#lgbtqia+

[aroacesafeplaceforall]

“The LBGTQIA+ community is a cult!” Look, even if it was; I would rather be in the “love everyone, accept each other, do what you want to do if it makes you happy cult” then the “do one thing wrong, and you're going to burn for all eternity, things you can't control are your fault” cult.

[pokimoko]

It's Aro-spec Awareness Week once again, which means it's time to celebrate with some lil' critters! (Here are their 2023 and 2024 friends). ✨Nothing will ever stop you from being amazing, aros!✨

[avioletstar092]

Reposting this to boost it!!

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'There's a petition to ban conversion therapy in the EU' to Cas' 'I love you'. /End ID]

If you are a citizen in the EU please sign this petition:

[deltoradecay]

Happy aromantic spectrum awareness week to any and all arospec alterhumans!

💚🤍🩶🖤

Shoutout to all:

Arospec plural systems and headmates.

Arospec tulpas, daemons/daemians, soulbonds, thoughtforms, walk-ins and other headmate (-adjacent) beings.

Arospec otherkin, therians and fictionkin.

Arospec alterhumans with factbased identities.

Arospec archetropers.

Arospec otherhearteds or otherkith.

Arospec otherlinkers or copinglinkers.

Arospec godshards.

Arospec furries and furry lifestylers.

Arospec alterhumans whose alterhumanity comes from a disorder/disability.

Any and all arospec alterhumans!

If your arospec identity intersects with your alterhuman identity, that's cool as hell. If your arospec identity doesn't intersect with your alterhuman identity and you just so happen to be both, that's also cool. Have a wonderful week!

You're cool as fuck, keep on being you.

[grrlscientist]

"The Peace Plan:

GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR COUNTRY"

[mattgrayyes]

I did not have Trans Bunny R2-D2 on my bingo card for tonight.

[cosmospandemonium]

WHY IS THIS BOTH AMAZING AND SO FUNNY

Pro-homosexual forces stay winning

[maddiee-line]

What the heck I got over 100 followers!! 😳

Thank you all so much, it means a lot that so many random people like you have enjoyed my posts. I have a couple thoughts...

I try to make positive, but also TRANSparent (hehe) content that may resonate with others of us out there. It’s a tough world and we often cycle through so much doom and gloom - inside and outside of our community. I just wanna offer a glimpse into my journey so hopefully you feel less alone and maybe strike some motivating energy into your own paths.

I started transitioning at 30 (17 months HRT as of now, and ffs) and kept hearing back then how I was too old and I was gonna be disappointed, ugly, and non-passing. God, Reddit can be so stupid and bleak. But hey, look at me now! While some days I don’t believe it, and really beat myself up, today at least I feel like I’m achieving something. So if this millennial lady can do it, you can too. 😌

At the same spot as that old post where I was sitting sad, but here I am today standing happy. You can do this. Little victories, one day at a time.

[cake-emu]

Coronation Street | Lisa Swain

she's going nowhere, folks!

[captainsavre]

Carina DeLuca || Station 19 - Season 6 ↳ 6.05 ‘Pick Up the Pieces’ I love you. And whatever we're going through, we'll get through it together because our love story is beautiful, and I don't want to lose it. I don't want to lose us.

[bluetootsiepop]

not exactly sure what's going on with the government right now, but I think this needs to be shared

Also im not trans, but some of my friends are, so I'm reblogging this for them (and everyone else who's trans, or part of the LGBTQIA+ community)

(Also just letting you guys know I agree with the fudge trump thing this person said but I don't swear, and reblogging this isn't me saying I swear)

In regards of the Trump government scraping all trans inclusion in its queer information portion of its websites I have made this thing. Spread the word. Don't let them pretend we never existed.

P.S: Don't like! Reblog! <3

EDIT: Well this got a lot of attention! I got a few users asking to print or repost my art and I am unimaginably grateful to everyone's interest, especially since it's a really simple drawing I made on a whim haha! Anyone who is looking to print these out to hang or hand out or repost on another platform is free to do so, although I ask you to credit me and let people know it's from my Tumblr profile! If anyone wishes to do anything else with my art or post and wants to clarify what I consent to then they can message me privately and I'll explain! <333 all my love to my queer siblings

EDIT: I made an LGBTQIA+ version with a focus on trans and intersex folks, it's on my pinned if you prefer this version of the acronym.

[differentalpacafestival]

You know, something I just realized is actually kinda funny.

The sole reason I even know what transgenderism is, is simply because I started seeing transphobia.

"This is so wrong, this is disgusting" etc made me wonder why they thought it was so wrong, so I pursued knowledge.

RuPaul's Drag Race was one of the first queer and LGBTQIA+ friendly media I ever consumed. I was not, and still am not the biggest fan of the drama because I just simply don't like drama, but I saw so many contestants coming out during that show. Grown "men" crying as they admit to feeling ostracized from their childhood communities, their family and friends, saying they've come to realize they're not actually a man, but a woman. I watched a handful of them becoming so vulnerable and stripping (emotionally) completely in front of someone they adored, but also a huge camera crew, and thus essentially the entire world. I thought "How is this wrong? What's so disgusting about this?"

