#a known lgbt

[thurio-edau]

um, actually yes, trans men can and will be lesbians. and each time you complain about them 3 (three) more trans men convert to lesbianism

[ispyspookymansion]

know as in actually know, not just have met or know of, i’m more curious about on a regular basis who the oldest lgbt person is that you interact with. can also be someone you regularly interacted with/knew at some point and no longer do for whatever reason

[theywereroomies]

[k-wame]

SALTBURN Q&A

[kittarts]

Do you have sexuality HC's to your favs? You don't need to answer if don't want! I love your art 💖 be safe

I do! Coraline is 100% a bi girl to me aaa, blue hair come on. Wybie is pan and ace spec, he doesn't really know that by labels though, romance not on the brain.

[uncanny-tranny]

Trans dude whose favourite NFL team are the Packers

[papertowness]

if i tell you about my favorite show and you WATCH IT ?? it’s gonna get till death do us part REAL quick

[sixty-silver-wishes]

I should have known I was ace when I was in high school and I saw a Cosmopolitan magazine with a ton of headlines about sex, and I thought “why do people talk about sex all the time when it’s been around literally forever. it’s nothing new. nobody talks about the harlem shake anymore and it hasn’t been around nearly for as long as sex”

[a-frog-in-a-bog]

i genuinely 100% believe that if bisexuality wasn't stigmatized the majority of people would land somewhere on the bi spectrum. "yes lesbians can be attracted to men and gay men can be attracted to women :)" if only there was a special word that specifically meant attraction to same and different genders. oh well

[critter-catcher]

Let's talk about gay penguins for the next day of pride month!

I think most people know at this point that penguins are known to be gay, and even lesbian! But what most people don't know is that they've been seen to engage in homosexual behavior since at least as early as 1911!

See a scientist, George Murray Levick, documented the behaviour in Adélie penguins at Cape Adare, but described it as "depraved". He decided it was too shocking for public release so he hid it. The only copies that were made available privately to researchers had the English text partly written in Greek letters, to prevent this knowledge becoming more widely known. The report was unearthed a century later, in June 2012 and was finally published.

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Unfortunately that's not the last time gay penguins would cause an uproar.

There have been a lot of homosexual behavior seen in penguins in captivity, including Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins in New York City's Central Park Zoo. They were noted by staff at the zoo in 1998 to be performing mating rituals, and one of them in 1999 attempted to hatch a rock as if it were an egg. Zoo keepers decided to give them an egg from a pair of penguins, which could not hatch it. Roy and Silo spent two and a half months raising the healthy young chick, a female named Tango. When she reached breeding age, Tango paired with another female penguin named Tanuzi!

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Now for the "controversy".

And Tango Makes Three is a children's book published in 2005, telling the story of Roy and Silo. There was a lot of support, but there was even more backlash. Despite having ten awards and two nominations, it appeared on the American Library Association’s top ten banned books, banned in 2023, 2020, 2017, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, and firstly in 2006, just a year after it was published.

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Alright, enough sad stuff, lets talk happy.

Here's the thing, penguins often lay more than one egg, though usually only one chick will survive. In captivity same sex penguins will adopt (or steal) extra eggs to incubate and raise the chicks! It's likely this happens in the wild, though it’s harder to say. Visibly, male and female penguins tend to only differ in size, and not by much. On top of that, they act very similar, particularly in terms of reproduction. Both males and females invest pretty equally in raising their chicks. That means it’s difficult to tell male and female penguins apart and even more difficult to identify any wild mating pairs as homosexual.

There have been many records of captive same sex penguins, and, there's even what could be considered a non-binary, or genderless, penguin.

In 2019, mothers Rocky and Marama hatched a chick together at sea Life Aquarium in London. This chick caused further controversy after the aquarium announced that it would not be assigning the chick a gender. The chick is identified with a gender-neutral purple tag rather than the usual gendered name and color coded tag. Beyond that, the penguin’s life will be the same as any other penguin at the Aquarium. They say that Gender means nothing to penguins, so why have we continuously assigned it to them? The General Manager of the aquarium comments that the decision to raise a genderless penguin is following an increase in conversations around human gender neutrality.

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[mossy-crow0]

i’m always shocked when i see a homophobe on tumblr cause like. i just forget they exist on here

[naomiknight-17]

Corrected my Dad and his partner on my name while visiting them today and still got deadnamed 86,000 times

Exhausting

[uncanny-tranny]

I think what might actually help the families of trans loved ones is to actually engage with where the trans person is at - especially if the family isn't quite understanding yet. When I came out, I was completely alone in figuring out my manhood. I had peers and I had exposed myself to so many trans people who explored gender, and while it was amazing, it isn't quite the same at times. I grieve quietly, sometimes, about all the missed opportunities that might have just made it easier for my family to have seen how utterly happy I was. It took them a very long time to actually notice that I was happy, especially once I got on testosterone. I'm lucky that they saw that happiness eventually, and slowly accepted it. My manhood is completely detached from their influence, both to my relief and chagrin. It's sad to me that I learned to shave from a kind online stranger, somebody who didn't even have a father and yet, I do. I have a father. I grieve at the loss of a potential shared experience. I grieve about the pain I went through when I was in that stage of transition, especially because it was raw and vulnerable. I grieve that many trans people today are traversing the path I had to, because it's sometimes lonely (even when you do have other forms of support).

It's hard to know that I will never have gotten my sense of being from my family. In many ways, it has severed a lot of connection with them because there were so many times that I was begging them to see happiness when they were focused on the idea that I was almost in a state of purgatory - flesh which felt warm but held no familiarity to them. I don't harbor ill-will toward them, I hope I don't leave the impression that I despise them. I understand what they felt, even if I can't conceptualize it myself. However, it's a raw wound in my heart, and I don't want to leave anybody else feeling that way, either.

[sandinmybed]

[pumpkinsartz]

Something funny happened yesterday

[theygender]

It always surprises me when I'm reminded that many people outside of trans spaces don't understand that the word "trans" includes nonbinary people too and isn't exclusive to trans men and trans women. For the past few months I've been talking with my long-time therapist about my decision to start HRT and then today when I was talking with her about my fears for the future for trans people in the US she said something along the lines of "yeah and you just recently started identifying as trans yourself." And it took me so long to figure out what the confusion was. I was just like ????? Madison I've been out since before we met