"Stop gaslighting us! Stop telling us to go vote and get out in the streets. We've been voting. We've been in the streets. This is gaslighting! We cannot make change in the same system that harmed us. That is an abuse cycle! Stop!"

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It's actually the 4th and last phase of the abuse cycle before it repeats.

The next step will be Tension. The unrest before violence is committed again.

Do you already feel the pressure and anger of Democrats? Have you already seen them warning you about impending doom if you don't vote blue? You notice how they're setting the stage to justify whatever disappointments and violence happens after the coming elections?

Do not forget this is the same party that promised to address police violence, abolish student debt, codify Roe v Wade into federal law, and stand with natives, and then did the total opposite.

The system itself, regardless of party affiliation still enables violence such as death, sickness, forced births, kidnapping, forced sterilizations, pain compliance, and slavery against some of the most oppressed groups in the country. Legally.

So in 2022 do not be gaslit into thinking voting blue is enough to save your rights when the judicial system itself is what allows them to be violated and when a democratic president could not stop them from being entirely removed.

We need to change the system, not just the color of it's mask. And to change the system we must be a threat to it, not active participants.

Just want any queer elder to know it’s Not Normal for young queers to not know their history. I’ve been seeing a lot of posts with young queers knowing very little of our past and I- I just want to reassure that I’m 19 with 18-23 year old queer friends who deeply know and understand our history. We know that Sodomy laws caused men to be chemically castrated, we know that sometimes all it took was seeming queer for police to be busting down your door, we know about the lavender scare and we know that the reason our oldest members in the community hit 40-50 is because of Reagan. We know and we’re Sorry so many have forgotten, we’re sorry you fought with blood, sweat, and tears only to have those you fought for not even know a war had been going on in the first place. We Thank you for fighting for us and I promise to continue to fight for our community so your efforts are never in vain

Roe v Wade was protected under the 14th amendment. Here are other things the 14th amendment says/ protects.

* All persons born or naturalized in the United States,” thereby granting citizenship to formerly enslaved people.

* 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson, ruling that segregated public schools did in fact violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

* The use of contraception (1965’s Griswold v. Connecticut)

* The right to interracial marriage (1967’s Loving v. Virginia)

* The right to same-sex marriage (2015’s Obergefell v. Hodges)

* Protection from racial discrimination/ discrimination based on gender or sexuality

* The right to Due Process

*HIPPA laws

* The right to engage in intimate sexual conduct (Lawrence v Texas 2003) ie: sex outside of marriage/same sex sexual acts

* Your right to vote if you aren't a white male

Y'all just opened a whole can of worms.

if you’re queer in texas—be very very careful

the way they got roe overturned was by creating test cases to send to the supreme court

if the attorney general of texas is calling for lawrence to be overturned, he may start monitoring queer people for arrest for sodomy to create lawrence test cases

stay safe 🏳️‍🌈

Link - Lawrence v. Texas

Link - Griswold v. Connecticut

Link - Loving v. Virginia

Link - Stanley v. Georgia

Link - Obergefell v. Hodges

Link - Meyer v. Nebraska

Link - Skinner v. Oklahoma

I feel like we as a fandom don’t talk enough about how Liam came out to his Catholic high school in Texas. I forget exactly when but it would’ve been when Cordell was still there so he was at the very latest a Junior so 16-17ish.

It’s very likely that this act was a result of Lawrence v Texas

Can you imagine teenage Liam realizing his sexuality, coming to terms with it, and watching a major court case about whether or not his sexuality was even legal? Did he even know that it was illegal to have gay sex in Texas until the case came up? How much of an impact did it have on him to see them win?

Hey guys? Anyone else a little concerned with the Supreme Court making abortion illegal and attempting to make gay sex illegal and the wording of the 13th amendment?

