he/him // homosexual / aroace; ( this is possibly buried beneath emotional setback after emotional setback, buried underneath research first & foremost ) anghel higure - he/it but he probably goes by all KINDS of pronouns & genders, especially holy ones but... / unlabelled; ( bisexual energy, but i can't begin to summarize all of that in any one label & he DEFINITELY couldn't, so we won't! ) azami koshiba - she/her // pansexual / demiromantic/sexual; ( recently realized pre-love ★ blaster! congratulations azami! ) rabu/hosokawa blaster ★ - he/him // bisexual; ( ALSO recently realized pre-love ★ blaster, during his parting from azami; whoopee! ) kenzaburou urushihara - he/him // homosexual; ( ready to form his own coffee shop au at any given time /silly ) tohri nishikikiouji - he/him // demiromantic/sexual / queer; ( the gayest possible man alive, & yet... still figuring a few things out; ) ryuuji kawara - he/him // bisexual / aromantic; ( he's just. do you understand me. & the bastard died before he could resolve anything this revelation sparked, ) miru & kaku - they/them(???) // christmasgender &/or agender; ( i'm right ) the king - he/him & probably king/kingself pronouns lbr // homosexual; ( moreso explored in another life... but i had to include him for the sake of prohibiting bigger spoilers; ) leone JB - he/him // unlabelled or aroace; ( ESPECIALLY could not care less about any of it, & maybe aroace wasn't the right flag to put here but i feel it also holds true; ) mino ichijou - he/him // homosexual; ( to the one other mino enjoyer out there, isn't he so very gay to you as he is me. gives me hopeless romantic vibes as well; )
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baji having a S/O who's an exchanged, goes to the fanciest expressive school, . . BECAUSE THEY'RE A ACTIVE ACADEMIC STUDENT, literally has the royalcore romanticized school life, i ask this because baji iz- "Tupid", and has a smart S/O:))
no because baji is the human equivalent of an orange cat- (i have an orange cat)
reader is fem! reader
ᵈᵘᵐᵇ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵈᵘᵐᵇᵉʳ, ᵇᵘᵗ ᵈᵘᵐᵇ ⁱˢ ˡⁱᵗᵉʳᵃˡˡʸ ᴱⁱⁿˢᵗᵉⁱⁿ !!
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being baji's s/o includes...
it's a question from both your friends and baji's friends how the two of you even met.
no one knows where y'all found each other and how you fell for each other because from toman's point of view, it feels like baji is forcing you to date his dumbass and holding you at gunpoint. not that it's real, but that's their thought process.
your friends didn't really trust baji at first, but then they realized he's too dumb to cheat, too dumb to be a red flag, too dumb to do any real harm other than accidentally punch you, but that's probably not going to happen like ever.
and yes, your classmates think you have THE romance high school life because you have a boyfriend who's basically your polar opposite and rides a motorcycle.
don't think they don't see you coming to school and leaving school on baji's motorcycle because that shit is so loud they'd have to be completely deaf to not hear it.
it's also because baji claims that all the engine noise is the anthem of your arrival to the school and like the show-off he is, wants to announce to the world you're HIS girlfriend, and everyone else isn't good enough for you.
fully believes that he's above your male classmates because he treats you with more respect than they could ever give. respect because his mother would clap him to neptune and back and because you're smarter than he'll ever be.
there are so many reasons he should respect you and treat you like a queen and literally no reason for him to treat you like trash.
him being a delinquent has nothing to do with your relationship because his friends, who are probably the scariest delinquents in the history of ever (minus chifuyu), respect women just as much as he does.
in fact, they have told you time and time again they will gladly teach baji a lesson if he ever decides he's on high enough of a pedestal to start hitting you or mistreating you.
you've got your own FBI squad protecting you in case baji acts up, but i don't think he ever will.
whether it's because he genuinely loves you or because he's scared of getting beat up by his friends, you're not sure, but you're not complaining <3
and yes, before anyone asks, you do tutor him the best you can, and baji does often feel bad because none of the things you teach him get stuck in his head.
what does get stuck in his head is the kisses you give him as a reward for getting questions right
imma say it now, but he's such a simp.
