In honor of LGBTQ History Month!

Daniel Nicoletta (born 1954) has been the leading chronicler of the LGBT civil rights movement in San Francisco over the last 40 years. “LGBT San Francisco: the Daniel Nicoletta Photographs” chronicles LGBT civil rights movement and images of Harvey Milk, one of the world’s first openly gay elected officials, who was assassinated by a homophobic colleague in 1978.

In the second photograph, a group of LGBTQ activists gather around the car, “Heels on Wheels” in 1990. One of them holding a poster that reads “June 27, 1969” which references the Stonewall Uprising in New York City.

LGBTQ history has much to celebrate, at the same time we shall not forget those who have paved the way. 

Image 1: Book cover

Image 2: “Heels on Wheels” contingent, June, 1990

Image 3: First version of the Rainbow Flag, 1978

Image 4: Self-portrait in Ashbury Street darkroom, 1977

LGBT San Francisco : the Daniel Nicoletta photographs Attribution Photographs, Daniel Nicoletta ; foreword, Gus Van Sant ; introduction, Chuck Mobley ; editor, Tony Nourmand ; art direction, Joakim Olsson. Author / Creator Nicoletta, Daniel, 1954- [photographer]  London, UK : Reel Art Press, 2017. 304 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm English 2017 HOLLIS number: 990150582040203941

Repost from @raeekayassaie • 17% of young adults in Iran are gay or lesbian according to a survey conducted by the Iranian parliament in 2014. The number of queer-identifying individuals has likely risen since 2014, consistent with trends around the world. 🌈 What can you do to support the queer community in Iran? ➡️ Tag any LGBTQ+ individuals, influencers or organizations you follow and ask them to uplift this post and share the solidarity graphic on the last slide to their grid. Share it to your own grid/stories too! ➡️ Follow the hashtag #QueerIran ➡️ Ask your local/national LGBTQ+ organizations to host events such as Iranian panels/Q&A sessions and Iranian LGBTQ+ documentary viewings. 🌈Need a panelist? Contact @paykanartcar 🌈Need resources? Visit QueerIranianCoalition.com 🌈Submit any footage or images from the event to [email protected] ➡️ Follow and uplift Queer Iranian activists: @6rangiran @paykanartcar melika.zarr @omid_ir1987 @amira.zolghadri @shayagoldoust @nimania11 @artemis_akbary @moj @royazara @savage_taste @matthewnouriel @shadi.amin.real @sobhan_nofar @cyrusveyssi @hausofmilad @nimayajam @ozi_ozar @montrehtavakkoli @raeekayassaie ➡️ Ask your government to show solidarity (action plan listed in slide deck) This slide deck was done in collaboration with @montrehtavakkoli ❤️🌈 #QueerIran #LGBTQ #QueerActivism #QueerStagram #LGBTQCommunity #LGBTQRights #LGBTQLove #lgbtq🏳️‍🌈 #LGBTQSupport #CollectiveLiberation #CollectiveCare (at Iran) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmsonVsOGQc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Tuesday @paul.yore at @acca_melbourne An incredible body of work over 15 years. #queer #lgbitqa #queeractivism thanks for joining me in this feast for the senses @lslng (at ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjR66y-Pl8t/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Since I barely see people touch on this subject often and you are one of the best radblr accounts, I want to share a thought with you and see what do you think about it. This will be a bit long...

So lately I have talked to a friend about how the conceptualization of the so called “peak trans” disconnected from the whole understanding of the neoliberalism ideology was regressive to radical feminism in many points, to the point of becoming one of the strongest backlashes we have to deal with currently. At first sight, this perception can sounds exaggerating because radical feminists like Janice Raymond and Sheila Jeffreys had always touched on this topic criticizing the MEDICAL COMPLEX who profits from countless people's agony due to misogyny, homophobia and overall hatred for gnc people. Unfortunately, this powerful and accurate criticism of transgederism was gradually replaced when be a gc became so popular, almost like a queer identity without the glamour ofc but still interesting enough to appeal to some people. The main unity factor? Be able enough to define what is a woman! From the white supremacist to the liberal “leftist” /“feminist” who is just upset bc was called “transphobic” after devoting themselves to transactivism and want to vent about it to apolitical women who think men in dress are the only dangerous men on earth, everyone is welcomed and then the feminist resistance(called 'gender critical'), that was initially created to oppose to the censorship in academic feminist spaces who only accepts liberal approach of feminism while reject the rest, don't exist anymore but the effect of what was left of the gc movement is permanent. “radfem” also became an identity, “terf” too and anyone, literally, ANYONE who disagrees with transactivism/queeractivism, even if a little bit, are thrown in the same bag as “radfem” and “terf” and these labels CAN MEAN ANYTHING and the worst part is that we aren't even able to define ourselves bc transactivists/queers are doing it instead of us because they receive political capital from the liberal right and we have nothing.

