#Liverpool Pride

[jeffbytes]

happy TDOV 🏳️‍⚧️ (yesterday, i forgot to post here lol) delighted to share my submission for Stealth Zine today! (yesterday lolll)

i'm adopted Scouse, moving from Bournemouth to the north in 2015, landing permanently now in Liverpool in 2020. only a couple of months later during the first lockdown, i was forced to slow down, sit with myself and start thinking about myself. my egg soon cracked in being transgender, at the later age of 23! my piece aims to show just how much being in Liverpool has aided my transition, how i found myself not only living in Liverpool but how i found my actual SELF in Liverpool too, my entire identity and the feeling of knowing who i am :) the safe and welcoming Scouse community spirit, the introduction of local GIC pilot CMAGIC aiding my medical transition, and the resulting opportunities that i found myself in. i volunteered working for Eurovision last year when we hosted, and was featured in several press interviews talking about my trans experience and why Liverpool is such a welcoming and diverse city. this led on to me volunteering with the LCR pride foundation, which i still do to this day! i don't think my transition would have gone as smoothly or opened so many gateways to finding myself and finding a direction in life if my egg had cracked anywhere else <3

[obaewankenope]

when i went to liverpool pride this month, i got some free pins (including a couple i didnt wear because i did not want to deal with some things when i had a baby with me) and one of them i gleefully pinned on my mother before she could read what it said (and i put it on upside-down too because that was just funny to me) and when she finally realised what it said, i literally pranced off cackling like a gremlin because i had put a "DYKE" pin on her and she couldnt really argue with the thing since shes always, always dressed and acted in a way thats had her mistaken for a dyke since she was like 15 lmao and she wore it the whole day instead of taking it off

she has it in her jewellery box now as a keepsake so i consider it a job well done

[thekittyburger]

To the person in the wine bar who told me they loved my makeup, just know I would kill for you xx

[theliverpudlianuk]

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[johnbrace]

Pride in Liverpool (Liverpool Pride) 29th July 2023

[breadpandabread]

I went to Liverpool Pride today with my husband. It was a lovely day, got some cool stuff and watched the parade.

Watching it gave me a lot of emotions this year, I believe this is the first time watching it presenting as who I truly am. I've always known how important pride is but this year watching hundreds of people march, standing up and being seen, pushing back against a world that is much more conservative than it was before made me happy to see, but also extremely sad that it needs to happen.

I'm rambling a bit but kinda wanted to vent a little.

[amberwilso]

What do you love about trans?

[emmarosela]

Come suck on em daddy 🍒🍓💦💦💦

[obaewankenope]

Went to Liverpool Pride 2024. Was great. I'm exhausted but damn was it fun. Aces represent!

[thekittyburger]

Pride!! This is the only photo I got not showing my face lol

Bonus: paddy on top of my flags

[totallyhussein-blog]

Learn what “Loving, and loving, are all about”

Shortly before the 2007 landmark vote, in which the State of Massachusetts legislature endorsed marriage equality by a 151-45 vote, Mildred Loving, one of the plaintiffs in the landmark racial marriage equality case from 1967 ’Loving v. Virginia’, endorsed equal marriage rights for gay couples.

The Loving’s had committed what the U.S State of Virginia called unlawful cohabitation. Their marriage was deemed illegal because Mildred was Black and Native American; and Richard was white. Their case went all the way to the Supreme Court and on June 12th, 1967, the couple won.

“My generation was bitterly divided over something that should have been so clear and right. The majority believed that what the judge said, that it was God’s plan to keep people apart, and that government should discriminate against people in love.

But I have lived long enough now to see big changes. The older generation’s fears and prejudices have given way, and today’s young people realize that if someone loves someone they have a right to marry.

Surrounded as I am now by wonderful children and grandchildren, not a day goes by that I don’t think of Richard and our love, our right to marry, and how much it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the "wrong kind of person” for me to marry.

I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry. Government has no business imposing some people’s religious beliefs over others. Especially if it denies people’s civil rights.

I am still not a political person, but I am proud that Richard’s and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That’s what Loving, and loving, are all about.“

[craanita]

Merry Christmas 🎄 Eve

[amberwilso]

Home alone feeling so bored 😐

[lucyhart2]

I'm just sexy, DM let's have fun

[obaewankenope]

I've signed up to attend Pride in Liverpool this year bc fuck it I've missed Pride events. It's gonna be a whole ass city thing too which is gonna be great! Marching in solidarity with Kyiv Pride as well which is 👌 [okay emoji]

[pinkorchidsinspring]

Liverpool Night 3 Surprise Song ✨Breakdown✨:

A lyrical breakdown of course���

Let’s get started on the sheer importance of this combination of songs- CAUSE WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS

Carolina + no body, no crime

Carolina as in KARLI-e??