I was 10 when I sat in the school bus after school and talked with some younger kids I was friends with about transgenderism. I don't remember the conversation, obviously, this is like 13 years ago, but I remember telling them it was actually possible for a boy to get a surgery to remove his penis. I remember feeling proud to be the one telling them this, but also appalled that their natural reactions were so strong, because mine never was, and both my parents and my older brother were vehemently against self expression like that.

When I was like 13, I identified as bisexual. I became obsessed with the flag's colours and tried to coordinate my outfits to have a similar vibe.

When I was 14, someone in my class told us after a visiting performance group that the lead singer *wanted* to be confusing, gender-wise. Someone had tried to make fun of the lead singer after their performance, and were quickly shut down when no one followed. My friend explained what being non-binary meant, and I felt so outed, but in a good way. My friend said the singer's long, messy hair was purposeful, that their big clothes were purposeful, and that they never introduced themselves by anything other than name, nor talked about it because they didn't need to; their self expression said everything for them. I remember going to the bathroom that same day and looking at my own long [straightened] hair and baggy clothes and wondered for the first time if I was on the same wavelength, just not the same wave.

When I was 16 I met my first ever trans friend. I quickly developed a crush on him, which, in hindsight wasn't actually a crush, but admiration, and I wanted to protect him at all costs. Whenever our elder teacher misgendered him or used his dead name, I, fairly aggressively, corrected her in front of the entire class to the point that I was yelled at for interrupting and that "she" [referring to my GUY friend] knows it's not on purpose. He never told me to stop, so I never did. We also didn't have that teacher for many classes, and I noticed she started to avoid using pronouns or even his name because I didn't back down.

That same year I found out that a friend I had, but had lost contact with, had also come out. She had socially changed her name when she started a new school, and her appearance had drastically changed from when we went to the same school just a year or so prior. I messaged her, asking if it was true and told her I was proud of her for being herself and that I was happy she had found who she truly was. The next time we met, I slipped with her pronouns, but that was also the only time I ever did. I apologized and we continued our lives as friends again. The next year, after I, too, had started my own self discovery journey, she dead named me, and I dropped her instantly. As a trans person, how do you have the guts to insult someone the same way you have been, even if they're not actively trans? (at the time, I only thought I was gay) Another in the same friend group followed suit after berating her, and after nearly 20 years of acquaintance, she dropped her as well. Apparently, they were never actually friends, they just happened to be the only two who were left out and decided to stick together. Had me and my two childhood friends from a different school not entered the picture, they wouldn't have maintained contact after their last year at the same school. I've also minimized contact with her since, after finding out she blames the entire trans community for everything that's wrong in the world after I came out as enby to her. She has always been protective of me, and has, on numerous occasions said she admires me, but when I learned that she wasn't just not a big fan of the, prior, only trans person in our group, but actually had fundamental issues with her as a trans person, my view of her changed. We had a short discussion about being trans and what it meant, and she argued with the same point you usually hear, like "You can never change your biological sex" and how we're just mentally unstable [which really felt like a personal attack because she knows I am].

About a year after I came out to my friends as enby, I came out to my mom after we had been drinking. I remember my thoughts being so loud when she started her usual transphobic tirade, and just as I was about to tell her, my nose started bleeding. I cleaned myself up and started by saying I knew why that happened, and came out to her on the spot. She stammered when she realized every bad thing and every criticism she has ever slung at the trans community, were also indirectly thrown at me. We've tried talking about it since, but she stands firm on non-binary not being real and how it doesn't matter if one is trans during life because "iN onE ThOusAnD yEaRs-"

My point is that in my peers' attempt at keeping everything strictly conservative, they helped me figure out that I'm a liberal.

My transphobic family's comments made me pursue my own conclusions because they were too emotional about it and never talked about trans people as other civils.

And I find that kinda funny.

[luneemeritus]

Agent Stone you will always be loved

There's no place he'd rather be 🪡💜

Inspired by this tweet!

[talisidekick]

A while back my pharmacist saw my deadname on my profile and accidentially called it out, he corrected and deleted my deadname from the system so only my preferred name shows up now. There was a crowd of people behind me, so as he hands over the pills he apologized, in equal tone and volume as when he called my deadname and lied saying it's been a long day and he didn't mean to call out -his own- name. I quietly told him it was fine and he didn't need to do that for my sake.

His response: "No, it's my name now."

I went to the pharmacist yesterday, his nametag is my deadname. He informed me he's immigrating and in the process he's changed his first name to my deadname to have an English sounding name. That's why he's now able to get a reprint of his nametag to be my deadname. And repeated, with the intense seriousness of someone who is going to die on this hill: "It's mine now. Not yours. I'm taking." His tone indicated that decision is final.

Bro literally deadnamed me once, and has committed to flat out stealing my deadname. It's his now. Legally. Officially. I over heard his co-workers call him by the name.

[forsapphics]

New York City, 1970s