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cosmicanger · 2 years
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Artist, activist, and G.U.T.S. (Gay Urban Truth/Terror Squad) member Duane Puryear pictured holding his own panel of the AIDS quilt in 1988
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genderoutlaws · 2 years
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Artist, activist, and G.U.T.S. (Gay Urban Truth/Terror Squad) member Duane Puryear pictured holding his own panel of the AIDS quilt in 1988
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woman-loving · 3 years
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The “Homosexual Traitor” and US Anti-Gay Purges
Selection from The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America, by Eric Cervini, 2020.
According to the Russians, Colonel Alfred Redl of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had slightly graying blond hair and a “greasy” outward appearance. He spoke “sugar-sweetly, softly.”
Beginning in 1901, Redl worked as a high official in Austria’s Evidenzbureau, where he single-handedly built its counterespionage program. He had more access to classified information than perhaps anyone else in the empire.
In Vienna, Redl’s homosexuality was an open secret. He often appeared at society events with his longtime “nephew,” and he maintained several other affairs. He had no reason to be fearful of exposure, since even the emperor’s brother enjoyed cross-dressing and the occasional army officer.
Redl closely guarded his work as a double agent, however. During his service in the Evidenzbureau, he offered Austrian war plans to the Italian military attaché in exchange for cash. An Italian intelligence officer later recalled it “required no effort” to recruit him. Redl simply mailed envelopes full of Austrian secrets and received thousands of krone in return.
He then began sending military plans to the Russians, too. Redl became fabulously wealthy, lavishing gifts on his lovers and driving two of the empire’s most expensive automobiles. For years, no one seemed to question how he afforded such extravagances on his government salary.
In May 1913, after Austrian counterintelligence officials intercepted a Russian letter containing six thousand krone, they staked out the Vienna post office to identify its recipient. They were appalled to discover Redl.
The army wanted to keep the matter quiet, since public knowledge of treachery at such a high level would have been a profound humiliation. After following him to his hotel, Redl’s own protégé handed him a pistol. Army officials always maintained that Redl voluntarily took his life.
News of the colonel leaked, fact became intertwined with fiction, and the myth of the homosexual traitor came into being. A Berlin newspaper described Redl’s “homosexual pleasure palace, filled with perversities.” The Austrian Army needed a scapegoat for the 1.3 million casualties in that first year of World War I, so it blamed Redl and the larger, more insidious “homosexual organization” that protected him within the military.
Three years later, when a young Allen Dulles, the future CIA director, arrived in Vienna to work at the U.S. embassy, he found everyone still whispering about the homosexual spy who had lost the First World War for the empire.
By the end of World War II, America had become a more open place for homosexuals, but they also confronted novel threats conjured by a political coalition that exploited the uncertainty of the new world order. In 1945, only months before President Roosevelt died, Republicans and Southern Democrats formed the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). In the 1946 midterm election, after Republicans pledged to “ferret out” threats to the “American way of life,” they won the first congressional majority in sixteen years.
In March 1947, President Truman established the Federal Employee Loyalty Program, and the government began investigating its employees to determine their loyalty. Three months later, the Democrat-controlled Senate Committee on Appropriations warned about “the extensive employment in highly classified positions of admitted homosexuals, who are historically known to be security risks.” The committee empowered the secretary of state with “absolute discretion” to purge employees, including homosexuals, who threatened national security.
In September 1949, America learned that the Soviet Union had detonated its first nuclear weapon. In October, eleven Communist leaders were convicted for advocating a violent revolution in America, and in December, China fell to the Communists.
On January 21, 1950, a jury convicted suspected spy Alger Hiss of perjury.
On February 3, authorities arrested physicist Klaus Fuchs for nuclear espionage.
And on February 9, Junior Senator Joe McCarthy stood before a women’s club in Wheeling, West Virginia, and announced, “I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.”
Nobody else had seen the list. When reporters caught him at an airport and demanded to see it, he offered to show them—then realized he had left it in his baggage. His number of alleged Communists soon changed from 205 to 57. “Rarely,” The Washington Post declared, “has a man in public life crawled and squirmed so abjectly.”
On the evening of February 20, McCarthy arrived on the Senate floor with an overstuffed briefcase that purportedly contained his list of Communist-linked security risks in the State Department. For six hours, he provided a warped summary of eighty-one cases, relying on unproven allegations from a three-year-old congressional investigation. “In short, the speech was a lie,” concluded historian Robert Griffith.
Two of the cases involved alleged homosexuals, who were “rather easy blackmail victims,” explained McCarthy. It was a shrewd maneuver: what editorial board or politician would dare argue that sexual deviants belonged in the federal government?
McCarthy would later recuse himself from hearings on the issue of homosexuals in the government. At forty-one, the senator was unmarried, and the issue raised questions about his own sexuality.
