#stonewall 49

[riftfic]

I made a playlist 💙

No, this isn't the surprise. ;) Still working on that. Shouldn't be too long now. I tried to put everything in the order of events. It's mostly easy listening except for a few key moments. Some of it I listened to when writing. Some of it inspired me or reminded me of certain moments, or of character thoughts and feelings. I've included a Chapter Key under the cut :)

Chapter 1: No More (2023 Integrated Version on AO3) 1. Cobalt (Intro) 2. Be Still, My Tongue - Sans 3. A Reason to Hold On - Sans Chapter 2: Eclipse (2023 Integrated Version on AO3) 4. Reset - Frisk 5. 1001 - Sans to Papyrus 6. Insight XXXIV Chapter 3: The Machine 7. set adrift 8. Cherish 9. Catch Chapter 4: Golden Flowers 10. Fallen Down 11. Home (from "Undertale") 12. Ruins Chapter 5: There, Sometimes 13. EYE HAVE YOU - Flowey Fight 14. Waterfall (Undertale Remix) Chapter 6: Scales 15. A Way With You 16. Spear of Justice - From Sans' Perspective 17. Battle Against a True Hero (From Undertale) - From Frisk's Chapter 7: Your Brother 18. Plume - Undyne on Piano 19. I Wanted to Leave - Undyne on Piano 20. Stay Hollow (with mossy) - feat sans undertale lmao 21. On My Side - Sans to Frisk Chapter 8: Remember 22. But Why? 23. Stonewall Stone Fence - Frisk to Sans

Chapter 9: A Good Person 24. Alphys 25. Sacrilegium III 26. It's Raining Somewhere Else Chapter 10: Gray Ghosts 27. You Make Me Happy - up until Sans and Frisk argue 28. Another Medium Chapter 11: The Descent 29. Here We Are 30. Not Human - Frisk 31. Land of All - Sans (convince me woodkid doesn't have his voice) Chapter 12: The Experiment 32. Promise (Reprise) 33. Bone 34. Collapsing Sun 35. The Great Cataclysm 36. The World Spins Madly On - the aftermath Chapter 13: Encaged 37. empty crown - frisk 38. Across the Drift 39. Scars (Instrumental Version) 40. Summer Clouds - sans 41. Don't Leave Me Here Chapter 14: Human 42. Megalovania - Piano 43. BRIEF 44. Crawl 45. It's Alright 46. Promise - Sans to Frisk 47. everything i wanted - Frisk to Sans Chapter 15: Determination 48. Soul Mirror 49. His Theme (From "Undertale) 50. The Place You Promised to Show Me 51. OATH 52. Blooming (In C Minor) 53. Confrontation 54. Your Soul is Beautiful Chapter 16: Together, Apart 55. Ashes in the Wind 56. Find Yourself 57. Believe 58. Lovin' Me (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) - Sans and Frisk Chapter 17: Epilogue 59. I'll Be There Soon 60. Reunited (From Undertale) 61. Cobalt (Outro) lookit all dos chikinz amazing, you made it to the bottom here, you may behold our beloved:

[xx-craftycreep-xx]

ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴀꜱᴏɴ ꜰᴀᴍɪʟy ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴᴏɴꜱ:

•ʟᴏᴜɪꜱ ᴍᴀꜱᴏɴ:

Age: 56

Height: 6 ft 2inch

Weight: 190 lb (86kg)

Likes: Good food, discipline, branded watches, listening to the radio,beef, Beer,sports,cars,skills, Judy, Jeffery and Liu

Dislikes: Awful food, Judy worrying about small things,Indiscipline and Jeffery's obsession with Christy.

Birth Date: 20th May 1960

Date of death: 11th December 2016

Zodiac: Taurus ♉

•ᴊᴜᴅy ᴍᴀꜱᴏɴ:

Age:49

Height :5ft 7inch

Weight: 124lb (56kg)

Likes: Her family,dressing nicely, beautiful dresses, rabits, green color.

Dislikes: Dirty things,moving to new places,her family being hurt.

Birth Date: 2nd January,1967.

Date of death: 11th December 2016

Zodiac: Capricorn ♑

JΞFFΞЯУ MДSФИ:

Age: 17( currently 26)

Height:6 feet

Weight: 173lb (79kg)

Likes: Smoking, alcohol, christy (formerly), hoodies,dried flowers,being alone,Judy,Liu ( a little), knives,blood,stonewalling his emotions.

Dislikes: , Louis,The Rollins gang,whiny people,Liu's toys,bullies, annoying animals,feeling vulnerable.

Birth date: 18th August,1999.

