quick what is everyone doing right now
okay reblogging this again just to say that i love love love reading these,, like it's so incredible how we're all doing such vastly different things at the same time...ik it's an obvious thing but it's also insane to think about.
keep seeing Temu ads on here so just to share cause idk if people are widely aware
The LGBTQ community has seen controversy regarding acceptance of different groups (bisexual and transgender individuals have sometimes been marginalized by the larger community), but the term LGBT has been a positive symbol of inclusion and reflects the embrace of different identities and that we’re stronger together and need each other. While there are differences, we all face many of the same challenges from broader society.
In the 1960′s, in wider society the meaning of the word gay transitioned from ‘happy’ or ‘carefree’ to predominantly mean ‘homosexual’ and was an umbrella term that meant anyone who wasn’t cisgender or heterosexual. The community embraced the word ‘gay’ as a mark of pride.
The modern fight for queer rights is considered to have begun with The Stonewall Riots in 1969 and was called the Gay Liberation Movement and the Gay Rights Movement.
The acronym GLB surfaced around this time to also include Lesbian and Bisexual people who felt “gay” wasn’t inclusive of their identities.
Early in the gay rights movement, gay men were largely the ones running the show and there was a focus on men’s issues. Lesbians were unhappy that gay men dominated the leadership and ignored their needs and the feminist fight. As a result, lesbians tended to focus their attention on the Women’s Rights Movement which was happening at the same time. This dominance by gay men was seen as yet one more example of patriarchy and sexism.
In the 1970′s, sexism and homophobia existed in more virulent forms and those biases against lesbians also made it hard for them to find their voices within women’s liberation movements. Betty Friedman, the founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), commented that lesbians were a “lavender menace” that threatened the political efficacy of the organization and of feminism and many women felt including lesbians was a detriment.
In the 80s and 90s, a huge portion of gay men were suffering from AIDS while the lesbian community was largely unaffected. Lesbians helped gay men with medical care and were a massive part of the activism surrounding the gay community and AIDS. This willingness to support gay men in their time of need sparked a closer, more supportive relationship between both groups, and the gay community became more receptive to feminist ideals and goals.
Approaching the 1990′s it was clear that GLB referred to sexual identity and wasn’t inclusive of gender identity and T should be added, especially since trans activist have long been at the forefront of the community’s fight for rights and acceptance, from Stonewall onward. Some argued that T should not be added, but many gay, lesbian and bisexual people pointed out that they also transgress established gender norms and therefore the GLB acronym should include gender identities and they pushed to include T in the acronym.
GLBT became LGBT as a way to honor the tremendous work the lesbian community did during the AIDS crisis.
Towards the end of the 1990s and into the 2000s, movements took place to add additional letters to the acronym to recognize Intersex, Asexual, Aromantic, Agender, and others. As the acronym grew to LGBTIQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIAA, many complained this was becoming unwieldy and started using a ‘+’ to show LGBT aren’t the only identities in the community and this became more common, whether as LGBT+ or LGBTQ+.
In the 2010′s, the process of reclaiming the word “queer” that began in the 1980′s was largely accomplished. In the 2020′s the LGBTQ+ acronym is used less often as Queer is becoming the more common term to represent the community.
if someone wants to help emily gwen (creator of the lesbian flag) afford basic necessities here is her ko-fi. if you can’t donate, reblogging this would really help her out
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I am 24 years old and I feel ancient and I think I need to revamp my skincare routine so I will be easier to love by men who don’t see women as people, but on some Thursdays when nobody is, miraculously, trying to sell me something, not even myself, I manage to forget I am supposed to strive for something and green is just green and light is just light and I am just me and I am not thinking about aging or marriage or children or influencer yoga pants or the world ending in the hands of men who have never stopped, not even once, to look at, out of the sheer heartbreak of it, the beauty of something they cannot own or sell or advertise, and anyway I said I’m not thinking about it so I’m not thinking about it, and I need to tell you that today it rained and then the sun was out and then it rained again and I felt something I haven’t felt since I was seven, and tomorrow I will get angry again but today it is a Thursday and on Thursdays like this I refuse to give the cruelty of the world a chance to reach me, because on Thursdays like this everything green is just green and the summer is creeping in underneath the doorframe, inch by inch
i think as adults it's our responsibility to be nice to kids and treat them with the respect we wish we got at that age and im not kidding or exaggerating in the least
I'm seriously begging. idk what's happening but my additions to this post keep disappearing. please reblog this and d0n@te please. I need help so bad
This site has been going around Twitter trans accounts quite a bit lately, so just pointing out here too that it'll do fuck all, they're exploiting trans people at a time when hrt is particularly hard to access and please don't give them your money
fuckin exploitative bullshit marketed in the worst way imaginable
literally selling laxatives as weight loss supplements
Reminder that this is an obvious conservative/alt-right OP that is explicitly made to hurt trans women as much as possible by increasing their testosterone. The cruelty is the point. They're laughing at you. (Look at the "founder"'s photo on their website. It's an AI-generated black person with colored hair. A conservative's idea of what "muh libtards" look like. Additionally, they use their twitter feed to urge trans people and trans activists to share their whearabouts. This is an alt-right OP. Don't fall for it.
