The garage I bring my car to has a Safe Space sticker in the window, and carries the local Gay Yellow Pages.

We've been going to the same place for over a decade, and they're always very kind and very fair, but this floors me every time we go in or drive past it. Sometimes, it really is the smallest things.

♡ Chronically Depressed Tee (S-3XL) by Midnight Springs ♡

sorry i can't imagine liking anyone so much that i would buy a $15 coffee from their local business... this is NOT in a hallmark christmas movie

queer women when trans-masc/men's lived experiences are just a little too similar to their own: 😡☝️🤬🚫😤🤬🚫😡🤬😤☝️

im starting to see posts about fall and spooky season coming up (which, it’s still august and the peak of summer babes, but i get it) so this seems like a good time to post about how i sell death-themed beeswax candles & wax melts :)

i make everything myself and as sustainably as i can!

when there are butches at thr climbing gym 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

Feeling real stupid about not getting a haircut before moving because how am I supposed to know what "men's" barbershop to go to here that will give me, a woman, a cool mullet like I did not anticipate this problem and I SHOULD HAVE

The immediate cut to of spending time with a queer friend then going back to your strangely isolated life cut off from external local queerness is a really violent kind of whiplash i do not enjoy. Hm.

got harassed for wearing fairy kei and going to a queer friendly business by old ppl and nearly threw hands with said said old ppl today lads

Clean comedy night in Jefferson

Oh, how I love a good challenge.

I totally enjoyed doing clean comedy this weekend in Jefferson, Texas, the state’s fifth oldest town! Thank you to my comedy brother Omar Tarango for the queer opportunity to spread my wings sans feathers, and to Mickey and the 1852 on Austin staff for the delicious hospitality. What a swanky venue!

Don't worry. I didn't throw the blue jokes out with the bathwater.

It's so deeply important for me to be and be around weird kinky furries. the kinda kinks you can't meme about in a superbowl add.

the only accessible counter culture left that capitalism can't subsume, it's important that furries are weird and sexual, anyone seeking or defending furry becoming acceptable and marketable is weak and devastating wrong.

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tw: black+trans death

from the_yvesdropper on instagram:

our beautiful black trans brother, 35 year old Righteous Torrence "Chevy" Hill, was murdered in Atlanta, GA this weekend.

he went by his nickname 'Chevy' he was originally from Macon, GA. he owned Evollusion, which is a black/ queer owned LGBTQ+ salon in Atlanta that provided and dedicated full service to specializing in hair, nails, barbering and makeup. growing up as young black queer boys/kids, the barbershop experience can sometimes be a tricky space to occupy, this was something that Chevy understood and wanted to cultivate a space of safety where you can also get the affirming look and style you want, and he did exactly that.

Chevy was a beloved son, brother, partner, and father.

one of his last posts that had a photo of himself said :

"if you truly know me, you know i am a humble, modest, private man, that i love my community, i have the love of God in me and will give the shirt off my back to any soul in need, also i never post pictures of myself, legaey give myself credit, that stops today, i am my legacy!"

(a close friend of Chevy asked if i could share more then one photo of Chevy, since he never posted photos of himself and in recent years he got the confidence to want to share more photos and now he won't get the chance to)

Chevy, hey king, hey brother, hey angel, thank you for everything, i lové you, we lové you, i'm so sorry. there are a lot of photographers in heaven who will be able to photograph you as the glorious black trans angel that you are.

there will be a homegoing service/memorial for our brother

there aren't many details about what happened but apparently he was shot by a family member last wednesday, the 28th (at least this article was the one linked in relation to his murder.)

judging by both the IG post and the comments section he was well-loved by many people and those people have many good memories with him and nothing but good things to say. this is a comment that was left by tirajmeansgolden which was hidden by IG for some reason:

I started testosterone in February 2020. I hit this man up at the end of 2019 after numerous Google searches for an LGBT-friendly barber near me (and by near me... he was a good 35-40 minutes from the rural area I was in outside of Atlanta: but when I found out he was a trans man and that his business was the first and only LGBT hair bar, I knew it would be worth the trip). I was a dysphoric mess in his DMs one Sunday. I hated how my hair was growing out. I never had a "masculine" hairstyle before but decided one day I would buzz it all off myself, then allowed it to grow out a bit... I sent him a video and despite him being closed on Sunday, he told me to come through. I got my hair braided and he gave me my first really masculine fade. Explained the different terms. Lined me up. Was asking me about my decision to transition and provided some helpful advice + guidance. I told him how I was a therapist and he was hype and said he talked with a group of trans men and he would love for me to stop by and also give some mental health tips. So whoever said he was humble - wow, what an understatement. Such a community man! Made me feel SO comfortable because barbershops were a source of major trauma and triggers for me. They were such an integral part of my early transition (I just celebrated 4 years later week). And he was such an integral part of the Atlanta Queer community with hosting events like Queer Con. How I found so many other great resources + queer businesses/artists. May you rest in peace, Chevy. You'll be missed. You've made such a different in the lives of countless people. You definitely were living your Purpose + left a legacy behind ...

the whole kit connor situation is literally so. chronically online queer people are genuinely setting their own rights like 30 years back in time