Other Republicans took the lead. A week after McCarthy’s Senate speech, his colleagues coerced Deputy Undersecretary of State John Peurifoy, a security official testifying in defense of his department, into making a startling admission. In only three years, he admitted, ninety-one homosexual employees had resigned upon investigations under Truman’s loyalty program.
And with that, as the New York Post referred to it, the “Panic on the Potomac” began. Conservative newspapers leapt upon the admission. Congress scheduled hearings. Homosexuality, observed a columnist on Meet the Press, became “a new type of political weapon” that could “wreck the Administration.” The chief of the Washington Vice Squad testified there were “3,750 perverts employed by government agencies.” Republican senator Kenneth Wherry alleged the Soviets were using a list of American homosexuals—originally compiled by Hitler—to blackmail federal employees for government secrets. Washington, he said, faced an “emergency condition.”
The Senate committee tasked with solving the homosexual problem, led by Democrat Clyde Hoey of North Carolina, began closed hearings in July. Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the director of the government’s new Central Intelligence Agency, testified first. He arrived with a thirty-eight-page statement, and ten of those pages chronicled a “classic” case, one “known all through intelligence circles,” an example that would leave “no doubt as to the fact that perversion presents a very definite security risk.”
Of all the intelligence available to the CIA, its director chose to rest his case against homosexuals on the forty-year-old story of Colonel Redl. In Hillenkoetter’s retelling, Redl had been an “honest” man who found himself in an imperial army with unforgiving policies against homosexuality. The Russians hired a young newsboy, who “became very intimate” with Redl. Next, they broke into the colonel’s room and caught him in an “act of perversion.” After threatening to expose him, the Russians gained copies of the Austrian war plans prior to the outbreak of violence.
And so a single urban legend, the telling of which was almost entirely, verifiably inaccurate (in fact, a 1907 Russian diplomatic cable had falsely labeled Redl “a lover of women”) became the primary piece of evidence that guided federal employment policy toward homosexuals for decades to come.
The CIA director then explained the “general theory as to why we should not employ homosexuals or other moral perverts in positions of trust.” He gave thirteen reasons to the senators.  
1.  Homosexuals experience emotions “as strong and in fact actually stronger” than heterosexual emotions.   2.  Homosexuals are susceptible “to domination by aggressive personalities.”   3.  Homosexuals have “psychopathic tendencies which affect the soundness of their judgment, physical cowardice, susceptibility to pressure, and general instability, thus making a pervert vulnerable in many ways.”   4.  Homosexuals “invariably express considerable concern” about concealing their condition.   5.  Homosexuals are “promiscuous” and often visit “various hangouts of his brethren,” marking “a definite similarity to other illegal groups such as criminals, smugglers, black-marketeers, dope addicts, and so forth.”   6.  Homosexuals with “outward characteristics of femininity—or lesbians with male characteristics—are often difficult to employ because of the effect on their co-workers, officials of other agencies, and the public in general.”   7.  Homosexuals who think they are discreet are, in reality, “actually quite indiscrete [sic]. They are too stupid to realize it, or else due to inflation of their ego or through not letting themselves realize the truth, they are usually the center of gossip, rumor, derision, and so forth.”   8.  Homosexuals who try “to drop the ‘gay’ life and go ‘straight’ … eventually revert to type.”   9.  Homosexuals are “extremely vulnerable to seduction by another pervert employed for that purpose by a foreign power.” 10.  Homosexuals are “extremely defiant in their attitude toward society,” which could lead to disloyalty. 11.  “Homosexuals usually seem to be extremely gullible.” 12.  Homosexuals, including “even the most brazen perverts,” are constantly suppressing their instincts, which causes “considerable tension.” 13.  Homosexuals employed by the government “lead to the concept of a ‘government within a government.’ That is so noteworthy. One pervert brings other perverts. They belong to the lodge, the fraternity. One pervert brings other perverts into an agency … and advance them usually in the interest of furthering the romance of the moment.”
The testimony of subsequent intelligence officials echoed that of the CIA director, and the Hoey committee’s final report primarily drew from the testimony of its lead witness, sometimes verbatim. As the Hoey report concluded, homosexuals were ipso facto security risks. Colonel Redl remained its only example.
Hillenkoetter’s thirteen principles became official government doctrine. The government incorporated the Hoey report into its security manuals, forwarded it to embassies, and shared it with its foreign allies. “The notion that homosexuals threatened national security,” explains historian David Johnson, “received the imprimatur of the U.S. Congress and became accepted as official fact.” When the federal government needed to justify its homosexual purges, it simply pointed to the Hoey report.