Zodiac: Leo ♌

•ʟɪᴜ ᴍᴀꜱᴏɴ :

Age:15(currently 24)

Height:5'7

Weight: 140lb (64kg)

Likes: Painting,drawing,mimicking his mother,his family,sully,Mr.Widemouth.

Dislikes: Jeffery being angry,his toys taken away from him,his family being hurt,knives,animals being hurt.

Birth Date:6th June,2001.

Zodiac: Gemini♊

The official info (eg: height,weight etc.) Was given on Wiki. I have just put some of my own Hcs for their likes and dislikes.

THANKS FOR READING ❤️

[evevoli]

Hey Ev! Sorry to pester you again, but I came across your Hunter playlist on Spotify and it is very good!! I was wondering if you would be willing to kinda share yout thoughts on it, or like behind it? Why you chose the songs you chose for it and in that specific order and stuff, it'd be cool to hear! Also just,,, the three last verses of Dear Wormwood after Thanks To Them.... oh.... Oof, even... Anycase have a nice day! 🌻

oh boy howdy i have been waiting to hear these words all my life

i promise you are not pestering me at all bdjfjdjfks i am frothing at the MOUTH at the opportunity to talk about this damn thing lol. this stupid playlist is my magnum opus my baby i have spent like 2 hours meticulously organizing it yes im normal why do you ask

the hunter playlist in question for everyone else

the playlist's structure is generally meant to follow hunter's growth as a person, starting from pre-canon childhood to the present, and is at times loosely based on the five stages of grief. (this "grief" being the revelation that his entire life has been a lie.) to split it into sections, the first 20 songs are meant to catalogue hunter's experience being raised by belos and rise to the position of the golden guard. 21-27 is his gradually expanding worldview through hunting palismen to any sport in a storm, after he meets flapjack and the hexsquad and starts slowly questioning his beliefs. 28-42 is hollow mind and the direct fallout of that—with 33-45 centering around the "anger" stage of grief—and 43-48 is his feelings between labyrinth runners and king's tide. 49-58 is firmly in the "depression" stage, with everything after 59 being when he reaches acceptance and is able to truly start to recover.

putting this under a cut because i swear it is longer than the damn bible, but below you will find a more in-depth song-by-song breakdown. never underestimate the power of a very exhausted college student who drank too much soda's ability to think about one particular fictional character ig.

to start, i put dear wormwood at the very beginning to act as a sort of "prologue" to the playlist and set the stage for what's to come, and also because it is THE Hunter Song(tm) and i need to make sure everyone knows it. that song has had a flashing neon sign with hunter’s name on it in my brain since eclipse lake at least.

bumblebees are out, because it's so short and blatantly "oh this is hunter and belos", acts as a clear divider between dear wormwood and the rest of the playlist, with fish in a birdcage being the official "start" to the narrative. this song and helplessness blues after it then act to sort of sum up hunter's general feelings growing up isolated in the coven.

english house through you're a useless child (君はできない子) is actually from belos's perspective indoctrinating him, and then love me love me love me (愛して愛して愛して) onward is back to hunter. the next several songs detail hunter's experience as the golden guard. life itself is a recent addition mostly just there for vibes and because the first verse fits lol (thanks skit) and honey i'm home and saint bernard are the two obligatory Religious Trauma Bops i hope to make animatics for eventually. icarus (Bird Symbolism #1) through stonewall stone fence is meant to be from the perspective of an outsider looking in (aka the audience) and going "oh this kid is Not Well" it is Necessary. (silhouettes particularly fucks me up lol i need to make a dadrius playlist)

with that all being said there beneath is where his character arc in the show proper actually kicks in. it acts as a divider between the prior songs to say "oh he is Thinking about Things." [insert that shot of him looking out his window at the end of hunting palismen] the songs from notos don't really fit in chronologically—torches would actually fit better earlier, and the other two later—but they flowed better here lol. bad blood is mostly vibes i don't even remember why it's in there, something something it being about god creating man paralleling belos creating the grimwalkers, but i like it too much to take it off lmao. this section is basically all of hunter's beliefs slowly slowly starting to crack throughout his Field Trips With The Good Guys.

uso janai is where shit gets Real; this one is actually from luz's perspective after half-befriending hunter in hunting palismen and then wanting to get him away from belos after You Know. escapism is back to hunter—more questioning, and the line "i'd rather be free" calling back to his desire to choose his own future—before shit goes down.