Anyway, she had that smirk on her face and called this the “murder Mash-up”?!!! Murder of what darling? Possibly Taylor Swift™️? I digress, lyric time:

Lonesome I'll always stay / Carolina knows / Why for years I roam / Free as these birds, light as whispers

Translated to: Karlie knows why Taylor roams from man to man and is so “lonesome” in the public eye. After all she’s just as free as any musician right…?

And you didn't see me here / No, they never did see me here

Translated to: the fans didn’t see her there with Karlie, no they never really saw her with karlie. Most of them never saw the intent behind Taylor’s eyes when she looked at Karlie, and vice versa. :(

And she's in my dreams / Into the mist, into the clouds

Oh, Carolina knows / Why for years they've said /That I was guilty as sin / And sleep in a liar's bed /But the sleep comes fast

Translation: Karlie knows why the fans have said for years that she’s gay and sleeps in another liars bed (aka Karlie’s), however she lives peacefully when she’s alone with her lover, and simultaneously lies to the public weekly about her real lover.

No body, no crime as in if there’s no evidence than it never happened??

Much like how she emphasized “infidelity” when she sings

Her husband’s actin’ different and it smells like infidelity.

How very telling of whether or not the same muse in the first song (Karlie) has a ‘faithful’ husband (-when you���re in a lavender marriage it is different morally, but to the public it is disloyalty to even consider he is with anyone other than her)

I think I’m gonna call him out

Maybe as in… I don’t know… 🏳️‍🌈call her husband out of the closet… coughs in coumingoutlor*

ALSO just an added bonus is the sheer amount of times she emphasizes the word “SHE” in the performance… there’s way more than just this short clip 🏳️‍🌈✨💅

The manuscript + Red

The Manuscript as in the ENTIRE torrid affair?!

Whilst reading this part of the analysis keep in mind that I believe that the manuscript is most likely from Karlie’s point of view in the future, it may be from Taylor’s, but it makes the most sense as Karlie’s POV.

Now and then she rereads the manuscript / Of the entire torrid affair

Now and then Karlie remembers (aka rereading) a time (a manuscript) full of ‘difficulty and tribulation’ (the definition of torrid), that was her lavender marriage to Josh.

They compared their licenses

I believe that this could possibly be about Taylor & Karlie in the way that Taylor has a drivers license but Karlie has a Marriage License in the era of this memory.

He said, "I'm not a donor but / I'd give you my heart if you needed it"

Gay best friend offers to give Karlie his heart, or at least his legal (-and for show) heart if she needs it.

And the years passed / Like scenes of a show

From there the marriage begins, and much like a show, Karlie and Josh are constantly performing.

Then the actors / Were hitting their marks/ And the slow dance/ Was alight with the sparks / And the tears fell / In synchronicity with the score

This is her looking back at the lavender marriage/ bearding time of their public relationship. The actors (aka the girls and their men) truly were hitting their marks and convincing the public of a romance worthy of a small Nicolas sparks novel. Obviously this isn’t a happy thing to look back on, and with the pretend comes all the times she wished she could just be done with the agony of pretending all the time. The agony that caused her so many years at the time.

And at last / She knew what the agony had been for

At last, present day (the future) Karlie knows why they did it, she looks back and knows they made the right decision because something good has clearly come from it.

The only thing that's left is the manuscript / One last souvenir from my trip to your shores

The only thing that’s left are the memories of this time.

Now and then I reread the manuscript / But the story isn't mine anymore

Now and then she remembers, but she’s out now. The story isn’t hers anymore. She isn’t in the closet anymore.

Red as in

Remembering him comes in flashbacks and echoes / Tell myself it's time now gotta let go/ But moving on from him is impossible / When I still see it all in my head

IF you have read this, tell me how I’m wrong when this entire combination of surprise songs so obviously has an invisible string CONNECTING THEM all together. (not so invisible now 😉) Because no I didn’t pick and choose what lyrics from red Taylor sang night 3. She did that herself. AND THESE WERE what TAYLOR Alison SWIFT chose to play directly after the manuscript.

Happy pride month people 🏳️‍🌈✨💗