#those damn queers
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Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?
I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?
In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".
Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.
This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.
Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.
The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.
[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]
There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.
This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.
[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]
As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.
But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?
Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.
#transgender#trans history#transsexual#transphobia#Magnus Hirschfeld#holocaust#holocaust denial#book burning#j.k. rowling#jk rowling#just in case you missed what i mean by all this: go fuck yourself anon :)#trans people have always existed#and we will always exist#if you really wanna pick a fight with me over well-documented history then you better bring in some sources to back your shit#queer history#queer#lgbt+#lgbta+#lgbt#lgbt history#edit: i finally got around to those damn image IDs. i am so very sorry for totally forgetting that's my bimbo moment of the month#also real quick i thought about adding an image of the actual building but the only one i can find has a Nazi parade in front of it#it was taken the day of the book burning raid and honestly if i were to include it then i'd add it to the first few paragraphs#and i think the story's better told when you uphold the hope Magnus Hirschfeld and all the researchers he worked with had#also keeps being brought up: yes Hirschfeld was a eugenicist. it was a popular belief set that was only discredited after WW2#Hirschfeld died in 1935. he literally didn't live long enough to see science turn against those beliefs and practices#considering how he changed his mind on transitions i like to think he would've changed his mind on eugenics too if he'd lived
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Sorry guys they're taking up too much space in my head rn
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It's been said before, it will be said again, but it's still worth saying: the fact that art centering on straight romance is allowed to just be bad, but art with queer romance in it always has to be indicative of A Serious Problem With the Way We Tell Queer Stories makes being a queer person making queer art deeply stressful
#just saw smthing about red white and royal blue#and like i never watched/read that one so maybe everything ppl say about it is true#and i never watched heartbreaker or love simon so maybe those ones are also genuinely a sign of a serious problem#but idk. the fact that this happens every damn time makes me think that maybe queer stories are being held to different standards#and it's exhausting writing stuff while having a chorus of voices in the back of my head saying i'm misrepresenting my own identities and#making the whole community look bad by writing mediorcre romance#and knowing that even though i'm neither straight nor a girl there WILL be ppl calling me a straight girl fetishizing queer relationships#lgbt#queer community#writer stuff#idk what else to tag this#asexual#bisexual#nonbinary#venttag
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you know you're in a cishet male gamer discord when you see stuff like this without pushback in comment to people being mad or baffled by a gacha girl having a complete joke of proportions 🫡🫡🫡
#definitely shouldn't check servers im in just after waking up cause i forgot how much of a cognitohazard they are now#between this server having 'progressive but not TOO progressive' gamers (aka dont be an annoying queer)#and the other having ppl way too casually racist#it really is something to see servers i joined years ago just shifting rightward and no one else finds it weird#basically a ghost now in those places because damn#and dont tell me i should speak up because wtf am i supposed to do if im literally the only person that would comment on this#qq posts
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No, but look at Ballister's face when Ambrosius touches him in what must be for the first time since the knighting ceremony. Look at them big brown sad soulful wet eyes. He looks so vulnerable here. How could anyone ever hate this man?
#lol#nimona#ballister boldheart#ambrosius goldenloin#ballister x ambrosius#goldenheart#original post#nd stevenson#those big damn eyes#nimona movie#ambrosius x ballister#gay#lgbtq#lgbt#queer#riz ahmed#eugene lee yang#netflix
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VERY interesting that this moment took place in the "woman in house and wilson's building thinks they're gay/dating" episode
also. hugh laurie's little smirk here really adds a certain . . . dimension to this moment that would not be there if he'd responded to the joke in a different way
#thirteen knows house is bi she totally fucking knows#anyway yeah i cannot get over house's goddamn little Smirk#that was so unnecessary. christ#this is one of those moments where i'm like.#damn i guess this isn't *technically* canon confirmation of house's queerness but it sure comes pretty fucking close#it's just that there are a lot of alternate ways house could have responded to to thirteen's comment#an eyeroll perhaps#some sort of no homo statement#anything#but he didn't! he fucking SMIRKED#and not in a performative way#it was a subtle smirk#a smirk just for thirteen and himself#this whole moment feels SO fundamentally 'bisexual daughter telling her closeted father figure that she is fully aware they are The Same'#house season 6#house md#house 6x11
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Devastated doesn't even cover it.
I'm never trusting a cishet writer of queer people again.
For someone who had given up on being happy, of being whole. For someone who only existed for someone else because there was no reason to be alive (I certainly wasn't worth anything beyond the service I could render to others), Izzy Hands gave me hope that it was never too late to be your true self.
He found love, acceptance, and he was beginning to take those tentative few steps towards being whole. He didn't need Ed. He was worth something all on his own.
And they killed him.
They killed the old, disabled queer who had lived a hard, lonely life where his only purpose was to be someone's loyal attack dog, and was finally finding happiness, a family.
"It's about belonging."
"This is a story about queer love, about queer joy."
But not if you're old, disabled, battling with the scars the world has left on you, had to do things to survive. The best you can hope for is to apologise to your abuser and then find peace in death.
