Happy Pride Month! I know things are rough out there, but we have each other, and we have each other’s backs.

-Chicago Dyke March kicks out three Jewish women for having a rainbow flag with a Star of David

-DC Dyke March outright bans the Jewish Pride flag

"Who cares if you're Jews?"

Oh, just the people assaulting and attacking us. You know, the folks ensuring that attacks on Jews make up more than half of all religious-based hate crimes.

Antisemitism in the queer community is real and must be confronted. The anon here is a dumbshit.

But those events aren't as cut and dry as some think. The decision wasn't to ban Jewish flags, it's to ban Israeli flags.

Israel is brutally occupying Palestinian land and unfortunately, it uses the star of David on its national flag. Folks (including Jewish people) who are sensitive to the fact that this flag is a symbol of oppression understand that it has the potential to make Palestinian people feel unsafe and unwelcome.

This puts events that want to welcome everyone in a hard place. I don't know that banning rainbow flags with a star of David is the right move. In articles about these incidents, they show pictures of rainbow flags that have a white star. From what i remember when the Chicago incident happened, the flags were reported to have blue stars of David on them, which makes it seem more like an Israeli pride flag than a Jewish pride flag. Similar concerns were voiced by a Jewish marshal at a DC pride, though she focused on the placement of the star, not the color (this article actually has pictures of the flags at that DC march).

I feel like it's important to point out that these articles are from 2017 (Chicago) and 2019 (DC). Chicago dyke march's Facebook came under fire in 2021 for posting a political cartoon that showed someone burning American and Israeli flags while standing on a cop car that said ACAB. that's very clearly about Israel as an oppressive government, and not antisemitic. I emailed the DC dyke march to see if they still ban Israeli pride flags, but considering that nobody's reported on it since then, they probably don't. Which probably means they considered the feedback and decided it did more harm to ban the flags than good.

So they were trying to do the right thing when faced with the comfort and safety of diverse groups of people, i would say they went too far, and they changed their mind. It would be nice if they could have spoken to the decision more (or if they have, it's buried under articles about them fucking up so i can't find it).

I also want to add that second article is from the anti-defamation league, a right-wing, pro-cop organization that labels anything pro-palestinian as antisemitic. A lot of the articles about both events take their information from the ADL.

Again, antisemitism in the queer community is real. But pointing at attemps to be anti-zionist and calling it antisemitism is disingenuous and furthers the cause of the right-wing.

this wasn’t antizionism, this was antisemitism.

they didn’t ban israeli flags. they banned any flag with the star of david on it. y’all need to stop making excuses for antisemitic incidents and just claiming anything that has to do with israel must just be antizionism. news flash y’all! antizionists can be antisemitic. and in this case, they absolutely were.

ah yes the people trying to explain why banning all flags with THE symbol of the jewish people from a pride event bc of antisemitic biases and dual loyalty are actually just trying to demonize the dykes. that’s definitely what’s happening. fuck all of u lmao.

it's that time of year again! HAVE FUN

Making fun of bi women married to men and het trans people makes you a loser btw and it's not going to get you any pussy or clout, it just makes you look like an asshole. Pride month PSA

Queer mlw relationships are as valid as every other queer relationship

[Image description: A woman and man holding hands while holding a rainbow pride flag together. There’s words at the top that reads, “LGBT people in M/F presenting relationships belong at Pride.”

On the woman and man, they have hearts that are changing flags. The flags include: bi, pan, trans, genderfluid, and bigender.]

i want to thank the 1920s-1930s third wheel who saw their two friends lying in bed together in their underwear and stocking garters reading a book with their legs wrapped around each other and said “i am going to take a photograph of this”

i hope wherever they are now that everyone involved in the taking of this photograph knows how much joy it is bringing me 80-100 years later

Never before published images of men in love between 1850 and 1950 by Dee Swan, Hugh Nini andNeal Treadwell (Washington Post)

Reblogging this again because please, please click the link and look at the other photos but more importantly read the words written by the owners of the collection because it’s so touching and heart-warming

Happy pride month!

