At 81 years old, my grandfather, Bob Rubin, designed this amazing shirt to celebrate marriage equality in the US - which he’s been waiting for since he was young. He’s been designing for a little while now, taking after his father, Hy Rubin, a renowned illustrator from the 30s and 40s. He designs on the side aside from doing real estate, which isn’t really doing so well.
[aggressively marries everyone]
"Marriage won't end homophobia! Marriage won't stop queer people from being beaten in the streets!" You're absolutely right, it won't. But it's a huge stepping stone towards this, and let me tell you why: With people of the same sex getting married, members of the LGBTQ+ community will gain visibility and recognition and same-sex marriages will obviously be normalized. With more and more people seeing this as normal, the stigma will start to decrease and eventually it won't be "gay" or "same-sex" marriage but just "marriage." When you tell people something is wrong, they'll see it that way. When they start seeing something as normal, it'll be accepted. Stepping stones are there, and they're fundamental to making those greater leaps.
what I want for 2015
- marriage equality
- trans men and women to be recognized as valid and not attacked for identifying in the manner of their choosing
- black people and other poc to not be killed in the street in broad daylight by the police
- women to be treated as equals by men, women, and all others alike and for everyone to recognize that just because it may not happen to you, it still happens
- for people to recognize the bi/pan/ace/aro community as a valid community
- recongize non-binary genders
- for chicken mcnuggets to maybe come in orders of 15 because you got 5, 10, and then 20 and I can eat 10 but I want more than that and 20 is too much please do something
- ban conversion therapy and pray the gay away sorts of things
I posted this on my website, EqualityAdvocation.com, originally. Here is the Buzzfeed edition.
I made a Buzzfeed version of my article that I posted on my website, listed above. Please read, reblog, and share!
Today, I went and came out to my 102 year-old great-grandmother, and told her about my girlfriend. I got a little love story in return.
Ok so I saw someone ask you about Christians and such. I'm a christian and I'm totally against gay marriage and abortion but I'm not judgmental like people usually generalize Christians to be. I'm not close minded as I've given my beliefs thought not just blurted them out. and I find it hypocritical that people can come out and say they're gay and people rejoice but if I speak against it I'm belittled. so I'm wondering am I a "judgmental christian" based on my beliefs?
I want to word this as well as I possibly can so as to not offend anyone, though knowing the tumblr community, it might.
Let’s start with the topic of gay marriage:
Members of the LGBT community (such as myself - I am a pansexual and therefore am considered LGBT+) are no different from heterosexual members of society aside from the fact that they have different love interests. And I understand that people will quote Leviticus 20:13 (don’t lie with another man blah blah blah) but Leviticus also banned shellfish and etc. So why pick and choose? Also, people are celebrating the fact that members of the LGBT community are coming out because they are feeling much more safe than they did 50 years ago, when it was written in the DSM that homosexuality was a mental disorder. You can have your beliefs but you should also accept that times are changing.
Now onto the topic of abortion:
It’s fine to be pro-life. Everyone has their own choices. But I wouldn’t want that enforced onto me. See, there’s the regular pro-lifers, as I see it, who are just against abortion in itself because they don’t want to take away potential life (and that’s fine), and then there’s the radical pro-lifers, who burn down abortion clinics, protest outside of them, and make the mothers who don’t want to keep those babies feel terrible and guilt them into making a decision they don’t want to. Being pro-choice DOESN’T mean we run around screaming “HEY GET AN ABORTION!” It just simply means that if the time ever comes, which most of us hope it never will, we will have that option.
I don’t think you’re a judgmental Christian based on your beliefs. I think that you just need to look at it from a different standpoint and understand where others are coming from.
Russian President Vladimir V. Putin has declared war on homosexuals.
What. The. FUCK.
Let's talk about how England and Wales just legalized gay marriage and the United States still can't figure out how to do that because most of the fucking country has their heads up their asses
The Queen has just signed marriage equality into law in England and Wales.
She is truly a Rainbow Queen