I'm remembering when Barrett got appointed, my mom found me sobbing in my room and I told her I knew how bad this was for queer rights, they would undo all the court victories we'd gotten. She told me that would never happen, I shouldn't worry, I was freaking out over something impossible. Now they're coming for Lawrence v Texas and Obergefell v Hodges like I knew they would. Fuck that shit. If a queer child is crying because their rights are under attack your response should not be to tell them not to worry.

A nice succinct summary. And when Justice Thomas, with his white wife, is no longer with us, will SCOTUS decide that Loving v. Virginia is also one of those "demonstrably erroneous decisions"? Stay tuned...

sorry but it's just like. exceedingly fucking clear to me that republican controlled state legislatures across the country are testing how far they can go right now. bills like tennessee house bill 0009, kentucky house bill 173, and kentucky senate bill 150 are intended to see how far the current political and judicial climate will allow them to restrict the rights of queer people. republicans did this for a little over a decade before they got roe overturned. (source: the first heartbeat bill was filed in ohio in 2011.)

they are setting up to challenge obergefell and lawrence v. texas. the majority opinion of roe cites the due process clause of the fourteenth amendement, arguing that abortion bans violate a right to privacy. obergefell guarantees the right of same-sex couples to marry through the due process clause and the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment. the majority opinion argues that marriage is a private decision the state cannot intrude on, citing loving v. virginia (also based on the due process and equal protection clauses of the fourteenth amendment). the equal protection clause protects same-sex couples from being barred from marrying while their opposite-sex peers can marry freely. the majority opinion of lawrence v. texas cites the due process clause as granting same-sex couples a "protected liberty interest" to have private sexual relations. in a concurrence, justice sandra day o'connor cites the equal protection clause as the reason gay sex should be decriminalized. (note: in some states only same sex intercourse between men was criminalized. in others same sex intercourse between women was also criminalized. in still others anal sex was criminalized regardless of whether the participants were of the same or opposite sex. the texas law being challenged in lawrence criminalized anal and oral sex between men only. the lawrence case made it legal for same-sex couple to have sex for the first time in FOURTEEN STATES. that's 28% of the country.)

bills like tn hb 0009 (which would criminalize "male or female impersonators" (i.e. drag performers) from performing in public; a second offense would be a FELONY), ky hb 173 (a don't say gay bill that would "establish limitations on school personnel related to instruction and discussion on sexual orientation, sexual preference, or gender expression," among other fucked up things), and ky sb 150 (which would force schools to out trans and nonbinary kids to their parents and prohibit schools from making teachers use kids' preferred pronouns) are clearly pushing at the limits of legality. they are trying to get the supreme court to uphold these laws when they are challenged so the conservative supreme court can say that according to historical precedent (cited in overturning roe) and publicly agreed upon morality (cited in bowers v. hardwick, a case that upheld georgia's sodomy law in 1986, which also cited historical precedent). whether publicly agreed upon morality actually condemns queer people is unlikely to matter, given the current leanings of the court.

this is all to say: we have to start paying very close attention. a felony charge means you can't vote. they are trying to make sure we can't vote. we have to start calling our legislators. we have to start engaging our politically unengaged friends. we have to. they are coming for us. they are playing the long game. we need to too.

i spent multiple hours researching this and i would appreciate reblogs. it feels like we have come to this crisis point so quickly. obergefell isn't even a decade old. we cannot be comfortable and we must act.

There’s a certain grace surrounding my grandmother’s house that’s hard to define. Never once has it known a stranger, down there on its quaint, country road. The dogwoods and beech trees create an inviting canopy of shade where all are welcome, all are invited to stay for dinner, all are gifted great company, a good story or two, and a piece of pie for the journey home. It backs up to the horse runs, and every morning without fail, four curious ponies come begging for apple cores and peppermints. Though the inside may be dated by today’s standards, it’s halls ring with laughter, the air fresh with the smell of summer.

