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soft-sapphic-love · 2 years

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Queer Muslims deserve so much more recognition and adoration than they get. I hope you all know how absolutely worthy and important you are to the queer community!

#q #sapphic #lgbt #muslim sapphic #queer muslim #lgbtqia #religious lgbt #muslim lgbt #muslim sapphic positivity #our post

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queermuslimrevert · 10 months

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I am a muslim girl who loves Allah (SWT). Who wants to be better at praying. Who wants to wear khimars and abayas and jilbabs. Who wants to go to the masjid every day. Who wants to read the entire Quran. Who wants to get married to a good muslim man.

I am a muslim girl who loves girls. Who tears up and the sight of a pride parade. Who cant decide between purple or pink. Who knows she's not straight. Who knows God made her this way.

I am a muslim girl who watches BLs and listens to kpop. Who finds beauty in fictional relationships and pretty dances. Who gains comfort through music.

I am a muslim girl who is autistic. Who can't always wear hijab. Who can't enjoy new foods with unfamiliar flavors. Who gets lost and anxious in new places and situations. Who has to stim after a while of sitting still.

I am a muslim girl with trauma. Who fears people in authority and is scared of her nightmares. Who wants to reconcile with her parents but is afraid of losing herself along the way. Who wants to learn about her new faith but can't bring herself to trust scholars.

I am a muslim girl. I am not a picture pefect muslim and I will never be. And that's okay, because that's what makes me ... Me.

#queer muslim #lgbt muslim #muslim #revert islam #queer #muslim lesbian #lesbian muslim #bisexual muslim #bisexual #autistic women #actually autistic #trauma #religious lgbt #lgbt

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mlm-revert · 1 year

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i received some hateful words on Instagram from a fellow Muslim. the usual "oh you're not fasting for Ramadan? Don't be Muslim then." and also the usual "queer Muslims don't exist." I try not to let these things bother me. I ended up blocking this person because I really don't need that energy in my life. It just got me thinking.

I'll never be the "ideal" Muslim. Never. I'll never be able to pray 5 times a day. I'll never be able to fast for Ramadan (not because I don't want to. I do want to. I have health issues that prevent me from doing so.) I'll never be seen as valid because I'm queer. I'll never be able to give up certain spiritual practices i had in the past. I'll never be accepted by the general Muslim community.

And as much as I want to ignore all the people saying I can't be Muslim because of so and so, it makes me wonder if they're right. I'm trying my best.

#queer religion #queer muslim #queer muslim revert #lgbt muslim #religious lgbt #muslim revert #muslim #revert islam #lgbtq muslim #lgbtqia muslim #revert

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omnist-angels · 2 years

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I love interreligious relationships so much

I just love the idea of someone you can easily talk with for hours about theology, unafraid of judgement because you already know where your beliefs differ

Plus, an excuse to throw more than one wedding 💕

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magic-can · 2 years

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idk which ex-religious secular LGBT+ person needs to hear this but telling a religious LGBT+ person that they’re “just in denial” or that they’re a walking contradiction is just you projecting your personal anger onto random people. You don’t have the same relationship with faith as they do. Also, if you aren’t willing to be there for everyone in the community, you may as well be there for no one in the community.

#magiccan speaks #religion #ask to tag #tw antitheism mention #been seeing some real shit takes recently!#ppl attacking others like this needs to stop. you’re just hurting people further #and ik no one online has reading comprehension so before anyone tries to twist my words #no. not every ex-religious LGBT+ is like this #however it is a very real issue in the community that we gotta talk about #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbt+#queer #religious lgbt #lgbt community

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cookinguptales · 1 year

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So I’ve been enjoying the Disney vs. DeSantis memes as much as anyone, but like. I do feel like a lot of people who had normal childhoods are missing some context to all this.

I was raised in the Bible Belt in a fairly fundie environment. My parents were reasonably cool about some things, compared to the rest of my family, but they certainly had their issues. But they did let me watch Disney movies, which turned out to be a point of major contention between them and my other relatives.

