“Honey, I don’t care if I never have nothing ever’ till the day I die. All I want is my freedom.”
Marsha P. Johnson, a black trans woman who was known for pioneering a movement that has had incredible long lasting systematic change. During the so called Stonewall riots (riots which broke out after the police had once again raided the lgbtq bar Stonewall Inn) in 1969, she was one of the first to begin resisting the police. Without her and other black lgbtq+ folks, we wouldn’t be celebrating pride. #HappyPrideMonth ✨
The creator fucking left us out solely bc the creator said some “aphobic” things and decided ppl who don’t fuck r more a part of the community THAN THE GOD DAMN L
Ace and Aro people are just as much a part of the community as “the god damn L”. We are much more than people who don’t fuck.
Honestly.
Shitting on and excluding a part of the Lgbtqia+ spectrum while you yell about being excluded is more than a little tone deaf. Tap dancing baby jesus on a fucking unicycle, it isn’t that hard.
Really? What have you contributed?
what oppression do the Ace community face exactly?? You don’t feel valid?? Fuck off.
Remember when an ace person got “homosexuality” removed from the American Psychiatric Association’s list of mental illnesses? Oh wait, that was Barbara Gittings, a lesbian. Did an ace person punch a cop at Stonewall and incite the riots? No, that was Storme DeLarverie, a lesbian. Were there any asexuals helping to organize the first Pride? Again, those were lesbians (Ellen Brody and Linda Rhodes) and gay men (Craig Rodwell and Fred Sargeant), as well as a bisexual woman (Brenda Howard). Were asexuals known to help gay men during the AIDS crisis? No, that was lesbians. Did an ace person overturn the discriminatory “defense of marriage” act? No, that was also a lesbian, Edith Windsor. Even outside of the US, you will find that activists for the gay rights movement (now referred to “LGBT”) were, well, gay people.
Our fight was always one of sexual freedom. And, while asexual people have their own struggles, I’m sure, the idea that they belong in the “LGBT” community is very new and misguided. To assert that asexuals are “just as much of a part of the community” as lesbians is absolutely absurd. Lesbians are the ones who, throughout history and still today, were oppressed because of their same sex attraction. They (along with gay men) built this community from the ground up, struggling for centuries to get where we are today.
You all didn’t even force your way in until the 2000s. In fact, I’m old enough to remember when the “A” still stood for ally.
The Q used to stand for Questioningin order to offer solidarity to those who were struggling with internalized homophobia or who couldn’t come out bc their parents were homophobic. But straights just couldn’t fucking resist calling us a homophobic slur
I still can’t get over how genderqueer and nonbinary are the same made up thing and they put both of them.
^^ This. They won’t include lesbians, but they’ll include 2 completely meaningless terms??? That’s like kicking us when we’re down. The misogyny is RIFE.
it’s shocking to me how the apparent “homophobia” in trans communities is like. genuinely nonexistent. like i know a gay guy who’s a very very strong advocate for trans rights, and he also doesn’t generally date trans guys. which is like. fine? what matters is that he respects trans people and doesn’t treat us like trash. that’s what makes him an ally. he doesn’t have to be sexually attracted to somebody to care about and respect them. it’s literally not a big deal who he chooses to date or sleep with, as long as he respects other people. hell, one of his best friends is a cis gay guy dating a trans man. i also know cis lesbians who date trans women, cis lesbians that don’t, and trans women that are lesbians, and all of them are equally lesbians. it’s not that complicated
Nonexistent? From the community denying biological sex and by extension same-sex attraction even exists? From the community that coined the term “cotton ceiling” to describe the apparent problem of lesbians not being sexually interested in transwomen? From the community who encourage kids that show normal signs of being gay to transition, first chemically castrating and then literally castrating themselves? From the community calling LGB Alliance a hate group?
Man, the closest to a ‘golden age’ of being a homosexual must have been the late 2000′s, early 2010′s…I remember being a young teen going through the realization that I was gay and going online to spaces where it was actuallyokay in their eyes to be a homosexual.
So many YouTubers who were based around serious and light-hearted discussions about being lesbians really helped me, as well as seeing gay men express themselves since that helped me learn more about the LGB community. I felt like things were looking up for us and that even though being gay was different and could sometimes be scary, there would always be this community to back each other up. It was going to be okay to be a gender non-conforming lesbian, because the older women I saw on my laptop screen were trying to make it so.