[ID: a series of pride banners with abstract backgrounds that resemble the different flag colours that say: "lesbian and proud, gay and proud, bisexual and proud, trans and proud, pansexual and proud, asexual and proud, aromantic and proud, aroace and proud, questioning and proud, intersex and proud." End ID]

Feel free to use with credit and to request more! (I'll add some other banners in a reblog since I can't add more than 10 images to the post)

[ID: some more banners that say: nonbinary and proud, agender and proud, demisexual and proud, polyamorous and proud, genderfluid and proud, genderqueer and proud. End ID]

[ID: a fresh batch of banners that read: "polysexual and proud, omnisexual and proud, demiromantic and proud, queer and proud, closeted but proud, bigender and proud, pangender and proud, genderflux and proud, demigirl and proud, demiboy and proud. End ID]

[ID: two more banners that say "graysexual and proud, grayromantic and proud". End ID]

[ID: two banners that read "androgyne and proud, maverique and proud". End ID]

[ID: banners that read: "bi lesbian and proud, trans lesbian and proud, nonbinary lesbian and proud, omni lesbian and proud, ace lesbian and proud, pan lesbian and proud, ply lesbian and proud. End ID]

[ID: banners that read: biromantic ace and proud, trigender and proud, abrosexual and proud, achillean and proud, sapphic and proud, diamoric and proud, trixic and proud. End ID]

Remember that you can request a banner if your identity isn't included in the post yet or if you want a combined banner (like "biromantic ace and proud")!

[ID: two more banners that read: "pangenderflux and proud, aroflux and proud. End ID]

[ID: these banners read "demiflux and proud, graysexual lesbian and proud". End ID]

[ID: more pride banners that read "aroace sapphic and proud, ace sapphic and proud, aro sapphic and proud, aroace achillean and proud, ace achillean and proud, aro achillean and proud, aroace gay and proud, ace gay and proud, aro gay and proud, aro lesbian and proud. End ID]

[ID: banners that read "demiromantic bisexual and proud, demiromantic lesbian and proud, demiromantic gay and proud". End ID]

[ID: three banners that read "aroace genderfluid and proud, aroace genderqueer and proud, cupio aroace and proud". End ID]

[ID: banner that reads "abroromantic and proud". End ID]

[ID: banners that read "bisexual aro and proud, nonbinary aro and proud, nonbinary ace and proud, nonbinary aroace and proud, trans aro and proud, trans ace and proud, trans aroace and proud". End ID]

[ID: banners that read "bisexual demisexual and proud, toric and proud". End ID]

Guess what time of year it is 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Subtle Pride Flag Masterpost

All my subtle pride flags so far compiled into one post.

Lesbian

Gay

Bisexual

Pansexual

Transgender

Non-Binary

Genderfluid

Demisexual

Aromantic

Asexual

AroAce

Progress

Remastered, better quality versions now available.

Princess Mononoke’s mother wolf Moro and Howl’s Moving Castle’s Witch of the Waste are both voiced by a famous singer and drag queen Akihiro Miwa.

Akihiro Miwa (born in 1935) is one of the most prominent queer icon in Japanese history, who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki (his hometown) during WW2.

This clip is from a document How Princess Mononoke Was Born (1998)

Here’s a video clip of the finishes scene in the movie between Moro and Ashitaka.

Now, more than ever, we stand. We are trans folks, we support trans folks, we remember our history and the people who fought before us. No one will ever stop us from telling our stories and living our lives.

“On a Friday night in February 1926, a crowd of some 1,500 packed the Renaissance Casino in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood for the 58th masquerade and civil ball of Hamilton Lodge.

Nearly half of those attending the event, reported the New York Age, appeared to be “men of the class generally known as ‘fairies,’ and many Bohemians from the Greenwich Village section who…in their gorgeous evening gowns, wigs and powdered faces were hard to distinguish from many of the women.”

The tradition of masquerade and civil balls, more commonly known as drag balls, had begun back in 1869 within Hamilton Lodge, a black fraternal organization in Harlem. By the mid-1920s, at the height of the Prohibition era, they were attracting as many as 7,000 people of various races and social classes—gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and straight alike.

Stonewall (1969) is often considered the beginning of forward progress in the gay rights movement. But more than 50 years earlier, Harlem’s famous drag balls were part of a flourishing, highly visible LGBTQ nightlife and culture that would be integrated into mainstream American life in a way that became unthinkable in later decades.”

Pete Buttigieg is just a faggot.

It's very important to me that younger queers understand this: to the people who you're trying to be more respectable for when you say things like neopronouns set the trans movement back or you're why the cishets don't accept us or including [aces/bi people with the 'wrong kind' of partners/non-binary people/kinksters/non-passing trans ppl/furries/polyam people] just hurts us, can't you wait until we get all our rights before we talk about some of yours? -- to those people? Pete Buttigieg is just a fag.