See, I think some people think this weird fight between Disney and fundies is new. It is very not new. I know that Disney’s attempts at inclusion in their media have been the source of a lot of mockery, but what a lot of people don’t understand is that as far as actual company policy goes, Disney has actually been an industry leader for queer rights. They’ve had policies assuring equal healthcare and partner benefits for queer employees since the early 90s.

I’m not sure how many people reading this right now remember the early 90s, but that was very much not industry standard. It was a big deal when Disney announced that non-married queer partners would be getting the same benefits as the married heterosexual ones.

Like — it went further than just saying that any unmarried partners would be eligible for spousal benefits. It straight-up said that non-same-sex partners would still need to be married to receive spousal benefits, but because same-sex partners couldn’t do that, proof that they lived together as an established couple would be enough.

In other words, it put long-term same-sex partners on a higher level than opposite-sex partners who just weren’t married yet. It put them on the exact same level as heterosexual married partners.

They weren’t the first company ever to do this, but they were super early. And they were certainly the first mainstream “family-friendly” company to do it.

Conservatives lost their damn minds.

Protests, boycotts, sermons, the whole nine yards. I can’t tell you how many books about the evils of Disney my grandmother tried to get my parents to read when I was a kid.

When we later moved to Florida, I realized just how many queer people work at Disney — because historically speaking, it’s been a company that has guaranteed them safety, non-discrimination, and equal rights. That’s when I became aware of their unofficial “Gay Days” and how Christians would show up from all over the country to protest them every year. Apparently my grandmother had been upset about these days for years, but my parents had just kind of ignored her.

Out of curiosity, I ended up reading one of the books my grandmother kept leaving at our house. And friends — it’s amazing how similar that (terrible, poorly written) rhetoric was to what people are saying these days. Disney hires gay pedophiles who want to abuse your children. Disney is trying to normalize Satanism in our beautiful, Christian America.

Just tons of conspiracy theories in there that ranged from “a few bad things happened that weren’t actually Disney’s fault, but they did happen” to “Pocahontas is an evil movie, not because it distorts history and misrepresents indigenous life, but because it might teach children respect for nature. Which, as we all know, would cause them all to become Wiccans who believe in climate change.”

Like — please, take it from someone who knows. This weird fight between fundies and Disney is not new. This is not Disney’s first (gay) rodeo. These people have always believed that Disney is full of evil gays who are trying to groom and sexually abuse children.

The main difference now is that these beliefs are becoming mainstream. It’s not just conservative pastors who are talking about this. It’s not just church groups showing up to boycott Gay Day. Disney is starting to (reluctantly) say the quiet part out loud, and so are the Republicans. Disney is publicly supporting queer rights and announcing company-supported queer events and the Republican Party is publicly calling them pedophiles and enacting politically driven revenge.

This is important, because while this fight has always been important in the history of queer rights, it is now being magnified. The precedent that a fight like this could set is staggering. For better or for worse, we live in a corporation-driven country. I don’t like it any more than you do, and I’m not about to defend most of Disney’s business practices. But we do live in a nation where rights are largely tied to corporate approval, and the fact that we might be entering an age where even the most powerful corporations in the country are being banned from speaking out in favor of rights for marginalized people… that’s genuinely scary.

Like… I’ll just ask you this. Where do you think we’d be now, in 2023, if Disney had been prevented from promising its employees equal benefits in 1994? That was almost thirty years ago, and look how far things have come. When I looked up news articles for this post from that era, even then journalists, activists, and fundie church leaders were all talking about how a company of Disney’s prominence throwing their weight behind this movement could lead to the normalization of equal protections in this country.

The idea of it scared and thrilled people in equal parts even then. It still scares and thrills them now.

I keep seeing people say “I need them both to lose!” and I get it, I do. Disney has for sure done a lot of shit over the years. But I am begging you as a queer exvangelical to understand that no. You need Disney to win. You need Disney to wipe the fucking floor with these people.

Right now, this isn’t just a fight between a giant corporation and Ron DeSantis. This is a fight about the right of corporations to support marginalized groups. It’s a fight that ensures that companies like Disney still can offer benefits that a discriminatory government does not provide. It ensures that businesses much smaller than Disney can support activism.

Hell, it ensures that you can support activism.

The fight between weird Christian conspiracy theorists and Disney is not new, because the fight to prevent any tiny victory for marginalized groups is not new. The fight against the normalization of othered groups is not new.