Dwight D. Eisenhower won the presidency in 1952 with the help of the slogan “Let’s Clean House” and whispers that his opponent, Adlai Stevenson, had homosexual tendencies. Three months after his inauguration, Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450, which expanded the government’s purging authority—originally given to the State Department—to all federal agencies. Any employee who exhibited “criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct” had no place in the federal bureaucracy. With a Republican in the White House, the purges became less of a spectacle and more of a quiet, well-oiled machine. In Eisenhower’s 1954 State of the Union, he boasted of removing 2,200 security risks in only a year.
McCarthy’s downfall came later that year, but the purges remained alive, as did the rumors that always seemed to saturate America’s capital. After two Republican senators learned that the son of Senator Lester Hunt of Wyoming, a Democrat, had been arrested in Lafayette Park, they gave Hunt a choice. He could withdraw from his 1954 reelection campaign or face the publicity of his son’s homosexual arrest. The Senate was virtually tied. If Hunt resigned, he risked shifting power to the Republicans.
On the morning of June 19, 1954, Senator Hunt, a straight victim of antigay political blackmail, entered his Capitol office and shot himself with a .22-caliber rifle.
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repeatedceesaw · 4 years
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Teen Wolf
Welcome to PART TWO of a friend / roommate request for Sadie based off Teen Wolf. Ultimately this all just comes down to found family and everyone (or almost everyone) living in the same building being rented to them by the resident 'old man hangs out with young adults' landlord. Most of the characters will have known each other since 18 if not before, but while I've written mostly actual information about the characters, they're definitely more of guidelines in some parts due to the different universe mechanics. I've given three ideas for classes for each character but they're definitely suggestions and make the characters your own.
CONTENT WARNING This request contains references to family death, child abuse, and just generally shitty backstories.
(find part 1 here )
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Isaac Lahey
Open ✖ 22-24 ✖ combat / urban magic / healing ✖ open ✖ Occupation: student ✖ Short Bio: final member of the ‘didn’t used to have power and suddenly came into their own’ squad, isaac is… a dick. but like many of the others, he has a pretty good reason. after a large loss in the family, isaac was left alone with his father who was too overcome with anger and grief to even think about being a good parent. with a lot of childhood and adolescent trauma from an abusive father, when isaac finally felt like he had some power, he let it go to his head and became a nightmare to deal with. while he was never exceptionally violent (except to Jackson but they have history), he was big on property destruction and intimidation. although he’s relaxed a lot more now, he’s born of sass and snark. generally it’s either stiles or jackson he’s fighting with, it’s possible this is some sort of bonding ritual. has a very complicated relationship with jackson, and a rivalry for scott’s attention with stiles. big feelings for allison (and maybe some big feelings for scott, which is all sorts of complicated). makes jokes about his past sometimes but often very sensitive if anyone else brings it up.
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Jackson Whittemore
Open ✖ 22-24 ✖ combat / elemental magic / animal magic ✖ open ✖ Occupation: student ✖ Short Bio: the token douchebag. popular, sporty, general asshole jock. adopted when he was a baby and turned into a nightmare of a kid when he found out accidentally when he was a child. never said i love you to his parents again after that and covered up his insecurity and abandonment issues with a jockish assholery. dated lydia for most of their teenage years on and off and although he could be an asshole to her too, she’s one of the very few people he truly cared about. the kind of guy who will complain bitterly about having to watch The Notebook again or picking up sanitary products from the store, but will do it. Very much a facade but when you tell a lie long enough it starts to become the truth. Will listen to Lydia the most, followed by Allison. Knew about Isaac’s home problems but never reported it. Says it was because it wasn’t his business but Isaac’s father was Jackson’s coach so if he had reported it and no-one took it seriously, Jackson’s ass would be on the line too. Did end up ‘taking care’ of Isaac’s father in a state of being unable to control his magic, so obviously there’s a lot of very confusing feelings between them but maybe they’re working on it. maybe.
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Kira Yukimura
Open ✖ 22-24 ✖ defense / elemental magic / representation magic ✖ open ✖ Occupation: student ✖ Short Bio: New to the group and highkey confused about all this history they have. confused cinnamon roll who will kick your ass if needed but tries to avoid fights. Just happy to have friends. made sure Allison was okay with Kira having feelings for Scott before she ever acted on them because he’s cute but friends come first and she’s happy just being friends with scott. intimidated by most of them but weirdly not by derek at all since she missed most of his ‘big bad wolf’ posturing and likes to just sit down and talk or read their books mostly in silence. could kick jackson’s ass with a smile and will not be looked down on for taking more defensive magic. bonds with erica over comic books and sometimes they argue so loudly about favorite characters that boyd has to step in.