pale white horse and where is your rider happen specifically during the confrontation with belos in hollow mind. the actual songs are about uhhh,, an abuse victim being approached by the personification of death itself (when the other three horsemen failed to rattle them) and being scared shitless before realizing death had been their abuser disguised the entire time which fits with. well the last 5 minutes of the episode.

the next songs until around whisper encompass the time between hollow mind and labyrinth runners where hunter is alone to process things. the extra oh hellos songs there are him thinking back on his life and all the harm he'd caused working under belos as everything is recontextualized. (plus passerine has that extra bird symbolism fuck yeah)

(if you think there's a lot of the oh hellos in this beast oh my god. i think i had to physically restrain myself from adding like 70% of their entire discography at first im pretty sure the entirety of dear wormwood was on there for a little bit. it's all hunter. i am deranged.)

from this point onward starting with james picard, the playlist structure really kicks into the 5 stages of grief high gear, with everything before pale white horse generally being denial and these next several songs shifting into anger. this section until time to move on is what i like to call hunter's Religious Trauma Breakdown Arc where he's just thinking things through and gradually becoming angrier and angrier at the universe as it all sets in no im not projecting

(also i should note that the order from here on is a little fucky and songs are mostly chosen by what flows best sound-wise; if we're going just by lyrics it'd be something like where is your rider > the garden > dear god > let it burn > dream with everything else tacked on afterward)

sweet sacrifice specifically gives me mad "angry at your shitty parent for years of Nonsense" vibes no im not projecting and obsolete is. bro come on just listen to the lyrics. "you bring me back to life so you can watch me die" it's out of my hands at this point bsjfkfkd

the Our Last Night Trifecta is meant to be hunter's thoughts upon realizing he's effectively out of the coven after labyrinth runners. sunrise would actually fit better lower in the playlist but i wanted to keep them together in order for the flow bshfksk. lie to me is the Oh He Has Friends To Help Him Through This song and more than this stands as hunter and the hexsquad both vowing to protect each other from belos,, ,, oh he has friends to help him through this,,,,,, arsonist's lullaby is there to sort of say "you're not outta the woods yet kiddo" but it's also mostly there because. philip notably has a fire motif going on with him and im a huge slut for symbolism X)

starting with bird song, we have officially entered Hunter's Depression Era after king's tide. bird song is mostly there because Oops! All Bird Symbolism. the moon will sing grabbed me by the throat with Sad Boy Vibes it's sort of there as a retrospective "wow that whole thing was fucked up" on hunter's part, and unraveling is literally only there because the first verse reminded me of darius but it's got that post-hollow mind "shit ive lost literally everything" feel going for it so in it goes. lyrically these both fit better during the initial anger pain spiral (around where the garden is) but again, flow.

(note that ive barely touched this section moving forward since thanks to them so the songs here are a lot more vague, predictive Being Sad And Healing type shit; i will probably do an overhaul after season 3 is over and his canon character arc is actually complete. i havent added anything with the events of thanks to them in mind because i don't want to disrupt the flow i have, however i am actually planning to add who am i by cami-cat eventually; it gives off MASSIVE post-hollow mind hunter and luz vibes)

welcome home, son gives off a very specific emotion i cannot describe you're just gonna have to trust me on why it's there but let the river in is peak "lmao fuck my dad" energy he needs this . uneven odds is more vibes (+ camila going is anyone gonna parent this and not waiting for a response) but you understand right. He Needs This.

lost in paradise sort of represents a low point during the timeskip in thanks to them; that lingering feeling of "everything is (comparatively) fine now so why can't i be happy and feel like i deserve to be" that will no doubt be haunting him for years. glow is straight-up about grief and i put it there initially looking at it from a "healing from non death-related trauma" angle but after uh. You Know. i am seeing it differently,,,, kokoronashi + can i believe you build off of the thing i said about lost in paradise with that "why can't i feel like i deserve to be happy" thing plus my favorite, "feeling inherently unlovable what do you even see in me."

eight through soap is him clawing out of that mindset and deciding maybe kindness and trust is Good, Actually (said through tears). love like you is love like you and wanderer's lullaby is Me Specifically reaching into the screen and giving him a hug /j (it's actually his like 5 parental figures telling him they love him <3 i have a lot of feelings about this song okay) the author once again plays off hunter's desire to choose his own future with him finally being allowed to do so, and ready now is exactly what it says on the tin. that he's going to be okay.

finally, FINALLY, thus always to tyrants finishes things off with a bookend to dear wormwood. this song ends the dear wormwood album with the victim staying firm in their decision to leave their abuser with a hope that they become a better person someday; hunter is now on the road to recovery away from belos, closing up his character arc while still leaving the path ahead relatively open-ended. (i chose make this one last since it feels less "final" than the prior two songs—signaling that his journey is far from over—and, y'know, bookending.)

this is quite possibly the longest post i have ever written but!! thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about this abomination lol i worked. way too hard on it bhsgsdkh hope that answers your questions and lmk if you have any other thoughts!!! <3

[thistleandthorn-events]

Between January 3rd - January 10th Stonewall Prep will be sponsoring a trip for all students to London, England, in celebration of the new year. All students must attend, towns people will attend as chaperons.