On Sunday at Pride Northwest, some kids -- late teens, early 20s -- asked what our button I survived Reagan for this? meant. All of the queer adults at the tables making up our ad hoc counter looked at each other and sighed a little. Emet and another adult started to explain the way that the Reagan Administration handled -- or didn't handle -- the beginning of the AIDS crisis. How many people died. How much we were ignored. The Ashes Action. The Time Magazine article which explicitly blamed bisexual men for passing the pandemic to the cishet community, playing on all the worst stereotypical bullshit. The way that even when the CDC started paying attention, they were so focused on gay men that they ignored AIDS in the lesbian community, leading to the "women don't get AIDS, they just die from it" poster. And so on.

I finished counting out change and passed the last Bear Pride raised fist pin over to a bear a little older than me, then turned my head and interjected, "they didn't care until it started infecting more than just the fags." I turned my head back and handed him his change. He laughed bitterly and said, "remember when they called it 'gay cancer?'"

That what I need you to understand. The people for whom you are folding yourself into smaller and smaller boxes will never see you as anything but a freak. A queer. A dyke. A tranny. A fag.

Never.

These are people who will stand by and let you wither away and die alone, gasping for breath in a cinderblock room, and not even claim your ashes, and they will say you deserve it, because of your lifestyle. If they speak of you at all it will be by the wrong name, with the pictures you hate the most. They will curse at your lover, throw him out of the home you shared, and steal the gift you gave last Christmas to throw it in the trash just so he can't have it and they'll say Jesus loves you! while they do it. They'll feel good and righteous and blessed and holy and pure for doing it.

And for them, you spit in the eye of your sister. For them, you disavow your sibling. For their sake, you trim away bits of your heart and lace yourself up tight. Never too loud. Never too queer. Never inconvenient or embarrassing, never asking for too much.

Pete Buttigieg is what happens when your Boomer dad turns out gay. Middle America. Parents still married. Suburban-sprouted. Valedictorian. Harvard-educated. Rhodes Scholarship. Military service. More power to him: I hope he and Chasten are very happy together. Genuinely, I do.

You couldn't create a more respectable gay if you grew one in a lab run by concerned voter focus groups.

But Pete Buttigieg? Is just a fag.

That's the part you don't seem to get: when they abandoned us, they abandoned all of us. Rock Hudson was a beloved movie star and even personally friendly with that horrid pair of ambitious jackals. Nancy Reagan refused to help him get into the only place in the world that could treat him at the time, and he died.

It was 1985, 4 years after the CDC first released papers on what would eventually become known as HIV/AIDS and 7 years after the first known death from an infection from HIV-2. Reagan hadn't even said the word AIDS by the time Hudson died.

Pete Buttigieg is just a fag, and so am I. Unless I'm a dyke, which seems to depend on who's yelling what from which window and what day it is.

Yes, there will be people who genuinely love and accept you. Those people are worth all the frustration of the rest, thankfully, and they're the ones who love you in a pup mask or a leather harness and a neon jock like the ones sold by the men up the row from us last weekend. They're the ones who laugh out loud when you tell them you hid the word "dyke" in your company name, the ones who love you in all your messiness and uncertainty and the way you don't fit into neat boxes all scrubbed up and clean.

Most cishets, though... well, they don't actively mean you specifically any harm, at least not when they have to look at you. Not when you're right there in front of them. Maybe they'll be okay with you, personally, especially if you're the kind of gay who makes a good rhetorical device, and as long as you remain a good rhetorical device.

They need people to know that they don't have a problem with the gays, after all, and there you are, being all convenient. You make a nice token, and as long as you do, well. You're useful.

But they call you by your deadname when you're not around, and they put the wrong pronouns in your medical record even though they met you years after you came out, and they won't put themselves out to save you. Not one little bit.

I didn't want to be here again. The year I graduated from high school was the worst year of the AIDS crisis. The world into which I became an adult was a world in which an advisor and friend to Reagan, William F. Buckley, openly advocated for forcibly tattooing the HIV status of HIV+ gay men on their buttocks (and IV drug users on their forearms), and in which my father not only told me that when I was 14 or so, but when was told me that he'd advocated for that tattoo being "over their assholes."

(Buckley wrote that in '86, but he doubled down on it in 2005.

Fucker.)

But yeah. I didn't want to be here again. I wanted my daughter to inherit a better world. I wanted Obergefell and Lawrence v. Texas and Hope & Change to really mean something. I work for it, today and all days. I haven't given up.

