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Flags again

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It wasn’t just my Pride flag that got torn down. (Course, I say torn down but I didn’t actually see that. It could have been that the wind just blew it away. I kind of doubt it given the area I’m in, though.) They’re being torn down elsewhere in Leicester in direct acts of intimidation towards LGBT people.

Someone posted about it on r/leicester. I joined in. It wasn’t fun. There was the “clearly a hoax, no LGBT person has ever been abused” person:


The people who insist they’re not allowed to fly the English flag despite one flying in virtually every town for as far back as people can remember:


Guys who just really, really want to be allowed to say the r-word:


And same old tiresome , tiresome storybook monsters who think I’m a fool and a hypocrite for caring about other people.

Meanwhile, people have been killed for flying Pride flags.

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biglawbear:

butch-reidentified:

butch-reidentified:

mellivorinae:

capitulism:

The largest mass shooting in American history was a hate crime against gay people. Don’t ever forget that.

June 12, 2016. Putting a date on this for when it gets reblogged months from now by people who think the post is about something from 30, 40 years ago.

I am a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting, having grown up in Orlando and just turned 20 a month prior. If you didn’t know, there were several families who refused to claim the bodies of their relatives due to their sexuality. One family even had their relative’s name removed from the memorial. Murdered by the same hate with which their families reject them in both life and death.

Many, many people celebrated Pulse. We were told we deserved it. That it was God’s punishment for our sin of loving the same sex. We are sent messages like these I received in 2018:

We in the community often call the victim count 49+ to include the survivors who couldn’t live with the pain.

The event was never officially declared a hate crime or targeted homophobic attack and is rarely listed as one in databases.

At our vigils for those slaughtered, Extremist Christian groups showed up to protest, holding signs like this:

ID: Me kissing a woman I was casually seeing in front of an angry looking man with a “Sodomy is Sin” sign.

Please understand how much more than just a mass shooting this was. We are still to this day harassed and told we deserved it by some.

This year was the sixth anniversary. The first couple years I received dozens of messages checking in on me on 6/12. Year 5 got enough news coverage for people to think to reach out to me. This year it was my therapist, the woman I kissed in that photo, and a couple of other gun violence survivor friends. People are forgetting already.

With the 7 year anniversary <2 weeks away, I figured I’d reblog this

Orlando was my home. Pulse was the first nightclub that I ever went to. I have so many memories. I knew people there that night. And now? With all the attacks on queer people in Florida and around the country? It hurts. It hurts so much.

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moonlandingwasfaked:

butchcommunist:

bataillemeup:

butchcommunist:

butchcommunist:

The president of the United States made a “joke” that his vice president “wants to hang [LGBT people]” in 2017.

How am I supposed to wake up to news like this and not believe war of some variety is coming, after the DoJ stripping protections for transgender students specifically very early in the administration, the DoJ saying existing rules about sex stereotryping and sex discrimination don’t necessarily apply to LGBT people, Pence’s official support of conversion therapy in Indiana, etc.

“When the conversation turned to gay rights, Trump motioned toward Pence and joked, “Don’t ask that guy—he wants to hang them all!”

(and also x)

IMPORTANT NEWS,  PLEASE READ AND SPREAD

Word coming from a comrade out of Ohio that fascists are putting up explicitly anti-LGBT posters referencing and encouraging suicide of LGBT people at Cleveland State University and that the administration is allowing this blatant hate speech as “free speech.” There is currently a massive emboldening happening on the far right- these people are not afraid to speak out as they once were, and we need to bash back and put these people back in their place- online forums and 6 feet under. Pictures attached, please be aware they are potentially upsetting:

Ronald M. Berkman can take his free speech and shove it up his homophobe-embracing asshole.

Here is his twitter. Blow it the hell up: https://twitter.com/PresBerkman

Here is his email. Flood his inbox so that he sees nothing else for pages:
President.Berkman@csuohio.edu 

Here is the address of his office where you can send letters or news stories about the tons of LGBT people being murdered and killing themselves and ask him how he supports speech encouraging that kind of violence:

Cleveland State University President’s Office

2121 Euclid Avenue

Cleveland,
OH
44115-2214

Please reblog this immediately and send an email that says, if nothing else, “Shame on you for protecting homophobes and outright fascists on your campus. If there is another instance of fascist violence on your campus, like there was in Charlottesville, there will be blood on your hands.”