Rules:

No participant is allowed to leave the city unless on an excursion with the group.

No participant is allowed to leave the country.  

No student is allowed roam the city unaccompanied.

Students must be back in their assigned rooms between 11pm - 6am.

Excursions are not optional.

No one is allowed in student rooms other than the assigned participants after curfew.

Accommodations:

We will be staying at the NYX Hotels London Holborn in their Deluxe Space rooms. Each room has two King sized beds and a sofa as well as desk and chair, armchair and coffee table, 49” HD TV with Chromecast, fridge and minibar, Telephone, Hairdryer, Iron and ironing board, Laptop safe, Air conditioning, Free WiFi, Nespresso machine & tea refreshment dock, Bathrobes, NYX slippers, Toiletries. Student room assignments are as follows:

Room 1: Sam Evans Oz Chang Matt Fabray Owen (Pierce) Evans 

Room 2: Sebastian Smythe Noah Anderson Elliott (Anderson) Smythe Ross Berry

Room 3: Gunner Rose Beau (Adams) Rose Alejandro Lodge Charlie Fabray

Room 4: Madeline Beiste Veronica Lodge Dexter Wells Bronson Jones

Room 5: Parker St. James Archie Andrews Annabeth Blossom Kyla Clarington Birdie Astor

Room 6: Logan Lodge JB Jones Sky Evans Buck Wilde

Room 7: Chandler Berry Barbie Blossom Kurt Hummel Emi Lopez

Room 8: Lucy Adams Javi Fogarty Sawyer Evans Archer Clarington Delilah Pierce

Room 9: Ivan Carvalho Betty Cooper Hunter Clarington Austin Fabray

Room 10: Stevie Evans Teddy Cohen-Chang Oliver Smythe Ryan Rhodes Joe Berry

Chaperone rooms are 2 room suites (2 king beds in each room with the above mentioned amenities) as follows:

Room 1: Hiram Lodge FP Jones

Room 2: Wyatt Sylvester Harrison Schuester Michael Chang

**SLAVES - slaves will be coming, however, a Dominant or Switch needs to volunteer to take one in their room and be responsible for them the whole trip. They will still be available for rent during the trip. Volunteer to FP as soon as possible - first come first serve.

Itinerary: The following are the plans during the trip. Any time not documented between 6am - 11pm is free time at the hotel or in town.

Jan 3rd:  Travel from Lima Ohio to London Rest of the day is free time until 11pm.

Jan 4th: 10am - 1pm: Tower of London, Changing of the Guard and London Eye with Lunch

Jan 5th: Free day

Jan 6th: 10am - 1pm: Sherwood Forest with Lunch 2pm - 3pm: Stonehenge 

Jan 7th: Free Day

Jan 8th: 7-10pm: River Thames Dinner Cruise

Jan 9th: Free Day

Jan 10th: Travel back to Lima

OOC:

Rules will be strictly enforced, so any rule breaking plots MUST be approved by admin. Other plots that need to be approved include (but not limited to) breaking curfew, large disasters, plots involving several people, plots affecting several people, law breaking, etc. 

[coochiequeens]

Is it really LGBTQ+ dropping in approval or is the TQ+Approval is dropping and the LGB is being dragged down in the backlash? And this article quoted someone from Mermaids?🙄

The UK has once again fallen further down a major ranking of LGBTQ-friendly countries in Europe.

In 2014, the UK ranked number one out of 49 countries on the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association’s (ILGA-Europe) annual Rainbow Map.

But today, things are different. The UK has plummeted down the rankings and, according to this year’s Rainbow Map, is now ranked number 17.

Last year, the international LGBTQ+ rights group placed the UK at number 14, meaning it has fallen down three spots.

While the UK’s points are the same as last year (53.39%), ILGA-Europe stressed, the nation tumbled because other European countries have left it behind.

Ireland (53.67%), Germany (55%) and Greece (56%) have all leapfrogged over the UK since 2022.

Since 2009, ILGA-Europe has ranked each country out of 100. A score of 0% means it grossly violates human rights, while 100% means they do anything but.