That’s what they’re most afraid of. That each incremental victory will start to make marginalized groups feel safer, that each incremental victory will start to turn the tide of public opinion, that each incremental victory will eventually lead to sweeping law reform.

They’re afraid that they won’t be able to legally discriminate against us anymore.

So guys! Please. This fight, while hilarious, is also so fucking important. I am begging you to understand how old this fight is. These people always play the long game. They did it with Roe and they’re doing it with Disney.

We have! To keep! Pushing back!

#disney #ron desantis #gay rights #lgbt #queer #lgbt history #queer history #homophobia #florida #us politics #religious fundamentalism #christianity #long post #god that should cover all the pertinent tags and content warnings phew

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abharties · 2 years

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Made in his Image

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#illustration #sketch #art #trans mlm #trans art #trans artist #trans artwork #transman #ftm #trans is beautiful #trans is beauty #religious trauma #queer #lgbt

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the-sappho-of-lesbos · 7 months

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Source: Common Lives Lesbian Lives; A Lesbian Quarterly ( #29 - Winter 1989 )

#catholic lesbians #lesbian history #lesbian pride #lesbian positivity #lgbt #image #photo #personal #religious trauma

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womenaremypriority · 7 months

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It is traumatic to live in a world where major world religions teach that your very existence as a woman was an afterthought to god, and you only exist to serve men. It traumatic to hear that there are people who think your existence as a gay person is sinful and evil. EVEN IF YOU WERE NOT RAISED RELIGIOUS. Knowledge of those belief systems and their prominence is TRAUMATIZING. It is okay to be angry about it. It is okay to feel grief about it. Knowing millions, if not billions of people, think you are inferior and deserve to die is fucking painful.

#Feminism #feminist #lgbt #lgb #religious trauma #radblr #gay men #lesbians #Lesbianism #antitheism #atheism #radical feminism #Religious misogyny #religious homophobia #My post #homophobia #My bangers

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odinsblog · 10 months

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This is an illegitimate and deeply corrupt Supreme Court

Today is a sad day in American constitutional law and in the lives of LGBT people. The Supreme Court of the United States declares that a particular kind of business, though open to the public, has a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class. The Court does so for the first time in its history. By issuing this new license to discriminate in a case brought by a company that seeks to deny same-sex couples the full and equal enjoyment of its services, the immediate, symbolic effect of the decision is to mark gays and lesbians for second-class status. In this way, the decision itself inflicts a kind of stigmatic harm, on top of any harm caused by denials of service. The opinion of the Court is, quite literally, a notice that reads: "Some services may be denied to same-sex couples."

Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class. Specifically, the Court holds that the First Amendment exempts a website-design company from a state law that prohibits the company from denying wedding websites to same-sex couples if the company chooses to sell those websites to the public.

The Court also holds that the company has a right to post a notice that says, "No [wedding websites] will be sold if they will be used for gay marriages."

Our Constitution contains no right to refuse service to a disfavored group.

—Justice Sonia Sotomayor; excerpts from the dissenting opinion

#politics #scotus #lgbt #homophobia #republicans #sonia sotomayor #religious reich #illegitimate supreme court #corrupt supreme court #the 303 creative v. elenis #lorie smith #marriage equality #lgbtq #weaponized religious freedom

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many-sparrows · 10 months

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Sorry, but I'd rather accidentally love too many people than too few. I'd rather accidentally welcome people I'm not supposed to than exclude people I'm supposed to welcome. I think God looks much more kindly on one of those than the other.

#the secret is that theres no one you're not supposed to welcome or love #this is about queer people #queer theology #queer + religious #queer christians #pride #lgbt christian #godblr #autumn preaches

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butchrat · 2 years

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"I say I'm done with religion but still find myself praying when I cry" religion + queerness

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you guys seem to prefer my happy ww but I'm depressed so you'll simply have to cope my bad

#web weaving #lesbian #poetry #wlw #words #lgbt #art #poem #gay #music #religious #Religion #catholocism #Religious guilt

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mlm-revert · 1 year

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a very important reminder to everyone that no matter what religion you practice, if you think you're better than someone else for whatever reason, you are not doing it right. I don't like telling people that they practice a religion incorrectly, because I don't feel there's one right way to practice, but...if you're using your own relationship with God (or whoever you worship) to try to say you're better than someone else, you're not doing it right. At all full stop.