Queer joy is only for the right kind of queer.
#ofmd#ofmd s2 spoilers#ofmd spoilers#our flag means death#izzy hands#all it says is that certain types of people are permanently damned#certain types of people don't get a happy ending#certain types of people can never be without sin#did they Judas Izzy? fucking#some people only exist to lose so others can win#yay queer joy#but not for you#you're too old and damaged#the best you can do is die for those of us who aren't#fuck you Jenkins
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you know it's bad when i read svsss and tgcf, stories about just two guys falling in love and getting together, and think, "god i wish i were in between them."
gay little domestic cottage core life with binghe and qingqiu? please and thank you. being sandwiched by hua cheng and xie lian, two pretty men who are hundreds of years old? i am blushing, kicking my feet and giggling
and again, it's not even that i would want only one of them. like in both of the relationships, the two love each other too much to the point it'd feel wrong if they were separated! it wouldn't feel complete, so you gotta be with both of them!
but that's the thing; i just?? i feel so incredibly guilty whenever i think about being loved by these mxtx couples??? like it's so stupid but i feel like i'm intruding in on something and it's like, everyone else seems to just want them together only, not wanna be with them. like it's fuckin taboo or whatever
i feel like with any other character from any other media it'd be fine to simp for and write/read x readers of them, but when it comes to these books, it's off limits! no way, what are you, crazy? yes, yes i'm unhinged and desperately want their love and affection simultaneously. i want to be in a happy little poly relationship with these overpowered beautiful men with long hair.
i can't be the only guy or whoever to feel this way?? to wanna be kissed by these characters? sandwiched?? i have two hands for christ sake and they all look so happy together and im just like "lord i wanna be with them so much". someone tell me i'm not alone cmon <\3
#okay i havent read mdzs yet but i'll probably feel the same way#god i just wanna be in between shen qingqiu and binghe or hua cheng and xie lian please please#im sad im queer and im ready for a gay poly relationship with these mfs#i love them all#i remember seeing some post where it was like 'hua cheng x fem reader headcanons'#and i was like 'huh thats interesting. not fem but i'll check it out bc ive never rlly seen anything like that'#and then it was like 'he'd leave you for xie lian' and it was fucking hilarious actually#but then i saw the comments on that post and they were all like 'omg i was about to unfollow and block you' 'thank god' etc#and i was just like#'damn?? do people really not like this type of stuff when it comes to danmei novels or smth?'#i don't know if it was just bc it said fem reader or bc yk it's danmei and hua cheng and xie lian are very much in love and happy#but it lowkey kinda got me self conscious lmao and i was hella feeling bad#also no hate to that poster or those commenters im just a lonely queer man#'he would leave you for xie lian' was fucking brutal though i laughed my ass off at thag KAHSNZJ#please i swear i wont stand out too much i can fit in i have long luxurious hair too let me show you my hair care routine guys </3#svsss#mxtx svsss#luo binghe#bingqiu#tgcf#heavens official blessing#mxtx tgcf#mxtx novels#mxtx characters#hua cheng#xie lian#hualian#shen qingqiu#the scum villain's self saving system
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sometimes, i think about the extra bit of depth alex's romance is given when you date him as a guy and i just gotta. stare at the ceiling for a bit...
#i think his heart events are nice either way but like... there's some extra flavor given to when your farmer's a guy#like him admitting that the farmer is the only other guy that he can be vulnerable around#or how admits that he tried denying his feelings for the farmer at first bc of his own internalized homophobia#and probably some external homophobia too#since george will tell the player that he wasn't sure about alex and them being together bc of his own biases#but seeing how happy alex was with them makes him rethink his views#idk i just really like his heart events i wish ppl appreciated them more#i also think it's interesting to see the game acknowledge homophobia and how it'd actually affect the queer relationships in town#it's definitely nice that the town is pretty damn accepting especially a majority of the romance options' families#but it feels more realistic to have those little bittersweet truths mixed in there too i like it#sorry i've got sdv brain rn so i'm thinking about it a lot#stardew valley#mj.txt#tw homophobia mention#sdv spoilers
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angelsadvocate96 replied to your post "I am entirely floored at the discourse that's been…"
Calling him "nonpracticing" erases all of his sexuality, not just the part they don't want to see. He has 2 children under age 5, so he's clearly been "practicing," making the term is demonstrably untrue. Michael's sexuality is palpable, you can feel it through the screen. To deny any part of that is not only dehumanizing but de-Michaelizing.
