#jewish and queer

[penguicorns-are-cool]

Instead of posting your criticisms of homophobia in judaism that are almost always misinformed and antisemitic, if you really want to combat homophobia in Jewish communities, here are some links to Jewish Queer groups that are doing exactly that. By supporting them and listening to them you will be combatting homophobia without risking being antisemitic and also not speaking over Jews

Jewish Queer Youth

JQ International

Keshet

Eshel

OrthoGays (very bright colors)

Keshet Ga'Avah (also very bright colors but like in the text)

Sojourn

Svara

I got all of these from a very quick google search, and there's so many I didn't include. There's literally a wikipedia page for this, although it's not a very complete one.

Like, learn some more about queer jewish communities and what we're doing to combat homophobia and advocate for LGBT+ rights and how we're doing all this before making your little criticisms. better yet, instead of making those criticisms, support these organizations and share their resources, you'll be helping so much more than when you make rants on tumblr that inevitably end up being antisemitic in ways you don't even understand.

[sugaronyourtongu3]

I wanna meet trans Jews in melb so we can stand up n fight the nazis here but idk how so If u happen to be a trans jew in Melbourne who sees this message me idk

[whereserpentswalk]

The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

[wahlpaper]

Planning Perfect Review

Planning Perfect by Haley Neil - 4/5 - Contemporary YA WLW

I wanted to read Planning Perfect because it's a Jewish and asexual love story by an author I'm already familiar with, Haley Neil. The very cute cover also helped. A lovely dress, all elements are nicely balanced, and there's a peek at the apple orchard the book is set at. Everything about how this book is presented screams wholesome and cute for the bubbly queers. Yet, this might be the most stressful rom-com I have ever read. It could probably be described as a mental health story with a side of rom-com tropes. Despite the stress, it's a good book.

Felicity Becker, the star of Planning Perfect, has a wedding to plan! Her long-distance best friend and crush, Nancy, offers up her family's Vermont apple orchard for the wedding. Felicity wants to be an event planner when she grows up, so her grandmother invites someone with an internship to offer as a guest to the wedding. Felicity will have to figure out how to get it all done by the end of summer. Her mom is worried about the stress it could cause, her best friend from home isn't talking to her, and she's worried about how being ace will affect her relationship with Nancy. It's a lot, but with some help, she might be able to get through the summer in one piece.

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[edenfenixblogs]

Wow I didn’t know I needed this. Shalom chaverim sheli.

hi jumblr! i made these little jewish lgbt pride frames to put around images and videos for funsies

edit: guys!! the backgrounds are transparent because these were made to go over images, for icons and edits and stuff :) the aromantic and asexual ones should be readable over a lighter background!

another edit: sorry about the misspelling of שלום on a few of these, idk what got into me bc id usually remember when to put final letters but 😭 check the reblogs for a fixed ver :)

[amieruby]

Jewish queer people deserve to be safe in queer spaces.

[jewish-lgbtq]

Jewish Progress Pride flag, from Keshet!

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

[nah-thanks-m8]

Wait, people are doing this???

Not sure why I'm surprised, (this is a dangerously common trend within our community) but seriously why can't you just let her be?

The Nazis actively attacked openly queer people, and put them in the same camps-- there's literally so many interesting queer people of the age that the Nazis slaughtered, look them up!

I get it - it's easy to feel bad for a brutally murdered child because what happened to her was objectively horrific.

However, even aside from the fact that sexualizing a dead child is disgusting, you forget that before this was your favorite book or play, it was a real, human, girl. A little girl in an attic, hoping for a future that was ripped away from her. She was just that - a brutally murdered child.

Not a heroine. Not and "icon." She was just a kid who wanted to live. Stop propping up her corpse to make a point. She deserves peace and rest, not posthumous editing of who she was.

Leave Anne Frank alone.

Happy Pride Month! If I see any of you goyishe fucks calling Anne Frank bi, or worse a 'bicon", I will egg your house.

She was a child who was murdered in the Holocaust before she could declare what her sexuality was. We don't know what she would have identified as.

Parts weren't edited out because her father Otto was being malicious, not only would parts that were left out only serve to distract from the message of her diary (as proven by y'all's obsession with these entries), queerness was also still very much illegal. He was protecting his daughter's memory and ensuring the diary focused on the story it desperately needed to tell at the time.

There are so many other historical figures who were openly queer that you can support instead of fuelling your weird obsession with dead Jews.

Let Anne Frank rest.

[yossibutnossi]

When people in Queers for Palestine say things like "I know I wouldn't have rights in Palestine but my activism is not transactional" I lose it because nobody is bringing up the fact gay men get thrown of roofs because of "transactionality", we are saying it because you are actively harming the LGBT community. You actively go against your gay brothers and sisters in the Middle East when you cheer on Hamas or want to see the only gay-friendly country there abolished. You are hurting your own community because you love your community less than you hate (((Israel))). Get your head out of your asses and realize people telling you about the LGBT killings in Palestine is so you can stop hurting the Palestinians you "care so much about".

[redwiccanrobin]

Edit because not enough people are seeing this in the notes:

(From my Instagram story)

[ashinafantasy]

"have jews learned anything from the holocaust?" well obviously you fucking haven't what the hell

[sheydgarden]

LOYALTY TO LOVE / SOLIDARITY BEYOND STATES, 2024

queer as in fuck genocide. queer as in fuck nationalism, borders, surveillance & repression. queer as in fuck the cycles of violence that fascists grow by scattering seeds of fear & anger in the bloody soil of collective trauma. queers know safety will never come from the state, only from each other.

for years Zionists have been telling me how "stupid" and "self-hating" i am as a queer/trans anti-Zionist Jew, citing Israel's supposed (pinkwashed) status as a "haven" for people like me. this total erasure/dehumanization of queer & trans Palestinians has always disgusted me. queer Israeli "safety" is a lie, but even if it was true, i want no part of it at the expense of occupation & genocide. the only way forward is embracing each other in direct opposition to those who profit off endless violence.

this piece was made entirely in Procreate (with True Grit Texture Supply's Rusty Nib engraver brushes & Adilson Farias' watercolor brushes). hoping to get some prints made & use a percentage of the profits to support Operation Olive Branch's direct aid initiatives - stay tuned.

[jewishboricua]

pride month is about to start, so lemme say something real quickly: happy pride to all the queer Jews out there who might feel left out of their communities (this goes for the queer and the Jewish communities) and also that Hashem loves you as you are and you don’t need to ever hate yourself for being different or convince yourself that you need changing!! 🩷 (and for the queer Jews who don’t believe in g-d, I just hope you have a good month!!)

[nah-thanks-m8]

@a-shanda-productions what do you think?

A high-quality edit of Keshet's Jewish Progress Pride Flag

[peppers-ghost-posts]

I’m so sick of western people telling me about my experience being queer in Israel.

Do you know what it’s like to be ten years old and drive past the Pride parade in Tel Aviv on your way to the Kotel and being so so proud of your people for surviving?