this is a collection of her photos, drawings and her suicide note,
this is so even if her mom deletes her blog, everything is saved,
her blog has already been removed and posts are being removed. dont stop reblogging this, dont let them silence us, dont let Leelah Alcorn be forgotten
#Repost @closetsareforclothes ・・・ We are often asked about our Olly tee and what the idea is behind it. Our ‘Olly Olly Oxen Free’ shirt is a reference to hide and go seek. It is the phrase yelled at the end of the game, when it is safe to come out, without losing the game. Closets Are for Clothes is shouting OLLY OLLY OXEN FREE, to anybody still holding their breath in the dark.
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I think this is the most amazing and encouraging thing I've ever seen!
My brother came to me and said “What would you do if I was bisexual?” And I said “I’d laugh because that means our homophobic parents had TWO queer kids.” And thats story of how me and my brother came out to each other
A federal judge in Alabama today struck down that state’s ban on same-sex marriage, saying it violated same-sex couples’ rights to due process and equal protection. No stay has been placed, so same-sex couples should be able to marry as soon as clerks’ offices open.
“There has been no evidence presented that these marriage laws have any effect on the choices of couples to have or raise children, whether they are same-sex couples or opposite-sex couples,” Judge Granade writes. “In sum, the laws in question are an irrational way of promoting biological relationships in Alabama.”
Granade continues Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional for the same reason the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013.
“If anything, Alabama’s prohibition of same-sex marriage detracts from its goal of promoting optimal environments for children,” Granade writes. “Those children currently being raised by same-sex parents in Alabama are just as worthy of protection and recognition by the State as are the children being raised by opposite-sex parents. Yet Alabama’s Sanctity laws harms the children of same-sex couples for the same reasons that the Supreme Court found that the Defense of Marriage Act harmed the children of same-sex couples.”
ALABAMA. YOU READ THAT RIGHT.
Wow, Alabama has gotten marriage equality before some of the states in the U.S... Interesting and awesome!
President Obama in the 2015 State of the Union.
There were a bunch of things I rolled my eyes at in this speech, but this passage really stuck with me for both its rhetorical brilliance and its message.
(via mb)
So well spoken #PrezObama is amazing!
Mark Kogan, Obama’s State of the Union proves he won’t go out quietly (via micdotcom)
You have no idea how happy I am to see President Obama really start to push things through. Nothing is ever too late and I know he will end with an amazing year and a half!
Jeff Shesol on President Obama’s State of the Union address. (via newyorker)
In the SOTU President Obama addressed making college more affordable for future students, but what will the government due for those already suffering from student loan debt? Are there any loan reform plans on the way in 2015? #AsktheWH
sprinklesmakelifebetter, thanks for the question! The President has already implemented several programs the help students with student loan debt.
The first two you need to know about are Income-Based Repayment and Pay As You Earn. Both make sure that students are paying what they can afford, and when they can afford it.
Both programs cap payments based on borrowers’ income — and you can learn more about them at StudentAid.gov (which is our federal government’s one-stop shop for all student aid related questions).
Lawmakers in Illinois and Virginia have introduced bills that would outlaw conversion therapy for minors.
Last week in Illinois, State Rep. Kelly Cassidy introduced the Conversion Therapy Prohibition Act, which would make it illegal for mental health providers to provide therapy that attempts to change the sexual orientation of patients under the age of 18. A similar bill failed in the Illinois House last year. In Virginia yesterday, Delegate Patrick Hope and Senator Louise Lucas also introduced a measure that would ban conversion therapy.
Conversion therapy for minors is illegal in California, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. and many, many medical associations have found the practice harmful, traumatic and certainly not scientifically sound.
“Illinois should be at the forefront of banning this failed and discredited non-therapy that attempts to change the unchangeable, our innate sexual orientation and gender identity,” said Bernard Cherkasov, CEO of Equality Illinois, the state’s oldest and largest civil rights organization advocating for LGBT Illinoisans.
“It is tragic,” said Rep. Cassidy, “that LGBT youth suffer at the hands of so-called experts whose therapies have been refuted by every legitimate medical and mental health organization. That is why my bill would label the therapy as ‘unprofessional conduct’ and subject the perpetrator to disciplinary action.”
Go, go, go.
