Today (June 26, 2023) is the 20th anniversary of Lawrence v. Texas, the most important Supreme Court case in gay history. It finally ruled that consensual sodomy cannot be a crime and all state laws criminalizing it are invalid.

People don’t realize how recent it was that cops could arrest you solely for having gay sex, in the privacy of your own bedroom. It was slowly decriminalized state by state, but like 1/3 of all states still had those laws in place until 2003.

It didn’t get nearly as much fanfare and recognition at the time as the 2015 decision that legalized gay marriage. But I think it established a far more crucial right.

REBLOG THIS TO GIVE THE PERSON YOU REBLOGGED THIS FROM A GOLD STAR BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN STELLAR TODAY AND THEY DESERVE IT ⭐️

sorry sorry sorry SORRY SORRY but watching 15x09 The Trap right now and i am SO sorry but dean DID confess first to the best of his ability he got down on his old man knees in the forest and told cas he loves him and cas couldn’t reciprocate bc of the empty deal and 15x18 Despair is reciprocation bc cas knows and they both know and it’s so tragic and it was gay and it was real

let me also just say as an old man who has even older man knees getting down on them outdoors is no fucking joke

being in yr 20s is like every day is a Try Not To Spend 40$ Challenge and i keep losing

we stan asexual Barbie! (x)

Pain is the greatest teacher.

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I hate when people say careless things like this. Pain is a teacher, but not always a good teacher. Pain taught me insecurity. Pain taught me to be withdrawn. Pain taught me to choose loneliness. Pain taught me to fear people. We are on this planet to help heal each other from the pain of life, not to inflict further pain by tossing around insensitive quotes like these.

Gay month is GO

hey guys unpopular opinion but you’re not a bad person if you don’t care about every bad thing happening in the world all the time, or if you do care but you’re not constantly reblogging posts spreading awareness and information

it’s okay if you’re just on tumblr to have fun and reblog things you like or that make you happy.

humans aren’t made to process trauma and suffering on a worldwide scale without any breaks whatsoever & the internet has created an unprecedented access to bad news so please never feel guilty for scrolling past it because you can’t process it! and you’re not doing anything wrong & there’s no need to feel guilty

Only day you can rb this

when I was 14 I worked in a grocery store and one day I got to bag Stephen King’s groceries and of course, being the little horror fiction nerd I am I was completely starstruck

I think he thought I was gonna ask for an autograph because I was not even lowkey staring I was full on moon-faced and bouncing and he kept looking over at me hesitantly like aw jeez kid fuck off

anyways I finally managed to squeak out that I was a huge fan and asked for advice on writing, “how do I write as well as you do?” in my horrible thick German accent and broken ass English and he gave me the best writing advice I have ever received

“shit kid, stop worrying about how other people do it and just write your story”

14 years later my wife and I nearly hit him with our car because he was jaywalking

However you think this story will end is wrong

Happy pride month wishing everyone a very don’t forget about disabled queers

Today in Disney Channel History...

Summer vacation began for Phineas and Ferb (3 June, 2007)

STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]

we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better

I reblogged this like 9 times kinda jokingly, but software should be able to run on older and less powerful hardware, and consume less power on newer hardware. Like, this is a real problem imo

It’s called the foot-in-the-door method. First, you propose something that is slightly outside of allowable norms: denying gay people wedding cakes on grounds of “religious freedom”. Then, you slowly ramp up how extreme your demands are, coercing the other side to giving a tiny bit of ground each time, until you’ve shifted the entire fucking playing field. Conservatives are also very fond of the door-to-face method, which is demanding something completely outlandish that you know will be refused, and then asking for something less ridiculous by way of compromise, again resulting in a gradual shift in norms until views that were once considered moderate or reasonable become unthinkably liberal by destroying people’s sense of standards. The combination of these methods is called the “foot-in-the-face” method, which sums up where this whole thing is headed quite nicely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-in-the-door_technique

Hey remember how you guys kept saying “why not just go to another bakery”? 

Or just…return to “don’t ask, don’t tell” era? I remember that fondly. Being LGBT wasn’t important to anyone and it stopped exactly nothing.

You’ve made some damn fool additions to posts before, but “aww why can’t we just criminalize homosexuality again like the good old days” really takes the cake

give ‘em an inch and they take a mile, so don’t give them a fucking Inch

To the one person who said they hated my theme;

If you hate Barbie...

This blog is (not) for you.

idiot (j.m.)

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