he looks like a guy that would sleep around, but he's literally the dumbest guy ever to even use a pick up line. he never ONCE used a pick up line on you, and just rizzed you up with genuine kindness and blunt words.
honestly, he thought you had a few screws loose when you told him you liked him back.
the main reason baji wakes up at the crack of dawn to drive you to school is because he also gets his daily dose of affection while he drives you.
thrives every day he gets to feel you hugging him from the back and basically preens in pride like a literal bird.
demands kisses in payment driving you to school as if you hugging him the whole time wasn't enough *rolls eyes*
the ride with him is actually pretty calm, and when the two of you are stopped at a red light, he likes to take one of your hands and press a kiss on it before placing back on his waist. he doesn't even have to look back or take your helmet off to know you're blushing RED.
the first few times he was waiting at your school to pick you up, the security had to come out and keep an eye on him for "being suspicious" when really all they're looking at is a simp in love and just wanting to meet his lady.
and yes, baji does call you his little lady because it just fits. he has a barrage of nicknames for you, but his lady or little lady is his top favorite.
imagine the shock and bamboozlement on your schoolmates' faces when they see baji with a hand on your waist, kissing your face all lover, before hauling you onto his bike and throwing his helmet over your head.
takes your schoolbag and puts it in the little basket on the front of his bike before hightailing it out of there.
baji is dumb, but he's quite literally the perfect boyfriend material and that makes up for all the brain cells he lacks <3
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bloggingboutburgers · 10 months
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Hi, I know you're catching a lot of flak right now for your comic, and I just want you to know that it's justified. Saying that you need a seperate pride without kink to "feel safe" is actively homophobic. Everything you described happening at the "good pride" also happens at normal pride just alongside the parties. Gay kinksters CREATED pride, we literally wouldn't be allowed to celebrate it without them. You can't give conservatives even an inch on this. "there should be prides without kinks for people like me" may be the extent of your thoughts but it is so easy for others to jump off from there into "all prides should be without kink" and other measures to control queer bodies in public. Please do some research into the origins of pride and see if you can still stand by your mistake
I'm actually not catching a lot of flak, I thought I was gonna, but people are being understanding of what I'm trying to mean, and I'm very grateful for that!
I didn't want to picture any specific pride as "good" or "bad", sorry if it came across this way, that means I did my drawing job badly. All I wanted to do was give visibility for my own experience.
Apologies also if I came across as homophobic – please know that wasn't my intention either, although I've kind of got that before – being called homophobic for being asexual and having my own needs be about... Welp, not needing sex, and not needing romance, while the goal of most other orientations is to show OTHER kinds of sex and romance. I want to believe these aren't incompatible goals, but I guess sometimes they can be.
...What I should say is, if we're going there, saying an asexual person doesn't have the right to want to feel safe and included in SOME LGBTQIA+ events seems pretty aphobic to me.
I 100% agree with your point that sadly there will definitely be conservatives who'll take this need as "all prides should be without kink", or take comics like these the wrong way. But I think if you're accusing me of saying exactly that, instead of the nuanced and more neutral message I'm trying to give, you're basically falling into the same mentality as they are. I believe for there to be intelligent progress for human rights for everyone, people should be able to read between the lines and understand that there are complexities that should be taken into account. If they can't take into account these complexities without ruining it all for everyone, then that leaves me with little hope for any of us to begin with.
As far as the origins of pride are concerned, I'm not denying that at all either, and that should be recognized. Again, like – I think it's absurd that we live in a world that's so explicitly heterosexually kinky on a 24/7 basis (in our movies, our TV shows, our ads, our societal habits, ALL of it) and that some people are trying to say LGBTQI+ people shouldn't be allowed to be explicitly kinky in the same way. All I'm saying is – for sex-repulsed asexuals like me, not being kinky IS what feels safe, and if I can't find events where I can feel that kind of safety, and where I have to force myself to smile and nod to stuff that makes me feel unsafe no matter where I go, I'm pretty much in the same self-repressed situation as I'm in every day in a heteronormative world. Hence why I said I'm glad pride has come so far that some of them can be inclusive even for people like me. That such things can coexist. That I believe they should.
