Happy Pride Month, guys!!
Awww TransgenDEER!
Tag: lgbtqia
update: saladin ahmed’s exiles comic continues to include various iterations of female bucky barnes hitting on valkyrie and i am here for it
Give a shoutout to your favorite LGBTQIAP+ book! 🌈📚
Everyone NEEDS to read I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. by John Donovan. First young adult novel with LGBT themes, published spring of 1969 by a gay New Yorker (the proximity to Stonewall is amazing), and it would be a beautiful, amazing book worth reading even if it weren’t historically important.
I’ve never heard of this one! Sounds like a great read for Pride Month!
not my favorite, but my first gay book was A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White. it’s set in the 1950s, so it’s got some historical context. also, my high school english teacher gave it to me before i had come out to anyone, and that was honestly such a read
I love that I’m hearing about all of these older LGBTQ+ books that we don’t often hear about anymore! Thank you for sharing!
If we’re going older books, I think more people need to know about Peter McGehee and Doug Wilson’s trilogy of autobiographical novels. They’re devastating, beautiful, and burn bright with life and humour in the midst of dying, at the height of the AIDS crisis. They do have sexual content and difficult subject matter, so they’d be for mature readers who are ready for that, but I think they’re important, and most people don’t know they exist. I read them first in my very early twenties, and they will never leave me or my bookshelf.
A conversation on the fluidity of terms, and how to understand and have a productive conversation with a shifting generational gap in trans terminology.
Thiiiiiiiis
Also goes for encounters with trans people regardless of their age. We come from different places, different cultures, different sub-cultures. We don’t all have the same framework for what language best describes who we are.
The enforcement of appropriate terminology is agist, racist, colonialist, classist, ableist, US-centrust and Eurocentrist and all together undermines community solidarity.
asuccessionofextraordinaryevents:
Love, Simon was great, but now it’s time for lesbians
Can’t wait for the movie of THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST!!
Cameron Post (the book, at least) was great, but now it’s time for lesbians SANS TORTURE AND TRAGEDY.
Just give me one feminist coming of age with a Melissa Etheridge soundtrack, black nail polish and Doc Martin boots.
People of Pride #8: Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin was the black, gay, non-violent activist responsible for organizing the March on Washington. His pioneering contributions to the fight for economic, racial, & LGBT+ equality are immeasurable, there is so much more to say than there is room to say it. Bayard Rustin is a name lost in history books that should have never been forgotten, I encourage you to read more about who he was, what he loved, and what he conquered here:
- https://www.buzzfeed.com/…/walter-naegle-partner-of-the-lat…
- https://lgbthistorymonth.com/bayard-rustin?tab=biography
- http://www.pbs.org/…/…/who-designed-the-march-on-washington/
Every day in June, I will be posting an illustration that highlights an LGBT+ activist who I believe everyone should know. This series will be in no way comprehensive, & will include a multitude of identities, races, sexualities, and genders.
Happy Pride!!!
In honor of Pride 2018 I Present: Pride in Space Enamel Pins!
These are a PREORDER, they’ll each need 25 sales minimum to be funded, more details on that on the etsy link HERE
20% of all funded pins will go to the Trevor Project!
(There is the possibility of more being added depending on the success of the first batch)
If Enamel Pins aren’t your game, pastel versions on various goods can be found HERE and HERE
SPACE GAY PINS!!!
Happy Pride, y’all! We thought this might be relevant to many of your interests.
(Image description: a white background with pastel rainbow gradient text that says “Not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you.”)
So don’t give them back to our oppressors by telling other queer folks we can’t use those words for ourselves ❤
[Image description: a six-panel comic.
Panel 1: the text “we took every name you spat on us” and several people cornering someone.
Panel 2: a person curled up in on the floor in a room, while someone in the doorway yells at them.
Panel 3: someone yelling at and grabbing another person.
Panel 4: the text “picked them up” with someone helping someone else get up.
Panel 5: the text “dusted them off” with someone cleaning up their injuries”
Panel 6: the text “and made them our own” with four people: one wearing a shirt saying “pussy”, one wearing a rainbow tank top, one wearing a shirt labeled “queer”, and one wearing a jacket with a rainbow and the word “dyke”. It is the only panel in color.
End description.]
knitting in the dark 