And then in about 2015-2016, something shifted right before my eyes. It’s not like the trans community didn’t exist before - I knew them well enough, and was 100% supportive of them, but they had grown muchlouder. I think the most damning thing for me personally was watching all the lesbian idols I had come to know on places like YouTube started coming out as trans men or nonbinary. I couldn’t help but feel a bit disappointed each time, even though I had been taught by now that this feeling of disappointment was “transphobia”. These were my role models, my only connection to gender non-conforming females since I lived in a small conservative town in the armpit of Florida.
I tried to be supportive all the same, even though it seemed like every day those channels I watched or blogs I read started to disappear or change themselves to being about exclusively trans topics. It was like these people thought that the legalization of gay marriage in America was the end-all to oppression or issues for homosexuals, and so they had to move on to the next thing. I felt frustrated, but also pressured to joining the bandwagon, accepting that trans people were the oppressed now, and “cis” gay people had power over them even if it didn’t make much sense to me.
I wish I could go back to those times. Most libfems and tras really think that because gays can marry now and sometimes commercials on TV will show a gay couple, they don’t need to care about us anymore. But I’m still here. There’s plenty of people still here. This is a very America-centered post as well, since I’m sure the experience of anyone outside of it may be different, but my personal experience really opened my eyes to the trans community and their ‘allies’. Greedy consuming erasers.
The woman whose research helped spark the modern gay rights movement
Five years ago, the Supreme Court allowed same-sex marriage to become the law of the land when it struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman. It was a victory built on generations of tireless advocacy, election day disappointments and spurts of progress across the country.
One of the key elements to winning this battle was research, notably that of UCLA psychologist Evelyn Hooker. In the 1940s and 50s, when gay men could be arrested just for being gay, Hooker bucked the norms of her era and studied them like any other subject. Her groundbreaking work showed that being gay was not a mental illness.
How one woman’s research in the 1940s changed queer life forever
This Pride month, we saw a landmark victory for LGBTQ workers’ rights in the Supreme Court, and the fifth anniversary of gay marriage!
One person we have to thank for that is UCLA’s Dr. Evelyn Hooker, who sought to change the understanding of homosexuality as a mental illness in the 1940s.
Her groundbreaking study showed gay people were not ill and in need of a cure. Her research made it all the way to the Supreme Court and helped change queer life forever.
How a 1940s psychology study sparked the modern gay rights movement
This Pride month, we saw a landmark victory for LGBTQ workers’ rights in the Supreme Court, and the fifth anniversary of gay marriage! Behind the scenes, researchers help make these victories happen. From Dr. Evelyn Hooker, who showed homosexuality was not an illness in the 1940s, to Jody Herman, who documents the needs and realities of trans people today, UC researchers and their work are reaching all corners of the legal and medical communities and changing queer life forever — and the world.
My name is Yousef and I’m a transgender male from the Middle East. I decided to make a post on here since there are a lot of active people from the LGBT community that are willing to help those in need.
In the Middle East we suffer a lot from society and even “coming out” could get you in jail. There is a law in my country (Kuwait) where you can get thrown in jail for simply breaking gender norms (Dressing up like the other gender).
We are a group of trans activits that are trying to spread the word on twitter since it is very popular in the Middle East and it proved to change things in other issues. We’ve managed to get the attention of the “Daily Dot” when we translated very violent tweets on an arab trans hashtag to show how much we are in danger in this part of the world
If you tweet enough and help us trend it and gain enough attention, it would make Arabs become aware of our existence and therefore demand respect and our right to exist. Many of us want the right to simply transition and we can’t because most Arabs think they have the right to tell us what we can and cant do to our bodies.
If you don’t have a twitter or have no desire to partcipate, reblogging this would be more than enough. We need as much help as we can get.
Thank you
The LGBT community in much of the Muslim world does not just suffer from discrimination, but they fear for their lives. While people here in the West would like to assume that those on the right side of the political spectrum are anti-LGBT, and sure in some cases that is very much true, it is in no way comparable to what the LGBT community suffers from in the Muslim world. In fact, most conservatives in Canada are actually very strongly in support of LGBT rights. Even in the United States there is a huge trend and shift in attitudes amongst Republicans. The hateful rhetoric that still remains and discriminates against the LGBT community in North America is shameful and sad dying cry of pathetic ignorance, and it is very minuscule in comparison to what they suffer from in the Muslims world. It is now time, more than ever, for all the LGBT rights activists to start focusing some of their attention to where the community suffers the most!
The Pope’s on his way to the US, but he’s excluded #LGBT Catholics as a part of his trip. What do you think – is the Pope’s legacy going to be one of equality or not?