I need you to know that, too. This isn't a white flag. I'm not surrendering. This isn't over. To misquote Henry Rollins, this is what Marsha and Sylvia and Stormé and Leslie and Brenda and Auntie Sugar trained us for. This is punk rock time.

But I need you to understand that if Pete Buttigieg is just a fag, if that human embodiment of a Wonder Bread, mayo and Oscar Meyer bologna sandwich is not respectable enough for them -- and he's not -- then the rest of us have absolutely no hope of measuring up. Not even if we trim away every colorful, beautiful piece of our community, not even if the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence vanish into the ether, not even if we sacrifice the five elements of vogue on the altar of white supremacist cishet middle-class conformity: we can't trim ourselves down to something they'll accept.

The only other option is radical acceptance of our queer selves. The only other option is solidarity. The only other option is for fats and femme queens and drags and kinksters and queers and zine writers and sex workers and furries and addicts and kids and the ones who can look us in the eye and see all of us to say we're here, we're queer, get used to it just the way we did 30 years ago. It's revolutionary, complete and total acceptance of our entire community, not just the ones the cishets can pretend to be comfortable with as long as we don't challenge them too much, or it's conceding the shoreline inch by inch to the rising waters of fascism until we've got nowhere left to stand and some of us start drowning.

That's it. Either it's all of us or it's none of us, because if we leave the answer up to the Reagans of the world and all the people who enabled him in the name of lower taxes and Democrats who wring their hands, weeping oh I don't agree with it but we'll lose the election if we fight it right now, the answer is none of us.

The brunch gays can come, too, I guess.

This. Especially with the online discourse in regards to a particular tik tok content creator that has been pushed off of the app due to queer creators dog piling and creating an environment that has been facilitating homophobia and transphobia simply because other queer creators thing they are "cringe" and "annoying"

I am absolutely OVER this fucking boot ticker mentality of "if I am palatable to the straights they wont hate me🥺” “if I also am homophobic, they will forget that I am also gay😔🙏🏻”

SHUT THE FUCK UP.

You, as a queer person, are doing more damage than the homophobes are. You, as a queer person, are letting them know, that not only do you condone their homophobia, but you agree. You, as a queer person, are letting every other queer person know that they are not safe with you. You, as a queer person, are letting everyone else in the community know that you will sell them out to the person that is oppressing the both of you.

Fuck you.

I’ve officially forgiven Dublin Bus for all the times they were late or never showed up cos the pride Bus they done with proud dads was the most wholesome thing i’ve ever seen in my life & i still can’t watch it without tearing up omfg

i thought i could keep it together but i lost it at “let’s go to pride, son” 

I too lost it at that part

I’m not crying.

You’re crying.

Okay, fine, everyone is crying.

do y'all even know how much i hate being an "elder queer" at 40? a whole goddamn generation before me was wiped out by a plague that politicians deemed not their problem bc it was killing the "right" people. like. this was OPENLY STATED. i spent a large chunk of my childhood going to funerals. nevermind the fact that killing queer people for being queer wasn't codified into law as a hate crime until i was a junior in high school.

i should NOT be an elder queer, i should be middle at most. i am a middle aged queer. most of the elder queers died.

when i was growing up i didn't go to pride parades, i went to pride marches. because that's 100% what they were in the 80s and 90s.

from the absolute bottom of my heart, LEARN OUR FUCKING HISTORY. a generation was nearly wiped out so you young queers could be here. don't let that have been in vain, please.

By the way legislators aren’t making laws specifically targeting the LGBTQ community because of pansexuals or trans people without dysphoria or aces and aros. They’re doing it because they hate queer people, and want to make us existing openly illegal.

No amount of “but but but the new labels are making us look bad and people won’t take us seriously” will ever change the fact that you are putting yourself on the side of people that want us dead. So stand by your community, or put a damn sock in it.

This is your community. There is no circumstance that you should say “well, the oppressor is right on this one” but that’s what SO many of you are doing!

When politicians mock parts of our community that they know you won’t bother to defend, they’re using it as a foot in the door. They are using it as a way to make their next action seem less extreme, and they will continue until they have achieved what’s happening in Texas and Idaho. And you are allowing them to.

Other queer people are not your enemy. And once again if you still can’t see that, you’re on the side of the oppressors.

JONATHAN👏VAN👏NESS👏I👏LOVE👏YOU👏SO👏MUCH