anti_cishet_aktion
- jacobin.com No, Pride Isn’t for Cops, Too
Stonewall was a riot — but in some cities, Pride officials have banned “political” groups and welcomed cops. Now activists are organizing radical Pride marches to show that Pride is a protest, not just a party.
- How did you gay today?
I needed to buy cutlery since I've moved into an apartment with nothing in it. All stores had were multipack sets of expensive cutlery. A tripack of just knives or just forks or just spoons cost 7 euros! 7! So I ordered a set of just a fork, a knife and two spoons of varifying sizes. And, of course, I ordered them in gold. Just to gay, for gay is justice. UwU
- I find blahaj accusations of users here not being queer akshually very hurtful
I was kicked out of rentals multiple times for being visibly queer. I was scared out of some more by people who even moved after me, but made my life a living hell just for being queer. I was driven into near daily crying during highschool by my peers and sometimes even teachers. I was regularly spat on in public with no reaction from other people. I had a car full of tank top wearing men stop with the intention of beating me up when I was in middle school because they thought I looked too much like a "f*g". To see people, some of whom apparently so privileged they don't even experience systematic queerphobia as per own admission, claim us here aren't queer is so hurtful because it feels like it dismisses my entire lifetime of queer pain. Sincere fuck you to the people who make those claims. Maybe you are the one who isn't even queer and just sows discord amogus. !trans-uno !amogus
- I have to come out to you...
Someone today tagged me when another person referred to gay twinks. I'm so sorry guys, but I'm not gay. I'm bi. I hope you may forgive me in due time.
- Those of you who are trans fem- Did you just hate being a guy or feel like you would be comfortable if you transitioned?
I realize those two things can go hand-in-hand. I genuinely don’t mean to be offensive and am asking in earnest. I personally was born male assigned at birth, feel pretty male but also hate being male. It’s not that I wish I was something else, I just don’t like being male and can’t relate to most “male experiences” besides having a dick. I don’t know anyone who is not cishet irl, so I could definitely use some education in this area
- How to gayify my place without creating holes?
I have my first non shared apartment. I want to gayify it. I have a small magnet of a mostly nude man I'll put on the oven but I was thinking more. I don't want holes from nails. I wanted fairy lights but I cannot think of a way to hang them without nails. I don't think tape can hold the ones with bigger lights. :( I'm open to suggestions!
- LGBTQ+ workplace org OutAndEqual commits to holding annual summit at the Walt Disney World Resort in FLORIDA so the cissies can have a fun vacationoutandequal.org Workplace Summit 2023 Note | Out & Equal
Out & Equal’s annual global Workplace Summit is the premier convening for thousands of professionals to exchange best practices, network, inspire, and chart our collective path of progress toward full…
"LGBTQ+ rights are being challenged across the United States, including in Florida, where the virulent politics have captured global headlines for their cruelty towards some of the state’s most vulnerable, while also undermining the country’s core freedoms. For many in the community, Florida has rapidly become a hostile environment as new laws concerning healthcare, education, and the workplace take effect.
We strongly believe it is more important now than ever before to continue our necessary and urgent work."
- Weekly Queer Thread (8/11/23)
Have any queer vibes to share? Here's your place! !hexbear-pride
Talk about what’s happening queerly in your life - like coming out, getting HRT, questioning, and all that good stuff.
!blob-no No cishets allowed! !no-copyright
- Good online spaces for trans comrades?
As much as I love you all, this space is pretty empty and doesn't have much in the way of transition tips or photos or really anything. Does anyone have any good recommendations for (preferably FOSS) trans centric online spaces?
- WEEKLY Queer Thread (7/21/23)
Have any queer vibes to share? Here's your place! !hexbear-pride
Talk about what’s happening queerly in your life - like coming out, getting HRT, questioning, and all that good stuff.
!blob-no No cishets allowed! !no-copyright
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- Finally got my estrogen
It took me more than half a year after realizing I was trans because I was thinking that since I barely had gender dysphoria, my life might be happier living as male and cis presenting than losing all that privilege and transitioning
Of course, the dysphoria got worse exponentially after realizing and that was no longer an option
I feel kinda dumb for thinking I might've been an exception since it seems like this happens to every trans person that used to not have that much dysphoria
- The trevor project is union bustingwww.instagram.com Friends of Trevor United on Instagram: "A non-profit? Union busting?? Yep, once again LGBTQ+ rights doesn't mean workers rights, at least not for The @trevorproject . @friendsoftrevorunited & @cwa1180 are devestated by the way leadership has chosen to engage in these layoffs. Read more about Trevor leaderships’ most recent iteration of union busting above."
