to quote Alex Claremont-Diaz/Casey McQuinston:

This is it. [February 15, 2024.] And the whole world watched, and history remembered. 🌈

I literally don’t know these people but I’m so pissed on their behalf—they’re a married lesbian couple in Minnesota who used their best friend’s sperm to conceive their now-5-year-old daughter. They mutually agreed he would not be considered her father, and have been raising her accordingly all these years. They were absolutely blindsided when he suddenly served them custody papers, and because of a loophole in Minnesota law that defines artificial insemination as occurring with the aid of a doctor, there’s a very real fear that this will destroy their family. Just putting it out there to boost it, I’m not even really asking you to send your money, since I do think that’s a weird ask. But even if our incredibly progressive state, people are trying to undercut these women’s right to raise their own children.

(Uhh bragging warning I guess idk ALSO JUST REREAD THIS IM SO SORRY FOR THE LONG TEXT BLOCK 😭)

It’s so funny being in a super mega lbgtq+ household / environment and casually mentioning it to people bc everything is so heteronormative that my world explodes them ‼️

Like yeah I skipped school on Monday to drive with my mom’s gf and her NB-kid to comic-con to visit their dad that my mom’s gf is married to. Yeah my mom has 70 different pride posters in her room. Yeah my dad is trans and is married to my NB step parent. Yeah I only have 2 neurotypical family members. Yeah we have 3 cats and my mom still wants a dog. Yeah I was the best ally for my dad when he came out as trans to my mom when I was 5-ish. Yeah my parents are traumatized and had to un-homophobia their parents. No It didn’t work and I don’t talk to my grandma on my dads side bc she couldn’t gender him correctly even though he’s been out since like 2014. Yeah me and my siblings are the most accepting understanding ppl you’ll ever meet ever in your life ever in the history of ever. Yeah my siblings and I are all openly very gay and trans. Yeah we talk about sexuality casually like it’s just something that happened during algebra. Yeah I was homophobic as a 10yo bc I thought being gay was lame bc my parents were so gay I turned homophobic. Yeah my mom’s first kiss was her best friend who is therefore also my best friend by proxie. Yeah I tell all my friends my dad is trans because then they’ll know I’m safe to talk about trans ppl with without outing myself as trans. Yeah I accidentally built a friend group of gay trans faggots like me. Yeah I’m still mad my school my school replaced the lgbt+ flag that was hanging above the library with an American flag and moved the pride flag down into a corner. Yeah i force my parents to adopt my friends bc their parents are homophobic and transphobic and don’t accept them. What about it

🎨✨ Sneak a peek into the heartwarming work-in-progress of a beautiful family portrait capturing the love and joy shared by this radiant chinana lesbian couple and their adorable baby! 🌈👩‍👩‍👦 Celebrating the bonds of family and the beauty of diversity. Stay tuned for the completed piece, a testament to love in all its forms! 💖

Are you a LGBT person and would like to have a family? 🥹

"No matter what we do, we can't change the way people see us." "You changed the way you see me... didn't you?"

found family and some of the allegory in NIMONA (2023)

Sometimes i feel like younger queer kids are getting a bit to bold with openly talking to people they don’t know In The Context Of:

More than once i have had a younger/same age queer person come up to me in public settings and say something about “finding other gays” or clearly clocking me as nonbinary and I’m like :)))))))) hey buddy I’m here with my conservative parents can you fucking not out me :))))))))

Just say you like my outfit or hair and move on, fuck even tell me you like my shoelaces. Don’t call me gay and limp your wrist at me when you don’t even know me? Especially when there’s a bunch of ppl around?

16 Trans Agendas for the Modern Queer

Live to old age.

Enjoy a nice snack.

Cuddle up with my cat.

Demand good healthcare.

Create a chosen family.

Soak in queer community.

Reject any need for cis approval.

Respect pronouns.

Breathe deep breaths.

Admire surgical scars.

Be kind.

Tell my friends that I love them.

Be endlessly creative.

T4T.

Watch the sunrise.

Persist.

this is going to be on history books one day.

the little ray of sunshine contrasting all this living hell.

{[Περιγραφή Εικόνας/Image Description:

Η πρώτη αγγελία πολιτικού γάμου ομόφυλου ζευγαριού στην Ελλάδα.

[Αρχή Κειμένου] Ο Δημήτριος Ελευσινιώτης του Σπυρίδωνα και της Άννας, το γένος Βιλλιώτη, που γεννήθηκε στη Σαλαμίνα Αττικής και κατοικεί στη Νέα Σμύρνη και ο Σταύρος Γαβριλιάδης του Χρήστου και της Ευγενίας, το γένος Δρόσου, που γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα Αττικής και κατοικεί στη Νέα Σμύρνη Αττικής, θα έλθουν σε γάμο που θα γίνει στη Νέα Σνύρνη Αττικής [Τέλος Κειμένου].

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The first same-sex wedding announcement in Greece.

[Text Begins] Dimitrios Elefsiniotis, son of Spyridon and Anna (Villioti), who was born in Salamina Attica and is a resident of Nea Smyrni, and Stavros Gavriliades, son of Christos and Eugenia (Drosou), who was born in Athens Attica and is a resident of Nea Smyrni Attica, are going to enter the marriage state in Nea Smyrni Attica [End of Text].}

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on that note, for the Brooklyn 99 fans if anyone ever sees this post lol don't these guys remind you of Holt and Kevin getting married immediately after same-sex marriage was legalised because they were afraid of the bill going back to not passing?

