#butching about it

[chek-apiece-died]

ID under the cut

[Image ID: A passage from mainely gay. A small newsletter based out of Portland maine that not only shared queer news from around the country but also showcased art, poetry, and letters sent in by local queer people. It also at points shared advertisements of businesses who were willing to serve the queer community. If I’m not mistaken, the newsletter released a new volume monthly from 1977 - 1980

The passage reads as follows:

What they are saying in some pulpits. By Wendy Ashley.

Tony and I went to the utilitarian universalist church on Allen avenue in Portland last Sunday, October 9th. We had an appointment to be there. Actually I was under the impression that I had forced us upon them. When we had called the minister, Robert E. Wolf, about his advertised sermon, “Is it ok to be gay!?”, he said, when asked if he wanted our presence, that of course anyone was welcome at his church, but that he would be the speaker. After a while in our discussion he correctly perceived me to be an irate justifiably paranoid lesbian on a high horse, and he invited us to come and participate in the discussion following the sermon. “Hey! That’s all it takes with me!” From there on, it was “rapport.”

As I was saying, we went there and listened to the sermon and reading and even sang a hymn! Well, I gotta tell you, the sermon was all right! No, it’s true! It wasn’t radical, mind you, but I hadn’t expected such rational understanding of the human rights issues, certainly not with the depth and conviction with which they were presented. We buttonwore and spoke up to individual members of the congregation at the coffee-serving after the service. Some said that they were surprised that so many had come. Those who spoke with us were all polite. Nobody, however, gathered in the designated area for the discussion. I kept wondering down the hall and standing in front of the door, but nobody followed. Ah, well. It’s good to know that here and there across the face of our land, liberal people are aware their necks are in a noose, too, and that it can be - and maybe is - happening here.

We include a reading from the service for you to see, too.

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[teaboot]

Fifteen year old me, deeply in denial: Im sure all girls wanna look like that

That:

[stemmmm]

more people gotta try this shit where bill has not improved and will not change but he's just chilling so its fine probably. its great

[dragonroilz]

[spitblaze]

I don't see people gas up gnc and butch transfems nearly enough, can we get a fuckin round of applause for gnc and butch transfems

[sabertoothwalrus]

young stan & eda but it's sapphic

[andstuffsketches]

um, can you play a song with a beat?

[genderqueerdykes]

it sends me when rad fems tell me not to call myself a dyke because im a trans man. yeah tell that to my mom, sister, ex best friend's mom AND brother, countless strangers and nearly every classmate i've ever had. see if they would've listened and stopped calling me a dyke. my mom was the first person to ever call me a dyke- she used the term bulldyke, no less. i wasn't even a teenager yet when she started calling me a bulldyke and butch dyke. i think maybe, just maybe, i'm allowed to reclaim that slur. but who am i to know, i'm only the person who lived my experience and got called that slur for the first 21 years of my life. somehow i'm the problem, here, and not the decades of transphobes and lesbophobes attacking my person.

dyke then, dyke now; i'm a big fat fucking transmasc bulldyke and it's Mr. Dyke to you.

[redrosefemme]

The laziest femme you know with the messiest bedroom is daydreaming about being a housewife to a butch rn

[loverboygene]

Casual physical dominance

Sitting around with a group of friends and pulling her into my lap. Resting a hand on her hip, wordlessly telling her to stay right where I put her

Putting my hand on the small of my back when we're waiting in line, asking her what she wants so that I can order for her

Helping her put her coat on as we leave a gathering, my hand lingering on the back of her neck as I guide us out the door

Holding the door open for her any chance I get, letting her lead the way while acting as her big butch bodyguard

[schemelin]

non-verbal "I Hate It In Here" Lone Wanderer just wants her dad back.

[prettylesbianprincess]

Being single is so fun until you are pathetically horny and just need someone to fuck you to sleep

[allineedisonedream]

They give me the sillies

Okay, that's the last one of my vampire doodles. I'll stop for now, haha

REF:

[cherryfull]

Tilly and Harlow artdump since Tiktok liked them so much!! 🎃🦇

[violetcarabiner]

if you get mad at lesbians for calling their partners their boyfriend you need to have some reflection time and really process why it bothers you so much, lesbians that use he/him pronouns or like to be called boyfriend are not “uprooting the sanctity of lesbianism” or “disgracing the identity” or any of the terfy rhetoric y’all are coming up with and id argue that there’s nothing more lesbian than having or being a butch/masc lesbian boyfriend, y’all are just stuck on societies definition/view of lesbians, there is no one way to be a lesbian and im so sick of it

[spacestationvampire]

preoccupied