6,329 likes, 116 comments - friendsoftrevorunited on July 6, 2023: "A non-profit? Union busting?? Yep, once again LGBTQ+ rights doesn't mean workers rights, at least..."
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- Something in particular that drives me up the fucking wall
My mother has a neurological condition. This condition makes her feel like at times, her feet are being stabbed. Of course this isn’t happening irl, but the majority of decent people wouldn’t tell her that “facts don’t care about the fact that her brain makes her feel like she is being stabbed”
So why don’t we apply this same reasoning to gender? If I say “I don’t feel X”, my concerns will be dismissed because I look like X.
Don’t even know how to make sense of this blatant contradiction
- Monthly Queer Thread (July 2023)
Have any queer vibes to share? Here's your place! !hexbear-pride
Talk about what’s happening queerly in your life - like coming out, getting HRT, questioning, and all that good stuff.
!blob-no No cishets allowed! !no-copyright
- www.thepinknews.com Pedro Pascal joins backlash to US Supreme Court after LGBTQ+ rights rollback
Pedro Pascal has joined the backlash against the US Supreme Court for its recent ruling on LGBTQ+ discrimination.
- Did any other trans people have trouble dropping your cis persona?
I've acted like a cishet man for so long I don't know how to stop
I feel like almost every social interaction I have nowadays except with really close friends is just a complete reflex to be this fake guy I made up
It's especially bad when I talk to men so I'm also mostly avoiding all my male friends but obviously I would rather not do this
I don't even know who I am anymore
- Stonewall Uprising (1969) - New General Megathread for the 28th of June 2023
On this day in 1969, the Stonewall Uprising began when NYC Police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. As cops arrested homosexuals and drag queens, the crowd fought them, trapping police inside and lighting the Inn on fire.
In the 1960s, New York City Robert Wagner Jr. initiated an anti-gay campaign in preparation for the 1964 World's Fair. The city revoked the liquor licenses of gay bars and undercover police officers worked to entrap as many homosexual men as possible.
The Stonewall Inn is a prominent gay bar in Greenwich Village, New York City, then owned by the Genovese crime family and lacking a liquor license. The night of the Stonewall Uprising, approximately 200 patrons were in the bar, and four undercover cops were present before the raid was initiated.
As cops shut the bar down and began arresting patrons, a crowd began to gather outside. A scuffle broke out when a butch woman in handcuffs (thought by many to be Stormé DeLarverie but accounts differ) fought with police for ten minutes as they attempted to arrest her.
After she shouted to bystanders "Why don't you guys do something?", an officer picked her up and heaved her into the back of the wagon and the crowd turned violent, attempting to overturn police cars and slashing their tires, and throwing debris at the cops, some of whom became trapped in the Inn.
Some members of the mob lit garbage on fire and stuffed it through the broken windows, setting the bar on fire with police and some detainees inside. A tactical police force was deployed to free the officers, beating the crowd as they mocked police with impromptu kick lines and ironic chants.
When the violence broke out, women and transmasculine people being held down the street at The Women's House of Detention joined in by chanting, setting fire to their belongings, tossing them into the street below, and chanting "gay rights".
The uprisings continued for several nights afterward, with thousands showing up outside the bar. Black drag queen and radical queer rights activist Marsha P. Johnson was seen climbing a lamppost and dropping a heavy bag onto the hood of a police car, shattering the windshield.
Members of the Mattachine Society, a gay rights organization which had taken to respectability politics, were embarrassed by the behavior at Stonewall. Randy Wicker, who had marched in the first gay picket lines before the White House in 1965, said "screaming queens forming chorus lines and kicking went against everything that I wanted people to think about homosexuals...that we were a bunch of drag queens in the Village acting disorderly and tacky and cheap." Others were glad to see the closing of Stonewall Inn, perceived as a "sleaze joint".
Despite this backlash, some participants of the annual Mattachine Society picket on July 4th were emboldened. Several same-sex couples held hands as they marched despite protests from lead organizers of the picket, generating more press attention for the event than usual.
The Stonewall Uprising was a watershed moment in the history of queer liberation, to the extent that some studies of LGBT history in the U.S. are divided into pre- and post-Stonewall analyses.
"It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience - it wasn't no damn riot."
- Stormé DeLarverie
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- 💙Comprehensive list of resources for those in need of an abortion -- reddit link
- 💙Resources for Palestine
Theory:
- NHL banning 'cause-based' jerseys next season
Player refusals overshadowed teams' hosting Pride nights, commissioner says
NHL teams won't wear special jerseys for pregame warmups during themed nights next season, the result of a handful of players refusing to use rainbow-coloured Pride jerseys this past season and causing unwelcome distractions.
