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Be my neighbor. Resist. In any way you can.

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Heck yeah guys, let's do it 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

This pride month I think people should ‘be gayer’ than we ever have been before.

(ESPECIALLY ‘weird’ queers!!!)

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We took the words banned by federal agencies and made them into merch that supports LGBTQ+ youth

BAN-dana, anyone?

The current admin has made it clear that they want words relating to LGBTQ+ and other marginalized identities censored from materials like federal websites and research papers - buuut that doesn't mean YOU can't still wear them loud and proud.

We made:

🟣 the BAN-dana

🟣 an all-over print button-up

🟣 a cotton tee

🟣 framed posters in 5 different colorways

🟣 and yard signs in 3 different colorways to show that your place is a safe space

We hope these send a message to every young person watching: you are not the problem. You are the power. And you are not alone. It gets better when we show up for each other. Language is power. Use it.

All proceeds from our shop support our nonprofit work to uplift, empower, and connect LGBTQ+ youth. You can snag yours now in time for Pride season at itgetsbetter.org/shop

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"Darling, I want my gay rights now." - Marsha P. Johnson

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(meme from here)

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Thought we'd repost this in case anyone needed to see it. Thank you for your kind words; they're much needed and appreciated <3

i don't live in the U.S but i just wanna say for all of my queer individuals living there, please stay safe, don't let them win, live your life being your true self out of spite, never let them get what they want, no one will control you or shape you into the person they want, stay strong !! we're all here for you <3 /gen

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"Its more important now than ever to be outward and loud about your minority satuses, especially about being queer," and, "you need to prioritize your safety and if that means pretending that you and your peers are not queer, then thats okay," are statements that can and should coexist.

If you live in America right now as a queer citizen Im sure you are startled and scared. Your identity should not and WILL not be erased. We will reinvent the civil rights movement if we have to. Be loud and proud about your identity, be punk about it. Build community with your fellow queers and weirdos. But, also, a huge spike in violent crimes and dehumanizing laws will be passed and that can put your life and safety in danger. If its really not safe for you to be loud about your identity, and you really don't want to risk it, then dont. You may have to hide yourself. You may have to go back in the closet. You may have to resort to embarassing measures to make sure people dont find out your true self. Its okay. Its not okay, but its okay. It will BE okay soon. Its better that you make it out of this alive.

There are people that will die fighting for their identity, and thats as wonderful and beautiful as it is tragic. You are not selfish for not wanting to fight the same way, though. You are allowed to just want to live. That should be the default anyway. You shouldn't have to fight. If you dont want to, you dont have to.

For those who are willing to fight, bless your souls, and I wish you all the luck and support in the world that you bring justice in the best condition possible. For those who arent, I wish the same. I wish safety and for everyone. Stay safe, one way or another.

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Project Support Every Student would like to say that this is absolutely incredible and we are super thankful to Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall, Boise Mayor Lauren McLean, and everyone else involved for not being afraid to show their support and stand up for human rights.

Marginalized communities deserve support. Flags showing support for groups of people who have been historically oppressed and discriminated against and still are to this day are not political issues displaying inappropriate ideologies. Flags such as these serve to show members of these communities that their cities will stand with them and will not let them be silenced. We shouldn't sacrifice support for people who really, truly need it in favor of so-called "political neutrality." This is not neutrality. This is discrimination.

End the hate. Support marginalized communities. Take care of your fellow human beings. 🖤🤎❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩷🩵

If you want to help us in our fight for the rights of LGBTQ+ people and students, go to our main blog site projectsupporteverystudent.tumblr.com and check our Take Action and Pride Flags for Peace sections. We are running a protest/action effort called Small Flags Support Students and we have information about that as well.

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Thought we'd pop out this post to reblog again now that the flag ban has officially gone into action

So Utah, you wanna ban Pride flags from schools and government properties?

We'll just unveil the largest trans flag IN THE WORLD right on your doorstep ahead of Trans Day of Visibility. <3

This is what refusing to be made invisible looks like.

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TL;DR at end

Today the Utah flag ban, or HB-77, has been enacted. This is the first statewide flag ban. It prohibits all flags except those on a very short list — the list including the usa and state flags, military flags, and flags of colleges, to name a few — from being displayed in/around public government and school buildings. The bill was made specifically to target pride flags and promote “political neutrality,” which we’re sorry to say it is not actually doing. Instead, banning pride flags and other inclusive flags such as the Juneteenth flag are showing that the Utah government does not truly care about its citizens from marginalized communities and that it would rather remove all signs of them to allow hatred instead.