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Others
potential other characters i can try write up if someone is interested:
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malia - derek’s cousin he didn’t know he had. figuratively raised by wolves and has zero filter. new to the group and magic society so tends to stick to them otherwise will inevitably offend someone. asks a lot of very good questions about why people lie just to be nice. (22-24, possibly animal magic)
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cora - derek’s younger sister. had her own found family far away from derek after the big traumatic event of them losing their family. judging him just so hard for being a failure but loves him all the same. lowkey interested in lydia bc why wouldn’t you be interested in someone who meets you head on. (21-24, possibly representation magic)
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danny - jackson’s best friend, teaser of stiles, all around good guy who is way too nice and smart to be around any of them, original token gay but he’s so much more than that thank you, absolute whiz with computers (22-24, specifically whatever age jackson is, definitely technomancy or cyberpathy)
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outweek30 · 5 years
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ACT UP, OK?
New AIDS Activist Group Forms in Oklahoma City
OKLAHOMA CITY [August 21, 1989] — The world of AIDS activists has approximately 40 new members. Claiming that they are "inspired by ACT UP/NY and GUTS, the Gay Urban Truth Squad of Dallas, Texas," Oklahoma City's own STAT! was born at that city's gay and lesbian pride parade last June. The name is taken from the Latin word for "immediately," which is often heard over hospital intercoms when paging doctors and nurses to emergency situations.
The group, which meets every other week, had planned its first zap to coincide with President George Bush's appearance here at the National Convention of the Fraternal Order of Police last week, but Bush cancelled his appearance to attend to the hostage crisis unfolding in the Middle East, thwarting the group's plans.
Clay Shears, acting spokesperson for the fledgling group, is an Oklahoma City native who lived in Los Angeles until his diagnosis with AIDS several years ago.
"We're just trying to come to grips with the issues here. Because we don't have a lot of cases, people feel they don't need to be as militant. There isn't the sense of urgency that one lives with every day in L.A. or New York," Shears said. "But we are trying to impart that sense of urgency to the rest of the community."
At the top of STAT!'s agenda, according to Shears, is local residents' lack of access to clinical trials for AIDS drugs, and Oklahoma's policy of mandatory name-reporting of people infected with HIV, the virus thought by many to cause AIDS.
— Andrew Miller, OutWeek Magazine No. 9, August 21, 1989, p. 20.
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camryndaytona · 4 years
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Books with Queer Happiness
Since today marks the last day of Pride Month, I thought it might be fitting to share a list of LGBT books that have happy endings.
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Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers on September 8, 2015 Pages: 352
Seventeen-year-old Aidan Lockwood lives in the sleepy farming community of Temperance, Ohio—known for its cattle ranches and not much else. That is until Jarrod, a friend he hasn't seen in five years, moves back to town and opens Aidan's eyes in startling ways: to Aidan's ability to see the spirit world; to the red-bearded specter of Death; to a family curse that has claimed the lives of the Lockwood men one by one…and to the new feelings he has developed for Jarrod.
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Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour Published by Dutton Books for Young Readers on May 15, 2014 Pages: 307
A love letter to the craft and romance of film and fate in front of—and behind—the camera from the award-winning author of Hold Still.   A wunderkind young set designer, Emi has already started to find her way in the competitive Hollywood film world.   Emi is a film buff and a true romantic, but her real-life relationships are a mess. She has desperately gone back to the same girl too many times to mention. But then a mysterious letter from a silver screen legend leads Emi to Ava. Ava is unlike anyone Emi has ever met. She has a tumultuous, not-so-glamorous past, and lives an unconventional life. She’s enigmatic…. She’s beautiful. And she is about to expand Emi’s understanding of family, acceptance, and true romance.  
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Not Your Sidekick (Sidekick Squad, #1) by C.B. Lee Published by Duet Books on September 8, 2016 Pages: 283
Welcome to Andover… where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship—only it turns out to be for the town’s most heinous supervillain. On the upside, she gets to work with her longtime secret crush, Abby, who Jess thinks may have a secret of her own. Then there’s the budding attraction to her fellow intern, the mysterious “M,” who never seems to be in the same place as Abby. But what starts as a fun way to spite her superhero parents takes a sudden and dangerous turn when she uncovers a plot larger than heroes and villains altogether.
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Ash by Malinda Lo on September 1, 2009 Pages: 264
Cinderella retold In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King's Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash's capacity for love-and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love. Entrancing, empowering, and romantic, Ash is about the connection between life and love, and solitude and death, where transformation can come from even the deepest grief.
