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If you think heterophobia is a thing you can unfollow me

Homophobia- - hate crimes - verbal and sexual and physical harassment - slurs - in my state you can get kicked out if they even think you’re gay - we had to fight for our rights to get married - being lgbt+ is illegal in parts of South American and can be punished with prison time. - a women tried to make it legal in California to shoot any gay person you saw - people have to live in fear that their family won’t accept them - FUCKING CONVERSION CAMPS ARE A THING AND PART OF TRUMPS CREW THINKS THEY’RE A OKAY - only a few states have banned conversion camps. - lgbt+ people are beaten - people have more problems with trans people using their bathroom than with all the priests molesting children in the Catholic Church - my father believes that rape is way better than being lgbt+ - I could literally go on with this Heterophobia- - gays making jokes about the straights ™

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The story behind The Laundress.

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carrie fisher and george michael were both loud and unapologetic about existing as themselves and THAT is the spirit i want to carry forward into 2017

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And for you, we will.

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That moment of utter disappointment LGBT people go through every now and then

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One of the things that really blew my mind when I was younger was the realization that Christians don’t read the entire bible every year.

See, Jews read part of the Torah every week in services. (We have disruptions for holidays, but those are minimal.) We read it every year, beginning to end to beginning again. We have a holiday, Simchat Torah, that celebrates having completed the story and ritually rewinding the scrolls. We literally read Deuteronomy 34 and then Genesis 1.

It occurred to me, after learning that this was not the way everyone did it, that there were probably people in Christianity who have never heard the whole story in order, only the parts their priests want to talk about in whatever context they’re placed in. And that’s so weird to me.

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Attention all lesbians who want a family

You and your wife and your kids are going to be absolutely adorable and you can be the most soccer-mom-y mom around if you want.

You are going to have an adorable family whether you adopt or use a donor or whatever else you might do. Your kids are going to me extra lucky to have two awesome moms and your family pictures are going to make everyone jealous.

👭❤👭❤👭❤👭 all lesbians who want to be moms and have families are awesome and yall are doing great 💖💖💖💖💖💖

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carrie fisher isn’t just princess leia. carrie fisher isn’t just an actress we all admire from a famous series of movies made a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. carrie fisher isn’t just another name on the list of shitty things 2016 has done to people i admire.

carrie fisher is a woman who struggled with addiction and mental illness and never sugar coated it - she spoke honestly, openly, about every ugly truth, and made me so much less ashamed of the things i struggle with in my daily life.

carrie fisher is a woman who fought back against body shaming and misogyny, against agesim, who looked at critics and said “yes, i am a woman who has aged, and had children, and struggled with depression and addiction and my body has changed, so you can just shut the fuck up and deal with it”, and it was absolutely beautiful.

carrie fisher is a woman who was placed in the role of “princess” but didn’t conform to the typical hollywood idea of what a princess should be. she’s loud, brash, crass, and unapologetic for being so.

she’s an idol and an inspiration and she’s a woman who saved my life many times just by being who she was and never shying away from it or feeling the need to say sorry. carrie fisher is so much and more and i cannot begin to stomach the thought of 2016 taking her away from me, from her family, from the rest of the world and those of us who love her so dearly.

i love you, space momma. we all do. keep fighting the good fight.

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here’s to the lesbians who know that being a lesbian, isn’t always pretty. 

here’s to the lesbians who fought against internalized homophobia for months and years, denying their attraction to girls because society told them it was wrong.

here’s to the lesbians who dealt with internalized lesbophobia, who taught themselves it was okay to be gay, but love between women was untouchable.

here’s to the lesbians who grit their teeth and bear constant heteronormative remarks from their classmates, coworkers, friends, and family members on a daily basis.

here’s to the lesbians who are angry at the world for creating compulsory heterosexuality, who kick and scream when someone tries to force them into a box, and get told to “lay off” and “people would listen to you more if you were nicer.”

here’s to the lesbians who identified as bisexual, heterosexual, and anything else before suddenly realizing sexuality isn’t just about keeping your options open.

here’s to the lesbians who were perfectly validated in their attraction to girls, but told they couldn’t ever be one, who are misgendered and disrespected by cis people who call them “men wearing dresses”.

here’s to the lesbians who aren’t always girls, who only feel comfortable using neopronouns, “they”, or even “he.” 

here’s to the lesbians who are terrified of having sex with men, and in general, and the lesbians who love sex, or use it as a coping mechanism. the lesbians who are repulsed by sex, the lesbians who are hypersexual, and every lesbian in between.

here’s to the lesbians who have experienced corrective rape firsthand, and are struggling to restore the light inside them again.

here’s to the lesbians who are neurodivergent, and feel hopeless sometimes because the world wasn’t built for people like us. 

here’s to the lesbians who break stereotypes, 

the lesbians who embody stereotypes, 

the lesbians that take pride in their identity,

the lesbians that wish they could be anything but,

the lesbians who are ready to show the world who they are,

the lesbians who don’t want to come out, no matter the reason,

your feelings are valid. you are one of us, and we deserve so much more than what the world has to offer.

