#LGBTQ+ advocacy

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A Tribute to Tammy Faye Bakker: The Televangelist's Legacy

A Tribute to Tammy Faye Bakker For anyone intrigued by the life and legacy of Tammy Faye Bakker — the vibrant televangelist who captured hearts in the 1980s — there are numerous ways to explore her story. You can watch the insightful documentary and the heartfelt biopic titled “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” or delve into her autobiography, “Tammy: Telling It My Way.” Additionally, there is a wealth of…

[transsexualfiend]

Repeat after me: kink is not a "gateway" to committing a crime.

[intersexfairy]

it's not intersexist to acknowledge that intersexness can result from a health condition or be related to one. intersex is an umbrella term for a variety of experiences, including ones involving disability, and it's okay and important to admit that. we don't gain anything by throwing intersex people who experience complications from their variation/related condition under the bus.

but even beyond that, we don't have to separate ourselves from disability in order to prove we deserve human rights. our variations being linked to chronic illness wouldn't mean that all the medical abuse towards us is founded. disabled and intersex people all have a right to bodily autonomy and proper healthcare that needs to be upheld.

even if our sex nonconformity were somehow universally an illness, intersex and disabled people have a right to exist. just as much as abled and dyadic people do. there is no "proving" that we have human rights - that is something we all inherently have.

[lgbtq-refugees]

Dear Friends,🙏🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

We are reaching out to ask for your support in building a shelter for trans kids, providing them with the safety and care they deserve. Our goal is to raise $1,000 to make this vital resource a reality. https://linktr.ee/lgbtqrefugees

Your intervention is crucial—please consider donating and sharing this message. Together, we can create a positive change in our community. Thank you for your kindness and support!

[themagicfolfsartgallery]

Since it's Intersex Awareness Day tomorrow I decided to make an info Pamphlet for anyone to use!

Below are the links the QR codes use, and a printable version for... well, printing!

Printable PDF Version

Dr. Morgan Carpenter's website

Tony Briffa's Story

Steph Lum's speech, not a TEDx talk

[ash-the-fluffy-cat]

it would be really nice if we stop telling people how they should live their lives or touching people without permission, especially strangers.

Stop telling people that they should be with someone of the opposite gender.

Stop telling people that they are too pretty or too young to be disabled.

Stop telling people that they should smile more.

Stop telling people that they don’t look masculine enough or feminine enough to be their own gender.

Stop moving people in wheelchairs out of your way.

Stop grabbing the arms of people with white canes or guide dogs and “helping” them cross the street.

Stop touching service dogs, I know they’re cute, but that distracts them.

Stop seeing people who are different as objects that you control.

[jeremywhitley]

Disability in Navigating with You

I wrote a long thread over on twitter about the representation of our protagonist with cerebral palsy / CP over on twitter if you want to read that. https://x.com/jrome58/status/1813569339855187975

Also, I don't blame you if you don't want to. That place is rough these days. Basically, it breaks down to this: I created a cool character with CP as a supporting character in Unstoppable Wasp and through that met a cool reader and writer with CP named Quade Reed. As anybody who has read Unstoppable Wasp can guess, I didn't get to do as much with Taina Miranda as I would have liked so...

When I got the chance to write a romance story in comics, I wanted to include a character with a physical disability, something way too uncommon in both comics and romance stories. So, I created Neesha Sparks, a black teen girl with CP and I brought Quade in to help as an authenticity reader. Let me say now, you can order this book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Navigating-With-You/Jeremy-Whitley/9781952303609

I brought in some other readers, especially when it came to talking about some of the intersectional areas of Neesha's identity. Throughout the process, one of the biggest things that came up was that disability, when it's portrayed, is frequently portrayed as one thing that has one answer, when it's actually a daily series of challenges and having to explain to people what's going on with your body and why you need what you need in a way that any of us would find intrusive. I said a lot more in the twitter post, but mostly I just want to share some cool art work from this book. So, here is some excerpts from the book about Neesha, Gabby, and disability.

[ashleymilesphil]

Hello world🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈❤️🙏

It has been a while since I last made a post here, but today, I’m here with a heavy heart and a message that needs to be heard: the lives of LGBTQ refugees in East Africa have not improved. Daily persecution is still the norm, and discrimination and hate have become the air we breathe. Each day, we face attacks physical, emotional, and systemic from both local communities and authorities.

So many queer personalities, community leaders, and advocates have fallen victim to death due to the rampant homophobia. We have lost friends, partners, and allies. Being LGBTQ is still criminalized, and that leaves us no room for protection, no opportunity for justice. When violence strikes, when our lives are endangered, any hope of legal recourse is nearly impossible.

I speak not just for myself, but for a community of resilient survivors who endure unimaginable hardships to simply exist. And yet, the world seems to have forgotten us. Our cries for help have too often fallen on deaf ears.

Let me take this moment, once again, to call for global solidarity. Stand with us the silenced queers of East Africa. Your voices amplify ours. Your support gives us strength. Together, we can keep the fight alive, even when everything seems hopeless.

With hope and resilience,

Ashley 🏳️‍⚧️

[innermost-memoirs]

Minorities getting representation in media, or even just being, whether that be in public or online, is not "woke" or "catering".

These people exist. It's a basic fact of reality. Step into a busy city centre and you will be surrounded by people of all different races, sexes, genders, religions, nationalities, appearances, and statuses.

The human race is incredibly diverse. Homogeny is non-existent. Trans people, gay people, people of color, and disabled people have always existed and aren't going to disappear just to preserve your fragile comfort.