Radical feminists aren't anti trans people in any sense, our criticisms are POLITICAL, not individualist. With that said, due to this polarized debate, many people do get attracted to radfem spaces bc of a lot of things except for feminism. Many women don't want to at least read feminist books, they just want to talk all the time about transactivists and think peak activism is fighting TRA's all day. There are also women who consume radical-leaning content like we consume products. They tend to think if they have enough feminist knowledge, they're shielded from misogyny and it also gives them a free pass to ignore/belittle other realities, since the other women are so inferior to them. But sometimes it just drains them bc the constant negativity without any real changes is emotionally damaging and add nothing in a personal level let alone collectively.

All these examples above are integral parts of the neoliberalism, this alienation, disconnection with reality and inability to uniting as a class bc things can have so many meanings and oppression can't be oppressive if you are empowered enough lol

This is why I think the conceptualization of “peak trans” often ignore strong social/political forces that controls our society and appeal away too much to a moralistic approach that was never present in Radical Feminism. I often see women here bragging about how rf can't be infiltrated by men(or male ideologies) and I wish it was real but it isn't. Radical Feminism does have a admirable story of resistance to male ideologies but thinking it wasn't already infiltrated with neoliberalism is bs. Even communism was taken by liberals and has been losing its essence day after day, since even some political communist parties in countries like Brazil are funded by the USA liberal right. Besides the negativity of my ask, I still believe in better days to all of us but I think the first step is to fight for radical feminism, the real one, not what people generically label as “radfem”.

Thank you so much for the ask, I really love getting stuff like this. It's definitely because people would 'peak trans' from different ideologies, many of which have little in common, from those who still believe in some form of medical transition as a good form of treatment to dysphoria, to conservatives, to people who have never questioned the medical industrial complex. Radical feminism is devalued and turned into an identity as you say and indeed many women who buy into radical feminism don't go into it with a sense of empathy or goodwill towards other women. At this point I find most trans discourse tedious and it's so clearly noticeable on here how a post making fun of trans ideology > post connecting trans ideology to larger feminist concerns > non-trans feminist concerns, in terms of attention. It isn't enough for us all to agree what a woman is, that isn't a coherent political movement.

It gets to the point where if I see a post where someone is talking about genocide or women being murdered or a graphic horrific cultural institution I find myself waiting for the inevitable part where they say "AND YET TRANS PEOPLE THINK THIS OR THAT" Like the only way so many radfems even talk about feminism anymore is solely through the lens of making a point about trans ideology.

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Tonight! The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division @bgsqd and The LGBT Community Center @lgbtcenternyc host a virtual book launch for United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow on Thursday, June 25th, at 6 PM NYC time. Join us for a special event celebrating the radical roots of Pride and our ongoing journey for ‘Absolute Freedom for All’ an evening of discussion, readings, agitations, and celebrations on the current and future movements for queer liberation. Dan Glass will be joined by Stuart Feather, Sapphire McIntosh, Sarah Schulman, and Jason Lamar Walker. This event is free, but we encourage attendees to make donations that we will collect on behalf of Black Lives Matter. #unitedqueerdom @zedbooks #danglass #queeractivism #stuartfeather #SunithaDwarakanath @schulmanny @jay_fiasco #gayliberationfront #queerfutures #blacklivesmatter #blackqueerlivesmatter #lgbtqactivism #lgbtq🌈 #lgbtqpride #lgbtqcommunity (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB3TYKclAM_/?igshid=i3b8a17ahfck

#Repost @settle_in_settlers • • • • • • Post 4/5: While this inquiry was going on surviving victims and their families hoped that Judge Horace Krever would explain how the blood supply became contaminated and who was responsible. . . . . This didn't happened because the Red Cross, the federal government, six provinces, 31 former health ministers and others lawyered up and began arguing that Krever should't be able to name anyone or assign blame to any person. To do so, said Red Cross lawyer Earl Cherniak, would turn an inquiry into a trial and violate the rights of those organizations and individuals. ‘We are not trying to fetter, hinder or stop the inquiry but its unnecessary to make direct findings of fault against institutions or individuals.” . . . Cherniak went on to say "The allegations imply that Red Cross employees were guilty of criminal or civil wrongdoing and, if included in Krever’s report, would ruin the reputations of those individuals." . . . . Gotcha, so we can't blame any of the doctors that didn't switch to heat-treated blood products and instead issued non-heat-treated products to hemophiliacs “as part of a planned depletion” of their inventories. So no blaming the people who put profit before care. We also can't blame the Ministers overseeing the blood banks or the provinces who tax us and run this entire town. Alrighty then. Good to know that all parties who were employed in this industry are under no legal, not to mention moral, obligation to keep us healthy and safe. . . . . Can't blame any of those actually responsible for the crisis but we can keep blaming queer men. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Artist: #MichaelLinders Article : @CBC A Look Back At Canada’s Tainted Blood Scandal @BloodSurrogates #BloodSurrogate #CDNPoli #EndHomophobia #EndTheStigma #CanadianHistory #QueerActivism #IntersectionalFeminism #QueerAF #BigPharma #EatTheRich (at Miramar.BsAs) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBeAyzZDf8h/?igshid=1io6n903ttq6m

