#it’s got the lgbt lights

[milkcioccolato]

"A Night Out" Page 13

Did someone say RGB LIGHTS CLUB?

[its-a-me-mango]

Hey heads up I'm gonna be taking a (hopefully) short art hiatus because I'm finally getting my new PC set up!!!

I'm gonna be missing this weekends episode art posting as i'll be super busy getting this bad boy set up, I'm so excited I've been planning this out for YEARS and now I finally get to do cool PC stuff again!!!!

This thing is a BEAST (it better be I paid a lot for it </3) so I'll be able to do more ambitious projects and try out new things like 3D modeling, video editing, animation, all that fun stuff! I'm super excited my current PC has been dying for the past 3 years and I can barely do anything on it now, so I can't wait for a fresh new start!

Hopefully it'll just be a short break but of course I gotta get all my programs and such back onto it so it might take me a while to get everything up and running as they should, already have one problem that needs fixing but hopefully that gets sorted soon, here's to hoping everything else gets set up as it should do!!! Wish me luck!!!! :3

[mantarobin]

happy pride?

[itsbansheebitch]

Hey Tumblr, why does Playing His Game from the Death Note Musical (yes, there's a musical, yes it's REALLY good, and yes, Jeremy Jordan plays Light in the English musical) sound like Light and L are planning a date?

Like??? Are they about to kiss rn lmao???

[forelevenses]

“After so many years, they could show their love to the world at last.”

[akolnoix]

i will never, NEVER, NEVER give up on living happily!!

idk how to even describe heisei pistol show except to say that it is absolutely worth playing. the most devastating ???/10 game of all time

[camscendants]

My room has bisexual lighting

[itmightrain]

What an incredibly romantic thing to say

[winterholmesart]

happy holidays🎄

[uncanny-tranny]

"pass" is just an illusion, transphobes will always invent excuses to discriminate and if we live in silence motivated by fear then we are letting transphobia win as well as abandoning our people who do not "pass"

I honestly don't know what "passing is an illusion" means, like does it mean that me passing as a man is just an illusion and that I'm somehow not a man because I pass?

While, yes, transphobes will always be transphobes (in that they will find any excuse to discriminate towards us), many of us pass because we want to. It isn't always motivated by fear, and I question why even if that were the case for all of us that would mean we are "letting transphobia win". Are we all expected to combat transphobia every moment of our lives, no matter when or where? There will be certain circumstances where that is unlikely to be the correct move. Wouldn't the onus be on transphobes to stop being transphobes? Being trans isn't my choice, but being a transphobe is theirs, so I really think it isn't my personal responsibility to educate every single person out there about why their transphobia is a net negative not just for trans people but for all of us.

I do think there is frustration from some people when trans people start passing and then distance their association from the community. It can be frustrating to see other people pass, and I get that. But I don't think blaming every person who passes will be productive. Plenty of people who by and large do pass have advocated for those who don't or cannot pass. Many of us realize how fucked up it is that we are treated like our gender even by transphobes who don't know while others aren't. It is fucked up. But I don't think the solution is to discourage passing, nor to write it off.

Wouldn't the best situation in this case be solidarity between all types of trans people, as well as advocating for a wide variety of trans people? This is my goal, anyway, and I like it because I think it offers trans people the freedom of self-expression and self,determination. Anon, I don't know if you're trans, but you deserve to present however you want and be respected for you. Passing isn't a requirement, but it is also not a moral failure. Passing and not passing are morally neutral acts we (sometimes) choose to make.

[absentmoon]

i think my old hs principal has tried to out me from beyond the grave

[masked-and-doomed]

Hey fanfic author. What did you mean by this.

[actualredleader]

I Keep Forgetting To Post Here augh but! Got to work on A/C/M so my name in TV credits part 2 - the country remix edition is Existing now which is still crazy to me. Plus I have a gig working at an all lgbt adult summer camp thing next month with my irl friends so very excited for that too. We love seeing it all happen <3

[batboyblog]

I'm seeing a worrying amount of idiots on tumblr dot com push that "Kamala hates trans women" and I am losing my mind at how they are pushing it, constantly, saying she is a proven transmisogynist, despite it being a complete lie and her actively working behind the scenes to help trans women in prison. Is there like, sources that could help debunk this shit because I'm at my wits end as these people scream and cry and vomit trying to get biden to drop out but then are like "eghhhh still don't wanna vote for a transphobic cop..." when she's NEITHER-

Isn't the internet wonderful? first rule NEVER examine your priors! ALWAYS! hang onto whatever the first hot take you had on a subject to THE DEATH!

