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I Love My Boo campaign features real young men of color loving each other passionately. Rather than sexualizing gay relationships, this campaign models caring, and highlights the importance of us taking care of each other. Featured throughout New York City, I Love My Boo directly challenges homophobia and encourages all who come across it to critically rethink our notion of love.

GMHC is the world’s first and leading provider of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and advocacy. Building on decades of dedication and expertise, we understand the reality of HIV/AIDS and empower a healthy life for all. GMHC fights to end the AIDS epidemic and uplift the lives of all affected.

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Being fathers is getting our daughters up at 5:30 am making breakfast getting them dressed for school and putting them on the bus by 6:30 .This is a typical day in our household . It’s not easy but we enjoy every moment and eveny minute of #fatherhood . #proudfathers #blackfathers #prouddads #gaydads

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Sexuality:

How to come out to your family with sexuality (x) (x) (x)

Coming out stories (videos) (x) (x) (x) (x)

Am I asexual?

Gender:

Definitions and names of the genders

How to come out as trans* (x) (x)

Transgender housing network

Teaching elementary age kids about gender fluidity

Questions to help you think about your gender identity

Transgender Surgeons in the U.S.

FTM Hormone Guide

FTM Surgery Guide

MTF Hormone Guide

MTF Surgery Guide

Susan’s Place Transgender Resources and Forums

Laura’s Playground Transgender Resources

Other:

Online free therapy (x) (x) (x)

Definition of LGBTQIA

How to know if you’re LGBT

How to support your trans* friends 

How to support your gay friends

How to support your gay friends (as a Christian)

Emotional Baggage Check

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Avoiding Cliche When Writing a Lesbian Couple

maclipgloss-chanelno5 asked: I want to write a story about a lesbian couple. What are some cliches /stereotypes that I should avoid?

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LGBT pride series

EDIT: I added Trans and Genderqueer. :D 

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Everything you wanted to know about transgender people but were afraid to ask. 

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Sorry, beginning of video is cut off, but…

Laverne Cox on advice for anyone going through transition:

I think the thing is to just accept yourself at any point.

We’re always in transition, we’re getting older, we’re getting thinner, we’re getting fatter, something is changing, in our size, in our bodies- and acceptance, and self love is so deeply important along that journey. There is not- I believe that loving transgender people is a revolutionary act. I really believe that. I believe that because we live in a society that tells us that we are fake, that we don’t deserve to exist, that we don’t deserve to have equal opportunities and jobs, to use the bathroom we wanna use, there’s so many basic things that people tell us that we are not entitled to. There’s so much hate towards trans people. But loving ourselves, and loving each other, I think is the thing- and figuring out a way to love and accept myself even as I am changing- is the thing that I would encourage everyone to do, because we have to accept ourselves the way we are right now. That doesn’t mean we don’t wanna get better, and improve, that we don’t wanna be more ourselves, better versions of ourselves- the acceptance now has been really, really crucial for me. That acceptance and that self-love can create spaces of healing for a lot of stuff that can affect us. 

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im so tired but ill probably be awake until 3 am for no reason

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Apologies if this is old news to many of you, but if you’re mtf and haven’t heard of Chrysalis, you should, because Chrysalis is a lingerie line for trans women.

“Speaking from personal experience,” said Cy Lauz, founder of Chrysalis Lingerie, “I found no products that specifically cater to transgender women. There are some things for cross-dressers and drag queens, but they’re all sexually exploitative.

“I wanted a product that actually celebrated who we are, something that made us feel beautiful but is also practical.”

Their panties are designed to aid tucking, and bras feature pockets to hold inserts.

All in all, I feel this is something to get really excited about. The simple design (though a couture range is apparently also in the works) balances out a market that—as pointed out by Cy—seems to cater primarily to the interests of drag queens, and products which are consequently highly sexualised.

By contrast, Chrysalis offers practical solutions to the everyday issues faced by trans women, while focusing on our beauty as real people. The name serves as a metaphor for the process of transition.

The company apparently ran into some difficulties with customs, delaying their initial launch schedule, but is now expecting to start selling their basic line this Spring. Products will be available through their online store.

Interview with Cy.

