#queer tag
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boygirl friend…..
men who like butch/gnc women are not inherently creeps or fetishists or predators going after lesbians. if you are a man who is attracted to masculine women you should not be ashamed of that.
butch/gnc women who like men are not “giving men the idea that they can go after lesbians”. if you are a masculine woman who is attracted to men you should not be ashamed of that.
if you don’t know why this post is necessary then you have not been listening to gnc women, especially bi women, who want men to be attracted to them, nor the men, especially bi men, who are attracted to those gnc women.
or more likely, they aren’t saying anything because they’re worried about the judgement they’ll recieve.
so maybe shut up and listen to us for once.
I made this post because of the things I heard expressed by my fellow bisexuals and I’m sure it’s a sentiment shared by many others, given how many people have said they felt reassured by this. just LISTEN.
bi butches have existed for decades, bi women have been calling themselves butches for decades, bi women have been involved in butch/femme culture for decades. a massive chunk of what we consider “lesbian history” has had bi women at its core right beside lesbians. to imply otherwise is erasure.
Not to mention (whispers) men have used the term too
yeah butch/femme has a history even outside of wlw like depending on the context it can be applied to masc and fem gay/bi men, or in ball culture to refer to butch queens (gay/bi men) and femme queens (trans women). it’s literally all about context lol.
casting a spell of protection upon all queer folk protecting them from all manners of discourse this pride month
Happy Pride Everyone!
The Spectrum Zine is officially doing presales! My piece was chosen to be the cover, but there’s so many other fantastic artists and writers who contributed so please check it out!
All donations will go to supporting the Transgender Law Center
There was a small bicycle pride demonstration today and at the end this guy held a speech entirely about aromanticism?!?! Mostly about how it’s often forgotten or unknown but how it’s an identity that’s part of the queer community. I’ve never seen aromanticism included in any of the queer events I’ve been to, not as a flag and not even as a footnote on websites or in speeches so I’m just… so happy about this. I thanked him afterwards (he wasn’t even aro himself, just thought it was important to raise awareness). Anyways, I’m feeling good about life today. Maybe we are getting somewhere.
One time I went to a pride march and somebody was flying the aro flag near the front and it turned out that the person who originally brought the flag wasn’t even aro and just didn’t want us to be forgotten about and then handed it off to the first aro who came to them about it so they could use it to find more ppl like them
I’m just gonna sit over here and feel very emotional about people who make an effort to support aros
happy pride month to baby gays, GSA kids, “cringey” queer people who are loud and proud, neurodivergent queer people, lgbtq people with less known identities, people who wear pins and name tags with pronouns and pride flags, queer kids with dyed hair and trans teens who wear oversized hoodies, people with pride flag lock screens/wallpapers, people who show their pride in subtle ways, closeted kids who join online queer communities, lgbtq people who are in therapy and/or support groups, disabled and mentally ill queer people, black, indigenous, and other lgbtq POC, queer people who don’t fit conventional beauty standards, and queer people who don’t think they’re “queer enough.” you are all incredibly valuable to our community, and you help us defy cishetero- and amatonormativity and make the world a more diverse and accepting place. happy pride.️
Hey guys, if you have the time please click this link and go view the AIDS memorial quilt. As of last year, all 1.2 million feet of the quilt has been photographed and made viewable to the public.
As such a cornerstone to our community as queer people, the AIDS quilt was a sign of love and remembrance of all who were lost. And for some, with no solution in sight. What a wonder science is, because living as HIV/AIDS positive is no longer a death sentence. It is a treatable and manageable disease. We can live full and happy long lives and not transmit the disease.
When it was intitially unveiled, the quilt had about 2,000 panels and it was now bloomed into 48,000. The majority of them measuring 6'3". About the size of a grave.
I urge you to take the time to treasure, understand, and support our community. As their lives and the queer movement- have brought undoubtable freedom as we live in our own.
Making a quilt can take countless of hours. And a quilt of this size, it’s a whole generations worth.
Love your queer elders. Love your gay history. Live free, today.
Pride is our family history. Pride is taking on the weight of all that courage, realizing we are what they hoped for,
Pride is a group of girls in 1922 dancing in the basement of a Parisian gay bar,
Pride is Gavin Grimm standing in court day after day for the sake of all the trans kids who just want to use the bathroom at school,
Pride is Marsha P. Johnson walking down the street with flowers in her hair, wearing a dress that’s going to get her arrested,
Pride is all the lesbians in the pews at every gay kid’s funeral in 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985,
Pride is Harvey Milk repeating You gotta give em hope. Smiling at the cameras, waiting for that bullet to find its mark,
Pride is Magnus Hirschfield and the WhK showing up to lobby for gay rights day after day in 1898, getting the police to hand out gender passes to the trans kids in the streets, collecting 100,000 queer people’s stories for posterity, We were here,
Pride is a Victorian priest marrying two men in the sight of God and several dozen noisy friends. Pride is a dried bouquet kept on display in two men’s front parlor,
Pride is Edward Carpenter holding George’s hand while they walk around the garden and the village police refusing to give a damn about it because George and Edward are ours, they take care of us and we take care of them,
Pride is a hundred generations of indigenous queer tradition held onto in defiance while the colonials make straightness the way of the Lord,
Pride is Lili Elbe waiting in the hospital with her wife for a surgery brand-new to history,
Pride is a butch girl putting her arm around her girlfriend’s shoulders outside a drag show while the police kick and push people into the back of a van one by one,
Pride is identity, Pride is family history, Pride is holding onto other people’s memories, Pride is us.
@adamarksYEAH.
[id: transcription of screenshotted tags above. #being gay is having family throughout all time #it’s about having a connection to other that goes beyond race creed age interests #queerness may not be a choice but it is a privilege #and it’s a gift of connection of love of community #anyway being gay is treat happy pride /end id]
I imagine someone’s already posted this by now, but in case not, here’s a lovely Pride Month message from the OG Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter!
idk im really tired of 15-17 year olds who have never interacted with the gay community irl and spend too much time on tiktok trying to act like the authority on all that is lgbt+
mean this in the kindest possible way. if you are too young and unsafe to go to your gay community center or pride here’s some ways you can connect to gay history.
since it was suggested in the tags
the Samuel Proctor oral history project
a masterpost of lesile feinberg’s worksby@genderoutlaws
more to come
lmfao if you support bi/straight versions of canonically strictly gay characters, even in a headcanon, then i will happily unfollow you without a second thought
new piece about queer conventions of attractiveness, body hair, and my own transition <3
no one:
rachel weisz: ask me a gay question
a woman in a film: *takes another woman’s hand and squeezes it gently in a gesture of support*
my content-starved wlw ass:
a woman in a film: *brushes another woman’s hair tenderly away from her face*
me:
Uncle, do you realize what this means?
being gay and kissing girls is good for ur health
dyke (self diagnosed)