I should also note (I might be wrong on this, please anyone correct me if I am) that asexuality as an orientation started actively being coined in the US only in the 70s (and that came much later in a majority of other countries), and we got our first flag only in 2010. Which means the first prides by nature could not be inclusive for us because we were too scared/repressed by societal norms to even have come out yet. And just like (in my country at least) what was formerly called "Gay pride" is now called simply "Pride", and just like the pride flag has evolved to include more minorities and realities of experiences within the LGBTQIA+ community, I believe it's a good thing if prides can also evolve in that sense. It has become our tradition by now as a community largely speaking, and I think traditions ought to know to evolve as well – if they didn't none of us would be allowed to exist at all and we'd all be still stuck in hetero norms. Maybe in the future things will evolve to the point where there's a variety of prides that cater more to some orientations than others (I think that may be already happening?). And maybe, hopefully, someday in the future, prides as a way to raise awareness won't be needed at all anymore because people already know and accept it. Though sadly we're still not at that point now...
...With that said, to conclude, I ought to give the Paris Pride another chance again focusing on like, before the parade begins, or after it concludes, to mainly attend the conferenes and speeches and whatnot and find what works for me in those those. Maybe that's the better way for me to experience this.
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inga42 · 3 months
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I didn't include this pairing in my other post about Nick and Charlie's coordinating outfits, because I didn't know the significance at the time I collected those images. But I'm glad, because this one deserves its own post: At the beginning of S2, E8, when Nick has just made his "Boyfriends" post on Instagram, he comes over to Charlie's and is greeted in the happiest way, to the lyrics, "I'm covered in the colours of you," and they are both wearing the colors of each other's pride flags (Charlie in the pink, purple, and blue of the Bisexual Pride flag, and Nick in the green, white, and blue of the Trans-Inclusive Gay Men's Pride flag). Every layer of this show adds so much to its depth and beauty, and I appreciate all the other fans who teach me so much as well. ❤️
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lotsadeer · 10 months
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So, re my experience with Trans Family Support Services.
Some context: TFSS is a trans support organization started by a cis woman with a trans son. I do not want to downplay the good it does on the west coast with this post. They're a valuable resource in the places they know well.
And that's the problem.
The Huntsville, AL trans community partnered with TFSS this year to plan Trans Pride events. They hired one local person to be the liaison and coordinator for "Alabama", and assigned him tasks and jobs that he should have had a team to help him with. TFSS stalled on pride planning multiple times with him, always told him to ask for help when he needed it but never gave it when he asked, and ultimately fired him when he asked for disability accommodations.
Right before he was fired, he had put together the planning committee for Trans Pride. I was the Entertainment head. TFSS went silent for a month, not telling the planning committee anything whatsoever.
From there, it was just red flag after red flag after red flag with TFSS. They promised security, a fence around the event, bag checks, etc and reneged on all of those promises multiple times, waffling instead of committing to anything specific. They refused to listen to the local community on safety.
They repeatedly acted as if we had the same resources they do in California, which, if you know Alabama and the South, we don't. They kept acting as if the police would be enough security when repeatedly police have shown to be untrustworthy.
The head of TFSS, Kathie Moehlig, refused to let the planning committee do its jobs and actually plan and make decisions. Every single decision had to be made through her. She repeatedly tried to backhandedly embarrass and blame the ex-employee in front of the committee for things that were her fault and her responsibility. She never told me what budget I was working with for hiring entertainment, and refused to accept any plan and schedule that didn't include multiple drag entertainers. Which, on that last point, is fine and makes sense, but I don't know the drag performers in my city very well, and despite asking multiple times, no one gave me anyone's info or directed them to sign up.
Not to mention Huntsville has a massive line up of events in June, 9 of which include drag entertainment. So most drag performers were booked solid.
Which was stressful for me, and happened literally last week as of this post.
The past week has been the planning committee head, the person TFSS fired, and myself arguing with Kathie about safety measures. She refused to give us a committed answer, hemming and hawwing about it. The planning head finally had enough, emailed all the vendors that there was no confirmed security, and quit.
