As U.S. President, George H.W. Bush, among other things, cut AIDS research funding, banned HIV-Positive people from entering the country, encouraged “behavioral change” to the exclusion of comprehensive sexual education, and extended/expanded many of the murderous AIDS policies of Ronald Reagan, for whom Bush served as Vice President. By the end of 1993, over 194,000 HIV/AIDS related deaths had been reported in the United States. Approximately 133,000 of which were during Bush’s one term as President. Between 1987 and 1992, the median age at death among men in the United States that died from HIV/AIDS related causes was 38; among women the median age was 34. George H.W. Bush died November 30th 2018 at the age of 94. May he rot in Hell alongside Ronald Reagan! 🖕
THANK YOU FOR THIS POST. If I saw one more news headline today about how great this mass murderer was I was gonna barf.
[A paperback copy of The Miseducation of Cameron Post with the rainbow flag stripe coloured page edges]
swagjjun said: :0 where can I get this
re: cameronpost – amazon has it, but i got mine from ebay. look for a listing with a pic that shows the rainbow edge, because it shares an isbn with a non coloured edition, isbn = 9780141389165.
Kris Hess has more than enough on her plate. She’s taking care of her sick father, struggling to make deadlines with her art, and keeping up with the bills. There’s no room for dating unless it’s for the long haul, and Kris’s past experiences with women have left her full of doubts. Her relief comes from her weekly Dungeons and Dragons session with close friends. As Dungeon Master, this is one world she can actually control.
Lacey Jenkins is getting over heartbreak. She’s still full of resentment over her emotional vampire of an ex. The sole joy in her life comes from her little terrier, Barkley. Yep, she’s reached crazy dog lady status and she doesn’t care if you know it. But she knows the only way to move on is to start meeting new people, and her coworker offers her the perfect opportunity. Nice, easy, and no drama.
The adventuring brings these two women together at the game table. But can they find love in the real world, too? It’s a roll of the die…
I’d like to add the English language films of Sarah Waters (Tipping The Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith, The Night Watch) to various time periods ranging from 19th century through to 1940s, and Bend It Like Beckham to should’ve been gayer because the original endgame was Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra as a happy sporty dyke couple and the studio said no.
“According to Deadline, Wonder Woman writer Allan Heinberg is working with Marvel and ABC to create a series of hour-long episodes focusing on more obscure heroes, potentially including those in A-Force, Fearless Defenders and Lady Liberators.
As well as Karolina and Nico, these comics include bisexual Thor: Ragnarok warrior Valkyrie and Dr Annabelle Riggs, who kiss in the same issue in which Valkyrie saves Annabelle’s life.
America Chavez, a queer Latina teenager with lesbian parents, who does her hero work as Miss America and got her own comic book last year, is also reportedly up for inclusion in the show.
The comics series also feature Mariko Yashida, an openly gay superhero who, in one reality, has a relationship with Mary Jane Watson’s Spider-Woman, and the openly bisexual Moondragon, who has been canonically attracted to female characters Cloud, Marlo Chandler, and Phyla-Vell.”
National Coming Out Day is coming up (October 11) and I just want to remind everyone:
1) Please do not out anyone (even if you “think you are doing them a favor.” Trust me when I say you aren’t) and make sure you don’t accidentally do so.
2) It is okay to be in the closet. Please do not feel pressure to/obligated to come out because there so happens to be a Coming Out Day. (Do it for you if it’s what you want).
3) don’t “come out” as LGBT+ as a joke. Don’t “come out” as kinky/a furry/whatever, either.
4) Don’t force/coerce your friends and/or loved ones to come out, and do not get mad at them if they choose to stay closeted.
5) don’t come out as an ally
6) It’s okay to come out even if you don’t know for sure what you identify as yet, or if you’ve decided you don’t want a label.
7) It’s okay to come out again if your identity has changed. Coming out as gay is different to coming out as bi, for example, and coming out as trans is different to coming out as butch lesbian, and coming out as one of the flavours of queer is different to coming out as a label people have a more concrete understanding of. You are you, and who you are grows and changes over time. Doing it again doesn’t mean you were wrong or lying the previous time/s.
8) What you come out as is up to you. I use queer these days, but I have used lesbian in the past, because it’s shorthand and easier than saying ‘biromantic gender-nonconforming demisexual woman in a committed relationship with another woman’. I don’t have to lay out that though I’m probably on the bi or pan spectrum, I don’t identify as either of those because men are ‘unsafe’ for various reasons for me, and if I was dating rather than in a long-term relationship, if I was looking for a partner, I would be looking at pretty much any gender but male. I don’t have to explain that attraction for me is a fluctuating thing, and my sex drive is, too. I don’t have to explain that I don’t identify as transgender, but I feel that most of the construct of what people think of as ‘female’ doesn’t work for me either. I just say queer. And for those who don’t or won’t understand queer, I say lesbian, and that makes most people happy because I’ve put myself in a box they can understand, even if it’s not strictly true. If calling yourself a label like ‘gay’ when you come out makes it easier or safer for you, then use it. It’s a tool, not a shackle.
knitting in the dark 