Additional info:
I did a whois on the domain. Of course all of the information of the registrants is hidden (pls note the Iceland address is NOT AFFILIATED, this is a known fake address used for privated information on whois lookups)... HOWEVER, look at the registration date. June 2nd. (This would indicate the date the domain was FIRST registered.) Let's look at the obviously fake reviews, shall we?
Would you look at that. There are fake reviews saying they've been on these pills for months, even though the site was just registered. How strange!
But wait, there's more.
Huh. June 1st, 2023.
Huh.
Huh!!!! Interesting!!!
But wait! What about the queerquirk site? Maybe they were selling it there first!
Nah. Shits maybe a week older than estrolabs.com. Their Twitter confirms this.
Please, if you're looking at this and thinking "eh, maybe people are being incendiary or touchy, maybe it's real" - here's hard evidence that it's bullshit. Do not fucking buy this shit.
giggling and kicking my feet as i kill you i kill you i kill you i kill you i kill you i kill you i kill you i kill you i kill y
This site has been going around Twitter trans accounts quite a bit lately, so just pointing out here too that it'll do fuck all, they're exploiting trans people at a time when hrt is particularly hard to access and please don't give them your money
fuckin exploitative bullshit marketed in the worst way imaginable
literally selling laxatives as weight loss supplements
No actually, this needs to be in the body of the post.
This isn't someone looking to make a quick buck off the backs of desperate trans women.
This is someone who is gathering a hit list. This person may use your info for active swatting, but not just that, this product will kill you.
This product is outright dangerous. This dose of ashwagandha is ASTRONOMICAL. It's anxiolytic - meaning that it causes agitation and anxiety - and if you take this dose every day you'll be developing serotonin syndrome within 4-6 weeks, and an ER trip/death within 8. And if you're on medications that interact (SSRIs, antipsychotics, most kinds of opiates) or alcohol, this risk is magnified.
This person wants to KILL YOU.
Also the photo they're using for the founder is AI generated. The easiest tell is the neck tattoo seemingly merging with the collar of the shirt, and none of the locs actually having an end that connects them to the scalp.
There's a terf in the comments screeding about how this totally isn't a rightwing psyop and it's asian fetishizing trans ppl obsessed with anime doing this, so here's some irrefutable proof that it is, in fact, a right-wing dox honeypot!
If you go to any post by TheQueerQuirk on Twitter and replace the username part of the url with transaretr8ors it will redirect you to the same tweet with the new username, indicating that TheQueerQuirk's old username WAS in fact transaretr8ors. You can test this yourself.
They're also stealing images from r/transtimelines for fake reviews.
Their domain name was registered on June 2 and the address marked is a common scam address (seemingly of the Icelandic Phallological Museum).
THIS IS A HONEYPOT. THEY'RE COLLECTING ADDRESSES. YOU COULD BE SWATTED, HAVE YOUR IDENTITY STOLEN, OR AT THE VERY BEST RECEIVE A PRODUCT THAT WILL CAUSE SEROTONIN SYNDROME.
SPREAD.
Happy Pride Month to all queer Jews. Happy Pride to all queer Muslims. Happy Pride to all queer Christians. Happy Pride to all agnostics. Happy Pride to all those who believe in any part of God.
Whether you're trans or gay or pan, whether you're out or questioning or in the closet. Whether you feel safe to be yourself in real life, know that there are people out here who get it, and are supporting you.
Times might be a little tough right now, but we can work together to make things feel a little better. Just hang in there.
happy pride specifically to queers who dont feel safe within the lgbtq community. black queers, other queers of color, jewish queers, disabled queers, mentally ill queers, working class queers, rural area queers… i am giving you all a kiss on the forehead.
i didnt know people hated wheatdos for "they hate each other and tried killing each other and call each other names" reasons when the same can be said for chelley and chelldos . im sorry but this is a "calling miss piggy an abuser when the muppets beat the shit out of each other all the time" situation. therefore i support every single ship in this game just for the fact that they all want each other dead
hi everyone resident mentally ill queer mixed mess andddd im sorry ik i started a new job but between catching up w bills and how little it pays me ive been paycheck2paycheck and failing i dont
idek what i need i know rent is gonna be late and possibly short w my next check so lets try for that? i also need to feed my cat and pay an upcoming phone bill section as well as my storage unit 🥲
im trying for rent and storage unit and cat food the rest is kinda like eh ill get to it uk?
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my check is going to be low this pay period and it's rent timeee and my job just absolutely fucked us on our bonuses and took them away due to THEIR shit decision making so plz help 🥺
You know the drill; I'm a multiply disabled (autistic + physically disabled) lesbian from Chile with no source of my own income and living is expensive, currently living alone with my girlfriend.
Right now, my account is very much out of all money, which I use for things such as transportation and smaller but necessary purchases (meds, groceries, etc). If anyone's willing and able to help out, that'd be greatly appreciated.
At this time, I really need new contacts. I've been wearing these disposable ones that are supposed to only last a week since September and I recently had to give my family the money I was saving for that to help take one of the cats to the vet because he wasn't eating and they owed the vet from the last visit, so I'm back at zero. That besides the mug painting thing I wanted to start for which I still need materials (the mugs, basically).
I'm completely out of money and still in need of new contacts. :) My sister's post where she's asking for help so that my parents don't lose their home is more urgent, but if someone who donates to her happens to have some more to spare I'd be deeply grateful.
Hey, can I get a little help buying a few groceries and some otc meds? My butch is sick and they're not getting paid until Friday.
