#LGBQ

[riddimtwink]

[red-hibiscus]

This will forever be one of my favorite panels from a manga ever. It's been my phone wallpaper for at least a year.

When I first read it, it hit me so hard cause I knew EXACTLY the emotions being depicted here. Emotions people who don't experience gender dysphoria ever will. And I've never and still have never seen a manga or anime show them so directly like this.

I remember that before I had top surgery I was in so much mental pain from my chest I wanted rip my chest off. I wanted to rip apart my skin because I felt that my true body was hiding underneath. I wasn't meant to be living in a body that looked the way it did.

That emotion right there perfectly encapsulates the pain I felt. He's clawing himself out of his outer skin and being emerging as the true self that was always there lying in wait.

Manga: boys run the riot

[yourdailyqueer]

Marcel Moore (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 19 July 1892  

RIP: 19 February 1972

Ethnicity: White - French

Occupation: Photographer, artist, illustrator

[she-is-ovarit]

When gay men, bisexuals, lesbians, and even the people who are questioning and exploring their sexualities communicate the boundary of, "don't call us queers", pushing against that boundary is a form of homophobic discrimination.

We don't like to be called "queer" because it can be a really retraumatizing word—especially for gay, lesbian, and bisexual elders. I wonder how often that was the last word that gay men affected with AIDs heard from someone they thought had loved them. I wonder how many gay men have been murdered while hearing that word, and how many of them had to be strong while hearing their partner's parents call them that word.

We don't like to be called "queer" because it obfuscates our relationships. "Queer" is a meaningless, ambiguous descriptor. It is disproportionately used to render lesbian relationships invisible, especially. We are more likely to see "queer women" and "queer relationship" referred to in the media in association to lesbians than "lesbians", "lesbian relationship", or "sapphic". And one of the core cruxes of the oppression of lesbians is invisibility—most of our history is unrecorded, even in comparison to gay men's. There exists very little research on us. There are less images of us, and when there are they are usually supremely sexualized. We are also the smallest population of people of the LGBQ and even T alphabet.

There are bisexuals out there, too, who don't want to be called "queer", because "queer" now is also associated with the kink and poly community. Bisexual women especially struggle with being targeted for male pleasure, so this word only furthers to subjugate them to being associated as a sexual object or a person with no boundaries.

We also don't like to be called "queer", because the whole point of the gay struggle and gay rights is to normalize people not associating us with being strange or different. We want people to consider our sexual orientations, relationships, and the expression thereof as normal. Diversity should be celebrated because it brings resilience to human systems, and how this diversity is recognized and percieved really matters. The terminology we choose to use influences this.

I understand the intention is to normalize the term and "reclaim" the slur, because as the theory goes normalizing a word makes it so an oppressor using it has no power. Ultimately, this falls flat, because it's not just about the term itself but rather how and in what context it's used. All we do when we "normalize" slurs is retraumatize people who grew up in a culture or time when their safety and security was threatened hearing it. "Normalizing" slurs also just encourages members outside of the given population to percieve us as "other" and often in an unconscious, derogatory way. Slurs carry a lot of associations with them that influence beliefs in nearly invisible ways.

I understand that some of you might be gay, lesbian, or bisexual and like applying the term to yourselves, but there are a subset of us who would really appreciate your help in pushing back against it being used so generally and broadly, to describe the entire community. It can be as simple as when someone else says "queer people", asking them to clarify specifically which group(s) of people they mean. It can be as easy as going out of your way to say "LGB community", or "LGBT", or to name the exact groups you're talking about. I understand the word might be meaningful or maybe healing for you in particular to use, but it can be really damaging when broadly applied.

[figdays]

Pride Critter Acrylic Pins // applepiyaa

[bi-trans-alliance]

“Trans kids, you are so loved!”

-From Trans Pride Brighton 2018

[pinkcandycatmakesart]

All Out With Pride Month 2023!

Part of the Official DeviantART's LGBTQ+ Pride Month: All Out With Pride

Here's mine but with an aesthetic The other one is with rainbow stars!

[fuzziekins]

Queer King

[squishymain]

Clawdeen Lesbian Icons/Backgrounds

[riddimtwink]

[maidenready-blog]

Les Chroniques de Morgan - Chapitre 4 (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1318542214-les-chroniques-de-morgan-chapitre-4?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=Maiden799&wp_originator=9NXgLYXmDQUp%2B7aBGMbuFebx2siIex77tOA366oH6T0rElZ8f10yRofWFFQkeVBL9gu6KnqDUjDb8JkjGfgWzjfeBwkViBwZcvuWRwburFO7VApcyjfamwrgqKx5cbAS Je résume les choix et les épisodes importants dans ma jeune vie.

[she-is-ovarit]

To my gay brothers, especially to those of you who are younger and more directly under this pressure, I hope you feel no guilt or shame for not wanting to sleep with someone of the female sex, for feeling uncomfortable or repulsed at the idea of having penis-in-vagina intercourse. This is woke homophobia. It's not okay for someone to guilt or shame you for having the sexual boundaries surrounding your sexual orientation that you have, or to coerce and pressure you into heterosexual sex. You are fine the way you are.

Some gay men really put 0 hours of work into unlearning their hatred of women’s bodies and anatomy it’s embarrassing. Like i’m super fucking sorry that you’ve got a pussy ick thing going on but i got over it after like one conversation with a friend and you’re 29 years old publicizing your pussy ick on twitter dot com dot gov posting about how super fucking hard it is that trans men are also in gay bars and that’s Not Valid because ewwww they have vacheena which is the opposite of gay eeewwwwwww! And you have to let everybody know that you’re gay not because you like men but because you hate pussy so much it makes you transphobic. Like how can you even continue to serve cunt in such a state

[she-is-ovarit]

"Queer" can't be defined. It has no clear definition. It's a catch-all term. This is why it's so destructive. When lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people in homosexual relationships start to be called "queer" (in the media or however), it obfuscates our sexual orientations.

If queer can be applied to anyone—be they heterosexual, bisexual, or homosexual— suddenly when the term is applied to us then the sexual orientations of gay and lesbian people and our relationships are obscured.

The Q used to stand for "questioning", and the erasure of this category is harmful. People who are questioning their sexual orientations deserve a place in the gay, bisexual, and lesbian community that is both recognized yet considered it's own thing.

[clwhowrites]

Prompt 23/9/24

A fundamentalist televangelist is sentenced to Hell after dying, part of his punishment is a tour of heaven, were he meats LGBQ+, furies, atheists, Wiccans, and other people he railed against in life.

[riddimtwink]