#lgbtq tag

[isorottatime]

its so important to be unapologetically queer im not kidding

[samtf]

L- lesbian

O- on the

V- verge of

E- existencial crisis

[astromechs]

i don't know who needs to hear this today, but being a member of the queer community doesn't make you immune to perpetuating other forms of bigotry. we all need to consider intersectionality, and we can all do better by each other in doing so.

[euphorial-docx]

they don’t know what pride month is but i’m wishing them a happy pride anyways <3

[teafulbisexual]

imagine going to a bookstore with your beloved... holding hands as u peruse various sections, peering over their shoulder when they stop to read a summary or first page, grabbing a hot drink or pastry & relaxing with a new purchase, and just basking in each other's presence...

[lukesunbornn]

Good Article

[aurorashard]

A woman came in to the nature center today and mentioned "my wife" and ah!! Visibility is so good.

[dirigibleplumbing]

had to stop scrolling through the abortion tag because of the number of terfs there, ew

abortions are for everyone. bodily autonomy is for everyone. support trans people and trans bodies.

I love abortion. I love people who have abortions. I love people who help others abort

I love trans people. I love my trans spouse and their amazing gender. I love my trans best friend and their amazing gender and I hope they have an amazing Pride weekend. I hope they both experience some gender euphoria today

[writing-with-olive]

when you call your reps to ask them to pretty please stop taking away your rights, remember:

In deep red areas you're a republican who is thinking of voting for someone else if they don't vote what you want on this specific bill because it impacts your republican ideals so very much

In swing states you're an undecided voter who's gonna go blue if they don't vote how you like

remember to call because that way their phone is going off and their peers can hear it because their offices are close together (emails and letters don't work like that), so it can rattle them if they get high volumes. remember that you gotta make them feel like they're losing something.

[robotics5]

Alright so everyone knows white is the classic wedding color, with black suits being common too, but what if you want something more exciting for more than two people?

Ta-da!

Honestly I was just thinking about RGB for me and my gfs and then I started getting ideas for how to apply this farther

[iceeericeee]

arguing w/ my brother and I needed to make this

Reblog if you think ‘transmasc lesbian’ is a valid identity

I’ll show him the number of notes after about a week or so

[samtf]

happy pride month people<3 sending love to all of you mwah💓

[little-red-fool]

Astarion you’re not the most dangerous thing in this two-man party.

Part 2 (CW: body horror)

[descendant-of-truth]

Shipping is fun and all but I swear every single time someone makes a comment, whether as a joke or in a legitimate analysis, about there being "no other explanation" for a pair's interactions, I lose just a bit more of my sanity

Like, no, you guys don't get it. Romance is not about the Amount of devotion, it's about the COLOR. the FLAVOR of it all. a character can be just as devoted to their platonic friend as they are to their romantic partner, and they don't love either of them more, just differently.

But because the majority of people still have it stuck in their minds that romance exists on the highest tier of love, I'm stuck seeing endless takes that boil down to "these two care about each other too much for it to NOT be romantic" as if that's the core determining factor to how literally any of this works

In conclusion: stop telling me that I don't understand the story if I don't interpret the leads as romantic, I am TIRED

[socialistexan]

There is no more quiet part, they are just fully saying out loud that they think trans people even existing in public is a harm to children akin to sexual violence.

I'm so tired of liberals telling me over and over and over again that I need to just reach out and talk to these people. They see my very existence as a sex crime, they think I need to be exterminated out of public life and then exterminated for real. These are fucking fascists. I'm so tired of being a rhetorical chip used to shame others, I'm sure you'll feel smug satisfaction over your conservative uncle that you were right while he's carting us off.

I'm sorry, there is no bridge to bring us to a middle ground between "I think I have the right to exist" and "I think your very existence is a crime" that doesn't end poorly for me.

There is no hand I can reach out without getting pulled by that hand straight down 6 feet under to my grave.

[gravesaint]

part of my job as archivist for a LGBTQ center involves working with an interviewing elder queers, and the disconnect between our generation and theirs is so upsettingly palpable. so many young queers think that elders aren't up-to-date on identity politics and are "set in their ways" when it comes to understanding the nuances of gender and sexuality, but that is so incredibly far from the truth.

if anything, the real problem is in the reverse. young queers aren't giving the time of day to our elders and its only alienating all of us from our shared history. just about every elder I've spoken to is doing their best to understand how our identity politics have evolved and is actively supportive of our generation adding our language and experiences to our sprawling rainbow tapestry.

there is also this strange idea that elder queers no longer contribute to that tapestry, that their time is gone and its only the youth making progress. but again, that prevailing idea is just alienating our generations from one another. most elders I've spoken to are extremely active in the community and work hard to do what they can to preserve our histories and assist in current activism.

the fact of the matter is that we are losing our elders, both to time and estrangement, and it is critical that we make conscious efforts to bridge the gap before its too late.

TLDR: We have to do better when it comes to including queer elders in our current activism. They are our history, they are our family, and we need to give them the same love they give to us.