#brazilian lesbian movement

[nnaalluuaa]

Print publication of the brazilian bulletin called Outro Olhar (en: Another Look) by GALF - Grupo Ação Lésbica-Feminista (en: Lesbian-Feminist Action Group) from São Paulo, Brazil.

[aibazuos]

Just a WIP

Honestly this is looking… rough

Brook looks like the walten files blue bunny thing

Zoro looks like a lesbian

Franky’s face is a mess on it’s own

And Usopp looks, like, twinkysh(?)

This is all to say that I’m going to clean this up (maybe even do it again bc I don't know I don't like it the more I look at it) before i try to use watercolors on it bc i’ve been having some fun with water colors

Also, since this is still me fangirling over my own brazilian au in the middle of the dictatorship this is most obviously based on a brazilian thing, i explain more bellow

(And, please, give me some ideas on who I could put on the portraits bc I have no idea right now)

Ok, so, here’s the reference

Ok so, me yapping abt brazilian history, let's go.

This is Tropicália (or Tropicalismo). Basically this was supposed to be a mix between traditional manifestations of Brazilian culture, more specifically the vanguard movements, with foreign trends. That's why they look like hippies from the US.

So all of this combinations of styles ended up on the LP "Tropicalia ou Panis et Circencis", released in 1968, that had various artists' songs.

This guy on the front with portrait of Capinam is Giberto Gil.

The girl sitting at his side is Gal Costa

By her side is Torquato Neto

Behind him is Tom Zé

On Tom Zé's left is Sérgio Dias

By his left is Rita Lee (love of my life)

By her left is Caetano Veloso and his holding the portrait of Nara Leão

By Caetano's side is Arnaldo Baptista

And on front of him is Rogério Duprat

At that point in time Sergio Dias, Rita Lee and Arnaldo Baptista were in a band together called "Os Mutantes" (The Mutants)

They fought a lot against the military dictatorship and a bunch of them were arrested or even put themselves in exile for some time. Also, this LP and the rest of their songs are on Spotify, go listen to it, it's fucking amazing.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

LGBTQIA+ Pride Day: Fight for rights in Brazil goes back a long way

In the 1990s, parades showed pride and demanded rights

“Visibility” is a word that permeates the history of the LGBTQIA+ struggle in Brazil. Not even during the most violent and authoritarian times—such as the military dictatorship—was there silence or inertia. In the attempts to form national meetings from 1959 to 1972, in the creation of Grupo Somos and the newspapers Lampião da Esquina and Chanacomchana in 1978, in the lesbian uprising at Ferro’s Bar in 1983 and in the years-long pressure to remove homosexuality from the list of diseases—which finally came to fruition in 1985—rights activists took the lead in mobilizing and putting up a fight.

It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the main date for celebrating sexual diversity in Brazil is June 28, in reference to a riot that took place in New York City in 1969. On that occasion, regulars at the Stonewall Inn, one of Manhattan’s popular gay bars, resisted a violent police raid. The protest became a milestone in the LGBTQIA+ movement for rights in the US and is now celebrated in many other countries, including Brazil, as International LGBT+ Pride Day.

“These dates can and should be celebrated. But not everything began at Stonewall and not everything was settled there. Many other episodes need to be remembered so that we have a more collective, plural, democratic, and diverse memory of the struggles of the LGBTQIA+ community,” said Renan Quinalha, law professor at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp) and head of the LGBTQIA+ Memory and Truth Group, under the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship. “We end up being influenced by North American cultural imperialism. This makes some national milestones invisible, which we also need to celebrate as advances, achievements, and references for memory in this political construction of the community.”

Historian Rita Colaço, an LGBTQIA+ activist and director of the Bajubá Museum, argues it is necessary to direct less attention to the US as a reference point and more to elements within the Brazilian movement.

Continue reading.

[zolusbian]

there is this fantastic term used in lesbian* brazilian circles: desfem, short for desfeminino, which literally translates to "unfeminine" but is less of an adjective (although it is) than a noun describing a process. like, to be desfem doesn't necessarily have one single aesthetic, although there are commonalities (no makeup, no shaving, etc) but instead it's about removing yourself from femininity / feminine gender roles. it's about like, just being a person first instead of a gender. it's a political statement as much as an aesthetic. and it's great! i wish the west had an equivalent term and movement!

[nadiegesabate1990]

The most famous metal and rock DJ of all time.

I was born somewhere on this planet Earth (please don't say I was born here. I'm from here and I suffer a lot of prejudice. I'm from the northeast of Brazil, Pernambuco, and I can't be successful. And just say Naná Nadiege Sabate is from Rio de Janeiro… orphan).

On February 10, 1990, I'm the daughter of a chemist. My father wanted me to become a teacher for children.

And while I was studying classical music, I got sick and thought about living on the island of Fernando de Noronha for a year. Just to heal my kidneys. I would only eat and drink coconut water. That way I would live far away from processed and carcinogenic foods. But I'm an attractive person and I can't adapt to the tropical climate of Brazil or to the jealousy of Brazilians.

I had a couple of friends and they were locking me up inside their house, isolating me so I wouldn't have sex.

Mainly the guy's wife, a selfish lesbian. They are my friends, but when I'm with them, other people don't approach me. My friends also have their friends and go out to date and don't invite me. I think it's super annoying.

But let's talk about my music. These songs are from a little after my ??? In fact, I was 25 years old, I started a trip to Recife, and I found a magazine about DJs at a newsstand. These drums and loops are from the magazine and the programs came on the CD. I liked dance music from private nightclubs in Europe. When I listened to the clips of American singers, I liked to see Britney, my favorite singer, in which she wore a dancer's outfit, her body covered only by some "diamond stones" effects. I loved the clip, but she was just copying Jeniffer Lopes.

There's nothing erotic about it. Her performances were actually social events. And at the time, it was peaceful, I lived in a castle. And some annoying friends would say: get out of this prison. But the peace and quiet of this modest life didn't last long. In 2011-2012, I realized that I was being watched and that two gym teachers were following me. At the time, all I had in mind was signing a contract and continuing to study and reaching the peak of my career as a DJ. I was excited and bought my first keyboard.