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Love: Beyond Body, Space & Time by Hope Nicholson, David Alexander Robertson Published by Bedside Press on September 30, 2016 Pages: 125
"Love Beyond, Body, Space, and Time" is a collection of indigenous science fiction and urban fantasy focusing on LGBT and two-spirit characters. These stories range from a transgender woman trying an experimental transition medication to young lovers separated through decades and meeting far in their own future. These are stories of machines and magic, love, and self-love. This collection features prose stories by:Cherie Dimaline "The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy," "Red Rooms"Gwen Benaway "Ceremonies for the Dead"David Robertson "Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story," Tales From Big Spirit seriesRichard Van Camp "The Lesser Blessed," "Three Feathers"Mari Kurisato "Celia’s Song," "Bent Box"Nathan Adler "Wrist"Daniel Heath Justice "The Way of Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles"Darcie Little Badger "Nkásht íí, The Sea Under Texas"Cleo KeahnaAnd an introduction by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair "Manitowapow," with a foreword by Grace Dillon "Walking the Clouds".Edited by Hope Nicholson "Moonshot," "The Secret Loves of Geek Girls"
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Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig Published by Feiwel & Friends on October 4, 2016 Pages: 336
Flynn's girlfriend has disappeared. How can he uncover her secrets without revealing his own? Flynn's girlfriend, January, is missing. The cops are asking questions he can't answer, and her friends are telling stories that don't add up. All eyes are on Flynn—as January's boyfriend, he must know something. But Flynn has a secret of his own. And as he struggles to uncover the truth about January's disappearance, he must also face the truth about himself.
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Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde Published by Swoon Reads on March 14, 2017 Pages: 262
Three friends, two love stories, one convention: this fun, feminist love letter to geek culture is all about fandom, friendship, and finding the courage to be yourself. Charlie likes to stand out. She’s a vlogger and actress promoting her first movie at SupaCon, and this is her chance to show fans she’s over her public breakup with co-star Reese Ryan. When internet-famous cool-girl actress Alyssa Huntington arrives as a surprise guest, it seems Charlie’s long-time crush on her isn’t as one-sided as she thought. Taylor likes to blend in. Her brain is wired differently, making her fear change. And there’s one thing in her life she knows will never change: her friendship with her best guy friend Jamie—no matter how much she may secretly want it to. But when she hears about a fan contest for her favorite fandom, she starts to rethink her rules on playing it safe. Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde, chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads, is an empowering novel for anyone who has ever felt that fandom is family.
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, #1) by Benjamin Alire Sáenz Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers on February 21, 2012 Pages: 359
A lyrical novel about family and friendship from critically acclaimed author Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship--the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be.
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1) by Becky Albertalli, Mathilde Tamae-Bouhon Published by Balzer + Bray on April 7, 2015 Pages: 303
Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised. With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon’s junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met.
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The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon on February 26, 2019 Pages: 848
A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic. Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel. Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.
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Princess Princess Ever After by Katie O'Neill Published by Oni Press on September 6, 2016 Pages: 53
"I am no prince!" When the heroic princess Amira rescues the kind-hearted princess Sadie from her tower prison, neither expects to find a true friend in the bargain. Yet as they adventure across the kingdom, they discover that they bring out the very best in the other person. They'll need to join forces and use all the know-how, kindness, and bravery they have in order to defeat their greatest foe yet: a jealous sorceress, who wants to get rid of Sadie once and for all. Join Sadie and Amira, two very different princesses with very different strengths, on their journey to figure out what happily ever after really means -- and how they can find it with each other.
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Check, Please! Book 1: # Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu Published by First Second on September 18, 2018 Pages: 288
Helloooo, Internet Land. Bitty here! Y’all... I might not be ready for this. I may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It’s nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There’s checking. And then, there is Jack—our very attractive but moody captain. A collection of the first half of the megapopular webcomic series of the same name, Check, Please!: #Hockey is the first book of a hilarious and stirring two-volume coming-of-age story about hockey, bros, and trying to find yourself during the best four years of your life.
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The Color Thief (The Color Thief, #1) by Emily Poirier on December 10, 2018 Pages: 420
The King and Queen of Teqell have kept a terrible secret for twenty-seven years. Now, it's killing them. Magic is draining them of their color, and they are dying. Princess Helena is obligated to marry and ascend to the throne, told to ignore what she has learned and accept their fate, but she cannot. Instead, she hatches a flimsy plan with Dresden, one of her Royal Guards, to right this wrong. They must help each other travel across the kingdom that she helps rule but has largely never seen while evading other Guards who would bring them back to the castle and stop short their quest. On the way, Helena must also struggle with her changing and complicated feelings about her own family, keep her first and only friend, and reevaluate magic's role in her kingdom.
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Just Juliet by Charlotte Reagan
Ever wondered what lesbian love between two teenage girls feel like? Read the story of Lena and Juliet. Lena Newman is 17 years old and pretty satisfied with her life. Until her world is turned upside down. Juliet James is the new girl at school and very quickly manages to send Lena’s heart wild. Juliet introduced Lena to a part of herself she didn’t know was there, taking her on an emotional journey where loyalty, friendships and family relationships are tested. Juliet represents the road less traveled. Will Lena take it?
