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The Beast of Gévaudan. From The Wolf, written by Abigail Frost and illustrated by Francis Phillipps, 1990.

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Norbertine Bresslern-Roth (Austrian,1891-1978)

Linocut

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Keith Haring, Untitled (Dogs).

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speechless. the pose. the expression. this should be a painting.

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Health

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Untitled, Claire Garoutte, 1990; Untitled, Laurence Jaugey-Paget, 1991, from Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image (1996)

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Tom of Finland, Untitled, 1975, graphite on paper, 29.8 x 21 cm, (MA-FINLT-00029), Copyright Tom of Finland ® Foundation

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1001 Nights (1998) Art: Yoshitaka Amano

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Gay Pride Parade NYC 2000s photography by Mariette Pathy Allen (source)

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“JUST MARRIED,” Fernando, seated, and his husband, both members of Los Angeles’ Blue Max Motorcycle Club, get pulled over as they leave their wedding ceremony, December 1969. Photo c/o @onearchives. In the mid-twentieth century, the Blue Max Motorcycle Club, along with many other gay motorcycle clubs, provided an alternative to gay bars, which were constantly at risk of police raids and harassment. #lgbthistory #lgbtherstory #lgbttheirstory #lgbtpride #queerhistorymatters #haveprideinhistory (at Los Angeles, California)

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there is no unlived life or alternative reality where everything went right…. there is only here and now what are you going to do with it

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Leslie Feinberg in Outlaw (1994) directed by Alisa Lebow

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NANCY GROSSMAN YOU WILL SEE HEAVEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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just a reminder in response to those positivity posts that are like "if you're depressed, go out to events every weekend! go to concerts! it'll help you out!" that while NORMALLY that could be good advice for many people (who are able to...), it is absolutely false right now, during the SECOND WORST PEAK of a pandemic of a level 3 pathogen that damages your organs and will give you chronic fatigue, shrinks your brain, is a leading cause of death in healthy children and young people in the US, and you should NOT FUCKING DO THAT right now. every single area of the United States is at high risk or very high risk levels of transmission and MANY other countries are just as bad. look at ALL THESE STUDIES on what COVID does to the body. (there are at least 50 on the page linked)

stay at home whenever you can. do not go to a damn concert. and as an immuocompromised person i am literally begging on my knees for you to WEAR A MASK. n95 or better if you can; surgical and cloth masks are absolutely much better than nothing and you Should wear them if they're all you have, but n95s are much more effective protection against COVID.

my tone comes off as angry in this post because i am angry, but it's mostly not directed at people who haven't been masking because they've been ignorant. i'm angry because of our governments leaving us out in the cold to die. it's not your fault if you didn't have this information before, but now that you do, it IS your responsibility to do your part to not kill or severely disable those around you. the concerts can wait.

more info and resources for free masks

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For the love of leather. Nancy Grossman, Ali Stoker, 1966-67, mixed media assemblage 

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"Evening In Blue"

Mark Grantham, Canadian

acrylic on canvas

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i recently found out about a book called 'becoming a malaysian trans man: gender, society, body and faith' by joseph n goh from monash university malaysia and it's an academic resource on how several malaysian trans men navigate their lives within the context of secular and religious persecution and i've been reading it and it's genuinely making me feel so emotional bc anything discussing the lives of trans malaysians is extremely extremely rare. i found a pdf upload of it here

for those who don't know, malaysia is one of 13 countries in the world that criminalizes being transgender and trans people in malaysia face police violence and arrest. earlier this year (2023) it was ranked the 2nd worst country in the world for civil rights for trans people. it is also my home country and one that i love very much, and will be returning to live in in the near future as an 'out' trans man who has medically transitioned overseas and can't 'pass' as my agab, so this topic has been weighing heavily on me and finding this book has been really helpful in making me feel less alone and afraid