Political war and due to the financial difficulties I was facing, I was very sad. It seemed that it was impossible for me to continue, to "be happy" creating music, and so I said to myself: I'm going to continue…

I posted my songs on some websites. My father gave me 300 dollars as an allowance and it was impossible for me to continue my mission of using classical music by great composers in my heavy metal music and because I wanted to be like them, like Mozart, I wanted to be all those guys.

But I managed to get information about the enemies' plans and future movements of bandits. And it was through local radio stations and their police programs broadcast in other municipalities. The criminals worked for the high-ranking police commanders. There was a journalist who said on air that I had an affair with another woman as if this were big news. And in mid-January 2016, a photograph and a radio broadcast from a border town would be fatal for me. The police, some officers, intercepted a WhatsApp message and unmasked it as my cousin and a lesbian gym teacher. And my mother's family, some indigenous people. I was also photographed in my own home by this criminal who watched me day and night and by some officers who took my cell phone. In my head, I was wondering who is the boss or the leader of this criminal organization? What they wanted was to persuade me to work for them?

And shortly after, they intercepted a radio broadcast, trying to tell me that the people in my region were already informed of the intentions to invade homes. Espionage. I was almost arrested by the police and accused by the police of assaulting a child. The process against me has begun… I'm traumatized by this police and political justice thing.

[marlesbian]

Random marauders era characters headcanons

- Remus and james are vegetarian, lily became a vegetarian after she married james

- James speaks many languages, including english, spanish, french, hindi and german

- Sirius is also multilingual but speaks english, french, italian, russian and german and can read japanese

- Lily's mom is spanish but she never taught her how to speak it properly, but when she started dating James he started teaching her

- Mary is brazilian and speaks portuguese

- Marlene loves muggle things and she loved studying geography and maps

- Dorcas doesn't actually really listen to music, but marlene and mary on the other hand are obcessed

- Mary is the kind of person to always be singing something (she was actually good at it)

- Marlene was very musically talented and could play any instrument with the least amount of practice and learnt things very fast

- both Marlene and James have adhd

- Lily loved frogs

- Dorcas was very rich like her family had so much money, they came from a lineage of royal pureblood witches from the Kingdom of Dahomey (currently Benin)

- Remus was a marxist and sirius was an anarchist very much into the punk movement in the 70s

- Sirius loved going out to muggle London to do regular muggle things.

- As much as Sirius rebelled against it he never got really away from the aristocratic way he was raised.

-Marlene was short and buff. She had short thick thighs and a long torso and those muscular arms that are hard and defined when flexed.

-James and Marlene grew up together and had a bunch of inside jokes that literally nobody else understood

- Marlene got super jealous of Sirius at first because she felt like he was stealing him from her

- In the first year of school, Marls only wanted to hang out with james and the boys bc she was that kind of lesbian that "boys are just better friends than girls" but later she became literally inseparable from Lily and Mary

- Lily and Mary instantly clicked on the first moment they saw each other, they became super friends and were always doing each other's hair and nails, always walking around school holding hands.

- Marlene actually had a deep dislike for Lily in the first months bc she didn't like james and was ALWAYS complaining about him, and that annoyed Marlene bc her and james grew up together). Marls was also the biggest jily shipper because she knew them both so well

- Sirius and Lily were incredibly close friends and bonded over their terrible siblings and their undying love for them despite it all. Lily hated Regulus and Sirius hated Petunia, it was a solidarity thing. He was the big sibling she needed and she was the little sibling he deserved.

[dollyboned]

welcome to my place!

soph | minor | neurodivergent | poc | agender aroace lesbian [she/her/doll | they/them/spirit] | brazilian portuguese & english (learning spanish!)

☆ DNI:

basic dni criteria, TERFs, zionists, bigots, ableists, anti goth/punk movement, leorio, gon & killugon hater, doesn't tw, pro-shippers, pro-ana, pro animal testing, right-wing, lesbophobics, dream fans, acephobics, paranormal things and porcelain dolls hater, witchery hater, doesn't tone tag sarcasm or jokes, constantly joking about suic*de. (intrusive thoughts vent allowed because it's not a joke)

☆ BYF:

communist, goth punk for music, books and sociopolitical views, fanfic writer, i don't play about killugon yuri usually offline & when online reblogging a lot about autism and killugon. ♡

☆ BYI:

i have trouble with tones, english isn't my first language, if killugon is the topic im prone to get really excited. usually missing letters or whole words when talking even if i reread a lot before posting. sometimes brutal honest with no intent to harm; will apologize if you explain to me that you felt bad about it. not interested in flirting and will feel really weirded out if you do so. probably going to remember the most not related topic during a conversation. i can tolerate criticism if you're not mean. rejection sensitiveness dysphoria and "sorry i didn't message before, i forgot you existed for a while /lh /gen" combo. amazingly good at being bad in retaining information unrelated to my sp/in.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ(via kamal fareed on pinterest)

☆ special interests;

killugon. my own fanfic (mother arcade), specially killua from mother arcade. paranormal life, haunted dolls, kelsi davies paranormal investigations, soulmori's haunted house, my own haunted doll, malice mizer.

☆ hobbies;

writing. ballet (beginner). drawing. collecting pretty rocks and crystals. music, probably going to learn violin. singing (im an alto!). beginner at crocheting too. writing letters.