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I Can't Think Straight by Shamim Sarif Published by Enlightenment Press on November 11, 2008 Pages: 216
Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more different from each other, but the attraction is immediate and goes deeper than friendship. As Tala’s wedding day approaches, simmering tensions come to boiling point and the pressure mounts for Tala to be true to herself. Moving between the vast enclaves of Middle Eastern high society and the stunning backdrop of London’s West End, I Can’t Think Straight explores the clashes between East and West, love and marriage, conventions and individuality, creating a humorous and tender story of unexpected love and unusual freedoms.
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Carry On (Simon Snow, #1) by Rainbow Rowell Published by Wednesday Books on May 9, 2017 Pages: 522
Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here — it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up. Carry On - The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow is a ghost story, a love story and a mystery. It has just as much kissing and talking as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell story - but far, far more monsters.
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Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1) by Audrey Coulthurst Published by Balzer + Bray on November 22, 2016 Pages: 389
Betrothed since childhood to the prince of Mynaria, Princess Dennaleia has always known what her future holds. Her marriage will seal the alliance between Mynaria and her homeland, protecting her people from other hostile lands. But Denna has a secret. She possesses an Affinity for fire—a dangerous gift for the future queen of a kingdom where magic is forbidden. Now, Denna must learn the ways of her new home while trying to hide her growing magic. To make matters worse, she must learn to ride Mynaria’s formidable warhorses—and her teacher is the person who intimidates her most, the prickly and unconventional Princess Amaranthine—called Mare—the sister of her betrothed. When a shocking assassination leaves the kingdom reeling, Mare and Denna reluctantly join forces to search for the culprit. As the two become closer, Mare is surprised by Denna’s intelligence and bravery, while Denna is drawn to Mare’s independent streak. And soon their friendship is threatening to blossom into something more. But with dangerous conflict brewing that makes the alliance more important than ever, acting on their feelings could be deadly. Forced to choose between their duty and their hearts, Mare and Denna must find a way to save their kingdoms—and each other.
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soap-brain · 7 years
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In light of what just went down in this fandom, I decided to finally do the follow forever I’ve been meaning to do for a while, because there are so many lovely people in this fandom, and you all deserve so much recognition! So let’s have
💫✨nerdqueenenterprise’s first follow forever ✨🌟
~mutuals bolded~
A - @adestroy @allthingsgerman @amazingphil @americanmuslcecars @annie-thyme @angelboye @archangelsanonymous @archangel-with-a-shotgun @area51-official @atasteofsunshineandwhiskey @autisticarchieandrews @avengeyours
B - @bbuchanann @black-hole-dreamer @bluembenga @bottomkirk @bravemccoy @breathtakingdestinations @buckyandfubar @buckykingofmemes @burning-rubber-and-laying-frame @butwhynothavesomwmore
C - @canadean-moose @cannedebonbon @captioningcrusader @casandsip @carpr0n @chantalismus @chekov-appreciation-blog @chibidragons @chrispinesays @cinnab3an @classictrek @commandr-spocks @cpinedaily @cptnhsulu @cptkirksnipples @cutekittensarefun
D - @dailybuckybarnes @dailyshatner @danielhowell @dansfluffybutt @darlinjim @darthmagic @dearlaurent @deforestkelleys @deheerkonijn @deutschtaeglich @derpycats @drawsshits
E - @earthunboxed @elroymarvelous @equinecrazy @equestrianbootsandbridles @excitedlimes
F - @facts-i-just-made-up @factsinallcaps @faktillon @federationofplanets @federations @femspirk @fluffy-kittens @forspacereasons @funfactsandprettypictures @fuckyeahcherik @fuckyeahmcspirk @fuckyeahnightmares @fuckyeahyourbucky @furiroad
G - @gabriels-horn-of-truth @galaxiedefenders @galaxydorks @garnetquyen @gay-trek @germanshitposting @get-trekked @girlkirk @gj-fangirls @gracieminabox @greenjimkirk @greetings-from-the-suffer-puppet @gumballgladiator @gwennelynne
H - @happy-kirk @he-died-of-happiness @hellyeah-karl-urban @herrhasen @hopeless--geek