Growing up, I dreamed of owning that house one day. Sure, it may not be close to any big cities or be in a town anyone could consider a tourist destination, but I didn’t care. Preserving that house after my grandparents left this earth was worth it. But as I got older and began to find myself—coming out as queer in the process—that dream became more and more unobtainable. Because that house, the place of my childhood summers, is in a state where gay marriage was not legalized until Obergefell v. Hodges back in 2015.

Due to the recent bout of conservative judicial restraint by the Supreme Court, cases allowing same-sex marriage, interracial marriage, and consensual sodomy are in danger. Decades-long precedents are being overturned and because so many of the aforementioned rights have not been codified into federal law, millions of Americans—especially in the South—are in danger of losing their rights, myself included.

If Obergefell is overturned, my grandmother’s house would stay empty. I would not be able to share a place so full of peace and light with a partner of the same sex. It wouldn’t matter if we wanted to give back to the community, it wouldn’t matter if we wanted to live a slow and quiet life, it wouldn’t matter if we were in love. We would be criminals, illegal, seen as less than when just a few years prior, what was in our pants didn’t void a loving relationship. As much as I’ve dreamed of making my home in that house, I couldn’t put a partner of mine through that.

So here I sit in my grandmother’s backyard, typing this out in the shade of those beeches and dogwoods, watching my favorite palomino horse graze lazily in the golden, evening light. I would be lying if I said my heart wasn’t breaking a little. Of course, the South is where I was born, where I was raised, and I’m not letting go without a fierce fight. But until our right to love as human beings is codified and protected, my hope to one day own my grandmother’s house will remain just that, a dream in the back of my mind.

Not to be alarmist but as a disabled, native, queer person of color with a uterus I'm in a unique position to see first hand that every single community's rights and protections are being eroded at once from all directions.

And if history can tell us anything it that something like this is a huge fucking red flag.

A huge fire alarm is going off.

The term Judicial Coup has been thrown around and I'm not entirely convinced it's not true.

For the love of God do not dismiss this. If you are reading this that means they are coming for you too. I don't know why they're coming all of us at once but we know they're coming for everyone. Natives. People of color. Disabled folk. Women. Trans Folk. Gay rights are on the chopping block too.

And I know I don't want to find out why they're so eager to legalize our mistreatment all of a sudden.

Don't wait to fucking vote.

Do some direct action. Disrupt traffic. Chain yourselves to buildings and cars. Protest. Spark up talk about rent and job strikes again. Protest.

Riot if non-violence doesn't suit you.

But we need to disrupt the systems that be. We need to tell them we are Not to be fucked with.

Something is coming and we need to make sure they know that it'll hurt if they try.

And we need to do it together. They are are attacking us together, after all. Because they know we are stronger unified.

In the early years, people with AIDS had no protections of any kind. Homosexuality itself was still illegal—and sodomy laws would not be repealed until 2003 in the Supreme Court ruling Lawrence v. Texas. There was no antidiscrimination legislation, no gay rights bill in New York City, no benefits, no qualifying for insurance or social services. There were no treatments. Particularly gruesome was that surviving partners or roommates were not allowed to inherit leases that had been in the dead person's name.

The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, by Sarah Schulman

Time’s Up. We Can’t Compromise Our Values Any Longer

Time’s Up. We Can’t Compromise Our Values Any Longer

With the demise of Roe v Wade, and the pathetic response from Democrats from Biden and Pelosi on down, it’s alarm bell time. I make the case that so-called “strategic voting” has been a disaster and that the left side of the American political spectrum, from the left-of-center liberals to the radical left, must vote our values and vote in leaders who share and will defend them. We simply can’t…

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Can’t have shit in America.

People fight for these things and people who wouldn’t even be affected by this shit are trying to undo it. You should NOT be able to make decisions for things that don’t, and will NEVER, apply to you.

Why are we letting people who don’t understand and don’t care to LEARN dictate what’s allowed and what isn’t for a certain group. I’m so fucking done with this country, this is absurd. Hopefully this is ruled as unconstitutional and is shut down. Because if this happens, I can only imagine even more police brutality.