#lgtbqi

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#Umfrageergebnisse einer bekannten #LGTBQI Plattform befragt wurden über 60.000. Menschen. #BTW2025

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So, I made two versions of this Volt, but one is for [REDACTED] and the other (this one) is for now :3

Enjoy my trans flag inspired Volt :D

[cibervlacho]

Agatha All Along, la serie más gay🌈 y fracasada 🤣 de Marvel

Es increíble que Marvel Studios, propiedad de la compañía del ratón, todavía crea que producciones como ‘Agatha All Along’ sean las que el público desea ver. ¡Qué engañados están!...Leer Más

[didthebrainameitself]

Me está aburriendo esta mentira de la libertad

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Asensual Aromantic Pride Flag

Aromantic or aro: feeling little to no romantic attraction.

Asensual: experiencing little to no sensual attraction.

[verityreadsbooks]

Series I Love: Heartstopper

I’ve been saving writing about this series until after Volume five – because at the end of the fourth book it said five would be the last. Except that it’s not – and as there was a two year gap between four and five because Alice Oseman was working on the Netflix series, I’m not going to wait until after book six! Heartstopper is the story of Charlie and Nick. They both attend the same grammar…

[meganooooooooooooooo]

Shoutout to Lace Harding for having her first sex dream, which was a gay one. Welcome to the LGTBQI+ community.

[pineapplerightsideupcake]

how do you as a bisexual come to terms with the fact that the trans community has literally made homophobia much worse. ppl are proudly being openly homophobic and when you dig deeper it’s actually the “queers” and transgenders who think kids can transition who they have a problem with (not all of course but a good chunk) I believe ppl who wouldn’t otherwise be homophobic are being homophobic bc of the trans community. I use to really struggle w internalized homophobia, and still do, it was only this past year where I came to terms w it and told my sister/close friends. I wish it could be just a normal thing to be gay and you’d be left alone, I believe we were on a trajectory for that. But now things have gotten worse, and thanks to the gender nonsense, openly bigoted ppl (especially religious) are being praised and promoted. All this bc of trans activism. I don’t even care anymore about what they do to themselves, but the damage they’ve done to actual gay ppl is insane and we’re already facing the backlash. I’m not sure if we’ll ever live in a world where being lgb isn’t a big deal.

Honestly? I think the benefit of pushing 40 is that I have a wider lens through which to view activism. And I feel the same way about LGB rights as I do about women’s rights.

Which is to say, every time a big gain is won, there is backlash. There are parts of society that get worse as the culture tries desperately to adjust around the new changes.

Men today are more porn sick and sexually aggressive than 20 years ago. In some ways. People are polling less positively about the LGTBQI+ but how much of that backlash is really directed at the LGB? Are polling groups even bothering to distinguish between LGB and “queer” people?

Let me tell you what life was like as a bisexual teen in 2003. Let’s go back 20 years and I can tell you the world has changed so much for the better. 20 years ago gay rights activists started really making headway towards civil rights guarantees. Suddenly middle Americans had to confront that gay people were among them and not just haunting bars and bathhouses. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such rigid gender norm adherence as I did back then. Men couldn’t wear pastels or purple or pink. Guys got called gay for having a messenger bag. There is an entire episode of “Friends” about it. Sussing out the Gays Among Us became obsessive. Emo culture was a direct response to how frantic straight people were to appear duly heterosexual. TV shows still depicted us as degenerate freaks if they depicted us at all. A few HBO shows that were soft core porn more than anything and Will and Grace was all anybody had. Shows like Xena and Buffy got away with lesbians because men said out loud that hot women kissing was fine. These were the early days of straight men having open lesbian fetishizes. We couldn’t get married. We could get fired for being gay.

For women there was no movement to normalize our natural bodies. I’d spend hours shaving myself smooth. Not wearing makeup was unheard of. Cellulite wasn’t even a word I knew let alone knew was normal. There weren’t a million online resources teaching women that vaginal discharge is normal and I grew up thinking (as did many others) that it was a private shame.

And as far as MeToo stuff? It’s easy to feel defeated in the moment but nobody was using the word ‘consent’ in my day. Men getting women drunk was a joke. Men pushing for sex was a joke. Men calling a woman that had one too many dates or boyfriends a slut was normal. Three of my male friends pinned me down on several occasions and took turns rubbing their dicks on me to completion.

The therapist I told said I “needed to work on my boundaries”. The word rape never even entered my mind. Rape was something a stranger with a knife did. It wasn’t something your best friends did to you and then laughed about. It isn’t something you submitted to because fawn and freeze are real fear responses. No one told me my friend forcing my hand down his pants was abuse because I continued to go over his house, didn’t I? No one told me about red flags or cycles of abuse.

And the older women you told rolled their eyes. What I endured was so mild compared to many other women. Men forcing themselves onto women was just normal.

I can’t tell you what it means to me to see so many young women calling it out. Refusing to stay in a bad situation. Refusing to date entirely sometimes. Women sharing red flags and advice to stay not just safe but thriving.