I - @i-could-do-you-all-day @iguanamouth @ilovetinycreatures @imagine-jim-bones-and-spock @imaginesteverogerss @incorrectcaptiveprince @incorrect-harry-potter-quotes @incorrect-star-trek @inediblesushi @inthiscoldheart @isamthereforeiam @isthisklingon @isthisspockspeaking @its-life-jim @iwishihadastarship
J - @jacesimon @jadziadyke @jameslcirk @jamest-kirk @jimkiirk @jimkirkinthestars @jim-kirk-grab-n-kiss @jimkirksapple @jimothyandspocko @johannathemad @justbadpuns @just--space @justspacephotography
K - @karikes @kibberswrites @kirk-spock-spirk @kittyseb @kittens-jpg @khangratulations
L - @leifor @lieutenant-sapphic @linneart @loststarlight @lovely-trek @lunarkind
M - @magnetolehnsherr @markiplier @mccoysbi @mccoymostly @medicatemedrmccoy @mrlopar
N - @nasa @nasa-official @nebulagalore @nerdlingqueenwrites @nethari @nicoise-salad @not-a-grumpy-fjord @not-in-front-of-the-klingons @nyc-subway
O - @obi-wan-my-only-ho @obwian @official-ads-on-this-site @official-bremen @official-deutschland @officialdorfkind @official-duesseldorf @official-german-medienlandschaft @official-german-nahverkehr @official-german-schulsystem @official-german-translationen @official-gina @official-hessen @official-niedersachsen @official-nordrheinwestfalen @officialperiodictable @official-prospekte @ohmygoshbabyanimals @omg-hawkeye @onedamnminuteadmiral @onegiantleapformankind @orchidsslayer
P - @petite-madame @pics-that-make-you-go-hmm @plaidshirtjimkirk @poefinn @possesstiel @prettyspock @princebucky @prince-damianos @private-trek @protectbuckybarnesatallcosts
Q - /
R - @rabbitnebula
S - @sabriel-otp @sassybits @saychevrolet @science-officer-spock @scotchy-mist @searchingforspock @sebstans @setheverman @shitmygaywifesays @sizzleitupwithlup @small-chekov @spaceandstarlight @spirkandkock @spirkian @spirkism @spirk-me-hard @spockeveryday @spockiosexual @spockoholic @spockshair @spockt @steviebucks @steviegrant @stair-truck @starspirk @startrekgenerator @startrektosfaves @star-trek-world @star-vault @starwarsgenerator @stcivilianclothing @storiesfromstarfleet @stuckyfanart @subinnnnn @sunshineandhoney @sunshine-captain @sunshine-phil @sweartrek @swishyspock @synergygabriel
T - @tchallabread @tchallaofwakanda @tea-cherry @textsfromthe-avengers @textsfromtheenterprisecrew @textsfromstarfleet @textsfromtos @thatpunktrekkie @thatsacooldragon @thatsthat24 @theartofangirling @thecaptiveroyals @the-life-of-bucky-barnes @theklingondiscourse @the-naked-time @the-queen-unitato @the-steve-bucky-ship @thestuckynation @thetardisismysoulanimal @thetrickyowl @the-walrus-squad @tiwnpeaks @tol-sam @tomatosdumpster @tomatostrashart @totallytrekker @trappist-1p @trashyscarface @trekbot @trekdreams @trekcastdaily @treksource @treasureseven @tricksterangelgabriel
U - @unicornofhell @universe-suggestions @useless-germanyfacts
V - @vampireapologist @vessel-at-best @vibrathor @vulcannic @vulcantastic
W - @wayward-marvel-and-more @weirdtrek @wellthatsadorable @whelvenwings @williamshatnerschoolofoveracting @wintersthighs @wir-schicken-wen @wizard316 @wonders-of-the-enterprise @wondertrevsource @wordssometimesfail @writingmymadness @wtffanfiction-de 
X - /
Y - @yawpkatsi @yesishipspirkmom @yuki00yo
Z - @zacharysquinto @zohbugg
# - @70scarculture
(if we’re mutuals but I forgot to bold you please hmu so I can fix it!)
You’re all very fantastic people! Keep on being awesome!!
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camryndaytona · 4 years
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Queer Happiness
Since it’s pride month I’ve been seeing a lot of people making lists of books with LGBT characters, which I think is a wonderful thing to do. However, there are a lot of books with LGBT characters that may not have a happy ending or that may focus entirely on troubling issues such as discrimination or the AIDs crisis. While these are certainly important topics, I wanted to share a list of books that may have a much happier message.
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Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers on September 8, 2015 Pages: 352
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Seventeen-year-old Aidan Lockwood lives in the sleepy farming community of Temperance, Ohio—known for its cattle ranches and not much else. That is until Jarrod, a friend he hasn't seen in five years, moves back to town and opens Aidan's eyes in startling ways: to Aidan's ability to see the spirit world; to the red-bearded specter of Death; to a family curse that has claimed the lives of the Lockwood men one by one…and to the new feelings he has developed for Jarrod.
