#black LGBTQ history

[365daysoflesbians]

Zanele Muholi is one of the most acclaimed photographers working today, and their work has been exhibited all over the world. With over 260 photographs, this exhibition presents the full breadth of their career to date.

Muholi describes themself as a visual activist. From the early 2000s, they have documented and celebrated the lives of South Africa’s Black lesbian, gay, trans, queer and intersex communities.

In the early series Only Half the Picture, Muholi captures moments of love and intimacy as well as intense images alluding to traumatic events – despite the equality promised by South Africa’s 1996 constitution, its LGBTQIA+ community remains a target for violence and prejudice.

[solarpunkcast]

Every time I listen to more clips of James Baldwin speaking, the more infuriating it is how fucking incurious too many of you are.

It took me a surface reading of USA LGBTQ history to find Baldwin. Do better.

Tell me this doesn't speak to your soul.

[forsapphics]

Happy Disability Pride Month! 🩶💚❤️🤍💛💙🩶🌈 (x)

[c86]

Photography by Nicholas Blair

Taken from Castro to Christopher: Gay Streets of America 1979–1986

[queerasfact]

Happy 100th birthday to James Baldwin!

James was born 100 years ago today, on 2 August 1924. He was a civil rights activist, and the author of books and essays which explored the lives and struggles of both African-American people, and queer men. One of his most famous works is Giovanni's Room - you can check out our podcast if you'd like to hear more about it!

[enyasaints]

I am in need of a lawyer for my Sexual Assault case.

I am a sexual assault survivor seeking justice from my repeated sexual assault I endured in the workplace. I’m urging everyone who views this to spare $1 all it takes is 10,000 people to spare $1 for me to retain a lawyer to help me fight my case. This is not only a sexual assault case, this is a hostile work environment, racial discrimination case. Please help me keep fighting

Direct Aid:

PP: enyasaints@gmail.com

[cheekios]

Please Bring Kaiser Home.

I have been having complications with managing my diabetes that have led me to be hospitalized twice. I live alone. Kaiser is a precious pup that specializes in detecting when blood sugar is too high or too low before it leads to complications. Something I have been struggling with. Kaiser would not only improve my quality of life but also be my companion and friend

I’m asking for community support get a Medical Alert Dog. It is a huge ask but any support is appreciated 💗

CA: $HushEmu

PP: emuslayter@gmail.com

[my-darling-boy]

And it hurts to miss you, but it’s worse to know

That I’m the reason you won’t come home

Photos by keltikfilm, editing by me

[oddwomen]

Jet (February 15, 1979)

[queerism1969]

[yourbarbie01]

Would you date me? Reblog and become a friend 😉🥰

[i-love-sufjan-stevens]

Black Vintage Queerness

happy black history month !! enjoy some vintage lesbians, gays, and trans people!! ^^

[the-golden-vanity]

Recovering the Queer History of Britain's Navy in the Age of Sail by Seth Stein LeJacq for Royal Museums Greenwich

@rulebaetannia sent me this lecture because they thought I'd appreciate it. They were right.

[theeiris16]

This is real. Stop sitting on the internet arguing with other people about celebrities. Who is who and all that bs. Ts is getting out of hand fr.

We’re taking multiple steps back in history. Everything your grandparents and great grandparents build is getting knocked down.

Mention these topics to your favs and get them to talk about it, yeah it maybe annoying but is getting scary out here and this shit will affect them too.

There is hundreds HUNDREDS of pages republicans have wrote that’s stripping minorities and women’s rights.

AMERICA HAS A FUCKING PROBLEM.

[meerawrites]

Black Vampires!

Below the cut you’ll find a list of 10 pieces of vampire media centring black folks by black folks, happy black history month!

1. Fledgling by Octavia Butler (see more)

2.The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomèz

3.House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

4.Darknesses by Lachelle Seville

5.My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

6.Slay: the stories of the vampire noire by multiple authors

7.Horror Noire (documentary on AMC+)

8.Vampires in Brooklyn (movie)

9.The Dark World Series by @writingvampires

10.The Black Vampyre (1819) by Uriah Derick D'Arcy, problematic themes and handling of blackness, however our black protagonist vampire, a black bisexual (implied) vampire protagonist is very AMC-Louis-like and it’s important for understanding the others as groundbreaking and reclaiming their stories as they are.

Happy Black History month! I rarely make booklists like this, however, it recently came to my attention that some people aren’t aware of the brilliant subgenre that is gothic/horror written by people of global majority (colour), given it is black history month this list focuses on black people vampire stories written by black people, most of which are also queer (cause vampires are queer af). Allyship is the bare minimum, if we as a society are to grow at all from our forefathers we must understand that our ancestors were flawed, unlearn internalized biases (racism etc), and make intersectional spaces for everyone. I’ve kept it to 10 for my own ability to count everything, I can say with most certainty there’s more out there. These are just the ones I’ve read/watched and have influenced me the most.

[queerasfact]

Nellie Small (right in both pictures) met Edith Meggitt in Sydney in the late 1920s. At the time, Nellie was an out-of-work performer, making ends meet working as a caretaker in a block of flats and running a private library out of her home. Edith was a housewife raising two young children.

The two women immediately became close, and not long after that first chance meeting, Nellie moved in with Edith and her family. She lived with the Meggitts for the rest of her life.

Nellie went on to become a successful male impersonator, recognised throughout Australia as one of the country's best jazz singers, while Edith supported her from the front row of every show, and picked out her socks and ties behind the scenes.

Learn more about Nellie and Edith

[Image source: State Library New South Wales]