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Rest in peace, Bobi. We love you.

The best boy.

October 14, 1977, Anita Bryant is pied for her antigay bigotry at a press conference in Des Moines, IA.

It was 40 years ago today…

Never gets old.

40 years on and it still is gratifying

Anita’s still alive and kicking and being anti-gay. Thom Higgins, who threw the pie when he was 27 – and was poetically from Beaver Dam – passed away 17 years later at 44. Info on his life is here. The pie throwing was a big deal. In an age before the internet let gays feel connected, and long before ACT UP, the pie showed small pockets of gays that we could fight back.

it showed that gays were human beings, who might be in the room with you, that you had been accepting as being equals and treating as people. you didnt suspect them as bieng gay, why should you treat them different after? do they become less human after finding out? i mean, its almost like you just found out they have an oppinion on your bullshit

She was “pied” on TV.  All across the country, people got to see proof that the LGBT community weren’t going to just sit there and take it.  People who thought they had no choice but to stay silent saw a horrible woman get humiliated on live TV.  

One of the best moments in television history.

happy pride, y’all. 

also btw i just learned this woman’s granddaughter has a wife now

I remember seeing this on the news, and I’ll never forget it.

OP didn't know you can't ignore a will just because you think it's unfair that your brother's friend got more than family

Not the brother's friend, his partner

EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS

oh it just keeps getting worse folks

OH MY GODS YOU DIDNT INCLUDE THE BEST PART. HE LEFT MOST OF HIS MONEY TO HIS PARTNER OF 10 YEARS BECAUSE THE FAMILY DIDN'T APPROVE OF HIM FOR BEING GAY BECAUSE "RELIGION".

They think just because they paid medical bills and funeral costs they should get all the money. They clearly didn't sportive of his relationship. They said "I don't know how his partner got ahold of the will". He probably gave his partner a copy knowing that his religious family that didn't approve of him being gay suitor pull this crap.

LGBTQ+ community. If you cut your family out of the will, be sure that you give a copy of your will to your partner/chosen family that must of your money will go to. So your family can't try to pull this crap.

-fae

also your bank. make a fucking note for your bank letting them know that x persons - despite having blood in common with you - don't get to touch your money.

and make sure you specify the executor of your will - not a family member still close with pushy bigot relatives, a friend or your partner.

Things are better now—marginally, but back in the day the older queer partner would sometimes adopt the younger to avoid just this kind of thing happening.

Fire. All. Republicans.

if Republicans shut down the government over budget reasons, remember that they're the ones who grow the deficit every time they're in charge by giving massive amounts of our taxpayer money to corporations

our country can't survive much longer under republican rule, and will almost certainly crash under another garbage "president" like tRump

the hypocrisy is cartoonishly evil

Republicans pushed for the massive corporate tax cut for two reasons.

Conservative philosophy dictates that workers must be desperate and paid as little as possible. If there is an adequate social safety net, then workers might be able to leave an abusive employer and look for something better, or—even worse to corporate America—start their own business.

Gary’s right. We should be marching in the streets over this.

That was me.

thinking about how the world would be better if more people understood the differences between 'the author failed to tell the story they wanted to tell' and 'the author told the story they wanted to tell, but they told it badly' and 'the author told the story they wanted to, and they told it well, but it wasn't the story I wanted to read'

If homophobes weren't so awful to LGBT people, then maybe we'd be happier.

If homophobes weren't so awful to LGBT people, then maybe we'd be happier.

queer stories are still queer if they don't include romance btw

from the thread

here is a link to the full article!

Said the guy who was in the "who can take more of Trump's dick" contest that was the republican debate

Christie here in a clear case of ‘worst person in the world making a good point.’

Yes, such a claim makes him look like a small-minded piece of shit. To us. But we still shouldn't help Musk create revisionist history.

Musk bought Twitter because he fucked around and found out. He wanted to fuck with Twitter's stock price by feigning interest in buying it. Since that's illegal, he was then cornered into actually buying it for an insanely inflated price.

He's a transphobe. He's a bad father. But he's also a fucking idiot.

This. Please remember that he committed blatant market manipulation by not disclosing that he owned shares of Twitter when he was fucking with the stock market. The SEC was watching him very closely already, and so when the cost became more than what the entire company was worth, he had no choice. Remember when he had his gaggle of lawyers try to get him out of it by saying Twitter didn't disclose all of the information? That wasn't Twitter, it was him trying desperately to get out of a purchase he didn't want in the first place.

Somewhere out there, there is a fanfic that begins with these exact lines of dialogue

Let's have the conversation about UBI.

Let the actual data and facts end the bad faith arguments.

I was a participant of the now cancelled UBI pilot in Ontario Canada. I was happier, safer, was able to move and work at better jobs.

And oops there it is. Better jobs.

Better jobs

It's a class barrier. They need a poverty class to function

#people being able to leave jobs that maltreat them is a threat to capitalism

My new book is now available for preorder!

After a century-long sleep, a Union soldier wakes up in 1965. Cavalry lieutenant Russell Krause is all at sea in this strange new century of electric lights and automobiles. But he soon acquires a guide: Caleb O’Connor, a kind-hearted, history-loving college student with secrets he’s desperate to hide. Caleb is gay, and he’s completely smitten with this lively, warm-hearted soldier, who has swiftly become his best friend. But Russell’s nineteenth century understanding of friendship is far more affectionate than any 1960s friendship is allowed to be. In between telling Russell about escalators, record players, and the Civil Rights movement, Caleb has to explain that men in 1965 are no longer allowed to hold hands or share beds or kiss… which is tough, because Caleb would love to be kissing Russell. Despite these chilling changes in social customs, Caleb and Russell’s loving friendship grows ever closer. But the cultural divide may prove wider than even love can bridge.

Content warnings: period-typical attitudes in general, but especially toward homosexuality

The Sleeping Soldier will be coming out on August 7. Preorder now!

This is what Rasputin would've wanted.

I feel like I'm being seduced like one of those fancy rainforest birds

is it working

Yes