Me stepping onto the balcony to address my followers
"ladies and gentlemen" <- boring, old fashioned, not inclusive
"transgenders, sodomites, apostates, and critical theorists" <- attention grabbing, inclusive, thought provoking
even the top gets called a faggot
me explaining modern homophobia to aristotle
bringing this back
My fantasy is that this gets enough heat that His Holiness is forced to address it
June 21, 2024 - Namibia's high court has declared the "sodomy law" that criminalised gay sex unconstitutional!
Namibia inherited the apartheid-era law banning “sodomy” and “unnatural offences” when it gained independence from South Africa in 1990. [link]
Comic by smoothdunk on Twitter
Powerful statements like these, that juxtapose the condemnation of such a simple and pure thing as love with the honour and worship of violence and death, always hit me hard and stay with me for days
This is the tombstone of Technical Sergeant Leonard Philip Matlovich, the first gay service member to intentionally out himself in order to fight the ban on gay people in the military. He hadn’t only served for Vietnam, he was a career Air Force member in good standing who would have liked to continue his career even though he knew coming out would most likely make that impossible. He’d also been an elder in the LDS church but was excommunicated
He was on the cover of Time magazine in 1975 which was the first time an openly gay person appeared on the cover of a U.S. magazine and had their name printed in that magazine
He was an advocate for AIDs/HIV patients from the start of the outbreak in the 70s. He contracted the virus in 1986 and died 2 years later
His name doesn’t appear on his tombstone because he wanted it to be a memorial for all gay veterans
here’s the King himself
and here’s his grave in its full glory, with the pink triangles and everything! the words over the dates of his birth and death are referencing the extermination of lgbt people during the holocaust and the HIV crisis, respectively.
if you say anything homophobic in June this truck comes out of nowhere and crushes you like that bus crushed Regina George
it’s optimus pride
I’ve been obsessed with this for like 20 straight hours now
So if anyone is curious this is more or less true. (Except he didn’t say ‘effeminate boys’ he said the six-letter f word, because of course.) https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/16/what-orson-welles-really-thought-about-ernest-hemingway
But the funny thing is, this happened when Orson Welles was 22 (before he made any of his films) so this dumb-ass piece of shit:
decided to get into it with this 38 year old established American writer and war veteran:
Like, dude. He really was just like that.
Orson Wells was fully convinced he could fight god and nothing that ever happened in his life could’ve convinced him otherwise
Spring Break Anthem is one of the most genuinely hilarious things ever, and on top of that its a serious social commentary about what people consider acceptable.
“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets.
Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”
–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.
Oh, so this is why we had the ox rib scene...