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date a girl from night vale, where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while you pretend to sleep

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Every time. 

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Use Carrie Fisher’s memory as inspiration in your own life. Love yourself unabashedly. Realize that your mental health is just as important as your physical health and deserves just as much attention and care. Don’t tolerate anyone who tries to make you feel weak, ugly, or insignificant. 

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do you ever sit and think about your female ancestors and like how many of them endured forced marriages, sexual abuse, physical violence and complete deprivation of education and autonomy and suffered silently for literally centuries. going through pregnancies and child birth without modern medicine, having multiple children and watching most of them die before the age of five because that was just the way of life back then? and ultimately you are a product of their pain? i think about them a lot and then i think about how many women continue to share their reality in this current year 

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My mom has done something incredible.

I want to tell you guys a story.

A few years ago, I came out to my mom the morning after my senior prom. She was surprised, then quiet, then asked what my real orientation was. I said, “I have no idea, but I like this one girl.” She was a little confused, but she kissed me and said, “As long as she makes you happy.” For the next few weeks, she asked a lot of questions: when did I realize? What was my new girlfriend’s orientation? What was the word for this or that? I WAS happy, right?

Fast forward about two years. My mom sits me down and tells me that she needs my help with her next book. She’s been writing middle-grade girls’ books (like, 9-14 range) since I was eight, and she says she has an idea that she really, really wants to get right. It follows the plot of Romeo and Juliet, she says, and the main character is a twelve-year-old girl realizing she has a crush on another girl when they put on the play for English class.

Fast forward another year to now. STAR-CROSSED is about to come out, and it is absolutely amazing.

My mom has poured her heart and soul into making sure this is a positive thing for kids to read. I’ve been reading and editing and helping with this book since its first draft and I’ve been, metaphorically and sometimes literally bouncing up and down on my heels, waiting to be able to tell people about it. It’s beyond sweet, and there’s a ton of Shakespeare and humor and goofy preteen drama and twelve-year-old girls flirting and Star Wars jokes and a glossary of Shakespearean insults in the back (yes, really), and it’s just so fun and positive and smart and I want to show it to every kid I know.

This book is for LGBT kids, written by a mom who has asked questions and done her research and tried as hard as she possibly could to make her own queer kid feel safe and loved and valid, and it REALLY shows. Mattie (the cutie on the left) and Gemma (the cutie on the right) are given space to learn about themselves, and ultimately they don’t have to figure themselves out right away or come out to everyone at once or choose a label. They’re kids. It’s okay to still be figuring things out. It’s okay. 

Fun facts: 

My mom said from the beginning she wanted both girls on the cover to make it clear what the book was about; then when they got the final artwork and Mattie’s hair was short, my mom wrote back and asked the artist to do the hair over to make it as obvious as possible that Mattie is a girl. 

When a few people started buzzing about Mattie being the youngest bisexual protagonist they’ve seen, she went back and changed passages to confirm that Mattie likes boys and girls. 

When I asked for a happier and less ambiguous ending scene, she set Mattie and Gemma up on a frigging date. 

It comes out on March 14, 2017. Please join me in GETTING HYPE FOR STAR-CROSSED <3

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PSA

theres a new product by verzion called “hum” that allows your parents to track your car and places you go, if your parents are controlling like mine please check under your steering wheel to make sure that they havent installed this

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George Michael’s life was constantly trailed by homophobic media that painted him as a sexual deviant and a drug addicted train wreck “corrupted” by the gay lifestyle. In reality, George Michael was an artist who, for a large portion of his life, was forced to hide his sexuality and live a lie in a pre-millennium society that emotionally punished anybody whose orientation challenged heteronormative expectations. Let us not forget the paths paved by people like George Michael: those who bravely came out during a time when closet doors were locked from the outside.

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what they say: I hate tumblr

what they mean: even though I am grateful tumblr helped me being more aware of social issues this site is taking these too far and has developed some kind of mob mentality which seems to take it as their duty to punish every "problematic" thing anyone has ever done, completely ignoring that they never were perfect themselves.

Their harassment is almost always over the top, and the mob happily goes after anyone as long as someone can claim it's been an act of oppression.

Therefore posting an opinion is very risky and accompanied with literal fear of harassment as this mob does not know when to stop, and cases of doxing have never been criticized either, and if I were to post legit criticism on some oppressed group I had a 50% chance to find people agreeing with me and 50% chance to be treated like the fucking antichrist.