#mogai month

[mogai-reblog]

i cant believe i have to say this but guys, don't make July Pride month squared or mogai month or whatever

July is disability pride month

please let us disabled people have a month

especially since pride is extremely inaccessible to us

[queerism1969]

[fragrant-stars]

You know what happy pride to the detransitioners who still identify in some way or other as "not cishet".

Happy pride to he/him lesbians, boygirls, and other people with ""contradictory"" identities.

Happy pride to aroace people, bi people and polyamorous people, along with everyone else the panderers and gatekeepers try to alienate from the community.

Happy pride to all the closeted and questioning people out there.

You're loved, you matter, and you belong, whoever you are.

[starfallsystemsblog]

BREAKING. Florida just introduced a bill that would BAN ALL PRIDE FLAGS, whether they represent a sexual orientation or a gender identity 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈, from being displayed in any capacity at a looong list of important places.

Since it’s about “pRoTeCtInG the ChILDReN!” it must just be elementary schools, right…?

WRONG.

If this bill passes, Pride flags will be banned at:

every public university in Florida

every public college

every public High School

every public elementary and middle school

And, this is disturbing…every government office & facility.

So elected Democrats wouldn’t even be allowed to put a pride flag in their office during pride month.

THE BILL WILL 𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗪 ALL *RELIGIOUS FLAGS* ✝️🤠😒

Florida Republicans continue to model their anti-LGBTQ laws on Russia 🇷🇺

Equality for all

How can you stop them? Tell all your friends in FL to vote in *local elections.* They are just as important as the presidential election. I mean it 🗳️💝

Source: https://www.instagram.com/joshhelfgott?igshid=NGVhN2U2NjQ0Yg==

[editloids]

꒰꒰ pride heart pixels made by me!! feel free to request your flag in our inbox !! reblog / credit to use (not necessary but appreciated) <3

[queeerbutch]

there's always a lot of talk about how being gay or trans is a "sin." and a lot of people have reclaimed this, have joked about their "sin," have held it up yourself so it can't be held against you.

but to all of the religious queers, the ones trying to find or create a home in themselves where their identity and their religion don't contradict... i see you. i've been you, i am you, i love you.

your orientation is not a sin.

your gender is not a sin.

you are not sinful or wrong or bad just for being who you are.

your identity does not contradict your religion.

you are beautifully and wonderfully made, just as you are.

you are loved by your creator, just as you are.

nobody can take any of that away from you.

[ please do not tag or censor my use of the word queer. do not derail this post by talking about how much religion sucks. ]

[beyond-mogai-pride-flags]

Gender Autism Pride Flag

Gender Autism or Autistic of Gender: describing someone who experiences autism as a result of one's gender; for when one experiences gender in an autistic way, or autism in a gender way; or someone whose gender has autistic traits.

Despite its definition, this is for autistics only (as if it was a reclaimed term). I didn't think autigender transcripted my feelings just as saying "gender autism".

[starsweepurr]

new flag just dropped. you may find yourself asking: what does is represent? idk cool people. whos it for? wolves probably. why should i care? because its so cool. look at it. buy it.

[blue-dragon-has-a-pen]

can you recolour the owls to be aroace and aplatonic :0?

Sure thing! Happy pride to my fellow acespecs!

Aplatonic - [shop link]

Aroace - [shop link]

[aquamarine13yt]

Objectum is pride!! Objectum is queer!! Hot take to some ik but to me (in my personal opinion) it's tied to queerness and part of LGBTQ+. Do not be afraid to celebrate your identity during pride if that is something you want!

[queerism1969]

[bea-l-zebul]

Pride Month is almost upon us once again folks, and I’ve been reflecting on that. I have some thoughts.

We’re not safe in the USA anymore

Not a huge revelation I know, most of us have been paying attention because we don’t have the choice to opt out.

If you didn’t know though, The ACLU just released a travel advisory for Florida. If you are a POC, a woman, or LGBTQ+ (especially Trans/Non-binary) it is not safe or advisable for you to travel to Florida.

Florida has already made it clear that they will kidnap Trans Children from their supportive parents and place them into abusive foster situations.

