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When you make a low key gay joke that no one understand, but you hear someone snort and you’re like “oh, a fellow gay”
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will the book you're publishing have any romance aspects? if so, can we expect LGBT+ characters or-?
So…being intentionally vague here but, there are romantic relationships, and there are straight people and queer people. April, the main character, is bisexual.
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Who helped influence this character? (Sorry I’m inherently skeptical of straight men writing queer female characters)
This is something I’m also worried about. I’ve already had a couple of female bi beta readers and once I’m done with this revision will be looking for more. The balance between recognizing that I’m a (fairly) straight dude and wanting to tell a story starring a bi woman is something I think a lot about.
Obviously, I’m not going to write a story that’s just a bunch of straight white dudes though, so I’ve got to figure it out.
In the end, April is a young bi white woman, and while I know a lot of young bi white women who have similar backgrounds, like any character, it’s never going to be a perfect encapsulation of the reality of other people’s experience. She is herself, I know her very well at this point. She’s a weirdo, and so not every bi person is going to see a clear reflection of their experience in her, but I think some will.
Honestly, creating a person is very weird. I never really understood what went into it until I started working with April. Making her different from me in these ways has made that more challenging, and scarier, but also more fulfilling. I hope I do her justice, and I honestly can’t wait for you to meet her.
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Anti-black and anti-Jewish sentiment have long been intertwined in America. When the Jewish factory worker Leo Frank was wrongfully convicted of murder and lynched in 1915, two new groups simultaneously emerged: the ADL, which fights against bigotry and anti-Semitism, and the second Ku Klux Klan, which began by celebrating Frank’s death. Later in the 20th century, Nazis became a natural model for white-supremacist movements in the United States, said Marjorie Feld, a professor of history at Babson College. The logic of white supremacy was similar: Hatreds became universalized through common archetypes. Jews were seen by white supremacists as capitalists undermining local businesses. Black Americans fleeing the South in the Great Migration were seen as taking away crucial labor. Catholics were seen as immigrants stealing American jobs.
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When you realize October 2017 has a Friday the 13th
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Vintage Homoerotic Advertisement | Army
Wow…these are pretty gay
These are intensely gay.
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Anish Kapoor, an influential and innovative artist as well a longtime social activist, was named the winner of the 2017 Genesis Prize.
Kapoor, the son of a Baghdadi Jewish mother and Indian father, was tapped Sunday for the so-called Jewish Nobel. He joins Itzhak Perlman, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and actor-director Michael Douglas as recipients of the $1 million prize.
The Bombay native, who moved to Israel at 16 but has been based in the United Kingdom since the 1970s, said he will use his award to help alleviate the Syrian refugee crisis and try to expand the Jewish community’s engagement in a global effort to support refugees. More than 12.5 million Syrians have been displaced during the current conflict, of which some 2.5 million are children.
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admittedly I don’t normally like modern shakespeare adaptations but once I went to see my cousin in a midsummer night’s dream and it opened with a high schooler saying “I don’t wanna read this play” so he sits down and eats an entire chipotle burrito on stage and then immediately falls asleep and the play begins but instead of the forest the faeries all hang out in a rainforest cafe TM and at one point in the middle of a scene the guy from the beginning just slowly drifts across the back of the stage on a skateboard, staring at all the characters as the events of the play transpire in the form of some sort of chipotle-induced coma lucid dream
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BISEXUAL VISIBILITY MATTERS!
Sorry for the all caps… feeling passionate today!
Check out my new video here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpMFGr-wznc&list=UUJQL1Fai-9GlVunsbP4x8Pg
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This week, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled in favor of a woman seeking equal parenting rights after divorcing from her wife.
The Court said that based on SCOTUS precedent, same-sex couples must be treated the same as different-sex couples with regard to parenting rights, such as in cases where they are determining the rights of non-biological parents.
The ruling involves a case stemming from artificial insemination. Arizona law assumes the man in a marriage is the father of any child born within 10 months of a marriage. But it doesn’t establish any rights in artificial insemination cases for the non-biological parent of the same sex.
The Arizona Supreme Court could have thrown out the law, but instead extended it to include women in similar circumstances.
Citing the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage nationwide, Arizona Chief Justice Scott Bales wrote, “It would be inconsistent with Obergefell to conclude that same-sex couples can legally marry but states can then deny them the same benefits of marriage afforded opposite-sex couples.”
This is really important.
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To my LGBQTIA family…The things that make you different are your superpowers. Go out there, put on your imaginary cape and conquer the world.
Lena Waithe accepting the Emmy for comedy writing for Master of None’s Thanksgiving episode. She’s the first Black woman ever to win the award. (via gaywrites)
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“My first time was October 18th, 2013. I was a freshman in college. I was alone in my dorm room and I’d just eaten a bunch of Halloween candy. So I purged it. I felt great afterward. I thought I’d discovered a new tool. It seemed like a way to stop gaining weight. But it became very powerful, very quickly. My second time was two days later. Soon it became most meals. I became addicted to watching the numbers drop. I lost all power over it. I was dizzy and depressed all the time. I couldn’t focus in class or go out with friends. For five months, I lost all control. Then I finally got help. I started talking about it. And the more I talked about it, the more control I got back. The eating disorder lost its power when it stopped being a secret. I’m much better now, but I’ll always be recovering. A few weeks ago I had a relapse. It was the first time in months. Even though I was disappointed, I reminded myself that it wasn’t the end of the world. I haven’t lost all the progress I’ve made over the past four years. I just need to stay positive. And keep talking about it.”
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When Tony Choi was in high school, his friends would ask him why he didn’t drive. He would evade the question with what he thought was the only plausible defense: He cared deeply about global warming, he told them. Twelve years later, he laughs at his attempt at that moral argument, which was simply a cover-up for the fact that he’s an undocumented immigrant and had no way of getting an ID.
“I learned to really hide myself,” Choi, who’s from Seoul, South Korea, and lives in New York, told HuffPost. “It definitely didn’t feel good. It made me scared. My sister would say, ‘If you stand out too much, they’ll take you away.’”
These memories came back to Choi, now 28, on Tuesday, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced President Donald Trump was nixing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, ending protections for some 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the country as minors. The program, originally enacted under former President Barack Obama and now in Congress’ hands, shielded young people from deportation and allowed them to work in the country legally.
Besides being undocumented, Choi is also gay. He points out there is more at stake for people who could be forced to go back to a country that isn’t big on LGBTQ rights. He notes that military service is compulsory in South Korea for men ― and the military penal code prohibits consensual same-sex acts.
“For a lot of us, going back to our home countries isn’t an option because of our queerness,” he said. “If I were to go to Korea, I would have to do the two-year mandatory service in the military, and the law prohibits sodomy.”
This is important. Read the whole thing here.