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Thus is the defining characteristic of gay millennials: we straddle the pre-Glee and post-Glee worlds. We went to high school when faggot wasn't even considered an F-word, when being a lesbian meant boys just didn't want you, when being nonbinary wasn't even a remote option. We grew up without queer characters in our cartoons or Nickelodeon or Disney or TGIF sitcoms. We were raised in homophobia, came of age as the world changed around us, and are raising children in an age where it's never been easier to be same-sex parents. We're both lucky and jealous. As the state of gay evolved culturally and politically, we were old enough to see it and process it and not take it for granted--old enough to know what the world was like without it. Despite the success of Drag Race, the existence of lesbian Christmas rom-coms, and openly transgender Oscar nominees, we haven't moved on from the trauma of growing up in a culture that hates us. We don't move on from trauma, really. We can't really leave it in the past. It becomes a part of us, and we move forward with it.

For LGBTQ+ milennials, our pride is couched in painful memories of a culture repulsed and frightened by queerness. That makes us skittish. It makes us loud. It makes us fear that all this progress, all this tolerance [...] can vanish as quickly as it all appeared.

The 2000s Made Me Gay, Grace Perry

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This adorable proposal.

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Alison Bechdel and kitty on the back cover of “Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For”

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Lesbian love from mythology depicted in art 

Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, 1864. Simeon Solomon. The painting depicts Sappho embracing her fellow poet Erinna in a garden on the island of Lesbos. The artist himself was gay and known for his depictions of same-sex desire. 

Les metamorphoses d'ovide, Iphis et Ianthe, 1886. Auguste Rodin. The sculpture depicts a passionate embrace between two lovers and is sometimes interpreted as the girls Iphis and Ianthe. After the two fall deeply in love, Iphis prays to the goddess Isis for help and is later turned into a man in order for the two of them to get married. As it happens. 

Ruth and Naomi, 1886. Philip Hermogenes Calderon. The book of Ruth, according to some, is the great love story of the Bible and it happens to be a story about the undying love and loyality between two women. 

Jupiter sous la forme de Diane, seduit Calisto, 1800. Maurice Blot after Jean-Baptiste Regnault. In Book II of Metamorphosis, Ovid tells the story of how Jupiter seduces huntress Diana’s favourite nymph Callisto by taking on Diana’s appearance in order to lure her. 

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Ok so Dallas, Texas now has a Trans Pride Mural dedicated to Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera and I’m living for it

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Dani Elle Speegle

Beast

Shape-lover

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might just be me but i'm literally so turned off by how everything regarding erotic butch content here is more and more focused on the power dynamics and the choking and the knife play and the "hit me and make me cry"

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So straight people can fuck each other all day on here but god forbid two butches do

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reblog if you’re

- a lesbian

- a lesbean

- a practitioner of lesbianism

- a dyke

- sappho’s daughter

- really incredibly gay

nobody will know which one it is

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Meg Allen: Butch

“BUTCH is an environmental portraiture project and exploration of the butch aesthetic, identity and presentation of female masculinity as it stands in 2013-14. It is a celebration of those who dwell outside of the stringent social binary that separates the sexes and a glimpse into the private and often unseen spaces of people who exude their authentic sense of self.

In recent years, like so many other pejorative terms used to oppress minorities, BUTCH is being reclaimed and infused with beauty and pride to more accurately describe a person who claims their female masculinity. These people may choose to cut their hair short, may wear ties, or may swagger with more strength than coyness. BUTCH is an adjective. And like all adjectives, it is fluid and subjective. Just as there are many types of hot women, there are many types of butches. 

These portraits are of the people I know in the San Francisco Bay Area who relate to and claim the term BUTCH. These people are my friends, friends of friends, and are part of a very large gay and queer community world wide. Starting in the spring of 2013, in a effort to practice portraiture, I asked some of my closest butch friends to risk being seen by the lens and sit for me in their private environments. After printing and displaying my first three portraits, I realized I wanted a whole wall of these images. The wall turned into a room and the room into an online gallery. I then wondered what would it have been like to grow up surrounded by these images in addition to the ubiquitous feminine I saw in most magazines. …”

“BUTCH is a celebration of those who choose to exist and identify outside of this binary that has never allowed any accepted crossover. BUTCH is inviting viewers into private lives of female masculinity and suggesting a resilience in nature’s insistence that there is more depth to masculinity and femininity than societal norms care to entertain. Who is policing gender presentation, and why? The fashion world has been asking the same question for ages. Are we ready for the answers now? It is undeniable that we are born with the sex organs that we are born with, but why are so we threatened by what others choose to claim as their gender presentation? Are we ready for these explanations? Or are we more afraid of the question?

BUTCH is an exploration. BUTCH exists. BUTCH is an homage to the bull-daggers, dykes, manly women and female husbands before me. BUTCH is acceptance to the baby butches, young studs, gender queers, and dykes that continue to bloom in the face of societal norms.”

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Your daily reminder you can download a FREE copy of Stone Butch Blues off of Leslie Feinberg’s website

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my entry for @brideanthology: a short comic about two elderly brides 💛

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Ally & Lynley made history after being the first same sex couple to be married in New Zealand skies. August 19, 2013

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