Apparently a trans person has already died from DeSatans newest law which allows doctors to discriminate and deny care to people based on “ethical or moral” grounds.

Florida has fully embraced the genocide of Trans and Non-Binary people. Full Stop. They have started eradication efforts through denial of medical care.

Pride can’t be about celebration this year. Not with this going on. We don’t have equality or equity, we shouldn’t be celebrating a “win” that doesn’t exist.

Pride needs to go back to its roots, it’s gotta go back to being a protest for our right to live life as we see fit, without fear of dying. Not some corporate block party tying to appeal to the cishets fragile heteronormative sensibilities.

If it causes “ally’s” to leave, fine, that means they were performative and were most likely causing division within the community anyway.

Pride should be a protest.

Im also suggesting we start boycotting products from Florida.

In the 1970’s when Anita Bryant started her “think of the children” shtick, the LGBTQ+ community boycotted Florida Orange. Gay Bars started serving “Anita Bryant’s” instead of screwdrivers, which used apple juice in place of orange juice.

Guess who inevitably lost her contract?

We need to bring the boycotts back, not because of a bigoted spokesperson, but because of where the tax dollars from purchasing these things goes.

Boycott Florida Orange, do not buy anything that contains orange juice, do not buy oranges.

Boycott Airlines that use parts in their planes from Florida, better yet don’t fly at all if you can avoid it

Same thing with smartphones, do not upgrade your smartphone “just because”, most smartphone parts manufactured in the USA are made in Florida.

Do not buy anything that is made in and/or shipped from Florida.

Do not go to Florida for Disney World, Sea World, or Universal Studios, in fact don’t vacation in Florida at all, do not let your money fund their tourist industry, which is (obviously) paying taxes to the state.

Protest This Pride and Hit Florida Where it Hurts for however long this takes.

[mogai-sunflowers]

MOGAI BHM- Day 12!

happy BHM! today i’m going to be talking about queer culture during the Harlem Renaissance!

Queer Culture During the Harlem Renaissance-

[Image ID: A black-and-white photograph of Gladys Bentley, a Black woman. In the photograph, she’s standing at the gate to a bar, wearing an all-white tuxedo- white dress pants, a white undershirt, and a white tuxedo jacket with coattails, as well as a white top hat. She’s carrying a magician’s cane/wand. End ID.]

The Harlem Renaissance was not just a movement that challenged racist norms. It was absolutely a movement of Black pride, but it was also in many ways a movement of Black queer pride. The queer history of the Harlem Renaissance has largely been erased from the world-at-wide’s perception of the Harlem Renaissance, but it was, according to Black professor Henry Louis Gates, “surely as gay as it was Black”.

Because of the fact that the Harlem Renaissance was based on the idea of liberating Black people from restrictive white social standards, sexuality and gender were challenged during this time period. Challenging sexual and gender norms became another outlet of Black liberation- allowing Black queer people to express their racial liberation through a means of sexual liberation.

The Harlem Renaissance came at a time when people were rebelling against Prohibition- so speakeasies became increasingly common. At these speakeasies, performances were held, and the musical nightlife of the Harlem Renaissance that developed in these speakeasies led to the development of Harlem’s queer nightlife- including drag balls.

Called “Spectacles In Color” by Langston Hughes, and commonly referred to as “fairy balls”, Harlem’s queer drag balls were huge extravaganzas. They consisted of both drag kings and drag queens, dressed to the nines, and there were contests for the most lavish costumes and performances. These balls were an explicit, unapologetic celebration of queer identity, and they also involved prizes for winners. A queer Black woman, A’Lelia Walker hosted queer parties and performances at her ‘Dark Tower’ building. Rent parties, cabarets, and other venues also hosted popular opportunities for queer people to convene and grow connections together.

It was also common for some performers to do drag as they performed at nightlife hotspots. Men dressed in long, lavish gowns, and women in tuxedos, and partied and performed together with background dancers also in drag. Perhaps the most famous of these drag performers was Gladys Bentley, a popular blues singer who often performed in full tuxedos. She sang many songs about her female lovers and relationships, and her shows featured drag performers. 