The group looks at all the puzzle pieces that make up LGBTQ+ rights: equality and non-discrimination, family, hate crime and hate speech, legal gender recognition, intersex bodily integrity, civil society space, and asylum.

Malta is today top of the list, with a score of 89%, with Belgium (76%), Denmark (75%) and Spain (74%) all not far behind.

The worst countries for LGBTQ+ people in Europe are Azerbaijan (2%), Turkey (4%), and Armenia (8%). Each country has been at the bottom for the last two years, though Armenia has clocked a few more points for throwing out its ban on queer men donating blood.

The UK, ILGA-Europe found, is missing a few puzzle pieces. 

It pointed to the still lacking conversion therapy ban, which has been ‘stalled’ for years and shot with loopholes; the next to no recognition for intersex people and a surge of ‘anti-trans rhetoric’ clogging the country’s press.

Politicians, too, the group noted in an earlier accompanying report. Trans people were excluded from a long-sought conversion therapy ban, while prime minister Rishi Sunak said ‘trans women are not women’ in an October debate.

Trans rights are increasingly in tatters, ILGA-Europe adds. Efforts to reform gender recognition law have been snuffed out, gender-affirming healthcare is spotty at best and trans-inclusive education is now being targeted.

Plans to off-shore some asylum seekers to Rwanda will imperil already vulnerable LGBTQ+ migrants fleeing from poverty and persecution, the report added.

Robbie de Santos, a communications and external affairs director for LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall, told Metro.co.uk: ‘The UK Government could once lay claim to having world-class laws for LGBTQ+ people – but no more. 

‘This year’s report shows that our European neighbours continue to surge ahead while the UK stagnates.’

Mermaids, a trans youth charity, says that behind the Rainbow Map’s percentages and bullet points are real LGBTQ+ people living in the UK.

‘We hear every day how these shifts are making life harder for trans youth and their families, who just want to live their lives without shame or discrimination,’ a spokesperson for the charity told Metro.co.uk.

Jayne Ozanne, a former LGBTQ+ government advisor who quit over its handling of conversion therapy, adds: ‘The UK government should be deeply ashamed that on their watch the UK is plummeting down the European ranking scale on LGBQT+ human rights.’

Rubbing salt to the wound, on the same day the Rainbow Map dropped, the UN’s human rights agency issued a preliminary assessment of LGBTQ+ rights in the UK.

Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the UN independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, visited the UK from April 24 to May 5.

During his time there, Madrigal-Borloz said he saw how ‘abusive’ rhetoric from politicians and the press has snowballed into rising anti-LGBTQ+ violence, he said in remarks shared by the UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner.

‘All of this is attributed – by a wide range of stakeholders – to the toxic nature of the public debate surrounding sexual orientation and gender identity,’ he said.

‘Waiting lists for gender-affirming treatment at the NHS continue to be years-long, and current initiatives risk erosion of achievements in comprehensive sex education,’ Madrigal-Borloz added.

Alarm bells rang for Madrigal-Borloz when the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Britain’s equalities watchdog, called on the minister of equalities Kemi Badenoch to swap out ‘sex’ for ‘biological sex’ in the Equality Act last month.

Meeting with EHRC officials last Thursday, Madrigal-Borloz was ‘shocked’ that the EHRC lacked a clear-cut definition for ‘biological sex’ despite advocating for it (the law doesn’t have one either).

An EHRC spokesperson told Metro.co.uk: ‘As we did in our conversation with Mr Madrigal-Borloz, we completely reject the assertion that the objective of our advice to government was to lessen human rights protections.

[dreamonminecraft]

I posted 3,906 times in 2022

That's 952 more posts than 2021!

1,910 posts created (49%)

1,996 posts reblogged (51%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@ctinakitten

@compscigogy-archive

@gnfpropaganda

I tagged 2,456 of my posts in 2022

Only 37% of my posts had no tags

#dreamwastaken - 203 posts

#georgenotfound - 155 posts

#asks - 88 posts

#dnf - 73 posts

#tommyinnit - 73 posts

#dreamnotfound - 71 posts

#sapnap - 65 posts

#ranboo - 40 posts

#tubbo - 34 posts

#wilbur soot - 17 posts

Longest Tag: 80 characters

#𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔪𝔞𝔫'𝔰 𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔬𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡𝔢𝔯

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

is he.. you know.. 𝔞 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔞𝔣𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔟𝔢𝔯?

