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sits on my own blog like it’s the edge of a lake wistfully

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Filip Kvasnak

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is anybody gonna pet the gentle freak…….the gentle freak is gonna grow sad and anxious if nobody pets it……is nobody gonna pet the freak……nobody?…..nobody pet the gentle freak?…..

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Lestat in PRINCE LESTAT AND THE REALMS OF ATLANTIS

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it’s not easy being the naked in the window transsexual neighbor but someone has to do it

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ben daniels got his masters in cuntology with a concentration in fatherlogical studies from the university of servington

a quickish (~3hrs) study of santiago.

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Clarice Lispector, from "Too Much of Life Complete Chronicles," publ. in 2022

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Your local LGBTQ+ historian here with a TIMELY FACT: In May of 1933, the first books burned by the N@z! Party were looted from the library of The Institute for Sexual Science (ISS) in Berlin. This research facility was the world’s first sexology clinic. Founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, it promoted sex education, offered STI treatment, chronicled queer history and provided early forms of gender affirming medical care. The queer and trans community was among the first scapegoats of Germany’s fac!st regime.

History does, indeed, repeat itself.

Therein lies horror. And therein lies hope.

Because time and time again, the same old forces have tried to erase us and they always fail. Time and time again, their acts of hate inspire our acts of rebellion that push progress forward in response to their one, brutal step back. It shouldn’t have to be this way. But with every turn of the wheel, we thrive. If the study of history has taught me anything, it is that queer joy is as inevitable as spring.

FIGHT FOR US.

The 19th century painting featured is “Joan of Arc” by John Gilbert

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from "The Complete Novels of Mary Shelly,"

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the void

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Pieter van Hanselaere (1786-1862) "Suzanna and the Elders" (1820) Oil on canvas

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Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955