#lgbtq visibility

[profeminist]

Happy Pride everybody! Don’t fall for the yearly “divide and conquer” tricks from the right

[maxkilledtheirghost]

like and reblog this if your account is a safe space for ppl who identify with xenogenders!!!!!

(also happy xenogender visibility day)

[steel-knight]

happy international asexuality day 🖤🩶🤍💜

we are all valid and recognized here on the asexual spectrum!

🖤🩶🤍💜🖤🩶🤍💜🖤🩶🤍💜🖤🩶🤍💜

[alurite-l]

Why is it that whenever we bring up problems in the LGBTQ community, specifically problems about:

Racism

Transmisogyny

Lesbaphobia

Islamophobia

Antisemitism

Y'all immediately write it off as "petty infighting"? Y'all immediately bring up trans issues as a way to weaponize whenever we try and have these discussions. And I'm not talking about it now, I'm talking about how y'all have been doing it for YEARS even before the anti-trans laws in 2023. When are y'all gonna learn that multiple issues can exist at once? Or that different people face different problems and are going to speak on them.

I'm really tired of queer people more specifically white transmascs or white queers trying to silence everyone who speaks out on LGBTQ issues that aren't just homophobia or transphobia. At the end the day we are all queer people but guess what? At the end of the day I am a black person who can still be called the n word by a white queer. A lesbian can still be called the d slur by a non lesbian. A trans woman can still be labeled a predator or a "man" by other trans people. And same with antisemitism and Islamophobia.

If you want this community to grow and thrive listen to ALL of us when we speak out on our issues not just some.

[speciallysapphic]

I was 8 years old the first time I kissed a girl. Not because I was dared, not because I was replicating something I saw on TV, but because I wanted to. I didn't understand why yet, and I wouldn't for several years after that. I was just a kid playing house. I'd never met a lesbian that I knew of, don't even think I really knew that word. And yet somehow, for 8 year old me, the "right" kind of house for me to play a mom in, was one with two moms instead of one. Flash forward to 9, and I'm the one at the sleepover who starts truth or dare. Subconsciously hoping that someone dares one of the girls to kiss me. I'd never seen a pride parade or been told that some women date women. But I always suggested truth or dare at the sleepover. Moving on to 12 year old me, all my friends have crushes on boys at school. "Who do you like?" They ask. Not wanting to feel left out or different, I picked the first boy I saw walking past our lunch table. The other girls giggled because apparently no other girls liked that boy. Neither did I. When I was 13 I got a "boyfriend", because that's what all my friends were doing. We hung out on playgrounds, and he'd carry my backpack for me. One day, he kissed me in the orchestra hallway, and I remember not being nervous or excited about it. But I remembered what it was like when my friend's hand brushed against mine or she tucked the tag into my shirt. The Disney princesses never ended up with another princess. The love songs were never about their friends. And the stories in class never told of a girl who liked other girls. But here I was, 13 years old, asking her if she needed help tying her shoes, helping her braid her hair, and "getting cold" at the sleepover to get closer to her. I was never "taught" to be gay. I was never shown that people like me could be and ARE queer. I was only ever shown straight representation, taught that a normal marriage was between a woman and a man, and I never saw a rainbow flag at school. I liked girls anyway. No amount of rainbow or representation will turn a child queer. Just like no amount of straight representation could turn me straight. But it will tell that child that queer is not a set look, background, or way of life. It will tell that child who's terrified to admit to herself that she isn't straight that she is not broken, weird, and most of all, she's not alone. And that can save a child's life. So, while the rainbows and education might make you uncomfortable, I'll take you being uncomfortable over the loss of a child's life any damn day.

[live-laugh-loverpool]

anybody find it messed up how people are "expected cisgender and heterosexual until proven otherwise"? and that it even applies to the things we're told as children?

or is it just me?

[oro-junestar]

oro has painted perry's entire body to celebrate a very special occasion today

[killervelveteenrabbit]

Look, Nichelle, I understand that the sudden realization of your deceptive and self-aggrandizing behavior is a powerful and potentially demoralizing discovery. But you don't need to have a breakdown over it during a challenge, especially when one of your teammates is inches away from drowning… even if it is Julia.

Oh, and massive kudos to the writers for the Bowie-Raj dynamic. This plotline would have been unthinkable fifteen years ago, when CN S&P edited the OG TDI with ruthless and inconsistent abandon.

[asteramoon]

cw // lesbophobia and misogyny

sometimes i feel so jaded about the lesbian experience. about being so misunderstood and outcast from the queer community. about everyone thinking lesbophobia is essentially the same as homophobia. about struggling to even find community with other lesbians, because other people come in and ruin it. about so many people discarding the word lesbian, and our beautiful history. about my non-lesbian friends never really getting it, and tuning out my explanations. about me being perceived as a bitch for having any feelings about this. about constantly being talked over, or experiencing forced solidarity in these conversations when other people try to say their experiences are the exact same. about having so little lesbian representation, and it being overlooked so often with queer stories.

[wannabe-all]

Honestly, I love dressing in a femme way and doing makeup and all of that but I hate being perceived as a woman

I just wanna wear a crop top and eyeliner without having to worry about being seen as a girl

[seniorita-allan-poe]

Regalo de reyes: un abrazo y un beso de mi abuelo.  * enviar al cielo *

Señorita Allan Poe.

[small-strong-bookish-butch]

The queer adult* with the Girl Scouts** at this coffee shop is wearing a Support Trans Kids sweater and has a tattoo of the lines "You don't want a soft death. You want a hard life that is your life" from Your Life by Andrea Gibson... catch me crying about it later

*I'm like 98% sure they're trans, and they're older than me

**who are their children

[littlebydigital]

Sapphic Serenade: Lines of love

❤️‍🔥

[earth-and-bones]

i’m not complaining,, like i love that there is lesbian art i love that there is visibility. but i’m a gay man.. why am I only seeing the lesbian art,, where’s the gay man art let me see them dudes and enbies,, please.

rb with your mlm art pls

[umptious-bumptious]

There is a person who works at the customer service part of the pharmacy at my local Walmart, and I don't know their alphabet but there is a lot of gender-fuckery going on in their look. And I live in a reddish part of a swing state, and just the thought of trump voters having to go get their cholesterol meds or whatever from this person fills me with joy. Because it's not like the customers can simply choose another register. It's this person or nothing.

Visibly trans people in customer facing retail and food services are braver than any marine and provide a far greater service to society

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