☆ music favorites;

goth/v-kei: malice mizer, kaya, buck-tick, scary bitches, siouxsie and the banshees, this mortal coil, type o negative, bauhaus, london after midnight, xmal deustchland, rammstein.

pop/indie/etc: laufey, wave to earth, grentperez, rocco, beabadoobee, wasia project, chappell roan, the marías, her's, lyn lapid, hozier.

brazilian music: gal costa, maria bethânia, alceu valença, chico buarque, elis regina, maria rita, caetano veloso, raul seixas, milton nascimento, rita lee, gilberto gil, belchior, gonzaguinha, djavan, legião urbana.

timeless: michael jackson, jackson 5, george michael, etta james, aretha franklin, louis armstrong, chet baker, ray charles, stevie wonder, michael bublé.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ(lyrics to seasons, by wave to earth)

thank you for reading! i hope we can be friends. ♡

[brookston]

Holidays 3.7

Holidays

Alexander Graham Bell Day

Arbor Day (California)

Be Heard Day

Bird Day (California)

Bloody Sunday Anniversary Day (Selma, Alabama)

Chamorro Heritage Day (Guam)

Cybercombine Day (Prudentianopolis)

Doronicum Day (French Republic)

Equal Pay Day (Gleicher Bezahlungstag; Germany)

Finnmarkslopet Dog Sled Race (Finland)

First Planting Festival (Elder Scrolls)

Get Grandma To Write Down Her Meatloaf Recipe Day

Hamilton Lavity Stoutt Day (British Virgin Islands)

International Brick Maker Day

International Day of the Anti-Fascist Woman

International Women’s Day (Angola, Tajikistan)

INTERPOL International Day of Remembrance for Fallen Officers

Jose Abad Day (Philippines)

Liberation of Sulaymaniyah (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Mahasivarathri Day (Sri Lanka)

Maritime Day (Slovenia)

Masaryk Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia)

Maslenitsa (Russia)

National Ben Day

National Carol Day

National Cooper Day

National Day of Lesbian Visibility (Argentina)

National Heroes and Benefactors Day (Belize)

National Sauna Day (Japan)

National Sharon Day

National Slam the Scam Day

National Teresa Day

Neil Diamond Day (Las Vegas)

Nones of March (Ancient Rome)

Plant Power Day (UK)

Say Hello Day

Suez Canal Day

Teacher’s Day (Albania)

Texas Energy Day (Texas)

307 Day

Transport and Telecommunication Workers Day (Turkmenistan)

World Oneness Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Cereal Day

National Crown Roast of Pork Day

National Flapjack Day

Punsch Roll Day (Sweden)

1st Thursday in March

Kid Lit Art Postcard Day [1st Thursday]

Nametag Day [Thursday of Name Week]

National Hospitalist Day [1st Thursday]

National Vending Day [1st Thursday]

White Ribbon Day (Massachusetts) [1st Thursday]

World Book Day (Ireland, UK) [1st Thursday]

Independence & Related Days

Aleutian Islands (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Sulaymaniyah Liberation Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Festivals Beginning March 7, 2024

Antikmässan (Stockholm, Sweden) [thru 3. 10]

Brazilian Beer Festival (Blumeneau, Brazil) [thru 3.9]

Cincinnati International Wine Festival (Cincinnati, Ohio) [thru 3.9]

Crufts Dog Show (Birmingham, England) [thru 3. 10]

Eastern Bison Association Winter Conference (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) [thru 3.9]

Fulton Oysterfest (Fulton, Texas) [thru 3.10]

Limassol Carnival (Limassol, Cyprus) [thru 3. 17]

National Coffee Association Convention (Nashville, Tennessee) [thru 3.9]

New England Brew Summit (Portland, Maine)

Red, White & Snow (Park City, Utah) [thru 3.9]

Sustainable Wine Dinner Series (Los Angeles, California)

The WhiskyX (Miami, Florida)

Feast Days

Ardo (Christian; Saint)

Barbara Eden Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Billy (Muppetism)

Boris Kustodiev (Artology)

Contradiction Day (No It’s Not!; Pastafarian)

The Devil Is God Reversed Day (Everyday Wicca)

Drausius (a.k.a. Drausin; Christian; Saint)

Empodocles (Positivist; Saint)

Edward Landseer (Artology)

Esterwine (Christian; Saint)

Festival for Vedovus (God of the Dead & Volcanic Movements; Ancient Rome)

Impeachment of March Goblins (Shamanism)

José Olallo (Christian; Saint)

Junoalia (Old Roman Festival to Juno)

Leonid Feodorov (Russian Greek Catholic Church)

March Storms and Blasting Rods Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Milton Avery (Artology)

Paul the Simple (Christian; Saint)

Perpetua and Felicity (Christian; Saints & Martyrs)

Piet Mondrian (Artology)

Psyche’s Day (Pagan)

Pierre-Henri Dorie, Siméon-François Berneux (Christian; part of The Korean Martyrs)

Theophylact (Christian; Saint)

Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church (Christian; Saint)

Treachery Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Tuan Reincarnation Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 11 of 60)

Premieres

Alice the Collegiate (Disney Cartoon; 1927)

The Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk (Novel; 1951)

Coal Miner’s Daughter

Foxes (Film; 1980)

The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood (Novel; 1969)

Erlkönig, by Franz Schubert (Lied; 1821)

From Genesis to Revelation, by Genesis (Album; 1969)

The Golden Eggs (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Film; 2014)

Grateful Gus (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1958)

Highlander (Film; 1986)

The Home Guard (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)

The Long Goodbye (Film; 1973)

Mame (Film; 1974)

Mickey’s Grand Opera (Disney Cartoon; 1936)

Mirror (Russian Film; 1975)

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Film; 2008)

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Animated Film; 2014)

My Beautiful Launderette (Film; 1986)

The Nude Who Never, by Ted Mark (Novel; 1965)

The Old Mill Pond (Happy Harmonies Cartoon; 1936)

Olive’s Sweepstake Ticket (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1941)

Our Lady of the Flowers, by Jean Genet (Novel; 1943)

Page Miss Glory (WB MM Cartoon; 1936)

Pistol Packin’ Woodpecker (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1960)

Post Office, by Charles Bukowski (Novel; 1971)

A Room with a View (Film; 1986)

Royal Cat Nap (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1958)

Sailor Moon (Japanese Anime Series; 1992)

The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series; 1973)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost (Poem; 1923)