There is nothing political about a pride flag. There is nothing political about showing support for groups of oppressed people who often face violence and discrimination simply for being a part of these marginalized communities, which is not something they have any control over in the first place. What is political is catering to the majority of non-oppressed people who don’t want to be faced with anything different because it makes them feel uncomfortable. And by the way, the lives of people from marginalized communities matter more than a privileged person’s brief feelings of discomfort. Discomfort that could easily go away if these people educated themselves and became less ignorant. Embrace and love people who are different from you. Don’t hate them and look down on them simply because they’re not enough like you.

PSES is doing things to protest this law and its blatant violation of freedom of speech and disdain for human rights through the Pride Flags for Peace initiative. If you want to learn some ways to help protest these laws, you can go to our Pride Flags for Peace page. You can also access this by clicking the button under our description at the top of our Tumblr site. Part of this includes the Small Flags Support Students effort, a protest involving placing tiny pride flags around schools to show support for LGBTQ+ students, especially those living in places with flag bans.

(This is technically legal in Utah, since the only flags banned there at the moment are fabric ones. We’re not quite sure what Idaho defines as a flag in its law, so we don’t know if there are loopholes for that one. Even so, civil disobedience is a very powerful protest measure. Just make sure you are being nonviolent, exercising extreme caution, and know your rights.)

TL;DR Utah's flag ban went into action today and we will not stand for it. Marginalized communities deserve support and pride flags are not political. We have an activism project called Small Flags Support Students on the Pride Flags for Peace section of our Tumblr site if you are interested in helping protest these laws.

Even if you’re not able to participate in any of our efforts, we hope you find some other ways to spread awareness about and take action against these harmful bans. We have to show that we will not be forced out by these bans. They will only serve as a rallying point to make us stronger and get us to work together. We will not be silenced. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Hi, y’all, in the coming years it is more important than EVER that we have a strong queer community.

What we ARENT gonna be doing, is forming separatist movements, or rekindling old ones, or dogpiling each other over who “gets the right to speak” about their own oppression. We ARENT gonna be throwing the most “unpalatable” queers under the bus to try to appeal to cis/het/allo people. We ARENT gonna be abandoning our trans and nonbinary siblings. We ARENT gonna be abandoning our intersex siblings, and we A R E going to be INCLUDING them in our activism. Respectability politics gets us nowhere. Infighting gets us nowhere. Separatism gets us NOWHERE. Shape tf up y’all

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If they're targeting any part of the community and you ignore it or help throw that part under the bus in hopes of saving yourselves, it's your fault when the whole community eventually gets targeted and goes up in flames

If your queer activism…

Doesn’t make the table bigger for other marginalized queer people to come over and speak

Ignores disabled queers

Is all about hating men

Is all about hating trans/nb people

Is all about hating sex workers

Is all about a ‘clean’ image, such as saying kink doesn’t belong at Pride or claiming “I’m not like those freaks!”

Denies queer identities you don’t understand(ie bi/pan)

Treats queerness like an exclusive club where people have to check boxes you approve of to be allowed in

You’re not doing activism, you’re performing bullshit for the same bigots that hate all of us and want us all gone.

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Reminder that when we ask for rights for lgbtq+ people, we aren't asking for lgbtq+ people to get privilege over everyone else, we are just asking for the basic human rights that everyone is supposed to have but are currently being denied to lgbtq+ people just because they're queer.

It's not about lgbtq+ people being more deserving of rights than anyone else, it's that everyone deserves to have rights. The whole point of a right is that it is something people have no matter what. You cannot take away someone's human rights. If you are trying to deny someone their rights, you are denying them their humanity.

And you can never take away someone's humanity.

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The crux of the anti trans movement is a war on bodily autonomy. They don't want you to have any agency over what you look like, how you dress, who you date, whether to have kids, etc.

They want total control over you. Not just trans people. Not just queer people. You. Everyone.

Trans people are just a scapegoat. They want total control over everyone's self expression. They want the right to mold you into their perfect little cog in their dehumanizing machine.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Our rights are your rights. Our destruction is your destruction.

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The spirit of Diogenes is alive and well

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Welcome to PSES's Tumblr! 🌈

We are Project Support Every Student (PSES), a student-created activism effort focused on human rights and support for LGBTQ+ students in the usa.

Go to our website for more info. https://projectsupporteverystudent.tumblr.com

We hope to see you join our cause! It is really important to support LGBTQ+ students, especially with the new administration in our country and their current onslaught against human rights.

Every student deserves support. That includes the queer ones. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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We will post weekly on our main site (our Tumblr address, as listed above,) and other socials with information surrounding LGBTQ+ student rights in the us, our organization and our efforts, and how you can get involved.