I had, as of Friday last week, threatened to quit if Kathie couldn't promise there would be some form of barrier around the event. I had not quit yet.
Yesterday, after the planning head quit, Kathie chose for me, and texted me saying she understood my fears and want to no longer work on the event, and removed me as entertainment head and as a volunteer. I had not quit yet. Which to me, read as Kathie confirming there would be no barrier.
I emailed the entertainment about the lack of security and that if they had questions or concerns to talk to Kathie.
The ex planning head and I are both local queer/trans organizers. And this cis woman from California fired us because we wouldn't refused to budge on matters of safety for our community.
The person TFSS fired is still volunteering, and has told the ex planning head and myself what's happening. Kathie is doing damage control. She sent an email to all the vendors stating that she had hired "a security company" (no name, just a security company) and was working on getting the city permit amended to include barriers. Which was news to literally everyone involved.
Now she has added bag checks and specified entrances and exits.
Pride is this Saturday.
The local community as I know it is furious with TFSS for this shit show. Time is a flat circle and even amongst the queer community, people from the west coast think they can come into the South and fix everything because we don't know anything. And it's infuriating. That was the vibe the entire time, every meeting we had.
Do not work with Trans Family Support Services if you live in the South and Appalachia. It's not worth the headache and stress, and they'll just break every promise they make.
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do you have any chainsaw man girls headcanons for when it's pride month?
a/n: tysm for the rq!! i really enjoyed making this and it was really fun!! Also i have no real experience with pride events (ie pride parades and such) and my knowledge is from clips I've seen from them off of tiktok. Im hoping this year i can change that but by how it's looking I'll have to aim for next year. I only included Kobeni, Power, Makima, and Quanxi. I only really write the first three but i had to include the lesbian and her gfs!! also kinda short bc i was struggling to write this a bit
content in the post: mentions of nsfw (Quanxi's part), includes my hc for characters that i will only use for this fic unless you all enjoy them(except on Quanxi's part bc she is a canon lesbian), i refer to Quanxi's gfs as just her gfs bc i really don't wanna type out all their names 😭😭, potential spoilers??
CSM Girls during Pride Month
Kobeni (hcs: she/her, bi +asexual)
Shy Bi gf energy (+ asexual!)
the quiet celebrator, doesn't really like going out to events but might go to one or two depending on how many people she thinks is going to be there
makes plan to celebrate at home like baking a rainbow layer cake or something (totally didn't hand a slice of the cake to Aki at all)
Makes a mental note of all the corporations who change their logo during pride (the public safety division)
Other than that Kobeni doesn't really celebrate, she might do some activities on her own but other than that she kinda just chills at home and watch lgbtq+ movies/shows.
Power (she/they/he, pan)
Power puts the homo in homophobic /j
Power (in my hcs) is pansexual and genderfluid! (all devils in my opinion are due to the fact that when devils die they comeback after a while as someone new, it was something like that in the manga. Apologies if i got that wrong rip)
Power has not a clue what pride month is but when they learn, she tries to make everyone give up their belongs
doesn't really know/care about anything other than that there's a whole month where if Denji is mean to her that they can call him homophobic
Makima (transfem (she/her) lesbian + aromantic)
Makima is 100% a lesbian to me, it just makes sense to me. And aromantic too!
Changes the Public Safety Division Logo to a rainbow version for the month
Also does the public apologies when someone power/denji accidentally say something a little homophobic
Makima celebrates by watching LGBTQ films
Has a mini lesbian desk flag on her desk
Another quiet celebrator but technically she has her dogs to celebrate it with her even if it's just watching a movie with them
Mentions of NSFW for Quanxi's part
Quanxi (she/her poly lesbian +aroace)
Every month is pride month when Quanxi and her gfs are around
Doesn't really care about the month being pride month, all she cares about is that her and her gfs are alive and happy
spends the month doing whatever her gfs want her to do like usual. Oh you want a certain kind of food, done. You want this? done. literally anything and she'll get it done for them
Quanxi is strapped but not the weapon kind
All she wants is for her women to be happy and if that means that for the month of june that they want her to have sex twice as much then by god she'll do it
would take advantage of the two for one sex toy deal at Spencer's/other places where they sell sex toys
Overall, Quanxi doesn't really care about the month, but her gfs might use it as a way to get more attention out of their stoic gf
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Amid growing tensions between the city's LGBTQ+ and Muslim communities, Hamtramck City Council voted unanimously this week to approve a new law to penalize minority and ethnic intimidation, a move that was strongly opposed by ACLU Michigan and queer activists who fear the law will be used to target them.