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Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour Published by Dutton Books for Young Readers on May 15, 2014 Pages: 307
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A love letter to the craft and romance of film and fate in front of—and behind—the camera from the award-winning author of Hold Still.   A wunderkind young set designer, Emi has already started to find her way in the competitive Hollywood film world.   Emi is a film buff and a true romantic, but her real-life relationships are a mess. She has desperately gone back to the same girl too many times to mention. But then a mysterious letter from a silver screen legend leads Emi to Ava. Ava is unlike anyone Emi has ever met. She has a tumultuous, not-so-glamorous past, and lives an unconventional life. She’s enigmatic…. She’s beautiful. And she is about to expand Emi’s understanding of family, acceptance, and true romance.  
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Love: Beyond Body, Space & Time by Hope Nicholson, David Alexander Robertson Published by Bedside Press on September 30, 2016 Pages: 125
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"Love Beyond, Body, Space, and Time" is a collection of indigenous science fiction and urban fantasy focusing on LGBT and two-spirit characters. These stories range from a transgender woman trying an experimental transition medication to young lovers separated through decades and meeting far in their own future. These are stories of machines and magic, love, and self-love. This collection features prose stories by:Cherie Dimaline "The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy," "Red Rooms"Gwen Benaway "Ceremonies for the Dead"David Robertson "Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story," Tales From Big Spirit seriesRichard Van Camp "The Lesser Blessed," "Three Feathers"Mari Kurisato "Celia’s Song," "Bent Box"Nathan Adler "Wrist"Daniel Heath Justice "The Way of Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles"Darcie Little Badger "Nkásht íí, The Sea Under Texas"Cleo KeahnaAnd an introduction by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair "Manitowapow," with a foreword by Grace Dillon "Walking the Clouds".Edited by Hope Nicholson "Moonshot," "The Secret Loves of Geek Girls"
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Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde Published by Swoon Reads on March 14, 2017 Pages: 262
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Three friends, two love stories, one convention: this fun, feminist love letter to geek culture is all about fandom, friendship, and finding the courage to be yourself. Charlie likes to stand out. She’s a vlogger and actress promoting her first movie at SupaCon, and this is her chance to show fans she’s over her public breakup with co-star Reese Ryan. When internet-famous cool-girl actress Alyssa Huntington arrives as a surprise guest, it seems Charlie’s long-time crush on her isn’t as one-sided as she thought. Taylor likes to blend in. Her brain is wired differently, making her fear change. And there’s one thing in her life she knows will never change: her friendship with her best guy friend Jamie—no matter how much she may secretly want it to. But when she hears about a fan contest for her favorite fandom, she starts to rethink her rules on playing it safe. Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde, chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads, is an empowering novel for anyone who has ever felt that fandom is family.
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Not Your Sidekick (Sidekick Squad, #1) by C.B. Lee Published by Duet Books on September 8, 2016 Pages: 283
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Welcome to Andover… where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship—only it turns out to be for the town’s most heinous supervillain. On the upside, she gets to work with her longtime secret crush, Abby, who Jess thinks may have a secret of her own. Then there’s the budding attraction to her fellow intern, the mysterious “M,” who never seems to be in the same place as Abby. But what starts as a fun way to spite her superhero parents takes a sudden and dangerous turn when she uncovers a plot larger than heroes and villains altogether.
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Draw the Line by Laurent Linn Published by Margaret K. McElderry Books on May 17, 2016 Pages: 516
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Adrian Piper is used to blending into the background. He may be a talented artist, a sci-fi geek, and gay, but at his Texas high school those traits only bring him the worst kind of attention. In fact, the only place he feels free to express himself is at his drawing table, crafting a secret world through his own Renaissance art-inspired superhero, Graphite. But in real life, when a shocking hate crime flips his world upside-down, Adrian must decide what kind of person he wants to be. Maybe it’s time to not be so invisible after all—no matter how dangerous the risk.
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Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig Published by Feiwel & Friends on October 4, 2016 Pages: 336
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Flynn's girlfriend has disappeared. How can he uncover her secrets without revealing his own? Flynn's girlfriend, January, is missing. The cops are asking questions he can't answer, and her friends are telling stories that don't add up. All eyes are on Flynn—as January's boyfriend, he must know something. But Flynn has a secret of his own. And as he struggles to uncover the truth about January's disappearance, he must also face the truth about himself.
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Ash by Malinda Lo on September 1, 2009 Pages: 264
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Cinderella retold In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King's Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash's capacity for love-and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love. Entrancing, empowering, and romantic, Ash is about the connection between life and love, and solitude and death, where transformation can come from even the deepest grief.
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Carry On (Simon Snow, #1) by Rainbow Rowell Published by Wednesday Books on May 9, 2017 Pages: 522
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Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here — it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up. Carry On - The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow is a ghost story, a love story and a mystery. It has just as much kissing and talking as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell story - but far, far more monsters.
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