Taboo (Adult Film; 1980)

Things Ain’t What They Used To Be, recorded by Johnny Hodges and his Orchestra (Song; 1941)

Way Out West, by Sonny Rollins (Album; 1957)

Young Americans, by David Bowie (Album; 1975)

Today’s Name Days

Felicitas, Perpetua, Reinhard (Austria)

Bogoljub, Felicita, Perpetua, Teofil (Croatia)

Tomáš (Czech Republic)

Perpetua (Denmark)

Ralf, Raul, Rolf, Rudolf, Ruudi, Ruut (Estonia)

Taika, Tarja, Taru (Finland)

Félicie, Félicité, Nathan (France)

Felicitas, Felizitas, Perpet, Reinhard, Volker (Germany)

Evgenios (Greece)

Tamás (Hungary)

Quintilio, Tommaso (Italy)

Ella, Elmira (Latvia)

Felicita, Galmantė, Rimtautas, Tomas (Lithuania)

Are, Arild (Norway)

Felicja, Nadmir, Paweł, Polikarp, Tomasz (Poland)

Efrem (Romania)

Tomáš (Slovakia)

Felicidad, Perpetua (Spain)

Camilla, Ottilia (Sweden)

Davon, Devan, Deven, Devin, Devon, Devonta, Devonte, Devyn, Dewey, Lothar, Luther (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 67 of 2024; 299 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 10 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 19 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 27 (Geng-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 27 Adair I 5784

Islamic: 26 Sha’ban 1445

J Cal: 7 Green; Sevenday [7 of 30]

Julian: 23 February 2024

Moon: 10%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 11 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Thucydides]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 78 of 89)

Week: 1st Week of March

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 18 of 30)

[bibliomorgan]

DO NOT DONATE TO THE RIO GRANDE DO SUL GOVERNMENT!!

I REPEAT: DO NOT DONATE TO THE RIO GRANDE DO SUL GOVERNMENT!!

This fucking hypocrit govern of RS asked for the population to send money for a bank account that belongs to the fucking Association of BANKS of Rio Grande do Sul. The fucking governor is asking MONEY from the population devastated by the tragedy caused by the negligence of public authorities in assuming their mistakes to give MONEY to the capitalists BANKS!!

Oh do you know what the governor did the last year? He repealed environmental laws that protected and guaranteed that natural disasters such as floods would not happen on such an absurd scale. This benefited agribusiness and building construction companies to deforest, landfill and destroy natural habitats. The scumbag governor also STOPPED putting money into Civil Defense - the government unit that TAKES CARE when these calamity situations happen - because he didn't think it was necessary, a "waste" of budgetary costs.

Do not donate your money to any of those sources linked above. Your money will go to the fucking banks that is wiling to take more and more of poor population than to give some relief to them. And brazilians blogs, STOP TO REBLOG THIS SHIT INFORMATION, it's harmful and a disgusted way to fuck everything the social movements and non-governmental organizations are trying to do: to serve the riograndense population.

Blogs brasileiros, PAREM DE REBLOGAR ESSA MERDA DE INFORMAÇÃO, isso está sendo uma forma nociva e nojenta de foder tudo que os movimentos sociais e organizações não-governamentais estão tentando fazer: atender a população riograndense da melhor maneira possível.

@decaf-lesbian, @xielianss and @allthebrazilianpolitics por favor, revejam as informações que postam, no Instagram tem uma pancada de movimentos sociais fazendo mil vezes melhor que o governador safado e SEM ENGANAR A POPULAÇÃO. RELIABLE SOURCES TO DONATE:

MST COZINHA SOLIDÁRIA - Instagram PIX: 09352141000148 Banco: 350 Agência: 3001 Conta: 30253-8 CNPJ: 09.352.141/0001-48 Nome: Instituto Brasileiro de Solidariedade CUFA - CENTRAL ÚNICA DAS FAVELAS - Instagram

everyone please read this and share if you can.

Brazil is going through one of the worst climatic crisis ever seen.

i live in the southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul. we have been suffering from extreme, nonstop rainstorms for a week now. the rivers are flooding, reaching 4-6 meters above their natural level. people are being rescued by helicopters, neighborhoods are being evacuated. entire cities are slowly but surely becoming submerged in water. 60 people missing and counting. 32 deaths and counting.

and this is not new. last november also had a flood like this one. 50 dead, many material losses. it happened again this january, with thousands being left without power or water for days.

three catastrophical disasters within less than a year. three disasters only a few months apart.

this is not natural.

unsustainable agricultural practices and politics led to this. a complete disregard for nature led to this. greed led to this. always greed.

when it comes to the climate crisis, i cannot stress this enough: we need to act now if we still want to live. disasters like this are going to happen more often and they're going to be much, much worse. this flood is being considered the worst climatic catastrophe in the history of my state. i don't know how long it will take for another bigger one to happen and take its place. i just know it will be sooner than it should.

links to donate (if you can't donate, sharing already helps a lot):

link for non-brazilians (paybox)

link for brazilians

pix assufrgs

will update more links later. in the meantime, pray for us.

[derschwarzeengel]

LGBTQIA+ History in Germany 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Since it's Pride Month, I wanted to write a post giving a very brief overview of LGBTQ+ rights in Germany and go over queer rights movements that aren't centered in the USA.

Also because I'm German-American, have queer German friends, am queer myself, and my muse is a bisexual German who grew up in the 1800s.

This post will focus primarily on the 19th - 21st centuries, as the first queer rights movement in Germany really began in the 1860s.

1860s

1864: Lawyer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs confesses, under the pseudonym Numa Numantius, his secret homosexual inclinations in his first two books in the 12 book series entitled Forschungen über das Räthsel der mannmännlichen Liebe (Researches on the Riddle of Male-Male Love). He proposes a concept of third gender identity through the term urning.

1867: On August 29, 1867, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs became the first self-proclaimed homosexual to speak out publicly for homosexual rights, when he pleaded at the Congress of German Jurists in Munich for a resolution urging the repeal of anti-homosexual laws.

