AN ODE TO QUEER JOY

Part 1 : Joy in each other (Community)

@artbyeloquent / lil nas x and elton john wearing a rendition of each other's iconic costumes. photographer unknown / @ghostcauliflower / alison bechdel / @android-boy / heartstopper : scene where nick, a bisexual boy, sees his two lesbian friends kiss. gif by @nicks-nelson / @canaryomenharbinger / shatzi weisberger with three unknown people / anonymous / new york city 2021 pride parade. photographer unknown

Them taking care of each other is c r a c k to my brain. <3

The Faggots And Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell

This book was published in 1977, and for this reason I read it for the studyblr w/knives pride reading challenge for the prompt old queers. This is a fantasy novel, often categorized as a queer utopia, that in my opions has major fairytale vibes. I am pretty sure the first idea of the author was to create a children's book, but then since one of the main focus turned out to be sexual liberation he changed the target. The story is inspired by the author's own experience living in a queer comunity, and in my opinion it feels very much like a time capsule. The general way things are described, the themes used are evidently those on which queer people focused their protests in the 70s. As I was saying sexual liberation plays a major role, and it's one of the central themes. There are huge critiques to how society is formed, and how mutual support and empathy are what keeps people who stand outside of what this society's norms are standing up. I personally appreciated how different ways of opposing one self to this society are shown, some people rebel with anger, some use pacific methods, there is not a fixed way. Each character has different stories and backgrounds, reminding the reader that as queer people we do stand together but we are different people with different stories. This is a point to our favour and we shouldn't push each other into a specific set of rules to be part of the group. Overall the book is not the easiers read you'll find on your path, at least I did find it harder than expected, but it's surely a book I would recommend reading. As I said if felt like a time capsule, I feel like reading it is a good way to learn a bit more how those who came before us fought for our rights, what were their ways. I read this book as an ebook, but if you plan on reading it I would recommend looking for a physical copy. There's some great illustrations, and the digital version doesn't make them stand out as much as it should. I feel like I might reread this book in a few years to see if I can get more out of it, because although I did like it the feeling I have now that I am done with it is that I still missed something. I would be very curious to know if anyone else has read this and what your opions are on it, because I haven't really heard many people talk about it.

I will soon post a new update on the pride reading challenge.

@fizzelston inspired me to draw the old magic men at the beach.

Badger 🦡 (left) is an old wizard and belongs to my wife @boomdoodles , Farmentus 🦤(right) is an even older druid and belongs to me!

They're practically married. (And went from friends to lovers to enemies to lovers 👀)

nothing fills me with as much joy and hope as seeing old queers in public. an elderly trans woman ahead of me in the queue at the pharmacy? fucking incredible. two gay men older than my grandpa holding hands in the park? simply superb. the ancient lesbian on the train, showing me pictures of her wife and sons? spectacular.

Gang, I am looking for a photograph I know exists, but I can not find. It is a historic black and white photo of a group of butches/transmen with a sign that say's "Who says there are no boys in Chaigao" (I believe, in reference to the draft)

I just gave a sermon at my church today about asexuality and how to be an ally. Not only did I get a lot of comments about how much people liked it (and how it was easy to understand for so many old folks), but one old lady came up to me afterwards with tears in her eyes and she said, "I'm 77 years old and I finally know what I am. Thank you." And that just made everything I've done worth it.

(also, thank you @onbearfeet for letting me use one of your blog posts. It resonated with a lot of people)

the last warrior nun.

I can not express how much I love Kate Bornstein, she 100% embodies what the queer community is about. I just started reading their book "The Gender Workbook" and I'm inlove. I love old queers. I love Auntie Kate.

(P.S go follow her on Twitter)

https://twitter.com/katebornstein?s=21

"i haven't worked you like a dog yet, as promised"

AN ODE TO QUEER JOY

Part 2 : Joy in our partner(s) (Queer love)

unknown / @maraleestuff / jane the virgin : petra receives a message from her girlfriend. gif by @damnthosewords / @tattoosshouldbesubsidized / unknown / queeringthemap, anonymous in vietnam / unknown / @thehappyegg / one day at a time : elena gives a valentine card to her non-binary partner. gif by @agenderraypalmer

I helped a much older butch lesbian pick out the ripe avocados from the pile in a shop today.

She casually told me that she wanted to make avocado toast for her wife for Easter morning because her wife couldn't eat dairy (like chocolate) but she really liked avocado toast (like it was one of her fav foods), except they didn't have it often because they're expensive and only her wife eats them. She forgot how to tell if they were ripe and asked me for help

The world is healing. I need to be her so bad

yes i know heartstopper is "cringe" and yes I know you think it's not that deep but you've endured years of cringe oversexualized shows about high schoolers where the gays are delegated to sub plots I'm sure a few hours of queer people being safe and happy and loved won't kill you so please shut the fuck up

Some tv / movie title screens on my CRT tv

2.12 Chimney Begins - 2.09 Hen Begins - 2.16 Bobby Begins Again - 7.04 Buck, Bothered and Bewildered

Tommy's family arc

i want every trans kid out there to know there is hope, you will grow up and become a trans adult, you’ll be a trans elder someday and give hope to future trans kids, just keep on hanging on