"do you, kevin-"

"yes, yes-"

"-and do you, raymond-"

"yes, yes. WE ARE MARRIED!"

iconic. wishing them the best. 🌈✨

If a transgender person asks you to deadname and misgender them in front of certain people. Misgender them and deadname them in front of those people. It doesn't matter how icky or gross it may feel, it doesn't matter you'd rather be honest. It doesn't matter if there's more of you there. Certain people aren't safe, and honesty IS NOT the best policy when honesty could put them at serious risk. It doesn't matter if there's a crowd, because when there isn't shit goes down.

Be an ally, do what they ask. Understand that the trans person knows more about their situation than you do, and this includes who's safe and who's not. Some one can be "trans friendly" to other people, but not to people they know or specific people. Do as the trans person asks, yes it's uncomfortable, but it's 10 times worse if the person we don't trust finds out. 100 times worse if they have access to us when you're not around.

Respect trans peoples safety. Misgender and deadname when asked.

#it’s a love confession

it is totally okay to be hurt and tired and fed up with the american schooling system but i need you to understand that we need to be better about loudly and routinely defending public education.

yes, many teachers suck, many schools utterly suck. i also got bullied and was absolutely not given the right support for my needs. i am not defending public education because it was kind to me. i am defending it because it needs to exist.

right-wing republicans do not want an educated population. they want kids to be homeschooled or in private school. there is a huge religious undertone to this.

the most common argument is that despite high costs, the "result" is not "good" enough. they point to failing schools as proof that public education is just never going to work out. there will be arguments made here that you actually agree with: that teachers can be bullies, that we taught online for 2 years and still charged the same amount of tuition, that we have no recourse for students to actually have agency or a voice, and that schools are now unsafe for kids due to risk of illness and gun violence.

these are all placing the blame in a fraudulent way, one intended to get your parents to homeschool you. the less kids in a school, the less federally-awarded funding for that school, the less any school succeeds. they will not mention the fact it is their legislation that takes away important funding opportunities, that teachers are living at or below the poverty line, that buildings are not kept up to code, that administration is overpaid and forces specific curriculums, that corporations like (my personal enemy) Pearson Education control certain classroom goals because teachers can't afford other options. they pretend to be ignorant of the gun violence and say "oh just get a gun" - but these are the same people who will be sending their child to a private school with a bulletproof backpack. they don't care if your kid dies, though. they "don't believe" in covid, but they did get their kid vaccinated, because of course they did.

it is a closed loop. conservative parents hear the fearmongering and remove children from the system. frequently these parents are also deeply religious. the kids are raised without access to other media & learn to parrot their parents. you have now created a new generation of conservatives. additionally, one of the parents/caregivers must stay home and homeschool the children, usually for free. i will give you 1 guess which parent tends to stay home to homeschool the children. these parents are encouraged to have many, many children. those children are most likely not getting access to safe sex ed.

we might laugh at fox news suggesting teachers are forcing children to use kitty litter but: first of all, there is kitty litter in the classroom. it's part of an emergency kit in case children are locked in due to a shooter. so that's fucking dystopian, and the fact they've completely reimagined the scenario to somehow make the teachers look bad when it's instead a fucking huge symbol of our failure as a country to protect our children.... it feels a little intentional.

secondly: don't just dismiss the situation. because, yeah, obviously, no teacher is encouraging kids to be a catboy. but the actual undertone that fox news is trying to sew is an outright distrust of teachers and of public education. they rely on the dehumanization of trans people as a common touchstone to hide the fact they're pushing two agendas at once. (which is ironic. because the thing they accuse teachers of. is pushing. an agenda.)

whenever someone tells you they want you to read less, you should be suspicious of that. when someone tries to separate you and your education, you should be suspicious of that. i don't even like incel rhetoric nor would i want my kids exposed to it - but i would not take away my child's (age-appropriate) access to the internet. i would just provide more educational materials, not less. the difference here is that i believe we can resolve ignorance with knowledge; whereas conservatives believe that ignorance is bliss.

they misappropriate funding and demonize teachers. they pull the same trick each time - the same thing we are seeing with anti-trans rhetoric. they do not want you to have access to safe sex ed, so they act horrified, claim sex ed teaches you how to thrust deep, claim that we have no idea what "age-appropriate" means. since the mid-nineties, the united states has spent at least 2 billion dollars on abstinence-only education, even though to quote the above link: "a preponderance of studies has found no effect of abstinence education at reducing adolescent pregnancy". conservatives want you to think less of any person struggling with addiction so they can continue their racist "war on drugs", so they spend up to $750 million dollars a year on the DARE program which has absolutely no effect. acting like teachers "must" be "grooming" children is just the same thing - so they can demand that funding either goes to their causes or the funding doesn't "exist" ("i'm not paying for our kids to learn that thing!")

and they want you to feel uncaring about this. they are aware that you will hate some parts of your school experience. pretty much everyone does. they want to lean into the parts that you hate so that you don't put up a fight about it when they take it away for not being "good enough."

i know i maybe sound like a conspiracy theorist. but truly. truly. it is beneficial for conservatives to reduce your faith in the american public schooling system.

one of the explicitly stated campaign promises of the conservative party: to axe the Department of Education in 2024.

i know we are all tired and burnt out and there is so much else wrong with their entire platform. but maybe just - pay attention to this one.