You’re right. Hate speech isn’t protected under the first amendment. Hate speech is legally defined as something intentionally to cause harm to minority groups.

The supreme court of America has ruled time and time again that hate speech isn’t protected under the first amendment

posters advocating for suicide of ANYONE is hate speech, this is of course illegal.

#LGBTCoachella

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beachdeath:

This morning, Consequence of Sound reported that the owner of Coachella, Philip Anschutz, has donated vast sums of money to anti-LGBT causes.

Specifically, he financially supported Colorado’s Amendment 2, which would have allowed private property owners and employers to discriminate against LGBT people. According to the Washington Post, he has also donated to the Alliance Defending Freedom, the National Christian Foundation, and the Family Research Council, all of which staunchly oppose LGBT rights.

Many LGBT people have performed at Coachella in the past, and many will perform this year. Philip Anschutz is hiring LGBT artists to perform at his festival, collecting millions in admission fees from LGBT fans, and using that money to undermine LGBT rights.

So, what can we do?

A straight-up boycott of Coachella is untenable. This year’s festival sold out within seconds. And I don’t believe that there’s anything to be gained from refusing to support the many LGBT artists who will be performing.

But the New York City band Show Me the Body have publicly denounced Philip Anschutz’s homophobia, and will hold a special benefit performance prior to Coachella to benefit homeless LGBT youth.

That sounds like a good idea to me, and I think more Coachella artists need to get on board, publicly denounce Philip Anschutz’s homophobia, and – if it is within their means – donate a portion of their proceeds to benefit LGBT people.

To that end, I’ve compiled a complete list of every artist that will be performing at Coachella, along with links to their Twitter and Facebook profiles. I’ve also included links to the Twitter and Facebook profiles of record labels whose artists are performing at Coachella.

Keep in mind that @ing a label can be more effective and direct than @ing an artist, as label accounts are routinely monitored by dedicated social media staff.

There are about 300 links in total. This literally took me three hours. I would dearly, dearly appreciate it if you would take a moment to send the #LGBTCoachella hashtag to your favourite artists and labels, and ask them to make some gesture to materially benefit the LGBT community. You can also send them this link to the article exposing Anschutz’s homophobic donations.

Thank you so much in advance; please reblog and share this post and the Google Doc.

Links to the Twitter and Facebook profiles of nearly every artist and label on the Coachella roster are in this Google Doc.

Daily Beast potentially outs LGBT athletes in controversial Olympic Grindr hook-up article [TW: Homophobia, Anti-Gay Bigotry]

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Daily Beast potentially outs LGBT athletes in controversial Olympic Grindr hook-up article [TW: Homophobia, Anti-Gay Bigotry]

pro-gay:

alolagay:

tpfnews:

US news and entertainment website The Daily Beast has published a controversial article about the ease of getting a date with Olympic athletes via Grindr.

Journalist Nico Hines, who is straight, logged onto Grindr in an attempt to meet LGBT athletes, many of whom may not be open about their sexuality.

The exact reason for doing so remains unclear, but the article seems to be focused on poking fun at male competitors – who may not be able to date openly – trying to meet up through an app.

Hines also reveals information about the men he has spoken to in the article – information which could potentially be used to identify them, including athletes from countries where being openly LGBT is potentially dangerous.

In one particular instance, he published the exact height, weight and nationality of an athlete from a country where discrimination and violence against the LGBT community is widespread (the info will not be shared here, out of respect of the person involved):

The [height], [weight]. athlete from [nationality], who sent his address, had a Rio 2016 duvet cover as his main picture. His profile read “I’m looking for sex” in both English and [language].

He asked for “a sex foto” but I’m a bit of a prude like that, so I sent a selfie from the fencing earlier this week.

The country in question is not one represented by any of the 48 openly gay athletes competing at the Games, leaving no doubt that the athlete messaged by Hines is closeted.