156 notes - Posted November 19, 2022

#4

All I'm saying is there's now one (1) person from the Halloween Stream who isn't openly 🏳️‍🌈✨ and that person drinks from a waterbottle that says "sounds gay I'm in" and uses "balls" and "cum" as comfort words

209 notes - Posted April 24, 2022

#3

Love Dream because he's completely rewired my brain:

Dream: hey George and Karl kissed a few weeks ago when they were super drunk and I'm very jealous about it /gensrs

Me: yeah okay bud we know

Also Dream: I went to the mall today :)

Me: 𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔡𝔦𝔡 𝔣𝔲𝔠𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱

227 notes - Posted April 27, 2022

#2

The lack of knowledge around queer history is actually kind of sickening. "How would they make being gay illegal? They can't enforce that."

They can.

They can. They have. They do. And they will.

Look at the Lavender scare. Look at Stonewall. Look at the Aids crisis. People have been punished for being queer in the US for our entire history and our fight is not over yet.

235 notes - Posted June 24, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

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[endquire]

Every time a liberal posts something about the necessity of choosing their lesser evil, its virtue and your lack of virtue if you disagree. It is a slap in the face to all the leftists, socialists, civil rights activists, and union members murdered by business and the state that achieved the progress they have taken for granted, or I guess in their fantasy were achieved by voting. It is continuously disgusting that the critiques and warnings of liberals from MLK Jr. and Malcolm X are evergreen. There will now be an explosion of pro LGBTQ/pride stuff. June will be full of talk of the Stonewall riots and endless back-patting because being a liberal just makes you a hero. There's nothing more heroic than trotting in after the people who did the fighting, bleeding and dying, and co-opting their work and suffering. The current activism to end the ethnic cleansing and overall genocide project against the Palestinians will have any and all progress and successes stolen after everything has become past tense by people asserting that voting is the only solution. You don't deserve good things because you are not actually willing to fight for them. If 3.5% of the population in peaceful demonstrations can change policy, then about 12 million Americans could push policy changes. There's 49 million democrats. They wouldn't dare.

[sopalgbtqia]

A história de Alan Turing doerá em mim a vida toda.

Matemático, criptoanalista e lógico. E que contribuiu, decisivamente, para cessar a Segundo Guerra, após criar uma máquina para decodificar as mensagens estratégicas de combate, criptografadas e enviadas pelos nazistas.

Sua recompensa: ser condenado pelo governo britânico à castração química por ser homossexual.

Ele permaneceu nas sombras e anonimato, sem direito ao reconhecimento.

Uma vida atormentada pela opressão estrutural, pelo bullying, pelo desprezo de quem deveria torná-lo herói, mas o sentenciou ao esquecimento e à morte.

Alan hoje é tratado como o pai da computação, justamente por ter criado uma das mais avançadas e importantes máquinas já feitas.

Os fármacos agressivos transformaram Alan em um homem depressivo, pálido e trêmulo. Quase seis décadas mais tarde, a Rainha Elizabeth II concedeu o perdão (???) real a ele, em homenagem às suas contribuições sem precedentes.

No Reino Unido, entre 1885 e 1967, cerca de 49 mil lgbtqia+ receberam sentenças cruéis por “indecência” pela Justiça britânica, com destino à prisão ou a um coquetel de drogas para inibir a libido, que lhes arruinava órgãos e mente. O governo democrático não fazia muito diferente do que o governo nazista fazia.

Quando compararem nazismo a comunismo, quando alegarem mortes lgbtqia+ pelas mãos de lideranças de esquerda, lembre que o liberalismo tem milhares de cadáveres nossos em seus porões, de gente assassinada sem clemência.

PS: a própria revolta de Stonewall é um exemplo clássico de como as livres e lindas democracias ocidentais trataram a comunidade lgbtqia+ ao longo da história.

#orgulholgbt #orgulholgbtqia #pridelgbtqia #junho #gaypride #orgulhogay #orgulho #pride #pride🌈 #pridemonth #lgbtpride #lgbtcommunity #queerpride #orgulhoqueer #queerpeople #queer

[abcnewspr]

ABC NEWS’ ‘NIGHTLINE’ RANKS NO. 1 IN TOTAL VIEWERS AND ADULTS 25-54

‘Nightline’ Outdelivers CBS’ ‘The Late Late Show with James Corden’ and NBC’s ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ in Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 for 8th Consecutive Week

Season to Date, ‘Nightline’ Is Posting Gains in Total Viewers

ABC News*

ABC News’ “Nightline” ranked No. 1 in Total Viewers (724,000) and Adults 25-54 (167,000)during the week of June 26, 2023, based on Live + Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. “Nightline” finished No. 1, beating CBS’ “The Late Late Show with James Corden” and NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” in Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 for the 8th straight week.