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Hello, My name is Mariah. my partner and I have been nannying for a friend for the past 6 months (living under her roof) and as of last week we were told that we are evicted within the next few weeks, our now ex employer has not paid us our past 2 month pay check and I only average 600$ a month working for macys, which obviously just isnt enough to make ends meet. The rug was pulled from under us. It is just her and I and our dog Jellybean, and were trying to raise as much as we can for a deposit on a small cheap apartment, we’ve been trying so hard to make it on our own for 4 years now, both of us leaving very abusive families behind, and if we cant get the money together soon then we will be forced to go back to those abusive families and live across the state from each other or become homeless. If you can donate anything at all even just a dollar my small family will be forever greatful, If you cant its okay! just pass this along on your blog. Thank you so much.

we're almost to 400$ and so close to having enough to rent a room every bit helps even if its only a reblog!

(mod note: reposting on queue uvu)

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Hello, My name is Mariah. my partner and I have been nannying for a friend for the past 6 months (living under her roof) and as of last week we were told that we are evicted within the next few weeks, our now ex employer has not paid us our past 2 month pay check and I only average 600$ a month working for macys, which obviously just isnt enough to make ends meet. The rug was pulled from under us. It is just her and I and our dog Jellybean, and were trying to raise as much as we can for a deposit on a small cheap apartment, we’ve been trying so hard to make it on our own for 4 years now, both of us leaving very abusive families behind, and if we cant get the money together soon then we will be forced to go back to those abusive families and live across the state from each other or become homeless. If you can donate anything at all even just a dollar my small family will be forever greatful, If you cant its okay! just pass this along on your blog. Thank you so much.

we're almost to 400$ and so close to having enough to rent a room every bit helps even if its only a reblog!

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Even though this is a comic about my own experiences with queerness, terms, and gender expression/identity, I hope this can help other people who are still trying to figure out their own identities~

But keep in mind i did make this about myself and not everything i talk about here is going to be right or true for all people! Things are different for everyone!

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November 20, 2013. Don’t forget. #transgender #lgbt

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THERE IS A LESBIAN HAUNTED HOUSE IN TORONTO RIGHT NOW.

Each Hallowe’en, radical evangelical groups all over the USA and Canada build hell houses. Beginning in the 1970s, these performer-animated installations showcased a gruesome retribution for the sins of fornication, abortion, suicide, occultism, and same-sex relationships. This Hallowe’en, Toronto artist Allyson Mitchell, assistant professor in the School of Women’s Studies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, reclaims this hellish scenario with her crowd-sourced, lesbian-feminist, queer-fear-fighting celebration Kill Joy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House located at 303 Lansdowne Ave (at Dundas), Toronto.

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How to make homemade breastforms

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I want queer people to be able to turn on the tv and see themselves.

i want them to be able to watch a shitty romantic comedy with an obvious plot and see themselves, to watch a serious tv show about vampire killing FBI agents and see themselves, to watch a fairytale kid’s movie and see themselves-

i want queer people to count as people outside of shitty, offensive dramas that see queerness as a gate to more drama, something all-defining and life-ruining, written by writers who don’t care enough to learn what’s a stereotype and what’s reality and still want cookies for putting goddamn cardboard cuttouts on their show-

and i want that queerness to be evident and unarguable.

i don’t want shitty backhanded references to a dude’s “friendliness” with his best friend-

i don’t want half-hearted mentions of a main character’s gay friend in an attempt to prove that the character and that the show aren’t homophobic-

I don’t want queerbaiting, that straight viewers can claim was just a joke, because it was, it’s just a joke the show can profit off for “representing” someone they don’t even fucking count as enough of a person to deserve to be treated with respect-

And i want queer ladies and queer dudes and genderqueer queers and i want them to be different races and classes and have different goals and opinions and lifestyles and fashion choices and interests and lives and challenges, because queer people are not one, shitty, poorly done stereotype

I want to count as a fucking person 

i want every single queer person to count as a fucking person

a person whose story isn’t a joke, isn’t something to be ashamed of, isn’t something you see once in an afterschool special about not bullying people, until they get “turned straight” or “fixed” or “just hadn’t met the right person” or fucking kill themselves or turn out to be the villain if they “stay queer” because being queer means one has to be ‘punished’ for it-

I want us to fucking count, and i want the media to acknowledge we count.

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YouTube kicked off its first-ever LGBT Pride Month celebration today, building on parent company Google’s commitment to being an advocate for LGBT people. The #ProudToLove campaign will include a video celebrating the diversity of YouTube’s LGBT creators and a showcase of some inspiring LGBT videos and playlists on the YouTube Spotlight Channel.