@angelsadvocate96
#THIS THIS THIS#angelsadvocate96#reply post#michael sheen#welsh seduction machine#YES to all of the above#perfection#i don't even need to add a single damn thing#sometimes i think about the fact that Michael has played so many queer roles#and how they all represent different parts of him#i also find it interesting how often Michael talks about masks#and how expressing one's true self through a mask seems to resonate with him#and if you can't put all of those pieces together that is on you#but that does not mean you get to erase Michael's sexuality for your own comfort#bisexuality#discourse
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the dr fandom cant handle wlw ships in any other context than background fluff with no depth
i like sakuraoi and tsumioda ect but they always get woobified and mellowed out like did they SEE 1-4???
aoi did not pull all that to get sidelined as a supportive background lesbian in your ishimondo fanfic
and don’t get me wrong. my girls need a break sometimes fluff is great i don’t have a problem with it. but it’s the constant sidelining of wlw ships in favour of het/mlm ships in pretty much any fandom that gets to me.
and how wlw ships are only acceptable in the community when they don’t have any dysfunction or toxicity, and if the ship does have even the slightest hint of the above qualities it is either mellowed out to the point of being unrecognisable or dumped on with thinly veiled misogyny and homophobia
and when i say slightest hint i mean the literally slightest hint. like the girls will argue once and the fandom will label the ship toxic while shipping. fucking kuzupeko or something.
wlw ships are seen almost entirely as a way to get female characters out of the way of mlm ships. in het ships the female character is a tool to develop the male character. they show significantly less depth and probably dies to forward the male character’s development (sound familiar?)
in any situation female characters are characterised by their relations to male characters. a female character’s (usually romantic, or at least interpreted as such) relationship with a male character is their defining characteristic. if said female character is in a wlw relationship they are reduced to their most basic traits while male characters are explored and given depth, and exist in the story only to offer support to the male characters.
i haven’t even mentioned how female characters must be in a relationship to be even remotely relevant in a story, but that’s a rant for another time.
grrah the way that female characters mirrors how wlw ships are treated by the community, and that characters/ships that aren’t completely perfect and deemed acceptable by the community are dumped on by the larger dr community while worse ships or characters are welcomed because they happen to contain a male character is gonna be my 13th reason istg.
anyways this rant is getting long but in summary danganronpa fans hate women and they hate wlw relationships that they can’t jerk off to.
#apple chat#danganronpa#sdr2#thh#ndrv3#this post is incoherent i know i know#also as an add on#leaving this in the tags because my post is about female characters and wlw relationships exclusively#and what im going to say affects mlm relationships as well#but the despite the amount of queer fans a lot of the dr community esp the ones on reddit view heterosexuality as the “default”#and dump on queer ships simply because they happen to be queer#the dr community’s constant complaining about its queer fans drives me up a wall#yes a lot of them are annoying and i also hate the annoying komahina saiouma shippers who hate anything that isn’t pale twink yaoi BUT#we can dump on annoying dr fans and ships we don’t like without bringing up sexuality i believe in you guys❤️#oh no the poor straights the shippers made their favourite characters gay💔 damn those homos ruining everything#is what you guys genuinely sound like sometimes#the tone deafness in this community#one day i will round up every dr redditor and set them on fire#I’m so sorry you had to see gay people on your dash as repayment you get one f slur pass use it wisely#i will shit on dr community again another day for now goodbye🫡#psst btw i have no beef with kmhn and (most) of its fans but a bunch are Like That so yeah#on the other hand fuck saiouma all my homies hate saiouma (well *I* don’t like it but good for you besties)#ok this is getting long enough BYEEE#homophobia tw#misogyny tw
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sometimes I think the idea that queer people can kinda just find each other subconsciously is nice to think about but not really grounded in anything, but then I realize that almost everyone I was friends with in high school either has come out as queer or was queer and has become EVEN MORE QUEER so like, maybe we do just know
#it might also be bcs like#I was queer so I was just more likely to hang out with people who were okay with queer people#and those people are just like more likely to realize they aren't straight down the line#bcs they are in an environment that doesn't punish questioning#but also like damn man how is everyone I grew up with queer now lmaooooooooo#every day on fb is national coming out day for my friends ig
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Running an ns/ft blog & finding out your moots’ main blogs when they like something or follow you but being sworn to secrecy (just respecting people’s privacy) & vice versa. 🤫
#i couldn’t find a good gif#presidential voice: please laugh#also listen- I just can’t help but thirst follow people back sometimes if I’m active & can look xD or have the energy to check further than#the necessary bio/pinned post check#some people on here are so damn hot o///////o#I appreciate those of y’all who keep my main a secret as I do with yours <3#most people just say their main but like... yeah no I’m not comfortable doing that for multiple reasons yet if ever; we’ll see#rose.txt#gay ns/fw#gay nsft#queer ns/fw#queer nsft#trans nsft#trans ns/fw#enby nsft#lgbt nsft
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this is so random but im like......much more gayer / queerer / dykeyer than i was like 2 years ago like it's crazy
#*#and im like......so much more comfortable with myself#in the sense that yeah i was comfortable being a lesbian and nonbinary but i had SUCHH imposter syndrome like#i was like 'damn am i faking it wtf' and now im like....nah im a fag ERFGFHNGFHGRGFH like it's such a difference#this is also what taking classes on queer culture does to a mf like i use to be one of those 'no leather at pride!!!' mfs#and after learning why and more about queer culture and the ppl who came before me ive just...idk im just gay and im very PROUD <33333#idk why puppy dan has made me reflect on my journey as a they lesbian but......yeah idk esrtfytfdghj#what dangender does to a mf
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