1869: The term "homosexuality" appears in print for the first time in a German-Hungarian pamphlet written by Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824–1882).

1870s

1870: Friedrich Christian Oppenhoff mentions Paragraph 175 in Das Strafgesetzbuch für den Norddeutschen Bund.

1871: Homosexuality is criminalized throughout the German Empire by Paragraph 175 of the Reich Criminal Code. Homosexuality was already a criminal offence in all territories of Germany, but it was regulated by the state authorities separately.

1890s

1896: Adolf Brand founds Der Eigne, the first worldwide gay magazine, in Berlin

14. May 1897: Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee (Scientific-Humanitarian Committee) in Berlin, the first queer rights movement in history (it fought for the rights of not only gay men, but bisexual men and women, transgender people, intersex people, and lesbians).

1900s

1903: The advocating organisation Gemeinschaft der Eigenen was founded in Berlin.

1906: Brazilian countess Dina Alma de Paradeda poisons herself in Breslau, and a doctor reveals that her body was male, causing a media sensation. De Paradeda becomes one of the first transgender women known by name in the entirety of central Europe. Her history is later often recalled by Dr. Hirschfeld in his research and works.

1907:  Adolf Brand, the activist leader of the Gemeinschaft der Eigenen working to overturn Paragraph 175, publishes a piece "outing" the Imperial Chancellor of Germany, Prince Bernhard von Bülow. The Prince sues Brand for libel; Brand is sentenced to 18 months in prison.

1907 - 1909: Harden-Eulenburg Affair in Germany

1910s

July 6, 1919: Magnus Hirschfeld opens the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Tiergarten, Berlin. The Institute also housed the main offices for the Scientific Humanitarian Committee (the first homosexual righs organization) and the World League for Sexual Reform.

Anders als die Andren (Different from the Others), one of the first explicitly gay films, is released. Magnus Hirschfeld cameoed in the movie and partially funded its production.

August 1919: gay magazine Die Freundschaft is started by publisher Karl Schulz in Berlin.

1919: The Bund für Menschenrecht (BfM), a gay rights organisation, is founded in Berlin under the name Deutscher Freundschaftsverband (DFV).

1920s

1922:  Dora Richter becomes the first transgender woman to undergo gender reassignment surgery in Hirschfeld's Institute, the first operation of its kind in the world.

1924: The first worldwide lesbian magazine, Die Freundin, is founded in Berlin.

1929: On October 16, a Reichstag Committee votes to repeal Paragraph 175. The Social Democrats and other leftist parties backed the repeal, while the Catholic Center party and other right-wing parties opposed the repeal. The Nazis' rise to power prevents the implementation of the vote.

1930s - 1940s

1931:  Mädchen in Uniform, one of the first explicitly lesbian films and the first pro-lesbian film, is released.

1933: The Nazi Party bans homosexual groups. Homosexuals are sent to concentration camps. Nazis burn the library of Institute for Sexual Research and destroy the Institute.

1937: First use of pink triangle for gay men in concentration camps.

1945: Upon the liberation of Nazi concentration camps by Allied forces, those interned for homosexuality are not freed, but required to serve out the full term of their sentences under Paragraph 175

1950s - 1960s

Throughout the 1950s until the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany repealed the Nazi-era laws, reverting to the pre-WWII sodomy law (which only criminalized penetrative sex).

By 1957, East German officials stopped prosecuting consensual adult same-sex relationships.

1951: homophile magazine Die Freunde is first published by Johannes Dörrast

1968: Paragraph 175 is eased in East Germany, decriminalizing homosexual acts over the age of 18.

1969: Paragraph 175 eased in West Germany

1970s - 1980s

1974: General Gay Association, the second openly LGBT rights organization in German history, is established.

1985: Herbert Rusche becomes the first openly gay member of the Bundestag.

1987:  Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin becomes the first openly lesbian member of the Bundestag.

1990s - 2000s

1994: After German reunifaction, the Supreme Court rules that the age of consent for sex must be equalized, although its unclear what part of the Constitution the court based its ruling on.

11 June 1994:  Germany deletes the Paragraph 175 StGB (Strafgesetzbuch), which under changing conditions made sexual acts between men a punishable crime.

2000: The Bundestag officially apologizes to gays and lesbians persecuted under the Nazi regime, and for "harm done to homosexual citizens up to 1969".

2001:  Germany recognizes civil partnerships for same-sex couples (without joint adoption until Oct 2004, then with step-adoption); Klaus Wowereit becomes the first openly gay politician elected mayor of Berlin (and, by virtue of Berlin's status as a state, one of the two first openly gay premier of a German state; also makes Berlin the largest city in the world with an openly gay mayor); Ole von Beust becomes the first openly gay mayor of Hamburg.

2004: Same-sex stepchild adoption is legalized; Guido Westerwelle, leader of the FDP, becomes the first leader of a major party to come out.

27 May 2008: the Memorial to the Homosexual Victims of Nazi Persecution is handed over to the public in Berlin.

2009: Westerwelle becomes the first openly gay member of the Federal Cabinet (Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister under Angela Merkel's coalition government).

2010s - 2020s

2013:  Barbara Hendricks becomes the first openly lesbian member of the Federal Cabinet (Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety under Angela Merkel's coalition government)

June 2017: the pardoning of men convicted in the postwar era under Paragraph 175 was passed by law in the Bundestag. One week later, a majority of Bundestag MPs voted in favor of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Germany and granting homosexual couples full adoption rights.

2019:  Conversion therapy is completely banned for minors and partially banned for adults in December 2019.

2021: In May, a bill passes in the Bundestag that provides compensation to LGBT servicepeople in the military for past discrimination and harassment.

Pride Events

Christopher Street Day (CSD)

CSD Berlin

Cologne Pride

Munich Pride

Stuttgart Pride

Hamburg Pride

Life Ball in Vienna, Austria, is the largest charity event in Europe supporting those with HIV or AIDS; it started as a small event within the gay community.