For the second week in a row, “Nightline”was up on the year-ago week in Total Viewers (+9% - 724,000 vs. 663,000).

Season to date, “Nightline” is growing compared to the same point last season in Total Viewers (+2% - 896,000 vs. 875,000). In addition, “Nightline” leads CBS’ “The Late Late Show with James Corden” in Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49.

During this week, “Nightline” covered the Supreme Court’s rulings on student loan debt and gay rights, as well as affirmative action; a look at the battle over reproductive rights one year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade; an audio recording of Trump discussing a classified document; Christina Aguilera’s LGTBQ allyship as she’s honored at Stonewall; Harrison Ford’s return in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”; “Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts’ exclusive interview with Ralph Yarl; gang violence in Haiti amid political turmoil; Idina Menzel’s new album; influencer Bretman Rock’s new memoir; the latest episode of “Impact x Nightline,” which covered medical tourism being linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis and more.

NOTE: CBS’ “The Late Late Show with James Corden” was retitled to “The Late Late Show-JC-ENC,” and NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” was retitled to “Seth Meyers-SM.” The retitled telecasts are excluded from the season averages.

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Week of June 26, 2023:

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 Live + SD Current Week (w/o 6/26/23), Previous Week (w/o 6/19/23) and Year-Ago Week (w/o 6/27/22). Most Current Data Stream: Season 2022-2023 (9/19/22-7/2/23) and Season 2021-2022 (9/20/21-7/3/22).  Nielsen ratings for ABC, NBC and CBS include additional airings in select markets. Beginning 8/31/20, national ratings also include Out of Home (OOH) viewing. Averages based on regular telecasts.

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[aurora-arzola]

Gun Violence and Hate Crimes: Nothing New

On November 19, 2022, a man with an automatic rifle weapon came into the popular gay club in Colorado Springs, Club Q (CNN 2022). The gunman killed 5 individuals in the club and injured an additional 19 people. This might bring back some very specific memories or experiences for some that have witnessed a similar incident before. This is not the first time we have seen a hate crime committed to this level in the United States. In June of 2016, gunfire was opened at a gay club in Orlando, Florida called, Pulse. This was one of the biggest hate crimes the world has ever seen, killing 49 people and injuring 53. The world turns a blind eye to this until it happens again. We are not actively fighting it enough in order to prevent it from happening. We have been fighting these occurrences since the Stonewall riots in 1969 (Haber 2019). We will be fighting for equality til the end time if we do not take charge and try to change the world as a team. This also starts with just learning about the LGBTQ+ community and the lives we have to live just to survive. A good way to get a glimpse into the lives of queer individuals in learning how we identify ourselves (GLAAD 2022). And as we all know by now, this will take a whole team to accomplish.

LGBTCenterNYC, R.H. (2019) Stonewall forever - a documentary about the past, present and future of pride, YouTube. YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjRv7dJTync (Accessed: December 10, 2022).

Media Reference Guide, G.L.A.A.D. (2022) GLAAD Media Reference Guide - LGBTQ terms, GLAAD. Available at: https://www.glaad.org/reference/terms (Accessed: December 10, 2022).

[plotsandplansarchive]

TV show idea: Decades

"Decades" or "Time & Place"

An anthological series feat stories from different decades, showcasing the music, fashion, culture and attitude of that era set anywhere in the USA. // Anthological series where the place and time are a character. // Anthological series that takes a glimpse at the lives of different Americans across the continent throughout time. // Soundtrack-centric

1. 50's

2. 60's

3. 70's

4. 80's

5. 90's

6. 2000's

7. 40's

8. Christmas in __'s ___

9. Thanskgiving in __'s ___

10. Halloween in __'s ___

11. San Francisco

12. NYC***

13. Hamptons

14. Los Angeles

15. Miami

16. Hawaii

17. New Orleans

18. Hollywood

19. Martha's Vineyard

20. Southern Antebellum era

21. Nashville music scene

22. Woodstock

23. Stonewall

24. Las Vegas

25. Portland, Oregon hipster scene

26. Americana aesthetic

27. Country (American Pie- Don McLean)

28. Pacific Northwest

29. Beatnik 50's

30. East Village Bohemia

31. Hip Hop NY & CA

32. Beverly Hills

33. Coachella

34. Mafia 1940's

35. Great Depression

36. Roaring 20's

37. Early 00's rnb NYC

38. NYC on NYE hotel rooftop bar

39. Groupie Rock scene of the 70's

40. 70's NYC Underground art and music scene (Andy Warhol's Factory scene)