"The ACLU will be watching very closely" to see if this ordinance punishes activists and protesters, Ramis Wadood, an ACLU attorney, said at the Tuesday council meeting.
The new ordinance sets punishments for anyone found guilty of intimidating or harassing someone "because of that person's race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin," according to the text of the law. The incident also has to involve physical contact, damaging property, placing an object on a vehicle or making threats. The punishment is up to 90 days in jail and a $500 fine.
The Tuesday vote came after an intense debate and heated exchange between the all-Muslim elected leadership and liberal activists, with both sides accusing the other of being intolerant during the nearly four-hour council meeting. A queer activist called for more protests while Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib fired back at some LGBTQ+ advocates, telling them: "You are the one who is causing all this tension, not us. You can't come and threaten us."
Activists are trying "to make it (Hamtramck) look like it's all queer," Ghalib added. "That's not going to happen."
After the council voted in June to ban LGBTQ+ pride flags from being flown on city property, some activists called for a year of protests. They have been placing pride posters, stickers and other symbols in support of their cause on some buildings and walls, including over the posters of some elected officials. Liberal activists fear the new law will be used to fine and jail them for their protests against city officials. They said there has been a spike in vandalism this summer against pride flags and attacks against LGBTQ+ people.
On the other side, some have complained about campaign posters of city councilmen being defaced with queer symbols and a sticker reportedly left on the mayor's car. The Free Press has observed stickers with pro-queer messages placed on some campaign posters. The part of the resolution that referenced targeting vehicles was not included in an earlier version, Wadood noted.
Ghalib, who recommended the new ordinance, said the law is needed to protect both LGBTQ+ people and Muslims from acts of bigotry.
"I denounce any kind of vandalism," Ghalib said. "And this is just one way to express our rejection to this vandalism whether it's to you (LGBTQ+ people) or to others (Muslims). Just a two way street to stop it from both sides."
Ghalib also criticized what he said was a flyer depicting him and calling him a "terrorist," calling it Islamophobic. Former Mayor Karen Majewski said she found the flyer in a trash can recently. It's unclear if there was more than one flyer, or who made the flyer. "You're labeling every Muslim as a terrorist," Ghalib said.
Ghalib has faced criticism for meeting two times in recent weeks with Michael Flynn, a former Trump aide who has previously made remarks seen as anti-Muslim.
"If I disagree with you, you can't call me a bigot or a terrorist," Ghalib said. "You come to warn me about the Republicans ... you're acting worse."
Ghalib appeared to make a reference to some children facing $1,000 fines for recent vandalism. He didn't offer specifics on the case, but suggested police overreacted.
He and Mayor Pro Tem Mohammed Hassan, one of six members of the council, said people who obey the law have nothing to fear from the new law, implying that people opposing the law are the ones committing acts of vandalism. Hassan said LGBTQ+ stickers have been placed on his forehead and mouth on images of him on posters.
"I don't know why some people are worried if you have no intention to keep doing it," Ghalib said. "I'm not worried because I have no intention to do it. Put 10 years in jail (in the ordinance), I don't care, because I'm not going to do it."
LGBTQ+ activist Gracie Cadieux called for continued protests, speaking out against the new ordinance
"We all know why this ordinance exists, because of our response to your flag ban," Cadieux said of the new law. "You brought about every sticker, every poster. Every action that has occurred from the Queer community directed at this council has been by your own design. You guys ... chose to do that on June 13, when I stood up here and I told you, if you chose to brand your hate on civic government we would respond, we would resist, we would protest you."
