#queer jewish pride

[magnetothemagnificent]

Reworked Queer Jewish Pride flag is now on Redbubble :)

[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.

[jewish-lgbtq]

Jewish Progress Pride flag, from Keshet!

[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!!)

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[shalom-iamcominghome]

"We need more diverse queer representation!"

You cannot even handle queer jews.

[queerism1969]

[gay-jewish-bucky]

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

[the-catboy-minyan]

my queerness is not for you to dismiss. my pride is not for you to weaponize. my identity is not for you to call an excuse for genocide.

I am here. I exist. I am proud of who I am and I live happily as myself. I am not secretly oppressed, the laws my community has worked so hard to achieve are not a distraction, I'm not some sort of IDF shill pretending there are queer people exist here when we're secretly all cishet.

I have never felt othered for my identity as queer like I felt othered by the global queer community for my identity as an Israeli.

I am not a distraction from genocide. I am not am excuse for islamophobia. I am a queer Israeli. leave us alone, we're not tools for your propaganda.

Am Yisrael Fucking Chai. 🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈

[smile-files]

yay! clover is gay! (and disabled! and jewish!)

[charleezard]

Reminder we (as in some of the people in Jumblr) are trying to organize a couple of things for Pride month, for all the queer Jews or queer soon-to-be Jews (and I guess some allies) to have a safe queer Jewish space to celebrate. We have a discord server, which we won't post the invite to publicly for safety reasons, but please DM me and I'll give you the link, no need to feel shy or anything.

I'll keep posting reminders in case someone wants to join only closer to June.

[magnetothemagnificent]

sorry f its obvious, goy here, could you go into what all the colors represent? :D

The twelve stripes on the queer Jewish pride flag represent the 12 stones of the 12 Tribes of Israel on the High Priest's Choshen (breastplate):

Onyx: Levi

Garnet: Yehudah (Judah)

Ruby: Reuven (Reuben)

Peridot: Asher

Malachite: Yosef (Joseph)

Emerald: Dan

Prase: Shimon (Simeon)

Torquise: Naftali

Sapphire: Yissachar (Issachar)

Jasper: Binyamin (Benjamin)

Pearl: Zevulun (Zebulun)

Crystal: Gad

There's no consensus as to which stones exactly were on the breastplate, so I synthesized different interpretations.

Sources used were:

The High Priest’s Breastplate (Choshen)

The Stones, Symbols, and Flags of the Twelve Tribes of Israel

Exodus Tetzaveh 28:17-20 JPS translation

Onkelos Tetzaveh 28-17-20 Metsudah translation

Translating Gemstones

I colour-picked from each stone and ordered them to resemble a rainbow, representing the unity and diversity of the Jewish people and the inclusion of LGBTQ Jews in our history.

[dovymcjewpunk]

To all the Queer Jews out there who no longer feel welcome, comfortable, or safe in Queer spaces: Happy Pride! We're part of the community whether they like it or not. Be Queer. Be Jewish. Be Proud.

🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈🇮🇱🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈🇮🇱🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇱

[jesncin]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8UnZtHp4_N/?igsh=MzJwajM5cXd5NDNm

Saw this and immediately thought of your wholesome Superman rework. 🏳️‍⚧️

aaah I'm put in an awkward place when folks send other people's fanart and I...don't like it 😅 like traditionally it's fandom etiquette to just scroll away when you see fanon/fanart you don't like, but when I'm put on the spot like this and have my work directly compared to it...welp.

While it's nice to see more recognition to possible queer readings of marginalized supers, I'm wary of how mainstream queerness has been used to pinkwash adaptations of the more racialized aspects of the character in question. Superman is an allegorical analog for a white-passing Jewish immigrant, but in MAWS those themes are universalized to being just "different". There's a whole episode where Clark's marginalization is likened to that of a gay couple, and how he's forced out of the closet because having boundaries and privacy hurts his friends' feelings. Never once in the show is he likened to immigrants or people of color who experience xenophobia.

I haven't watched X-Men '97, but I do find it troubling that Sunspot- whose very origin involves him experiencing anti-Black violence- has his marginalization likened to just queer struggles. A non-Black actor has yet again been casted to portray him. Just another example of how Sunspot in particular has been gradually getting whitewashed in new takes. It's just with queerness now too.

I think this is why it kind of gets to me when people read my "wholesome" Superman-comic-about-losing-parts-of-yourself-to-xenophobia as a trans allegory. It's like whitewashing via pink kryptonite.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I need a little help covering expenses again this month. I lost my job a while back, and fortunately I’ve been able to take a few odd jobs & commissions, but I’m still figuring out a more permanent solution.

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[coyote-teeth-poetry]

Being queer and religious is like:

Yes, I have religious trauma. No, not in the ways that you think.

Yes, the institution of religion as a whole is corrupted. No, not like that.

Yes, I feel rejected. No, not by God.

No, I can’t leave my religion, anymore then I could “leave” being queer. They both are intrinsic parts of me.

Yes, God is love. No, not in that way.

Yes, I feel uncomfortable in religious spaces. Queer spaces make me feel the same.

No, I will not change or give up any part of myself to mollify the other side. I couldn’t if I tried.

No, these two different parts of me are not “at war,” they don’t contradict each other.

Queer religious people deserve love and respect, not in spite of their religion, but including it. Even if the distrust of religion is warranted, that shouldn’t translate to the people.

They also deserve to have their queerness respected. No, it is not in defiance of God, it is reveling in the beauty of his creation.

Queer Muslim, Christian, and Jewish people, (and many, many others,) stand in the face of all the pressure put on them to conform, in one way or another. Queer spaces will never entirely be comfortable with them, religious spaces will never entirely be comfortable with them.

But we’re here anyway.

God loves you, I love you. Peace be with you.