Don’t get me wrong- the current gender movement is regressive and dangerous. I’m not saying it’ll all work itself out. Activism is constant work but things ARE getting better. They really are, even if sometimes it doesn’t feel like it. 💜

[cowkisser007]

My MUST top 10 reads for Pride Month

Hello my beauties,

This June is pride month. As someone from the LGTBQI+ community I wanted to show you some LGBTQI+ books published by LGBTQI+ authors. Please enjoy

Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner

Bisexuality The Basics - Your Q&A Guide to Coming Out, Dating, Parenting and Beyond Book by Lewis Oakley

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

The HeartStoppers Series by Alice Osmen

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page

and there you have it my top 10 LGBTQI+ reads for Pride Month

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So, I made two versions of this Volt, but one is for [REDACTED] and the other (this one) is for now :3

Enjoy my trans flag inspired Volt :D

[cyarskaren52]

Fox News propaganda 😀

Facebook selling data to China 😀

Trump & his first love ivanka w/multiple Chinese patents 😀

Twitter Russian propaganda 😀

Copaganda on tv/movies 😀

Anti Black propaganda 😀

Anti Jewish propaganda 😀

Anti lgtbqi propaganda 😀

TikTok propaganda 🤬😡🤬😡

[nosce]

tito n0sce: Anacoreta. Asceta. Ermitaño. "¿Es ser travesti una entrega a Dios?". "Si la historia es de los que no tienen MIEDO la historia es de las travestis." Roberta Marrero. (D.E.P.)

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Roberta Marrero (@roberta__marrero)   . View this post on Instagram A post shared by Roberta Marrero (@roberta__marrero)   . . Es curioso, pero para todo lo que admiro yo a todos los colectivos de “freaks” (así denomino yo a l@s loc@s anormales porque yo me tengo por uno) de la Vida, qué poquito he mencionado yo en concreto al colectivo LGTBQI+…

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Tributes after tragic death of business leader Geoff Selig

New Post has been published on https://qnews.com.au/tributes-after-tragic-death-of-business-leader-geoff-selig/

Tributes after tragic death of business leader Geoff Selig

Geoff Selig, a prominent Sydney businessman and a former NSW Liberal Party president, is being remembered for his LGBTQIA+ advocacy after his tragic death while on a European holiday.

The gay businessman was the executive chairman of leading printing and communications firm IVE Group. IVE prints some of Australia’s biggest magazine titles.

IVE group confirmed Geoff had died at age 59 while on holiday after “unforeseen complications arising from an accident in Barcelona”.

“Geoff played a major role, over 40 years, in establishing IVE as Australia’s leading marketing and communications business, in the process, reshaping the landscape of the Australian printing industry,” IVE’s board said.

Geoff Selig was previously president of the Liberal Party’s NSW branch between 2005 and 2008.

Writing on Twitter X, Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich said he was very sad to hear of the tragic passing of the businessman and political figure.

“Geoff was a leader in the Sydney business community and an extremely generous supporter of many causes.

“[He] assisted the marriage equality campaign more than people will ever know. [Geoff was] a loving family man and caring friend to so many.”

��Influential and inspirational leader’

Also writing on X, New South Wales Liberal MP Jacqui Munro said, “During my time as co-Chair of NSW Liberal Pride, Geoff was a consistent and active supporter of the Liberal LGBTQI+ community.

“He is recognised as a giant of the Party, leading as President from 2005 to 2008.

“His loss will be felt deeply. Condolences to the Selig family and all who knew him.”

Visual Media Association CEO Kellie Northwood said many in the printing industry are also mourning Geoff after the “deeply saddening” news of his death.

“Geoff was an influential and inspirational leader, one I had great privilege in working with across industry projects over the years, and who was truly passionate about our industry,” she said.

“The VMA Board, members and industry share our sincere condolences and thoughts to Geoff’s family, and to the entire IVE Group during this difficult chapter.”

Very sad to hear about the passing of Geoff Selig. Geoff was a leader in the Sydney business community, an extremely generous supporter of many causes, assisted the marriage equality campaign more than people will ever know, and a loving family man and caring friend to so many.

— Alex Greenwich MP (@AlexGreenwich) May 6, 2024

Very very sad to hear of the passing of Geoff Selig.

During my time as co-Chair of NSW Liberal Pride, Geoff was a consistent and active supporter of the Liberal LGTBQI+ community.

It is so important to have Party elders who are willing to give back after their time in formal…

— Jacqui Munro (@JacquiMunroMLC) May 6, 2024

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The gay Denny’s burned down, allegedly due to a grease fire, which really sucks. It’s one of the top LGTBQI+ friendly spots in the Phoenix area, so I hope they reopen soon.

I still remember the first time I ate there with my two oldest kids when they were wee. My kids’ daycare was a few blocks away. I was looking around thinking, ‘Is it just me or are there a ton of gay people in here?’ and then chastised myself for making assumptions about people I don’t know. Later that evening, I mentioned it to a friend, who explained that it wasn’t just me, that the location is known locally as the gay Denny’s because it gets a lot of late-night business from the gay bars down the street.

There’s a Denny’s in Lakewood, Ohio, we used to go to after club concerts. That location is known as the punk rock Denny’s and if you ask anyone from Lakewood or the Northern Ohio punk/alternative scene about it, they’ll know exactly which Denny’s you mean. So I wasn’t even surprised that there’s a gay Denny’s and that everyone in Phoenix knows where it is if you mention it.

Nothing hits quite like Denny’s when you’re looking for after-party food. I always make it a point to tip the servers extremely well, especially the late-night servers. They put up with a lot of shit from drunken fools and cheapskates.

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The l in lgtbqi stands for love