Before the council members voted to approve the ordinance, she said to them, using an expletive: "If you pass this resolution I am calling upon the queers of Hamtramck to once again paper ... this city with stickers, with protests, with outright dissent to what you're doing."
Wadood, the ACLU attorney, said at the meeting that as a Muslim man with brown skin, he's sensitive to the issue of hate crimes targeting minorities in Hamtramck, but "this ordinance is not the right approach."
Wadood told the Free Press the new law is unnecessary because "there is already a near-identical state ethnic intimidation law and various other property destruction laws on the books. We don’t need multiple laws criminalizing the same conduct thrice over. I understand the need to combat hate and discrimination, but threatening jail time for hateful speech or actions isn’t a thoughtful or effective way to bring the Hamtramck community together."
Moreover, "multiple elected officials took issue with stickers being placed on their cars as an act of protest, and they channeled a personal vendetta into a law that carries criminal penalties," he said. "Not only is that inappropriate, but the law they passed is not even going to prevent or penalize the very conduct they personally took issue with."
Also during the meeting, the city council voted unanimously to remove Majewski from the DDA (Downtown Development Authority) board, accusing her of being divisive and opposing state money for Hamtramck. They also rejected a proposal to use license plate readers to track cars. Wadood of ACLU Michigan praised the council for rejecting the license plate readers, saying they could be abused by law enforcement.
Last week, ACLU Michigan also raised concerns about city council placing some restrictions on public comments.
Ghalib said during the meeting he has been trying to meet with LGBTQ+ activists, but alleges they are demanding he first put a pride flag outside City Hall. He indicated there may an upcoming meeting with some activists.
Link doesn't want to attach and the article is hidden behind a subscription wall, but MSN has the same article with no subscription wall word for word, I checked, so this link should be good for a couple months.
This link
Whole thing feels like a massive 1A violation to me,
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I have already complained about this to the SU but I'm trying so so hard to walk the line as I still have a year left
These are the things I would raise
During the last voting season, I was told that despite being a lesbian student I couldn't vote for the LGBT rep due to "not being LGBT enough" This came uncomfortably close to feeling like lesbophobia and that the SU was trying to scare lesbian students into not voting. Although I was later told this was an error, I don't like to think about the many lesbian students who also received this message and didn't raise it.
Furthermore, the lesbian flag is never included during university pride displays (including the flags displayed in the main room, when multiple flags were repeated so there was clearly space). This may seem small but as a lesbian student, it sends a clear message that everyone in the LGBT community is welcome, apart from the L. I feel like I couldn't go to SU if I experienced harassment if I experienced sex-based homophobic discrimination.
Following on from this it feels insensitive to lump everyone in the LGB community under one rep, we do not have the same needs and pretending that one rep can fully represent all of the community is disingenuous and irresponsible. Either the entire LBGT community should be represented by one rep, or Gay students, Lesbian students, and Bisexual Students should have their own rep like trans students do.
The last time I raised this, I was given a very generic response of "Oh of course we care about your safety" but no action was taken to show lesbian students that the SU does indeed have their best interests at heart.
Lesbians need to know that they can speak about the specific issues they face without being labelled "transphobic". It is a label that is commonly applied to lesbians (including survivors of sexual assault) or those who are actively trans allies if they try and speak about their own unique experiences.
I'm really torn, any advice would be appreciated <3
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A long time ago (2008) I lived in California while getting my MFA, and of course Prop 8 happened. It was ugly.
For those who don't know. Prop 8 was put on the California ballot after same-sex marriage was legalized, to illegalize it again. It was worded weirdly and up to the election and after was a really ugly time, and when it passed it was like a pall was cast over the queer population. Everyone was cheering Obama's win, but Prop 8 had passed, too, and that made it hard to celebrate.
Ultimately the CA Supreme Court struck it down because it created two classes of queer people: those who were able to marry in the time it was legal, and those who could not marry, which was unconstitutional.
At the time I was regularly attending a church service for the queer population, which I'd become aware of at Pride that year, and post-election it was just us grieving and coming together to support each other. We spent the entire election season huddling together for fear it would pass, and engaging in activism and protest.