Sources:

Timeline of LGBT History in Germany

LGBT rights in Germany

The first institute for Sexual Science (1919 - 1933)

From persecution to pride: the history of LGBTQ+ rights in Germany

LGBTQ+ in Germany [History, Rights, Marriage]

Stanford scholar explores the history of gay rights in Germany

How 1890s Germany led LGBT+ rights charge

[nnaalluuaa]

Brazilian Lesbian Pride Day ⚢ 🧡 💛 🤍 🩷 ❤️ August 19

Editions of the Chanacomchana (en: pussyonpussy) zine of the GALF - Grupo Ação Lésbica-Feminista (en: Lesbian-Feminist Action Group) during the 1980s.

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Rosely Roth (1959 - 1990), brazilian lesbian activist and pioneer in the history of Brazilian Homosexual Movement, reading a Chanacomchana zine issue.

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 3.7

Holidays

Alexander Graham Bell Day

Arbor Day (California)

Be Heard Day

Bird Day (California)

Bloody Sunday Anniversary Day (Selma, Alabama)

Chamorro Heritage Day (Guam)

Cybercombine Day (Prudentianopolis)

Doronicum Day (French Republic)

Equal Pay Day (Gleicher Bezahlungstag; Germany)

Finnmarkslopet Dog Sled Race (Finland)

First Planting Festival (Elder Scrolls)

Get Grandma To Write Down Her Meatloaf Recipe Day

Hamilton Lavity Stoutt Day (British Virgin Islands)

International Brick Maker Day

International Day of the Anti-Fascist Woman

International Women’s Day (Angola, Tajikistan)

INTERPOL International Day of Remembrance for Fallen Officers

Jose Abad Day (Philippines)

Liberation of Sulaymaniyah (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Mahasivarathri Day (Sri Lanka)

Maritime Day (Slovenia)

Masaryk Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia)

Maslenitsa (Russia)

National Ben Day

National Carol Day

National Cooper Day

National Day of Lesbian Visibility (Argentina)

National Heroes and Benefactors Day (Belize)

National Sauna Day (Japan)

National Sharon Day

National Slam the Scam Day

National Teresa Day

Neil Diamond Day (Las Vegas)

Nones of March (Ancient Rome)

Plant Power Day (UK)

Say Hello Day

Suez Canal Day

Teacher’s Day (Albania)

Texas Energy Day (Texas)

307 Day

Transport and Telecommunication Workers Day (Turkmenistan)

World Oneness Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Cereal Day

National Crown Roast of Pork Day

National Flapjack Day

Punsch Roll Day (Sweden)

1st Thursday in March

Kid Lit Art Postcard Day [1st Thursday]

Nametag Day [Thursday of Name Week]

National Hospitalist Day [1st Thursday]

National Vending Day [1st Thursday]

White Ribbon Day (Massachusetts) [1st Thursday]

World Book Day (Ireland, UK) [1st Thursday]

Independence & Related Days

Aleutian Islands (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Sulaymaniyah Liberation Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Festivals Beginning March 7, 2024

Antikmässan (Stockholm, Sweden) [thru 3. 10]

Brazilian Beer Festival (Blumeneau, Brazil) [thru 3.9]

Cincinnati International Wine Festival (Cincinnati, Ohio) [thru 3.9]

Crufts Dog Show (Birmingham, England) [thru 3. 10]

Eastern Bison Association Winter Conference (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) [thru 3.9]

Fulton Oysterfest (Fulton, Texas) [thru 3.10]

Limassol Carnival (Limassol, Cyprus) [thru 3. 17]

National Coffee Association Convention (Nashville, Tennessee) [thru 3.9]

New England Brew Summit (Portland, Maine)

Red, White & Snow (Park City, Utah) [thru 3.9]

Sustainable Wine Dinner Series (Los Angeles, California)

The WhiskyX (Miami, Florida)

Feast Days

Ardo (Christian; Saint)

Barbara Eden Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Billy (Muppetism)

Boris Kustodiev (Artology)

Contradiction Day (No It’s Not!; Pastafarian)

The Devil Is God Reversed Day (Everyday Wicca)

Drausius (a.k.a. Drausin; Christian; Saint)

Empodocles (Positivist; Saint)

Edward Landseer (Artology)

Esterwine (Christian; Saint)

Festival for Vedovus (God of the Dead & Volcanic Movements; Ancient Rome)

Impeachment of March Goblins (Shamanism)

José Olallo (Christian; Saint)

Junoalia (Old Roman Festival to Juno)

Leonid Feodorov (Russian Greek Catholic Church)

March Storms and Blasting Rods Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Milton Avery (Artology)

Paul the Simple (Christian; Saint)

Perpetua and Felicity (Christian; Saints & Martyrs)

Piet Mondrian (Artology)

Psyche’s Day (Pagan)

Pierre-Henri Dorie, Siméon-François Berneux (Christian; part of The Korean Martyrs)

Theophylact (Christian; Saint)

Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church (Christian; Saint)

Treachery Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Tuan Reincarnation Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 11 of 60)

Premieres

Alice the Collegiate (Disney Cartoon; 1927)

The Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk (Novel; 1951)

Coal Miner’s Daughter

Foxes (Film; 1980)

The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood (Novel; 1969)

Erlkönig, by Franz Schubert (Lied; 1821)

From Genesis to Revelation, by Genesis (Album; 1969)

The Golden Eggs (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Film; 2014)

Grateful Gus (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1958)

Highlander (Film; 1986)

The Home Guard (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)

The Long Goodbye (Film; 1973)

Mame (Film; 1974)

Mickey’s Grand Opera (Disney Cartoon; 1936)

Mirror (Russian Film; 1975)

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Film; 2008)

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Animated Film; 2014)

My Beautiful Launderette (Film; 1986)

The Nude Who Never, by Ted Mark (Novel; 1965)

The Old Mill Pond (Happy Harmonies Cartoon; 1936)

Olive’s Sweepstake Ticket (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1941)

