#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

[lovesick-ritz]

We don't talk about platonic marriages enough

I am bisexual. My partner is aroace. We are in a queerplatonic relationship. We have been together for around 4 years and got engaged a little over 2 years ago. We don't do romantic things (we do sometimes, but not usually.) and we don't do sexual things. There's no romance, but we love each other. It is 100% platonic.

But I ALWAYS feel the need to clarify this with people we meet that, it's not "oh haha we were best friends for so long we just decided to get married teehee"

NO

It's still love. We live for each other. We would die for each other. We are attached at the hip. We are each others most important thing in the entire world. Just because we don't kiss or have sex doesn't mean it's not love.

I LOVE my fiance in ways words can't explain. And they love me just the same.

Just because it's not romantic doesn't make it any less of a relationship.

Just because it's not sexual doesn't make us any less engaged.

I am going to marry my fiance, my best friend, the love of my life, and I need people to know that it's not because we couldn't find anyone else. It's not because we said we would if we were still single at X years old. It's not a trend or a phase or anything like that.

I'm going to marry them because I LOVE them.

@novelcain <3

(update since this is gaining traction again: we're married now!! :D)

[theywereroomies]

[stil-lindigo]

bedside bouquet.

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a sapphic comic about a village girl and the fae she fell in love with.

creative notes:

[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

[blgls]

[our-transmasculine-experience]

when i was younger i wanted to be called the masculine version of gendered profession titles, like “if i ever do acting i want to be called an actor not an actress”

oh i definitely relate to this. i thought it was normal until my egg cracked

[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

[leverage-ot3]

no fr the rundown job had absolutely no business having so much polyamorous energy they had to have known what they were doing

“I never get tired of that” *fist bump*

“I started running with some different people. a hacker, and a thief”

the neck grabbing scene? 

“you’re the smartest guy I’ve ever known”

the disabling the bomb scene? eliot keeping them stable?

“that’s my boy! that’s what I’m talking about!”

kiss for luck sequence

the look parker and eliot share- we do the things they can’t, won’t

eliot’s eyes saying ‘kiss this man because I can’t’ (and she does)

“don’t do that to me, I can’t lose you, I can’t lose you. don’t scare me like that.”

“I run with them now” “honor amongst thieves?” “something like that”

eliot dropping his crutches to use parker and hardison as supports

[stil-lindigo]

jean x clare panel redraw from chapter 47 of Claymore (original panel under the cut)

[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 Ad��lie 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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