Tag: lgbtq stuff

tchaikovsgay:

definitelynotbritish:

secretlesbians:

Lesbian pulp covers from the 50s and 60s. See more here.
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like the aesthetic is cute but I hate how they’re all “strange desires! abnormal love!”

It’s not like we can pretend the 50s and 60s weren’t Like That

Also, OP’s “see more here” link takes you a really interesting, in-depth post about that very issue. It also provides important context for understanding this part of LGBTQ+ history and representation. A relevant passage:

Because of censorship laws in the US, authors were often forced to write bad endings for their gay heroines (suicide, mental asylums, a return to heterosexuality). But many of the books defied this convention and made bold statements affirming queer identities. In a reprint of Odd Girl Out, Ann Bannon

(the Queen of Lesbian Pulp)

writes about all the women around the US who read her books and wrote to her, recognising themselves in her work. They felt heard for the first time, like they weren’t alone. Without her books and the books of other lesbian pulp writers, literature for queer women probably wouldn’t exist today.

Lesbian pulp is lurid, often unintentionally hilarious, and pretty tame by modern standards, but it can also be really really beautiful. The pre-Stonewall era was fucked up in all kinds of ways, but it did produce some surprising and awesome lesbian fic.

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

aphony-cree:

sp8b8:

class-isnt-the-only-oppression:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

Happy Pride Month Eleanor Roosevelt was queer, the Little Mermaid is a gay love story, James Dean liked men, Emily Dickinson was a lesbian, Nikola Tesla was asexual, Freddie Mercury was bisexual & British Indian, and black trans women pioneered the gay rights movement.

Florence Nightingale was a lesbian, Leonardo da Vinci was gay, Michelangelo too, Jane Austen liked women, Hatshepsut was not cisgender, and Alexander the Great was a power bottom

Honestly just reblogging for that last one

Probably not historically backed but fuck yes

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote love letters to Lorena Hickok

Love letters Hans Christian Anderson wrote to Edvard Collin contain elements that appeared in The Little Mermaid, which he was writing at the same time

Several people who knew James Dean have talked about his relationships with men 

Letters and poems allude to a romance between Emily Dickinson and at least two women 

Nikola Tesla was adverse to touch. He said he fell in love with one women but never touched her and didn’t want to get married 

Freddie Mercury is well known for his attraction to men but was also linked to several women, including Barbara Valentin whom he lived with shortly before he died. Friends have talked about being invited into their bed and walking in on them having sex (documentary Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender) 

Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are two of the best-known activists who fought in the Stonewall riots

Florence Nightingale refused 4 marriage proposals and her letters and memoir suggest a love for women 

Leonardo da Vinci never married or fathered children, was once brought up on sodomy charges, and a sketch in one of his notebooks is 2 penises walking toward a hole labeled with the nickname of his apprentice 

Condivi said that Michelangelo often spoke exclusively of masculine love

Jane Austin never married and wrote about sharing a bed with women (Jane Austen At Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley)

Hatshepsut took the male title Pharaoh (instead of Queen Regent) and is depicted in art from the time the same way a male Pharaoh would have been

“Alexander was only defeated once…and that was by Hephaestion’s thighs.” is a 2,000 year old quote

I want to hire you to follow me around and defend my honor with meticulous research

watsonshoneybee:

“Let the rumors be true.” Janelle Monáe is not, she finally admits, the immaculate android, the “alien from outer space/The cybergirl without a face” she’s claimed to be over a decade’s worth of albums, videos, concerts and even interviews – she is, instead, a flawed, messy, flesh-and-blood 32-year-old human being. 

And she has another rumor to confirm. “Being a queer black woman in America,” she says, taking a breath as she comes out, “someone who has been in relationships with both men and women – I consider myself to be a free-ass motherfucker.” She initially identified as bisexual, she clarifies, “but then later I read about pansexuality and was like, ‘Oh, these are things that I identify with too.’ I’m open to learning more about who I am.”

Janelle Monae Frees Herself, Rolling Stone April 2018 (x)

gaytranswerewolf:

gaytranswerewolf:

i never, ever thought another man could love me. not like this. i was convinced for years that being trans meant that i was unloveable and undesirable.

but you know that post that goes, “all i want is a partner who is way out of my league but thinks that i’m way out of their league and we’ll live together in perfect confused harmony with a dog”?

that’s us.

trans dudes who like dudes, especially if you’re young and feeling real hopeless–don’t worry, it’ll happen. you CAN find a man who loves you–gross, mushy, sappy love–who’ll nurse you through your surgeries, cook dinner with you four or five times a week, whose body meshes just right against yours… who, years on, still stuns you with your shared vulnerability and trust, with his laugh, with how you can see the freckles in his eyes when your faces are pressed together; with how your skittish pulse slows in his arms, or that when you’re both half-asleep, he’ll press a kiss between your shoulderblades and pull you closer to him…

tl;dr: being a gay trans man doesn’t doom you to a life without love. hang in there.

update: it’s 2018. we’ve been together for 3.5 years and we’re now engaged. i have a job i love even though i don’t have enough hours and i’m getting bottom surgery this fall. i love my tiny gay family–this was our photo for our new year’s card (from last summer, my hair is to my shoulders now and i look dreamy as hell)–and it looks like winter is finally over and our apricot and nectarine trees are blooming and the garlic shoots in our garden are tall and so green and there’s daffodils in the backyard. i’m going to plant roses and some forsythia in the front once we get married.

true love is real, y’all. don’t count yourself out just for being trans.

jacktellslies:

wanderlustexperience:

bisexualsaregreat:

rachelcockspert:

bisexualsaregreat:

Fact: bisexuals make up a majority of the LGBT population.

Fact: the majority of bisexuals are closeted.

Theory: If all bisexual people came out, straight people would no longer be the majority. 

Do we really make up a majority? Cause the way we’re erased i had no idea. Like really. I thought we were in minority…

The Human Rights Commission of San Francisco released a groundbreaking report on Bisexual Invisibility in 2010 which revealed that, even though only 28% of bisexuals are out (compared to 71% of lesbians and 77% of gay men.) bisexuals out-number gays and lesbians combined, Many studies have followed which verify this data. 

There’s also been several studies that have shown that a large percentage of millennials don’t consider themselves exclusively attracted to one gender

Whaaaaat.

tenderlesbian:

the whole “no one is straight or gay” thing is Bad because 1.) you’re saying that straight people, aka our oppressors, aren’t really straight and can be included in our community 2.) you aren’t progressive for saying gay men and lesbians don’t exist lmao you sound like a conservative