A married lesbian couple I knew woke up (pre-election) to find that their lawn was covered in Yes on 8 signs, and they tore them down and set the pile on fire in the center of their driveway (the signs were plastic but they were too upset to care; their kids woke up to see the sea of hate on their own lawn). One of their neighbors had done it, and another neighbor let them know who it was.
There were regularly picketing Yes on 8 protestors (including kids) at nearly every corner, encouraged by the LDS to do so, all weekend long, like a constant caravan of hate.
I visited a friend/classmate who was Mormon (but not a bigot) and her roommate came home and started ranting about a car that had a sign that Yes on 8 was bigotry. It was my car and I said so, and she turned beet red and retreated to her room. She didn't have the courage to keep talking shit TO me.
The Catholic church removed a popular priest from the church just off campus because he said Prop 8 did not jive with the universal love of Christ. He became a symbol of the movement against Prop 8.
I hand-made a sign for a protest against Prop 8 he headed after it passed that read "Marriage is about love, not genitalia" and I made it into the local paper (with my back turned).
On my way to said protest, I was wearing a pride flag shirt that asked "When can I vote on YOUR marriage?" and I stopped at a Starbucks for caffeine. A large man decided to stand super close and growl "Never" in an attempt to intimidate me, then left in fury when I laughed at him. He was not the first person to try to intimidate me, nor was he the last.
Sometimes I wonder if young queer folks know just how bad it was a mere 15 years ago, and if they understand how terrifying it is to hear the rhetoric by bigots who intend to strip our rights or worse.
I don't know why I'm remembering this just now. Maybe because Trump won Iowa and we all know his plans.
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Pride Month is over, but the LGBTQIA+ community will continue to need your active and engaged allyship. Here are some tips on things you can do for us the rest of the year:
1. Continue to stay angry. Stay engaged. Be aware of bills that are going to your state congresses and call your representatives. Don't rely on us to keep you informed.
2. Please don't send us LGBTQIA+ horror stories. I promise we already know about that law, that murder, that example of a child being harassed. We don't need you tor reach out and tell us about it. Remember when many members of the Black community asked people to stop reposting videos of Black people being killed by police? The queer and trans community doesn't want to see videos or photographs of LGBTQ+ folks being beaten, harassed, etc.
3. Make your allyship visible. Fly a Pride flag at your home. Put one on your car. Give the queer and trans folk in your community a reminder that we are not alone. Yes, it's easy to dismiss this as performative, but my youngest (14) points out every Pride flag he sees hanging, especially when it's flying in a place we didn't expect it. It's another little drop in the bucket of ways to make us feel safer in our communities.
4. Vote with your wallet. Don't support businesses that hate us. Don't shop at Hobby Lobby. Don't eat at Chick-fil-A. Now isn't the time to drop a ton of money on a Florida vacation (though Disney gets a little bit of a pace of telling Ron to go shove it). HRC has a nice list from 2022 of business that have actively opposed anti-LGBTQ+ legislation: https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/200-major-u-s-companies-oppose-anti-lgbtq-state-legislation
5. As we exit LGBTQ+ Pride month and enter Disability Pride month, look for ways to support the large intersectional population of people who are both LGBTQ+ and disabled (including invisible disabilities). The University of Arizona and HRC put out reference guides with articles and organzations, but there's also a bunch of other similar reference guides out there: https://lgbtq.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/DisabilityResourceGuide_June2018.pdf
https://www.hrc.org/resources/understanding-disabled-lgbtq-people
6. Support local organizations that help groups hit hardest by your state and local anti-LGBTQ+ laws, particularly groups providing support and services for trans people. If you're in Atlanta, Lost N Found is out there doing important work for dehoused queer and trans youth: https://www.lnfy.org/ Projects like Trans Lifeline are helping trans people across the nation: https://translifeline.org/donate/
7. Donate to organizations who are fighting for us. It isn't hard to find out which organizations are fighting anti-trans laws in your state. Most of the recent laws are being challenged through the ACLU, in some cases in concert with SPLC and other groups. Court battles are expensive. Donate to your state/regional chapter!
https://www.acluga.org/🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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