Our Lady of the Flowers, by Jean Genet (Novel; 1943)

Page Miss Glory (WB MM Cartoon; 1936)

Pistol Packin’ Woodpecker (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1960)

Post Office, by Charles Bukowski (Novel; 1971)

A Room with a View (Film; 1986)

Royal Cat Nap (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1958)

Sailor Moon (Japanese Anime Series; 1992)

The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series; 1973)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost (Poem; 1923)

Taboo (Adult Film; 1980)

Things Ain’t What They Used To Be, recorded by Johnny Hodges and his Orchestra (Song; 1941)

Way Out West, by Sonny Rollins (Album; 1957)

Young Americans, by David Bowie (Album; 1975)

Today’s Name Days

Felicitas, Perpetua, Reinhard (Austria)

Bogoljub, Felicita, Perpetua, Teofil (Croatia)

Tomáš (Czech Republic)

Perpetua (Denmark)

Ralf, Raul, Rolf, Rudolf, Ruudi, Ruut (Estonia)

Taika, Tarja, Taru (Finland)

Félicie, Félicité, Nathan (France)

Felicitas, Felizitas, Perpet, Reinhard, Volker (Germany)

Evgenios (Greece)

Tamás (Hungary)

Quintilio, Tommaso (Italy)

Ella, Elmira (Latvia)

Felicita, Galmantė, Rimtautas, Tomas (Lithuania)

Are, Arild (Norway)

Felicja, Nadmir, Paweł, Polikarp, Tomasz (Poland)

Efrem (Romania)

Tomáš (Slovakia)

Felicidad, Perpetua (Spain)

Camilla, Ottilia (Sweden)

Davon, Devan, Deven, Devin, Devon, Devonta, Devonte, Devyn, Dewey, Lothar, Luther (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 67 of 2024; 299 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 10 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 19 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 27 (Geng-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 27 Adair I 5784

Islamic: 26 Sha’ban 1445

J Cal: 7 Green; Sevenday [7 of 30]

Julian: 23 February 2024

Moon: 10%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 11 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Thucydides]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 78 of 89)

Week: 1st Week of March

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 18 of 30)

[bibliomorgan]

And I still don't understand why here in Brazil the LGBT movement was pulled up most from trans women, sex workers, who always were marginalized and scorned by gays and lesbians (we have a LOT of radfem and TERFs inside lesbians groups and they make our lives a living hell).

To know the origins of our LGBT community here in Brazil only made me have more questions and despise the "LG" first. If wasn't the blood, sweat and tears of our trans women activists in the 60/70s, we would be ruined as a group.

My view is to always reference to the community as TLGB, but for brazilian legislation means it's LGBT still.

Let's think about it.

The LGBTQ community has seen controversy regarding acceptance of different groups (bisexual and transgender individuals have sometimes been marginalized by the larger community), but the term LGBT has been a positive symbol of inclusion and reflects the embrace of different identities and that we’re stronger together and need each other. While there are differences, we all face many of the same challenges from broader society.

In the 1960′s, in wider society the meaning of the word gay transitioned from ‘happy’ or ‘carefree’ to predominantly mean ‘homosexual’ and was an umbrella term that meant anyone who wasn’t cisgender or heterosexual. The community embraced the word ‘gay’ as a mark of pride.

The modern fight for queer rights is considered to have begun with The Stonewall Riots in 1969 and was called the Gay Liberation Movement and the Gay Rights Movement.

The acronym GLB surfaced around this time to also include Lesbian and Bisexual people who felt “gay” wasn’t inclusive of their identities. 

Early in the gay rights movement, gay men were largely the ones running the show and there was a focus on men’s issues. Lesbians were unhappy that gay men dominated the leadership and ignored their needs and the feminist fight. As a result, lesbians tended to focus their attention on the Women’s Rights Movement which was happening at the same time. This dominance by gay men was seen as yet one more example of patriarchy and sexism. 

In the 1970′s, sexism and homophobia existed in more virulent forms and those biases against lesbians also made it hard for them to find their voices within women’s liberation movements. Betty Friedman, the founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), commented that lesbians were a “lavender menace” that threatened the political efficacy of the organization and of feminism and many women felt including lesbians was a detriment.

In the 80s and 90s, a huge portion of gay men were suffering from AIDS while the lesbian community was largely unaffected. Lesbians helped gay men with medical care and were a massive part of the activism surrounding the gay community and AIDS. This willingness to support gay men in their time of need sparked a closer, more supportive relationship between both groups, and the gay community became more receptive to feminist ideals and goals. 

Approaching the 1990′s it was clear that GLB referred to sexual identity and wasn’t inclusive of gender identity and T should be added, especially since trans activist have long been at the forefront of the community’s fight for rights and acceptance, from Stonewall onward. Some argued that T should not be added, but many gay, lesbian and bisexual people pointed out that they also transgress established gender norms and therefore the GLB acronym should include gender identities and they pushed to include T in the acronym. 

GLBT became LGBT as a way to honor the tremendous work the lesbian community did during the AIDS crisis. 

Towards the end of the 1990s and into the 2000s, movements took place to add additional letters to the acronym to recognize Intersex, Asexual, Aromantic, Agender, and others. As the acronym grew to LGBTIQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIAA, many complained this was becoming unwieldy and started using a ‘+’ to show LGBT aren’t the only identities in the community and this became more common, whether as LGBT+ or LGBTQ+. 

In the 2010′s, the process of reclaiming the word “queer” that began in the 1980′s was largely accomplished. In the 2020′s the LGBTQ+ acronym is used less often as Queer is becoming the more common term to represent the community. 

[boundtoconstantcraving]

Hm, as a Brazilian lesbian I thought it would be interesting to share a few entries from newspapers about the lesbian scene in 80s Brazil and the GALF, wich translates as "group of lesbian feminist action", and their own independent newspaper ChanaComChana, wich translates as PussyOnPussy.