"Kamala is Transphobic!" over here in reality

past that trans and LGBT rights groups have been quick to endorse her like

Advocates for Trans Equality

Human Rights Campaign

just today 1,100 LGBT celebrities, lawmakers and leaders endorsed her

“The intersection on the issue of reproductive care and trans care, and the ability of families to be able to have care for their children and their families, is really, again, an intersection around attacks that are on an identity,” -Vice-President Harris, 2023

any ways the root of the idea she's transphobic comes from one case in 2015. Two inmates in the California State Prison system sued to get GRS, which as inmates would have been covered by the Prison system. It's worth noting here, both women got what they wanted, one was paroled and got the surgery covered by California Medicare while the other serving a life sentence was ultimately covered by the prison system.

Two things are important to bear in mind here, 1. Part of the job of California Attorneys General is to defend the state when it is sued, thats the job, 2. It seems early on in the case Harris was not personally aware of it, about 1,000 lawyers work in the Cali AG's office and so the AG cannot be personally aware of every case, and check this quote from the Lambda Legal lawyer handling the case:

“The California AG’s office shifted its handling of these cases significantly after now-Sen. Harris took over,” Renn said. “Initially there was language in briefing for the state that glaringly misunderstood the medical necessity of transition-related medical care and was patently offensive. But then, there was a dramatic change, which seems to have gone along with important policy shifts.”

Link

in 2019 Harris talked about the case and working after it was settled to change the policy of the California State Prison system

"When that case came up, I had clients, and one of them was the California Department of Corrections. It was their policy. When I learned about what they were doing, behind the scenes, I got them to change the policy," Harris said.

"I commit to you that always in these systems there are going to be these things that these agencies do. And I will commit myself, as I always have, to dealing with it," Harris said.

Any ways Harris can consistently spoken out for and supported Trans people, banned the hateful Trans panic defense when she was AG, in the Senate supported the Equality Act, during her 2020 campaign for President she drew attention to the hate crimes against black trans women while holding herself accountable for the 2015 case. As Vice-President she drew fire voicing support for Dylan Mulvaney during the hellish Bud Light backlash. Her Husband Doug was tapped to host the first ever White House Trans Day of Remembrance

basically you're looking at a great ally who clearly supports trans rights, who was involved in a case, which involved two people who got the surgeries they were looking for paid for by the State of California, close to 10 years ago now, there's evidence that both she moved the case in a better direction when she took over it and also that she changed the polices of the state to before more gender affirming.

[soupcrouton]

Man some days i just nmmmmmmmmmmm. Being jewish is different for everyone I know. And when i forcefully put myself in jewish spaces i have to remind myself that its still DIFFERENT. I may not find anyone who I share similar ideas about judaism with and thats okay. Thats okay thats okay thats FINE!!

[witch-of-the-sands]

As an ex fan of James Somerton I am livid

Currently I'm watching Todd in the Shadow's video on all his incorrect facts and the one that really got me was Somerton's rant on the "boring gay" activists of the 90s. While I'm not perfectly versed in the history of queer rights activists (even though it's been an interest of mine for years) my uncle was one of the people on the front lines of the movement in NYC in the 80s and 90s. He's a journalist, author, documentarian, and activist who's spent a massive part of his career covering the gay rights movement and gay history. (To the point his documentaries have been mentioned in a Somerton video actually)

I've spent my life as a young queer person absolutely idolizing this man. He literally fought for my right to exist, and yet Somerton discredits all of the work he put into the cause under being a boring queer who didn't sleep around and just wanted to join the military.

My own flesh and blood and DNA has had to watch so many people he loved die. He fought for so many things in his young queer life and even now is continuing to bring attention to current lgbt issues. I sat down for an interview with him (a few years ago at this point) and during that conversation there was a moment where we got into the topic of the trans rights issues going on across the US right now. Even outside of that, he continues to speak out and bring light to LGBT problems outside of the United States.

My uncle has been banned from countries, lost countless people he loved, and fought hard for his marginalized community. So have so many others. And Somerton dares to reduce them to "the boring ones" and not "the survivors of a plague."

So from the absolute bottom of my heart, James Somerton, fuck you.