Two other huge blues stars during the Harlem Renaissance were Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith- both of whom frequently and openly sang about their same-sex relationships. Ma Rainey, called “the Mother of Blues”, was arrested once for hosting a lesbian party in her home. In the 1930s, popular Blues singer Lucille Bogan made the song “B.D Woman’s Blues”, in which she sang “comin’ a time, B.D. women they ain’t going to need no men.” Short for ‘bulldager’ and ‘bulldyke’, ‘B.D’ is a Black slang for butch lesbian, and is just one example of the very racialized language of queer identity during this time. As described by queer Black woman Jeanne Flash Gray, a Harlem resident, “we were still Bulldaggers and Faggots… only whites were lesbians and homosexuals.”

Queer culture during the Harlem Renaissance was not at all limited to music and drag balls/performances- it made its way throughout prominent literature during the period. Richard Bruce Nugent, an openly gay Black author from the time period, became famous for many works including his “Smoke, Lilies, and Jade”, which was about a bisexual Black teenager and depicted bisexuality. He described himself saying "You see, I am a homosexual. I have never been in what they call 'the closet'. It has never occurred to me that [my sexuality] was anything to be ashamed of, and it never occurred to me that it was anybody's business but mine." Mae Crowdery, a Black bisexual writer, wrote bisexual poetry in “We Lift Our Voices”. Other key authors from the time period, including Langston Hughes himself and Claude McKay, were, though not very openly, queer.

Wallace Thurman was a Black author who challenged the way racism and queerphobia intersected for Black queer men- he saw the hypermasculinization of Black men, the way Black masculinity was sexualized and dehumanized- and challenged it, expressing his own form of masculinity through his literary work. Though he never came out or disclosed his personal sexuality or gender, he is noted for nonetheless challenging their norms.

The history of the Harlem Renaissance is undeniably queer- Black queer people were the heartbeat of the Renaissance, and they built queer history in that era and beyond.

Summary-

Many, many of the prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance were queer- Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Gladys Bentley, and many, many more

Embracing diversity of sexuality and gender became a way to become racially liberated, as shown through popular drag balls, called ‘fairy balls’, that frequented the Harlem Renaissance

Blues singers were a huge part of queer culture during the Harlem Renaissance- many of them were sapphic/lesbian, sang frequently and passionately about their lesbian relationships, and performed in drag

Queer literature during the Harlem Renaissance explored the relationships between race, gender, and sexual identity

Black and queer history are inherently intertwined, especially in the Harlem Renaissance

Tagging @intersexfairy​ @metalheadsforblacklivesmatter​ @neopronouns​ @benshapirosgaylover​ @cistematicchaos​ 

Sources-

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/harlem-renaissance-black-queer-history 

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Collected_Works_of_Langston_Hughes/SsgPcfpjhBcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22spectacles+in+color%22+langston+hughes&pg=PA208&printsec=frontcover

https://time.com/6104381/lgbtq-history-harlem-renaissance/ 

https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/we-are-everywhere/page/the-queer-harlem-renaissance

https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/theme/the-harlem-renaissance/

https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/black-and-queer-in-the-harlem-renaissance

https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1140&context=historical-perspectives

[clownrecess]

I love being a gay, uranic, multipluralic trans boy. I love being greysexual and cupiosexual at the same time. I love hoarding xenogenders. I love being a rainbow of intersectional identities all wrapped into one glorious queer being. Every single inch of my identity is queer in a beautifully complex way. From the strands of my hair to the tips of my toes, queerness courses through every fiber of my being. It's in the way I walk, breathe, and hold myself with unapologetic pride. It's in the way I dress, the art I create, and the spaces I occupy.

[mogai-flaggot]

SHI / HIR ; an intersex-exclusive pronoun set that sounds identical to "she" and "her". originally coined as a way to oppress us by combining she and him, the pronouns were reclaimed in the modern day by an anonymous 4chan user.

[the-delta-quadrant]

bi, pan, poly, omni, abro & mspec lockscreens

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