#and will go down in queer history

[randomjreader]

Happy 1 year anniversary to HEARTSTOPPER

(Netflix)

Thank you for the impact you had on my, and many others, lives. You will forever be famous.

CAN'T WAIT FOR SEASON 2

[a-mel0n]

honestly i still can't believe they described 8x06 are bucktommy going through "hurdles." hey oliver. oliver stark. hey oli. quick question: have you.... ever done track and field? have you ever leapt over a hurdle? because... that's what you do. you leap over hurdles and you clear them. they're obstacles in the way that you get over. what part of this was a hurdle? this wasn't a hurdle. this was bucktommy leaping over a hurdle, slamming it's leg into the metal frame, and then falling face-first into a pit of knives.

[queerdiazs]

as somebody who isn’t a fan of tommy, i think there definitely is nuance to the discussion of the hate taylor/shannon/abby/ana/marisol got vs the hate tommy is getting, and it isn’t as simple as saying it’s the same because it really isn’t.

the hate tommy is getting is strange. there are people talking about killing his character with a gun, calling him a pedophile and a groomer, and wishing harm upon him in ways that reflect hate crimes perpetrated against real queer people today.

and as a fandom that is compromised of a majority queer people, i don’t think is something hard to understand.

[unsurebazookacore]

welp… guess I’m not coming out for the next four years either :)

[unnecessaryligatures]

Why 18th-Century Queer History Matters

[homophobia cw]

I learned early on that that sex worker and LGBTQ+ rights are linked, but as usual, I didn't realize how far back that history stretched.

It is poignant to learn we have always seen each other as community. This article is about the queer community building social spaces for themselves in 18th-century England. The queer community and sex workers naturally gravitated to each other. We were all criminalized for a reason.

I think of the fight against FOSTA-SESTA (2018); Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson founding and maintaining STAR with earnings from sex work (1970); and seeking each other out to form a safe space in the 1700s. That's over 300 years of solidarity.

The reasons we were arm in arm 300 years ago haven't changed much. How similar does this - 17 raids from 1726-27 in England - sound to the raids that were regular occurrences in NYC in the 1960s, 200+ years later? How similar does this sound to where we might be going?

The other thing I take away from this: The more I learn, the more I realize I was denied in history class. Queer-only spaces were common enough to be their own category in 1709. 1709! I never want to hear anyone imply we sprang into existence in 1969 ever again.

Ending this post with this quote on found family. Do you ever cry thinking about our queer ancestors who built community in a society that wanted to legislate them out of existence? I do.

Sources:

Homosexuality in 18th Cent. England (cited in the Wikipedia article on Molly houses)

18th Century Molly Houses – London’s Gay Subculture

Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P Johnson, & STAR

[bisexualpussy]

white queer goy will bend over fucking backwards all day trying to explain to me, a Jew, how actually the holocaust was never about Jews at the start. How it was actually rooted in queerphobia and ableism, NOT solely antisemitism. As if the nazis didn't believe that Jews carried "unfavorable traits" and were generally viewed as dirty/subhuman. As if the nazis didn't believe that queerness was an idea introduced and perpetuated by Jews that was now "infecting" the wider populous.

Like shut the fuck up u sound dumb as hell when you say that the holocaust wasn't about Jews because Your Lily White Ass is experiencing oppression for the first time

[brick-van-dyke]

If there's one thing I've respectively noticed from Zionists and defenders of Israeli war crimes, it's that every source, argument and potential avenue to explore each explanation is riddled with cherry picking, moving the goalposts and mental gymnastics to explain why their conclusions, which typically are barely even related to the sources they use, somehow overshadow literal reality and what we see with our own eyes.

While scrolling, one example I came across was the repetitive misrepresentation of BLM, antifa and quotes from Martin Luther King Jr, as well as statistics, scholarly journal articles and government website information. These are all good sources, yet every single time they're mangled completely until the only possible "interpretation" of any of them is "well Israel is right to defend itself after shorting rockets beforehand because the retaliation was brutal and all Arabs are bad by default therefore". As if any of these sources are even about individual exceptions of Israel versus hatred towards Arabs.

I think what I find most absurd, as someone in the middle of their own studies, is how every bit of critical thinking and logic goes out the window as they do every single thing possible to do what professors worldwide say NOT to do when evaluating sources. It's like watching a race to see who can tangle and misconstrue scientific information to fit their world view the fastest. Then said people say "um actually I studied at university before so it's actually not wrong that I'm doing this exact this everyone is warned not to do because I have a permit". Ignorance I can forgive, but willful and arrogant manipulation? That's another thing entirely.

[maybe-boys-do-love]

Feel how u want about it, but idk any shows that depicted contemporary gay culture as honestly as Only Friends

[witheredgardenparty]

I will never forgive a single one of you

[normalpeoplethiings]

I HATE SCHOOL.

[hussyknee]

I finished all the Will Darling books and want to cry. I NEED MORE OF THESE CHARACTERS. I need more Charm Of Magpies. I need more Sins Of Cities and Lillywhite Boys. I need more Society Of Gentlemen. I NEED 75 BOOKS OF EACH OF KJ CHARLES'S SERIES. IT'S LIKE DEVELOPING A DIFFERENT DRUG ADDICTION EACH TIME KNOWING YOU'RE GONNA GET CUT OFF

[allbeendonebefore]

"man ive been doing this research for a year and im making such slow progress what gives" i say as i go back to my research and remember how it deals with extremely heavy topics and involved reading a hell of a lot of obituaries so shortly before and after i lost a family member

[a-timely-problem]

...my very much straight family seriously keeps insisting that Palestine is terrible and may be the wrong party to support BC to quote them: "They're very homophobic and those leftists should try to go there and survive."

...they don't care about queer people. At all. They're looking for a reason to hate the innocent people that are currently dying, completely ignoring that there are queer Palestinians and that no matter what may or may not be true, you can't ever achieve equality in a country that's being actively eradicated

[officialpenisenvy]

Who is Wilhelm von Gloeden??

19th century german homosexual who moved to taormina sicily for health and gay sex tourism and became a world renowned photographer of ephebes

[magentagalaxies]

i really want to start making a table collecting statistics on the audience demographics i'll perform my aubrey material for (like what generation most of the audience is, whether i'm performing in a predominantly queer space, etc.) and how well the jokes land bc like. i need to collect more data points before i can properly present my findings but the results so far have been fascinating

[my-deer-friend]

Particularly Washington's Diaries are remarkable for the absolute absence of food. On this evidence alone I would argue that Washington's sexual interests were entirely anal. On the other hand, his great concern with his false teeth demonstrates some oral interests.

Charley Shively, George Washington's Gay Mess (1993)

If I had to read this with my own eyes, so do you.