I find it incredibly ironic that right wingers constantly accuse us of being sensitive, delusional, or attention seeking when they can't even handle the existence of a woman with brown skin, let alone blue hair or pronouns.

[waitmyturtles]

MIX!

And:

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[frostralia]

I Support Black Trans Futures 🩷 Please look into supporting the Black Trans Advocacy Coalition. It's a wonderful Black-Trans led organization dedicated to advancing the rights of Black Transgender people. We can all build a better world for everybody.

🩷 Frost

[shedontlovehuhself]

Every now and then I remember this.

[alwaysinbetweeninsaneandinsecure]

This queer family has had a harrowing journey with becoming political refugees of an anti-trans state and then becoming unhoused. They managed to get housed BUT their new home is majorly inaccessible. They need help to add a stairlift so that members of the family can safely and easily access their basic needs. Please give what you can and please reblog! Alternative ways to contribute to this family's well-being (and avoid GFM's fees):

V*nmo & C*sh*app: SoundsFromGinen (organizer of this fundraiser on behalf of the family)

V*nmo & C*sh*app: BlackTransParent (the parent of this family, Tae)

[epic-sorcerer]

Extremely unfriendly reminder

It is ableist to doubt someone’s allosexuality /alloromantism simply because they are disabled.

It is infantilizing to not take us seriously with we clearly state who we are and just deside you somehow know better. We are not stupid.

It is a stereotype that we are all aroace. That we are incapable of understanding or feeling romantic or sexual feelings. Or acting apon them. I even heard a horror story where someone was forcably wheeled out of health class when sex Ed started.

And this goes for everyone. The two people who have done this were both disabled and asexual /aromantic . I was not questioning my sexuality or romantic orientation, I simply mentioned I was allo, disbaled, and couldn’t date or have sex because of it. “Are you suuure you’re not aromantic?” It’s just awful.

[brick-van-dyke]

I feel like we, as white queers, need to have a little talk about solidarity and apathy.

This past year, we have been hearing stories of children as young 9 years old, coming home to find their entire families wiped out under bombardments and rubble. That's tragic, but it's also something we've grown accustomed to hearing; probably far too accustomed to. Despite this, have we been posting "how to escape Gaza and Israel aligned countries" or "helplines for Palestinian Americans who are struggling mentally"? Have we sat down and thought "how much room can I make for Palestinian refugees to live in any spare space I can afford to give until they're back on their feet?" In the same way we think about housing homeless queers in America? Have we felt that same dread of helplessness as we watched the Biden administrations support Israel without question, as we have when looking at Trump's support of anti queer groups?

This isn't to shame anyone or guilt anyone, but to genuinely push us to think; why are they any different? Why do these two issues feel different to American queers specially? The simple answer is that targeting queers affects us personally, while the other does not. That's not a comfortable thing to admit, but it is true and it's often why we would feel dread over Trump and Republicans, while not feeling that same level of dread at Benjamin Netanyahu Joe Biden or any of the democrats who are in favour of stricter sentences in the prison industrial complex. We know already, deep down, that the "they are the lesser evil" wasn't true in the sense we would mean it, at least not for Palestinians, black people and those already killed, oftentimes including the black people in our own communities. It will be worse, yeah, but they have been dying in the same ways we fear for ourselves this entire time. We need to think about that and take that in. Queer black trans women have died in record numbers under the Biden administration, but that affects white queers far less when we're not the targets, we can afford apathy and we oftentimes wouldn't know it's even happening when it's not us and people like us. When we're in our circles with mostly white queers and a few black queers, usually very few black trans women who would have felt the fear of being black and trans. That apathy and ignorance is something we have to face; our lack of solidarity until now and our individualistic upbringing to prioritise our own safety. I'm not saying wanting safety and peace is wrong, but we can't forget that others have been paying the price we have been fearing for far longer than just now when we've just been added to that list. For example, disabled queers don't have the right to marry like non disabled queers have achieved, yet we say there is marriage equality and forget this. There isn't marriage equality when so many other issues that don't effect white, cis, abled, etc. queers or any lack of intersectionality that lead to not being targeted by these specific legislations.

It's okay to want to be safe, but we must remember that not everyone in our community has had that luxury before Trump. He's targeting white queers as well now, yeah, and he'll be worse for everyone, but there has already been suffering that we, ourselves, have not acknowledged as equal suffering due to the lack of targetting of white queers. And we have to talk about that apathy and lack of solidarity if we're to move forward. That must become something we are aware of and address, as people and a community. I want to ask us to show the same heartbreak for these people and the same horror we reserve for ourselves when we are targeted, open our hearts to empathy and to make room for those who have been suffering all this time with the same amount of dread you're currently feeling but for far longer; long before Trump first became president in 2016 and now again in 2024, long before Biden and long before even Bill Clinton or George Bush. This has been going on for so long, and we have taken in the "progress" of some protections at the expense of a status quo that sacrifices others. So many have been suffering regardless of Trump in ways we've been fearing for ourselves. It has already been happening to them and we ought to show room for them in our hearts. They are our community, and solidarity must prevail before our own dread. Yes, Trump is bad, for them and us, but we have to stay strong and resist because until now it's been the black community on their own who have bore the brunt of far right prejudice and discrimination while we enjoyed the coddling of the democrat's protections and pink washing. It's long past overdue for white queers to join in solidarity with the black community, Arabs, Palestinians, the disabled community and every other marginalised group targeted by the democrats and who will also continue to be targeted by Trump.

We need to initialise our own will to have solidarity with others and listen to those beyond our own circles and communities, and we need to become aware of the threat of apathy that we are all capable of.