anyway bi people can fucking call themselves gay if they want
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Look at this homophobe’s entitlement. They want to be both bi and gay, rendering “gay” a completely useless word for ACTUAL gay people to name ourselves and our unique experiences and problems. Meanwhile entitled bi ppl are the first to say “bi ppl aren’t gay or straight!!”, then call themselves gay and cry “erasure” when people don’t call them “bi.” I will never understand such entitlement or the mental gymnastics they have to do to sustain it.
Then stop calling same sex marriage gay marriage. Stop calling lgtb rights gay rights. Stop calling lgtb pride gay pride. Stop calling lesbians gay. Stop calling bars for same sex attracted people gay bars. You can’t use gay as an umbrella term *and* be offended when people use it as an umbrella term. You get mad at bi people for wanted to be included in the umbrella, you don’t get mad about everything being called Gay exclusively when it isn’t. I’d also say I would never understand such entitlement or the mental gymnastics you have to do to sustain it, but I get it. Biphobia is a hell of a drug.
Openly gay Tongan athlete Amini Fonua issued a sharp condemnation on Thursday to a horribly irresponsible and exploitative Daily Beast story on athletes’ use of sex apps in Rio that might have outed gay athletes. [RELATED: Olympic Silver Medalist Gus Kenworthy Condemns Journalist For Outing Closeted Athletes In Rio] Fonua, an Olympic swimmer who competed […]
so apparently, monocles became a popular fashion accessory amongst lesbians in the early 20th century. there was even a lesbian bar in Paris in the 1920s named Le Monocle.
#bringbacklesbianmonocles2k16
have some pics. le monocle was a wild, wild ride.
I am VERY into this
Vintage lesbians are my fave
I have this dream where I am not afraid to hold your hand in Texas. This dream where I don’t have a visceral reaction to seeing gay pride flags. This dream where I can invite you home for Christmas dinner and my mother is so kind to you. And she asks where you went to school and she doesn’t choke on your gender identity and she pulls me aside later to tell me how sweet you are. I have this dream where people on the internet stop changing the pronouns in my poetry. I have this dream where I know exactly what to say when my southern baptist relatives ask if I’m dating someone. I have this dream where I don’t have to keep coming out over and over. Where people don’t think my sexuality is a phase unless I can produce a girlfriend on command. Where people stop asking me who fucks better: men or women. Like those are the only options. Like the answer wouldn’t be a gross generalization. I have this dream where people aren’t always waiting to say, “maybe you haven’t found the right guy.” Where I don’t imagine them jumping out from behind doors and bushes and shower curtains to say, “I hope you get over this in time to have children of your own.” Where my friends don’t say “faggot” in front of me and then apologize. Where I don’t say, “it’s okay.” Where we don’t repeat this until it’s stuck under my skin. I have this dream where I can tell my parents that you and I are thinking about moving in together. I have this dream where all of my queer representation isn’t murdered on tv. I have this dream where my queer friends aren’t murdered on the news. I have this dream where I feel safe. In rural Kansas. At my grandparents’ house. In a gay bar. At Pride. I have this dream where I only write you love poems and none of them have to say, “I’m so glad we’re alive.”
QUEER GIRL OVERTURE by Trista Mateer (via tristamateer)
controversial opinion but maybe… maybe gay, bisexual and queer men dont exist for the consumption of straight women????
like i feel like i shouldnt really take up a lot of space in this convo as a perpetually confusing essentially bigender person but like, there is basically no mlm media created for the consumption of mlm, almost all of it is geared towards appealing to a straight female audience and thats… a little fucked up??
like contrary to the bad 2014 tumblr discourse, homophobia still exists? so if youre a straight person you should probably be real fuckin critical of how and why you consume queer media, and if youre creating media with queer characters you should probably be real fuckin critical of whether youre doing it to give representation to actual queer people or just boost your straight viewership with gay fetishization.
!!! Tacking onto this as a gay man – LOTS of straight cis girls in fandom spaces were raised on yaoi, a manga/anime culture where rape is seen as romance and two men have to fill dramatically stereotyped gender roles.
This is not what gay guys are. We are not your ship fodder, we are not toys to be played with, we aren’t your objects of consumption.
The hypersexualization of gay men by cishet women continues to this day and our voices aren’t heard because Apparently Homophobia Is Over (rolling my eyes) for gay men.
A ton of the comments to this post are women telling queer men that slash fiction isn’t for them, “proving” (either via a queer man that doesn’t mind the tropes in slash fiction that this post is calling out or one of those statistics post that doesn’t have a universal reach in the first place) that this post is wrong for how it talks about fandom, and that they don’t have a right to critique how fandom comodifies and misrepresents their sexuality.
Newsflash ladies: if you’re more focused on getting your rocks off to dudeslash than listening to the words of queer men who straight up have problems with how slash portrays love and sex between men on stereotypical and offensive avenues, you’re once again proving that it’s not about representation mattering.
Because it doesn’t, not to you. What matters is what gets you off and apparently no one can critique desire.
