Racing Turtles

that old butch les survey where one of the Qs was like “who is your butch role model?” n most of the butches answers was jst gay men. like soooo tru besties

this oneee, from Dagger: On Butch Women

peak solidarity! god i love being gay

faceless gay men who run uncategorisable aesthetic blogs are the unsung heroes of this website. they'll log on for an hour and post 10 pictures in a row and it's like

%90 of lgbt representation on big tv shows looks like this

facts @/gayseball tags

that old butch les survey where one of the Qs was like “who is your butch role model?” n most of the butches answers was jst gay men. like soooo tru besties

this oneee, from Dagger: On Butch Women

peak solidarity! god i love being gay

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

they're behind a paywall so:

#fckin. 'a GAY man????' what because they love men themselves? you're that threatened????

i know im double reblogging and my first response to this was a meme but this is really the thing.

anon i am going to try to give you the benefit of the doubt here and assume that you are a binary-woman butch lesbian who feels very strongly about your womanhood and your lesbianism. a lot of other binary woman lesbians feel the way you feel.

what you may not know is that those feelings, and the rhetoric of your message, have a history in a movement called "lesbian separatism". which evolved directly into the modern terf movement, and in addition to that transphobia also involves a lot of lateral homophobia (towards gay men) and biphobia (towards bi men for being men, and bi women for "letting" men near them)

the idea that any interaction with any man is inherently dirty or dangerous or politically wrong, the idea that gay men and bi people of any gender have nothing in common with lesbians and that none of us have anything we can learn from each other, the idea that lesbianism is pure womanhood and the purest type of womanhood is lesbianism. it all leads to and from the same place, and that place is a community that suffocates itself to death.

the truth is that we have always been connected to each other. there have always been people who blur the lines of man and woman and gay and bi and lesbian. there have always been lesbians caring for the men dying of aids, and f*ggots in the dyke bars, and bearding together to survive families and cops and every other basher.

we have always had more in common than we have had in difference.

i hope this is news to you. i hope you can read more of your own community's history, dear butch woman lesbian, and i hope you can rethink this instinct to reject men and maleness wholesale for the sake of keeping your lesbianism pure and untainted.

i don't want you to suffocate.

i feel like young modern lesbians have this idea that the lesbians of the 80's and 90's took care of men dying of aids as this saintly Mother Theresa kind of thing. like they were pure saints motivated by nothing but benevolence who came down from their high shining lesbian towers to minister to the poor degraded savages.

but like. dykes and fags took care of each other because they were friends and siblings. they were part of the same community. they loved and connected with each other as actual people with a lot in common. because lesbians aren't a separate goddamn species of human being.

𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐚 𝐊𝐢𝐭𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐚𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐛 𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐈 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐧, 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟒. 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐆𝐁𝐓𝐐+ 𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐚𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟖. 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐬, 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐧𝐚𝐦 𝐰𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟖 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧’𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐲, 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 “𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐜” 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚-𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬: “𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐲 𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞. 𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐚 𝐊𝐢𝐭𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. 𝐈'𝐦 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭. 𝐈 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐲 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝.”

A hand-colored photo from 1935 to 1940 of a group of gay men, taken in jail, after they had been arrested for “public indecency,” in Mexico City. I’m amazed by the attitude of some of these men, posing defiantly and glamorously in such adverse conditions.