“Queer girls are respectful! We don’t ever stare at other girls, or make them uncomfortable, or do anything inappropriate! Straight men are such pigs!”
I was publicly molested by a bi girl for, like, three years in high school, well before I came out as trans.
The last time I said this, a bunch of radfems crawled out of the woodwork to harass me, but I’m gonna say it again:
WLW CAN BE ABUSERS. WLW CAN BE RAPISTS. WLW CAN BE PEDOPHILES. WLW CAN BE VIOLENT.
You don’t get a pass based on who you’re sexually or romantically interested in. You don’t get to ruin someone’s life and then say, “Well, no, that’s not true, because I’m a woman who loves women, not a straight man, so I can’t do any of that icky stuff!”
So apparently last year the National Park Service in the US dropped an over 1200 page study of LGBTQ American History as part of their Who We Are program which includes studies on African-American history, Latino history, and Indigenous history.
Like. This is awesome. But also it feels very surreal that maybe one of the most comprehensive examinations of LGBTQ history in America (it covers sports! art! race! historical sites! health! cities!) was just casually done by the parks service.
I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. And yet I believe you’ll be sensible of a little gap. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this –But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it. – Vita Sackville West to Virginia Woolf
Look here Vita — throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads — They won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river. Think of that. Throw over your man, I say, and come.--Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville West
apparently the reason gayness was associated w/ reactionary politics by most bolsheviks was because the most famous gay men in imperial russia were archconservative aristocrats, such as the tsar’s uncle, famous for having many gay lovers, for ethnically cleansing all of moscow’s jews in 1891, & for crushing the radical student movement at moscow university
just to go full circle from my other post, on the seventeenth of feburary 1905, this guy,
kalyayev, tossed a pomegranate (a nitroglycerin bomb) into the tsar’s uncle’s lap, which blew up his carriage & his upper body (besides the right side of his face). kalyayev was hanged 2 weeks later, although he didn’t really mind because he had expected to die in the explosion anyway, & the tsar’s uncle’s still-ringed fingers were found soonafter on a nearby rooftop
That’s how I want to go
best part: at the end of his trial (i think it might have been his last words, but i’m not sure), he said to the tsar’s aunt & to the judges who had just sentenced him to death, “learn to look the advancing revolution right in the face!” #goals
There’s one thing, okay, that’s happening here, and that’s we all love each other. Okay? Us. Us, this! Caleb, you love Benicio, right? And Karen, you love Billy, and Freckle, you love me, and you also love Benicio, and Benicio also loves me and then it goes on and on like this. Do you guys see what I’m getting at?
Lady Shug, the 2016 Miss New Mexico Pride winner, and a prominent voice in the Navajo Nation’s LGBTQ community.
Sharnell Paul, a transgender teen, at her home with her horses in Dennehotso, Arizona. Paul, 19, was recently removed from the “Women of the Navajo” calendar after someone outed her to the publisher.
Buffalo Barbie at home with her dogs in Teec Nos Pos, Arizona.
Lola De La Hoya at a friend’s where she often takes refuge from the criticism of her parents.
De La Hoya getting ready for a drag performance at Gay Prom, one of the few events of the year aimed at Navajo LGBTQ people.
Michelle Sherma and her grandmother live together. Her grandma helped Sherman’s parents understand traditional Navajo notions of gender and their daughter’s identity.
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