Tell Pope Francis to listen to ALL Catholics by adding your name here: go.allout.org/en/a/pope
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The best part is that the money raised from purchase of the Love Soap totaled over £275,955 - around US$413,900 or €378,200 - and will support All Out and grassroots organisations fighting for love and equality worldwide!
Thank you to everyone who took part in one of the biggest conversations around this issue EVER.
In a secret meeting last week, Australia’s Prime Minister banned members of his party from voting ‘Yes’ on marriage equality. It was a dirty move.
But a few brave politicians have promised to take a stand for love and vote 'Yes’ anyway. If a few more rebellious politicians join in, marriage equality could have enough support to pass.
So that got us to thinking… imagine if members of Parliament could see beautiful photos of gay and lesbian couples who HAVE been allowed to marry – like in the UK, Canada, and the USA – just before they’re deciding what to do. It’d remind them of the global wave of marriage wins and show that the tide can’t be held back.
All Out members from around the world sent in photos to make this beautiful video. If enough people chip in, we can buy an advertising slot on Sky News – a channel that streams inside Parliament. The powerful message could get enough politicians to join the rebellion and vote 'Yes’ on marriage equality.
When we launched our #GayIsOK campaign a few days ago, it was a crime to be gay in 76 countries. Early this week, Mozambique left that list - what an inspiration to keep telling the world why #GayIsOK.
What I want people to understand about Disobedience is that “happy ending” is an extremely loaded concept.
What many of you mean when you say you want it to have a happy ending is that you want the religious girl to leave her community and her faith and be “liberated” by the secular world. That’s not a happy ending, anymore than you could call it happy for her to remain in her community and heterosexual marriage and not be with the person she loves.
I want you to stop using this phrase. It is deeply offensive and hurtful to religious Jews and ESPECIALLY to religious LGBT Jews who made the choice to remain that way, because it minimizes the harshness of the choice and also imposes your value system onto theirs by saying that their choice was the bad one, and that they’re to be pitied for making it.
A true “happy ending,” I suppose, would be where everyone get everything they wanted and no one HAD to make these hard choices. But that’s simply not anywhere close to reality for people whose lives this represents, and frankly, to portray this as a fluffy uwu situation would also be pretty awful.
I understand that LGBT people want to see stories where they get to live happily ever after. Those stories are few and far between, and LGBT audiences deserve to have fluffy Hallmark stories like everyone else, but this is not the one. Please respect that this is not a lesbian story, it’s a lesbian /Orthodox Jewish/ story. There are too many non-Jews and secular/liberal Jews who are saying things like this and I need you to understand that it is not up to you to make the determination of what “happy ending” means, and that the message you are sending when you demand one (according to your tastes) is only further alienating an already doubly-marginalized group of people.
The film is literally called disobedience. That is towards a community,a mentality, absolution and demands of the society.
Although I don’t yet know the ending of the story, I seriously find your concern about people’s opinions alarming. Oppressing one’s love and true self is never a good choice, in whatever’s name it may be.
So your solution to a situation like this is to not say she is liberated because the jews get offended? What do you think would happen if we let ideologies rule what we can or cannot say? Do you think a devout Muslim would even let a film like this exist? I can guarantee you if I went down a few streets from where I live and asked a certain (immigrant) community their opinions on such a film, they’d even offer to kill the actors. Because they took offense to it.
Your definition of happy ending is completely and utterly flawed. There is no happy ending to make everybody happy. Even in the simplest children stories there’s an evil character that is left upset at best. That doesn’t stop such endings from being happy, does it?
Moreover, I’m the last person to care about offense or take offense. I don’t care for gay rights, I am a conservative. Let people have their opinions and let breaking free be a positive thing. Nothing is absolute for the sake of an ideology or belief. Certain communities (not only Jewish) have made gay people live almost the life of prisoners. Offense is welcome in such cases.
Day 20 of Black History Month and I’m honoring Bayard Rustin. He was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Rustin worked with A. Philip Randolph on the March on Washington Movement, in 1941, to press for an end to racial discrimination in employment.
Before the pink triangle became a worldwide symbol of gay power and pride, it was intended as a badge of shame. In Nazi Germany, a downward-pointing pink triangle was sewn onto the shirts of gay men in concentration camps—to identify and further dehumanize them. It wasn’t until the 1970s that activists would reclaim the symbol as one of liberation. Although the pink triangle has been reclaimed as an empowering symbol, it is ultimately a reminder to never forget the past—and to recognize the persecution LGBTQ+ people still face around the world.