Attempting to justify his presence on the app, Hines wrote:

For the record, I didn’t lie to anyone or pretend to be someone I wasn’t—unless you count being on Grindr in the first place—since I’m straight, with a wife and child. I used my own picture (just of my face…) and confessed to being a journalist as soon as anyone asked who I was.

Many were quick to point out the unjustifiably salacious – and potentially dangerous – nature of the article.

“These hookup apps exist to protect us from YOU,” wrote one user. “We have to hide, in plain sight, because you still don’t get it, or us.”

Another added: “Unless queer outing is now an Olympic sport, can we just all agree that @NicoHines piece is outright homophobia? Needs to be withdrawn.”

hile this year’s Olympics has more out LGBT athletes than ever before, many sportspeople still fear coming out because of reactions from fans, or the impact it may have on sponsorship deals.

There have also been reports of homophobic chanting taking place at certain events.

Let’s hope the positive stories of LGBT athletes representing their countries outweighs the moments of bigotry and ignorance that undermine just how far The Games have come.

this is so disgusting when will straight people stop

“looking for sex”, “asked for a sex foto” not only is this vile he also made up the most random homophobic garbage bcs hey thats how all homos talk amirite

 

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maudnewton:

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wildwomanofthewoods:

mindblowingfactz:

In a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them.
–Source

One person who found the courage to push the wheel is Ruth Coker Burks. Now a grandmother living a quiet life in Rogers, in the mid-1980s Burks took it as a calling to care for people with AIDS at the dawn of the epidemic, when survival from diagnosis to death was sometimes measured in weeks. For about a decade, between 1984 and the mid-1990s and before better HIV drugs and more enlightened medical care for AIDS patients effectively rendered her obsolete, Burks cared for hundreds of dying people, many of them gay men who had been abandoned by their families. She had no medical training, but she took them to their appointments, picked up their medications, helped them fill out forms for assistance, and talked them through their despair. Sometimes she paid for their cremations. She buried over three dozen of them with her own two hands, after their families refused to claim their bodies. For many of those people, she is now the only person who knows the location of their graves.

How have I never heard of this?

People like her should be remembered. And even more importantly, we must remember that there was a time in our history when we needed someone like her.

“When Burks was a girl, she said, her mother got in a final, epic row with Burks’ uncle. To make sure he and his branch of the family tree would never lie in the same dirt as the rest of them, Burks said, her mother quietly bought every available grave space in the cemetery: 262 plots. They visited the cemetery most Sundays after church when she was young, Burks said, and her mother would often sarcastically remark on her holdings, looking out over the cemetery and telling her daughter: ‘Someday, all of this is going to be yours.’

‘I always wondered what I was going to do with a cemetery,’ she said. ‘Who knew there’d come a time when people didn’t want to bury their children?’” 

Wonderful woman. Wonderful story.

That is an amazing story and I’m glad I know it now.

School suspends gay student for bringing “unwanted publicity” to their anti-gay homecoming policy

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School suspends gay student for bringing “unwanted publicity” to their anti-gay homecoming policy

gaywrites:

Lance Sanderson, the high school senior who was told he couldn’t bring a same-sex date to homecoming, was suspended from school for a week because of the “unwanted publicity” he brought upon his school for taking the story to the media. 

“I am disappointed that I am unable to sit in class today,” Sanderson told NewNowNext. “While many assignments can be reached online, I was going to take two tests today and an in-class timed essay. Tomorrow at CBHS, I was going to meet with admissions representatives from around the country (they do not visit often). I hope to be welcomed back into a classroom setting soon.”

Sanderson did send a letter to his school documenting today’s events, wherein he recounts being “told that the administration ‘had 890 other students to worry about’ and could not deal with me.”

“I haven’t done anything wrong and haven’t hurt anybody,” Sanderson continued in his letter, which has yet to receive a response. “I want to be welcomed back to the school building today and I want this mean-spirited semi-suspension ended, so that I can do my classwork like anybody else.”

So now we’re keeping kids out of school because they spoke up and asked about a discriminatory policy? What the literal hell?

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