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Last election cycle, Target gave $333,000 to congressional Republicans while they were in the midst of the current renewed assault on LGBTQ rights; this was $91,000 more than they gave to Democrats. In fact they actually increased the Republican bias of their campaign contributions since 2020. They're not standing by you, they're standing against you!
The problem with corporate pride because is not just that it's corny and insincere, it's that corporations are part of the problem. Their lukewarm signals of pro-LGTBQ sentiment mean absolutely nothing in comparison to the ways that they actively support homophobic political movements. Target would sell throw every gay person in this country into a meat grinder if it meant a 0.1% reduction in their corporate tax rate. Y'all need to be able to distinguish between activism and a shopping trip
In 2004, when the Republican party turned gay marriage into a major campaign wedge issue, Target gave twice as much to the average congressional Republican as they did the average congressional Democrat. But sure, they've totally been there for us the whole time, be sure to keep buying their shirts with pastel rainbows on them everyone
USAmericans: This pride month, talk to the queer people who actually live in all those bad evil icky red states and find out what it's actually like, how we actually feel about it, and who here is actively fighting against it. No more telling us to "just leave" or reducing us to innocent victims who are "trapped" here. There are so many of us and we live here for so many reasons, none of which should be justified. We are resilient, we are powerful, and we are fighting against the fascist laws working to eradicate us or scare us away. Being trans in a red state right now is in and of itself an act of resistance. That being said, pay attention to the brave souls on the front lines, pushing against the laws, making good trouble, and refusing to be silenced.
I won't let myself be talked about like I'm stupid to live here.
I won't let myself be talked about like I'm a helpless victim who's trapped here.
If you can't join the fight by standing beside us, then the least you can do is empower us, amplify our voices, and pay more attention to the ones who are FIGHTING AGAINST THESE LAWS than you are to the chucklefucks trying to pass them.
fellow appalachian, I am holding your hand
“The first Gay Pride flag was made in 1978 by a man named Gilbert Baker. He gave a meaning to each color.”
Beginners (2010) - Directed by Mike Mills
being in yr 20s is like every day is a Try Not To Spend 40$ Challenge and i keep losing
The words cross-dresser, transvestite, and drag convey the sense that these intricate expressions of self revolve solely around clothing. This creates the impression that if you're so oppressed because of what you're wearing, you can just change your outfit! But anyone who saw La Cage aux Folles remembers that the drag queen never seemed more feminine than when she was crammed into a three-piece "man's" suit and taught to butter bread like a "real man." Because it is our entire spirit- the essence of who we are- that doesn't conform to narrow gender stereotypes, many people who in the past have been referred to as cross-dressers, transvestites, drag queens, and drag kings today define themselves as transgender.
— Transgender Warriors: A Movement Whose Time Has Come by Leslie Feinberg (1996)
wow i really like this song i think i’m gonna listen to it 1 maybe 60 more times
Actually I'll never forgive Punk Rave and Killstar and fast fashion brands for tricking people into thinking that being goth or punk or emo is expensive. Babygirl the only goth brand names you need to know are Rit, Good Will, Etsy, and Studs and Spikes, we used to shove safety pins through our ears and then they started selling earrings that look like safety pins for 15.99. We used to dye thrifted wedding dresses black and they started selling gothic gowns for 300 bucks. We used to put studs on boots we found in the back of the good will and they started making Demonias. DIY or die wasn't perfect it can be exclusionary to disabled people but whatever the fuck we've got going on right now is so much worse. It's not any more inclusive to the disabled and it is exclusionary to the people who made punk, to the people who made goth, to the people who made emo. If you've got the funds and you don't want to do diy pay someone else to do it for you but please let it be a small artist or a friend not some guy in a suit who's made it his business to gentrify punk. You can turn flats into platforms with flipflops, hotglue and gumption don't let anyone tell you different.
you are transgender
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The thing blue state leftists don’t seem to understand about red states is that telling minorities to “just leave” is really insidious. That is exactly what the republicans want. They want to make their state so miserable and dangerous and scary for everyone who isn’t a conservative cisgender heterosexual white Christian that those people leave. Leave behind their family, their homes, their friends, their jobs, their community, the places they’ve lived their entire life. With every person who leaves it is one less gay person teaching their children, one less person protesting outside the capitol, one less blue voter trying to stop the place they call home from sliding into fascism.
Many of us cannot afford to ‘just leave’ and many of us don’t want to because contrary to popular belief, North Carolina isn’t an irredeemable shithole with nothing to offer and no sense of community. People do leave red states for their safety but that does not fix the underlying problem, that doesn’t even make the problem better.
anybody want to do some faggot shit like whos up for doing some faggot shit
no tail to wrap around someone. no claws to knead into anything. no way to purr. not even whiskers. we are fucked as a species.