Happy Pride Month!
Faust the Crow loves you even more than she did the last 2 years!
I want my gay rights now! - Marsha P. Johnson (NYC Pride Parade, 1973)
🏳️🌈 Ruth Ellis (1899 - 2000) was the daughter of former slaves. She came out as a lesbian when she was 16-years-old to the complete acceptance of her family. In 1937, Ruth and her longtime partner moved to Detroit from their hometown of Springfield, Illinois for the promise of higher wages. There, she became the first woman in Michigan to run her own printing business. She printed fliers, posters, and stationary in the front room of her home, which also quickly became a hotspot for Black LGBTQ social life. Before long, Ruth was helping those who came around in any way she could, including by paying for college tuitions. After the Stonewall uprising, 70-year-old Ruth began giving speeches in support of gay and lesbian rights all across the country. She remained an activist for the rest of her long life and even spent her 100th birthday leading the San Francisco Dyke March. At the time of her death at 101, she was recognized as the oldest out lesbian in the US. She is the subject of the documentary "Living With Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100" and is the namesake of the Ruth Ellis Center, a shelter for homeless and at-risk LGBTQ youth in Detroit.
Celebrate Ruth Ellis.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis_(activist)
#Pride #BlackLivesMatter
[Caption: picture of Ruth Ellis as an elderly black woman smiling at the camera. She has short white hair and is wearing a light pink jacket over a black shirt with a partially visible white drawing on the center.]
Love the universe need of all babies human and animal to just lay on adults
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A collection
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Further proof
“The Blue Iris”, from Andrea Zanatelli’s embroidery series
This pride month, remember that straight trans and genderqueer people, straight arospecs, straight acespecs, straight intersex people, and all other straight queer people are valuable members of the queer community, and being straight does not make them any less queer. Straight and queer are not mutually exclusive categories. Stop treating them as such.
Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions
I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.
Pride events happening with no covid safety policy in place is exactly as vile, reprehensible, and irresponsible as telling people to go share needles and fuck strangers with no condoms or HIV testing plans, because the AIDS Crisis is "over," even though AIDS killed 650,000 in 2021, and in the same year 1.5 million were newly infected with HIV. (Source)
Wear a condom, don't share needles, wash your hands, wear a goddamn mask.
There is a genocide brewing against queer people in Florida, and my disabled queer ass can't even take comfort and solace in my local queer "community" because they don't have mask or vaccination or covid test policies for anything.
I posted on the local pride center's FB page for an event not too long ago, asking if they had any covid policy, and they told me that they "didn't need one" because the CDC "isn't advising it right now."
It took every fucking scrap of willpower I possess not to respond with, "Ronald Reagan told everyone not to worry about AIDS, too."
Honestly I’d have replied with that.
Stop idolizing the grind and start idolizing Hügelkultur
got another one
It's that time of year that I get to be super loud about loving women.
If you identify anywhere on the sapphic spectrum, I identify as wanting to gib you a little forehead kiss or hold your hand if that's ok :3c
When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*