(I’ll reblog it if I can find it again, but a gay black man wrote an essay about M/M fiction and depictions of sex in the romance genre being unrealistic and unrepresentative of actual queer male experiences on ANY scale and immediately was bombarded by women of all sexualities telling him how misogynistic he was and how M/M fiction was NOT FOR GAY MEN even though it ostensibly was about them.
It’s all about womanhood and femininity and women using portrayals of (marginalized) men and masculinity to explore their sexuality and actual queer men are forced to keep silent when these women write their sexuality poorly and then refuse critique because critiquing slash and m/m fiction is now misogynistic…)
I think I remember the post you’re talking about… shit, what was his name? I hope you find it. Silencing gay men who say anything critical about slash has been happening for a long time.
During a promotional event in Australia, actor John Cho confirmed that beloved Star Trek character Hikaru Sulu is gay. According to Cho, writer Simon Pegg and director Justin Lin decided to make Sulu canonically gay in the upcoming movie, Star Trek Beyond. The reason why will warm your emotionless, Vulcan heart.
The LGBT community in Ireland has been invited to a Muslim community meal for Ramadan.
The Irish Muslim Peace and Integration Council has invited LGBT individuals to their second annual community Iftar – the meal which marks the end of the daily Ramadan fast – in Dublin next Saturday.
Ramadan is the annual month in the Islamic calendar during which Muslims abstain from food, drink and sex between dawn and sunset.
The fast is performed to learn discipline, self-restraint and generosity and is seen one of the “five pillars” of Islam.
Next Saturday, Dublin’s Muslim community will break bread with the LGBT community, and members of the council hope the evening will foster dialogue and promote positivity between the two communities.
“As more than one billion Muslims worldwide celebrate Ramadan by fasting and appreciating the blessings given to us, it is important for the Irish Muslim community to reach out to our neighbours as an example of true Islamic ideals,” said Shaykh Dr Umar Al-Qadri – chairman of the Irish Muslim Peace & Integration Council and Imam of the Al-Mustafa Islamic Centre mosque.
Jewish holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental – who last year celebrated his 80th birthday at the community Iftar – to speak at the event, as well as extending invitations to religious leaders of other faiths and communities.
Following the shootings in Orlando earlier this month Al-Qadri was quick to offer his condolences to the LGBT community.
“I stand with the LGBT community,” he said. “I am against the marginalisation of any group. It should not have happened.
“We are a minority ourselves, we understand what discrimination is.”
Not enough people talk about the fact that Leonardo da Vinci was gay. Like, he’s literally the father of modern technology and one of the smartest human beings to ever live and I never ever learned in school that he was gay.
If all the LGBT people are as “DOOMED” as the bible thumpers think we are, hell, at least we’re in good company.
I was about to say I can’t believe I didn’t know this
and then I remembered the American education system
Yes, I can fucking believe I didn’t know this.
But yeah. Leonardo da Vinci was gay. Pass it on.
Leo painted a picture of his lover as Jesus and that’s the image we use today
Oh man that is sad. I’m sorry your teachers are failing you.
Some Leonardo facts you should tattoo on your heart:
He was actually convicted for sodomy at age 24, but the allegations were dropped for lack of testimony. The charges affected him immensely, as he was by all means, a very private person.
Da Vinci’s models for Christ are unknown. The claim that he depicted his lover as Jesus most likely arose from the bullshit about Cesare Borgia being the inspiration for White Jesus™ combined with the allegations that Leonardo and Cesare were lovers…There is little to no support for these claims. However, it’s speculated his lover Gian Giacomo Caprotti was the model for his St. John the Baptist.
He was universally beloved (minus Michelangelo lollll), like the nicest, funniest, gentlest, handsomest man you’d ever meet. He was generous beyond words, treated everyone equally, and loved to play pranks.
He was also fuckin’ ripped. It was rumored he could bend a horseshoe in half with his bare hands.
Often wore pink and other vibrant colors.
Rumored to sleep approx. 2 hours a night.
Was left-handed and ambidextrous. He was dyslexic, possibly had ADD, and suffered from frequent paranoia.
He was his own worst critic and often destroyed his work. He still left behind over 13k journal pages, filled with sketches and so many dick jokes.
His last words were: “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.”
Would buy caged animals from the market just to set them free. He was allegedly a vegetarian.
For a time he kept a pet lizard and made him a custom set of wings and horns. He would routinely scare the shit out of people with his ‘dragon.’
My all time fave: While staying in the Vatican he would invite guests into a residential room which had been filled with cleaned/dried animal intestines that he had sewn together. He fastened a bellows to the end of the intestines and proceeded to inflate them. Onlookers were so excited to see DaVinci’s new ”invention” that they didn’t even realize this asshole was just blowing up a giant balloon and pinning them to the wall holy shit I love him so much.
Where is the musical. Lin-Manuel Miranda, fix this.
When a handful of Westboro Baptist Church members showed up Saturday at the funeral of Orlando shooting victim Christopher Leinonen, counterprotesters donning large, white angel wings were there to shield mourners. Members of the Orlando Shakespeare Theater put together the wings as a symbolic but also literal screen between the WBC and funeral attendees. An Orlando Police tweet later proved the efforts to stop the WBC worked.
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