The league's board of governors agreed with commissioner Gary Bettman's view that the refusals overshadowed teams' efforts in hosting Pride nights that in some cases included auctioning off the warmup jerseys. All 32 teams held Pride or Hockey is for Everyone night.
Teams will still celebrate Pride and other theme nights, including military appreciation and Hockey Fights Cancer. They're also expected to still design and produce jerseys to be autographed and sold to raise money, even though players won't skate around with them on during warmups.
Pride jerseys became a hot-button issue in the league last season after multiple players refused to wear them during warmups.
Bettman, in an interview with Sportsnet, said he suggested teams stop having special warmup jerseys because themed nights were being undermined by chatter over certain players declining to participate.
"That's just become more of a distraction from really the essence of what the purpose of these nights are," Bettman said. "We're keeping the focus on the game. And on these specialty nights, we're going to be focused on the cause."
Philadelphia Flyers defenceman Ivan Provorov was the first to make that decision, citing his Russian Orthodox beliefs. Florida Panthers brothers Eric and Marc Staal also refused to wear their team's Pride jersey, claiming religious reasons.
Some Russian players did not wear the sweaters over safety concerns going back home. In December, Russia amended its anti-gay laws making it "illegal to spread 'propaganda' about 'nontraditional sexual relations' in all media, including social, advertising and movies," per The New York Times.
However, Russians such as Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin and Florida's Sergei Bobrovsky did wear the jerseys.
You Can Play, which has worked with sports and leagues — including the NHL — to help them grow more inclusive for members of the LGBTQ+ community, said it was "concerned and disappointed" by Thursday's decision.
"Today's decision means that the over 95 per cent of players who chose to wear a Pride jersey to support the community will now not get an opportunity to do so," the organization said in a statement.
"The work to make locker rooms, board rooms and arenas safer, more diverse, and more inclusive needs to be ongoing and purposeful, and we will continue to work with our partners at the NHL, including individual teams, players, agents and the NHLPA to ensure this critical work continues."
- World's first trans male boxer wins 3rd match over cis men.
Patricio Manuel, the trans-masc boxer signed with a major boxing promoter Oscar De La Hoya with Golden Boy Promotions, has once again defeated cisgender men in a professional boxing fight, increasing his record to 3 – 0.
- In honor of Pat Robertson's deathinvidious.tiekoetter.com Sex With Ducks: the Music Video by Garfunkel and Oates
Riki "Garfunkel" Lindhome and Kate "Oates" Micucci sing a pro-gay marriage song in response to a Pat Robertson quote that legalizing gay marriage would lead to legalizing sex with ducks.
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- @SimonHOfficial caught up with @JimSterling after their entry into the Rainbow Rumble!
:hexbear-gay-pride: :flag-trans-pride:
VISIBILITY = FREEDOM
- Any recommended pride events in Toronto this year?
I'm sketching out pride month weekend plans in Toronto, Canada. I'll be hanging out with an enby cousin from the area who's just turned 18. Any recommended weekend events? I'll be driving so even the less-transit-friendly events are on the table. Weekdays might be a possibility too if I can book the right days off work.
Ideally we'd be looking to see the more casual events where we can drop in and out anytime. But if there's some fixed-schedule live performances/movies/etc that are highly recommended then we'd be open to them too.
- The Trevor Project 2023 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ Young Peoplewww.thetrevorproject.org 2023 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ Young People
The Trevor Project’s 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health is the organization’s fourth annual national survey, amplifying the experiences of nearly 34,000 LGBTQ youth ages 13 to 24 across…
- Someone claiming to be working on a trans film, “It Takes a Village," reached out. it's a front for far-right director @robbystarbuck. Don't respond to them.
CW transphobia/ fascism down thread. Robby Starbuck apparently wanted to try to get Eli Erlick arrested in Tennessee.
"An original for the streaming service"
It's most likely Daily Wire, and setting up a fake documentary like What is a Woman? which tricked people to come on through deceptive invites.
- ancient Greco-Romans would immediately identity drag queens as blessed with charisma from a God of sex or wine etc, fascist NPCs can't perceive the divine
hell yeah I'm a conservative who believes in traditions of western civilization
Sasha Colby: sex god charisma
Willow Pill: healing god charisma
Symone: fertility god charisma
Jaida Essence Hall: beauty god charisma
Yvie Oddly: night/lunar god charisma
Aquaria: youth god charisma
Sasha Velour: drama god charisma
Bob the Drag Queen: transitions/liminal space god charisma
Violet Chachki: hunting god charisma
Bianca Del Rio: comedy god charisma
Jinkx Monsoon: tutelary god charisma
Sharon Needles: (satanic libertarian, not blessed by a god)
Raja: elderly god charisma
Tyra Sanchez: death god charisma
Bebe Zahara Benet: glory god charisma