Here's an entry from 1983, on newspaper O Mulherio (something like women alliance), from São Paulo, that says:

Lesbian's magazine - The GALF, from São Paulo, just issued, last March 8, the second edition of their magazine ChanaComChana. The magazine brings an editorial on the denial of homosexuality, poetry, a commentary on the book "A queda para o alto" (wich is an autobiography from a transmasc brazilian poet that inspired the movie Vera [1986]), an interview with a member of the "housewives association" and several other informative notes. The magazine's first issue had come out back in February of 1981.

Here, we have an entry also from 1983, in that same newspaper O Mulherio, but post the Uprising of Ferro's bar, an event some would call "brazilian's little stonewall", when lesbians who were regulars in a bar/restaurant in São Paulo's central area - in a street that was then known as a "lesbian ghetto", filled with bars that had tons of lesbian customers and where they weren't super bashed and could have some sort of social life - actively revolted against the prohibition from the bar's owners of selling the magazine ChanaComChana.

This uprising originated the national lesbian pride day, celebrated on August 19!!! (for more information about this uprising, check this great post)

Anyways, the text says:

Lesbians × Ferro's - August 19, a cold Friday night in São Paulo. The tables inside Ferro's bar, traditional lesbian ghetto, started to fill up with a different clientele: civil rights activists, feminists, men who are activists of the homosexual movement; they were invited to ensure the selling of the magazine ChanaComChana. That's because for the past months, the activists of GALF have been suffering from beatings every time they tried to sell their newspaper inside the bar. This series of aggressions culminated on July 13th, when the group was almost thrown out of the bar by one of it's owners, security and police; the expulsion didn't succeed solely due to the union of lesbians in defense of the group. The GALF wanted to put a stop in this situation and show the non-activist lesbians that they too can fight for their rights and freedom of speech. That's when they organized the 19th protest. Thanks to the support received and the presence of the press, the uprising ended with the liberation of the magazine's selling and the strengthening of the GALF amongst lesbians. For the group, this accomplishment made room for them to spread their ideals, such as combating institutionalized heterosexuality, supporting lesbianism as a political identity and disseminating feminism as a perspective on transformation of society, especially amongst the male homosexual movement.

Also, here's an ad for ChanaComChana, with information about how you could buy the magazine. It's interesting to notice that part of the ad says "the checks or postal orders should be named solely after the acronym GALF", specifying that subscribers shouldn't use the full name of the group (lesbian-feminist action group) so that they wouldn't be exposed as a homosexual organization.

I hope this was interesting to someone! Looking for a bit more material on brazilian lesbian history, although there's very little documented stuff, especially considering the dictatorship that took place in Brazil back in the day....

Also, I'm working on translating the ChanaComChana magazines in case anyone's interested in reading their work!!!

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

So, in Brazilian elections news, the country's Landless Workers' Movement, aka MST, is launching candidates for state and federal deputies, an unprecedented move by them.

The MST is a left-wing social movement in Brazil, one of the largest in Latin America with an estimated informal membership of 1.5 million across 23 of Brazil's 26 states. Its defined goals are access to the land for poor workers through land reform in Brazil and activism around social issues that make land ownership more difficult to achieve, such as unequal income distribution, racism, sexism, and media monopolies, striving to achieve a self-sustainable way of life for the rural poor. They're known for occupying idle farming land, using Article 5 of the Constitution (demanding owned land to have social use) to back them up, and have provided settlement for 450,000 families.

Their praxis is mostly beyond partisanship and elected offices, but Bolsonaro's administration's work benefiting large land owners have encouraged the movement to launch electoral candidacies. All of them are through the Workers' Party (PT).

There will be five candidates for Congress and five for state deputies, in Rio, Federal District, Goiás, Pernambuco, Bahia, Maranhão, Rio Grande do Sul, Sergipe, and Tocantins. These are some of them:

Rosa Amorim

She's a 25 year old Afro-Brazilian lesbian who will run for the Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco. She is the daughter of agrarian reform settlers and from an early age she was rocked by the ideology of the MST. In addition, she works in Levante Popular da Juventude and is director of the National Union of Students.

Ruth Venceremos

Ruth Venceremos is a 37 year old Afro-Brazilian drag queen who will fun for the Chamber of Deputies in the Federal District. Interpreted by the pedagogue from Pernambuco Erivan Hilário dos Santos, the character has been seen for ten years in the struggles for human rights in the federal capital. She was settled from 2006 to 2017. For her political activism in favor of minorities, Ruth was awarded the Human Rights Award by the Federal District Government in 2019.

Marina dos Santos

Marina dos Santos is a daughter of peasants and former nun who will run for Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro. She's been in the MST for 33 years, since she was 14, and her father lost land due to debt when she was a kid.

Vera Lúcia Barbosa

Vera Lúcia Barbosa will run for the Legislative Assembly in Bahia. She's been in the MST since she was 16 and her main work has been about women's rights.

Gilvânia Ferreira

She'll run for the Chamber of Deputies in Brasília. For 30 years, since she was 21, she acted in the MST working for the democratization of land access. She says she'll focus her work as deputy in the formalization of quilombola territories (lands of descendants of escaped slaves) that still face pending issue, the demarcation of indigenous lands, and the recognition of babassu reserve areas in Maranhão.

(x, x, x)

[prettyperfectdoll]

HEY HI HELLO

Are we mutuals?

Are you from a latin american country other than Brazil?

Would you be willing to help me with a research about lesbian movements in LATAM?

Then I'd like you to please reach out!

I'm currently trying to start my thesis about the lesbian movements of latin america but the thing is it's very hard to find materials online, most of them have not yet been digitized. I've found the existence of some things in Chile for example, but I'm not in Chile nor do I know anyone from Chile (yet!) so!

If you could please help out a lesbian radfem trying to bring lesbian movements' history to the academic scene it would be so so so great! We could share resources, I have quite some stuff about Brazilian movements already and I'm filling up my (virtual) library with whatever I can find, but it's not easy, so yeah...

Anyway please please please please do reach out!