#yes this is directed at people who tell me I'm going to hell because I'm gay.#lgbt muslim #queer muslim #religious lgbt #lgbtqia muslim #lgbtq muslim #queer religion

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transbutchbluess · 6 months

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The Gods are not trans allies.

The Gods are not trans-friendly.

The Gods do not ‘support’ queer people.

The Gods ARE trans. The Gods ARE queer.

The Gods are transgender, They are transsexual. ‘Trans’ means ‘beyond, across’.

The Gods are beyond gender. Beyond sex. Beyond flesh. Beyond normality and norms— thus, They are queer. They are trans. They are on the other side of gender, of sex— on the side we cannot even begin to understand.

The Gods are transsexual and transgender and queer not (only) within our human understanding of transness— They are not trans in the way we humans are trans.

But They are still trans. They are the original transness. The ultimate transsexuality.

Transness as a transition from a state to another state, from a form to another form— from Their divine form to one we humans can behold without being consumed by Their inherent queerness. From Their divinity to words we humans can attempt to understand and think of without being utterly lost in the enormity and infinity of the divine.

Transness as a journey, a constant state of evolution within the world— evolution of the world itself, for the Gods are the world, are beyond time, beyond space, yet constantly changing.

The Gods do not love trans worshippers despite their transness, despite their queerness. The Gods love trans worshippers for their transness. They love us because we are trans. Because we are queer.

As we defy norms, we become closer to Them— trans people are humans, mortals, but I firmly believe that there is something inherently holy in transition. To change yourself, to think the limits of the body and to alter your own flesh is to create, is to destroy. To understand how limitless the world is— how flesh and sex and gender are human things, social things, that are made by us and can be expended and transgressed— is to take a step towards the Gods.

The Gods love you. You are made in Their image. Or maybe— you make yourself in Their image. And that is beautiful.

(reminder that this is my vision of divinity, not a definite fact, even if i think there are a lot of things (in multiple cultures/religions) that point to the divine being beyond gender)

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decomposingpoet · 10 months

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Yeah yeah religious trauma and internalized homophobia suck but sometimes I get these moments of overwhelming joy at the fact that I am queer and proud I am not religious anymore I have a life ahead of me where I can celebrate pleasure and love and intellectual freedom without constraint like fuck yeah this is what I'm sticking around for!!!!!!!

#ex christian #lgbt #religious trauma #ex fundie #ex religious #exvangelical #gay #internalized homophobia #lesbian #wlw #queer #atheist

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hulahoopsoupgroup · 7 months

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the seven deadly sins are such bullshit fear tactics. if youve left the church, embrace them.

be proud of who you are. be happy when you look in the mirror and see how hot you are. yeah i see you flexing in the mirror after a workout. nice progress btw honey you look nice today.

dont worry about getting seconds, or thirds even, at dinner. dont worry about eating what society says is "too much" or "too little". eat until youre full. set aside what you cant finish for later so you dont waste food.

its okay to be greedy. its okay to want things for yourself. sometimes we see things that people have and we're like "dude i wish i had that." thats just human. envy and greed on that level are normal.

take a rest day. dont bother going to church this sunday. take a shower, read a book, drink some tea, eat some good food, pet a cat or dog. take care of yourself; its not lazy.

be angry with those who wronged you. punch a punching bag, write about how much you hate them, go work out aggressively and take care of your emotions in a way that doesnt hurt yourself or others. its okay to not forgive the people who hurt you. you arent doing anything wrong, babe.

embrace your sexuality (or, if it applies, asexuality, cause yall need love too). stop feeling shame for wanting pleasure. go read or watch something that turns you on. explore your body. ask your partner to try something new. if youre asexual, then fucking step on the people who say you need to have sexual attraction to be human. you dont. you dont need to be allosexual (or alloromantic) to "qualify as a human." we all experience life in different ways. find your way to experience it.

thought crime isnt real

do no harm but take no shit

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