Queerantine ✨There’s no better time to meditate on the process & power of #introspection Ep 9: The way we do our work is informed by how we experience our lives 🧘🏽‍♂️ Kieron Jina talks about the interrelationship between his professional & private life, & why he is not sorry 🙅🏽 @afrohomo is a performance artist, queer activist & educator 🏳️‍🌈 #podcast episode in bio and @areweourwork Podcast creator: @tiffany_ebrahim Illustration: @blahgrapher Reviewer quoted: @dani_coop Sound & editing: @dean_thehuman Recording support: @yogisip Music: @vumalevin #performanceart #queerartist #selflove #areweourwork #worklife #movement #performance #queerlove #kieronjina #onstage #identitypolitics #queeractivism #pinkmoney #corona #podcast #queerantine #quarantine (at South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Wa29yDZlz/?igshid=1c4029q9hh5aw

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Today I joined the protest outside the Russian Embassy against the Chechen concentration camps for LGBT men. We cannot let this atrocity happen again. After the end of the Second World War, LGBT prisoners were forced by the allies to carry out their sentences in concentration camps. We can't let history repeat itself. We can't step back. #gay #gaylondon #lgbt #lgbtactivism #lgbtrights #gayhistory #gayprotest #lgbthistory #queer #queeractivism

It's that easy. Just let these kids be kids.

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⚾️Let Trans Youth 🏳️‍⚧️ Play Sports 🏀 Trans youth deserve to be able to play sports and be apart of a team 💕🏈 YET we have politicians 😷in the middle of a deadly pandemic 😷 who weaponize their religious beliefs to discriminate against Trans youth. One of the worst has been the anti-LGBTQIA+ demon Betsy DeVos. It’s disgraceful and truly infuriates me 😡 To find out more follow @thechrismosier a leader in fighting for LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sports @wearehrc @aclu_nationwide to find out how to support Trans athletes right now against these harmful policies ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿! #trans #transart #transyouth #lgbtqia #lgbtqiayouth #transathlete #athlete #inclusion #queeryouth #queerathlete #queerart #queerartist #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights #sports #lgbtqrights #socialjustice #socialjusticeart #queeractivism #lgbtqactivist #procreate #typography

Queer in Review Day 3 . You don’t work for us, we’ll show you how to fucking werk it. We’ll never forget this moment when protesters in Washington D.C. danced their way to Mike Pence’s house. We’re here, we’re queer, you aren’t down for our rights, we’re getting down in your front yard. Never forget Daddy Pence, we throw the best parties. #queerinreview #werkforpeace #wearehere #wewilldance #queeractivism #boohissmikepence #wewillnottoleratehate https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq7wP47F0iJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jfcm0nwxcubv

There is a future without fear. There is the knowledge of queer dominance. There is truth which destroys those experiences of hate and intolerance. Gender modulation by temporal glitches. Exclusively that which you and I, the Trans future, can move upon. ◇ ◇ ◇ ◇ #circuitbent #videographics #trans #queer #transartist #queerla #videocircuits #hardwarehacking #circuitbending #videosynth #glitch #queeractivism #transfuturism

We’re Queer! We’re here! I’m looking forward to Sunday’s Queer Literary Defiance @bgsqd! Check out all the fabulous queer events happening this weekend. 🌈🌈 #Repost @bgsqd with @repostapp ・・・ Full weekend at the Bureau starts tonight with poetry by Christopher Atamian & @omotarajames ! Friday screening #johnfleck doc by @imkevinduffy w special guest #lucysexton . Saturday Gay Artists of the Negro Renaissance w screening of #brothertobrother about #brucenugent . Sunday Queer Literary Defiance w @jphoward_poet @jeeleongkoh @ann_aptaker @trace_peterson @sssapristiii check bgsqd.com for details! #queerwriters #queerfilm #queerperformance #queerlit #queerpoetry #queerculture #queercommunity #queeractivism (at Bureau of General Services-Queer Division)