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This is beautiful, do they ship to EU?

I saw a sad facebook post from the gay bookstore back in Ann Arbor where I used to live about how they hadn’t sold any books that day so I went on their online store and bought a couple, and while you don’t get #deals like elsewhere online, I’d love it if y’all would consider buying your next gay book from them instead of like, Amazon.

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With all the other shit going on, people tend to forget that this is still happening.

Don't.

“A year on, we know that the situation is just as grave as it was when the story broke.”

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Yes, to all of this.

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Bless him, bless this, it's amazing, HIRE ME!!!

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Added to bucket list.

Oscar Wilde’s Lipstick-Covered Tomb | Via

The practice started in the late 1990s, when somebody decided to leave a lipstick kiss on the tomb. Since then lipstick kisses and hearts have been joined by a rash of red graffiti containing expressions of love, such as: “Wilde child we remember you”, “Keep looking at the stars” and “Real beauty ends where intellect begins”. Kissing Oscar’s tomb on the Paris tourist circuit has become a cult pastime.

A fine of €9,000 ($12,000) was imposed on anyone caught kissing or damaging the historical monument, but it had no effect. It was hard to catch people in the act, and most culprits were tourists who were long gone before the police could bring them to court. Appeals from Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland to stop the practice also fell on deaf ears. A plaque asking fans to respect the tomb instead of defacing it went in vain.

Meanwhile, those greasy red lipstick stains seeped into the stone making it harder and harder to clean. Every cleaning eroded a layer of stone rendering it even more porous, so the next cleaning had to go even deeper and wear away the stone even more.

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Fleeing Russian Homophobia

This post is more of a LGBTQ current event than a wlw historical post, but is nonetheless very important. Anastasia reached out to me, asking that I help get their story out. Please read:

Meet Esenia and Anastasia (and their daughter.) They lived in Russia for most of their lives until Putin’s law banning LGBTQ propoganda, which includes having a homosexual relationship, forced them to flee. Seeking a place where they could be free to be themselves, the family moved to a city called Kaliningrad in the hopes that people there might be more accepting.

Unfortunately, they were wrong. They were not allowed work and their daughter could not even attend school for very long. Because they were from another part of Russia, the school informed them that, unless they had special documents proving their daughter’s education, she would only have three months before they sent her to social services. Fearing that they might lose their daughter, they fled once again to Kiev, Ukraine.

The countries boardering Russia aren’t any more hospitable for members of the LGBTQ community, however. Esenia explains, “There’s lots of religious people in Georgia. People are spied on. In Belarus, you can be beaten up on the street and the police will do nothing about it, because the president says well they [the LGBTQ community] do not exist here.” But they had heard that Ukraine was different. They thought that, just maybe, they would not have to lie about who they were just to protect their own safety.

However, Ukraine did not prove to be much different. It was hard enough for them to even be able to find a place to stay due to the amount of homophobia in this country, but that was not where their problems ended. Anastasia and Esenia still cannot find work, their daughter has to be homeschooled, and they encounter homophobia even at the local grocery store. Esenia used to be a public school teacher, but now their only source of income is through online freelancing.

Their main goal in telling people about their situation is to warn others not to fall into their own footsteps. They wish to make sure that other members of the LGBTQ community fleeing homophobia in their own countries know that seeking refuge in Ukraine would be a mistake.

Here is the original article.

You can learn more about Esenia and Anastasia’s situation on Anastasia’s blog: @liumwind

Esenia and Anastasia want to leave Ukraine as soon as possible, but without work they are having a hard time even providing for themselves and their daughter. They hope to find a country where they can have jobs, where their daughter can attend public school, a place that will not discriminate against them for their sexual orientation, a place where they can live as themselves without fearing for their lives. Please do what you can to help this beautiful family get to their destination.

You can donate to their FundRazr here.

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Rebloging for a lesbian couple named Anne and Ann.

HOLY!!!!!!!!!!!! SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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This explains a lot.

If famous trans people were literary conflicts.

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Her life should be a book. Or a movie. Or a tv show.

Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world, and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.

(via Feminism)

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The weirdest part of queer dating apps

Are straight guys asking to be my slaves.

Sure, buddy, cook my dinner and clean my apartement while I take my girlfriend out on date.

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What is this show/movie/whatever and WHERE CAN I GET IT?

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Edward Carpenter

Often, the history of the queer community can only be found in whispers. When carefully kept records fail, by accident or malice, we must look for ourselves in between the lines of the world around us. Queer people leave a trail of breadcrumbs meant to speak only to others like them; symbols, side notes, carefully crafted sentences. And these breadcrumbs are what define the life of Edward Carpenter. (Read the full article here)

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When the Nazi concentration camps were liberated by the Allies, it was a time of great jubilation for the tens of thousands of people incarcerated in them. But an often forgotten fact of this time is that prisoners who happened to be wearing the pink triangle (the Nazis’ way of marking and identifying homosexuals) were forced to serve out the rest of their sentence. This was due to a part of German law simply known as “Paragraph 175” which criminalized homosexuality. The law wasn’t repealed until 1969.

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Thank you.

Hey since TERFs buried the original, higher quality recording, here’s the only surviving recording of trans activist Sylvia Rivera’s infamous “Y'all Better Quiet Down” speech, along with full transcription, now free and open on Archive.org. The transphobic fucks can try their best to scrub us from history, but we’re not going anywhere.

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This is interesting. 

You see, I come from Latvia. And Inga used to The Name during 60s/70s. My mother had four Ingas in her high school class alone. Ingrid was another favorite. Ingeborg, not so much. I had never heard of name Ingatora on Ingegerd till now.

Then the trend died out. I have met only one Inga my own age. 

I have no idea why this fascinates me, but it does. I mean, what do you mean Inga is not a real name? :D

Oh also about the name “Inga” sometimes used as a steorotypical swedish names in comedy etc

Inga is a nickname version of longer names which has inga/inge has a part of them. Swedes are useally not named nicknames as their official names.

People called Inga would actually named Ingegerd, Ingatora, Ingeborg and similiar (inge/inga are a building block in many norse iron age compound name which consists of 2 words, but I digress)

But ANYWAY Inga as a nickname for those long names has been old - fashioned sense like…. generations. Like. A 100 years haha.

Ingegerd and etc is also a bit old - fashioned currently but you are much more likely to to meet a “Ingeborg” in sweden than a “Inga”.

Honestly i do not think i have ever met someone who goes by Inga in sweden irl.

People named Ingeborg etc i have met though

(Admittly most of those people were my paternal great grandmother and her sisters, who all had names straight from iron age rune stones, which was very trendy during the turn of the last century in sweden)

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On January 30th, British-Trinidadian LGBT activist Jason Jones will go to the Trinidadian High Court to challenge the law which criminalises homosexual sex for both men and women in Trinidad, with punishments of up to 25 years imprisonment.

There are several things you can do to help:

Donate to Jones’ crowdfunding campaign to cover court fees, printing costs, and transport and security for his pro-bono lawyers

Read up and educate yourself and then others about this issue (here, here, here or here)

Listen and share this song (on Tidal, Spotify, or iTunes), produced by EQ Loves Music, and sung by Swedish-Trinidadian Sarah Elizabeth Hanson, and American-Tridanian Etzia Haylett, which they hope will act as an anthem for the LGBT community in Trinidad and Tobago and around the world

We wish Jason Jones and the people of Trinidad and Tobago the best of luck wit this case!

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Doing my best.

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make oscar wilde proud