41. 60's cocktail glamour cabaret/club scene

42. 50's Suburbia

43. Late 80's to Early 90's NYC Club Kid scene

44. 90's Seattle/Northwest Grunge scene 45. Haight-Ashbury - birthplace of 60's counterculture

46. Early 00's underground rave scene

47. 90's Hiphop NYC Bronx scene

48. 90's Hiphop LA scene

49. 80's Romcom story (w/ Air Supply and other cheesy 80's slow rock)

Soundtrack:

1. House of the Rising Sun

2. Pigs (Three Different Ones) 3. I'm Scared

4. Silent All These Years

5. Bobby Brown Goes Down

6. Lover, You Should've Come Over

7. Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2

8. Waiting for the Man

9. I Miss You - mid 2000's

[kivablog3]

Our Third Pride Together

Brooklyn, New York / June 2018 / Anno Muris 49 (Year of the Stone-Wall)

Happy Pride, it’s a beautiful day in Park Slope. And the noise from the infernal building site on 22nd St, the lot catty-corner-plus-two to our backyard, the workers and the power tools and the yelling and banging drowning out the normal neighborhood noise, it’s gone for now, thanks to the rain. Seven days a week, starting at 8 am. Rain’s the only thing that even slows them down. 

It’s five tall stories of framework now, I think they’ve finally topped it off. I just want this nuisance to abate for a while, long enough to think, because I do want to keep the balcony doors open to the breeze. I want them to finish that fucking building, too, and I realize these two desires could be said to be directly at odds, but I want everything. I want them to finish quietly. As long as I’m wanting things I can’t have, I might as well want things I really really want, or really really can’t have. 

Kathleen’s on the loveseat, reading something on her ipad, looking concerned, going, Hm. She is the greatest gift in my life, a gift from the Goddesses, just a few feet away. She is a shining rainbow every day, and she shines into my heart. When she came into my life and added her light to mine, the two burned so much brighter together, perhaps mine more so because it had been so dim for so long. 

It’s our 27th Pride together, if you count the intervening years when the whole Pride thing just depressed me and I tried to ignore it when it came up in the news or in conversation. Oh, look, purple stripes down Broadway, that’s great. Everything gradually changed, then not so gradually. Windsor v. U.S., wow, that’s great! 

Because my superpower is proofreading, friends started asking me odd questions about pronoun usage, odd primarily in that people don’t ask me  very often about grammar. But also, pronouns? I you he she it we they? (My sixth grade English teacher would’ve been so proud just now, she was determined we learn them.) Odd hypotheticals involving people who wished to be referred to in the plural but were single individuals: singluar plurals, accusatives and reflexives, although they didn’t call them that of course, off deep in the weeds: “They want to be referred to as ‘they’? So, then, would it make sense to address them as ‘y’all?’ Instead of ‘you’? … okeee, jeez, just asking. What about, is it, ‘themselves’ or ‘themself’?…”  

More and more lesbians were appearing in television shows, I did read about that, and some of these apparitions survived for more than a few episodes. And there was L Word, that happened, although we stopped watching after that awful ski resort trip to BC at the end of S2 (or S3, I forget.) It’s a real good thing I didn’t see what the writers eventually did to Jenny before the show finally ended. Yeesh...I identified with Jenny, ffs. 

Oh, really, a TV show starring a Black trans woman? An actual trans woman playing a trans woman, that’s great, but does she…no, I don’t watch prison shows. They give me claustrophobia. Does she die?… 

…What? — “Transparent,” that’s funny, is that like a joke?…Does she die?…Oh…Because we always die, Jen, trannies and dykes always die by the end of the show, that’s why!!

And, not that many of them ever hated me personally, not women who actually knew me, but I learned that things were really truly different now: lesbians, cis lesbians, especially younger queer cis women and gay and bi cis women, they mostly didn’t hate trans women anymore. It wasn’t acceptable. I watched gender language gradually change for parties I wanted to go to, sounding more like places where someone like me would actually be allowed to attend. 

Yes, I was told, you’d be welcome now at [fill in any really cool all-women event other than Michigan or an Olivia cruise, and btw, how the fuck did a women’s record company turn into a cruise line? I don’t actually want to go on one, well, okay, I sorta do but I know even though they deny it strenuously, or at least it was true last I checked, that it gives them the willies if a trans woman turns up at the dock and their usual cruising clientele still sneer at us, so, I just wanna know, what the fuck??]. 

I go online looking in earnest for my people: What’s an…autostraddle? 

So, it’s really our third Pride together, after 2016 and 2017. The 28th of June is my birthday and marks two years of hormone replacement therapy. I’ve gone far enough that I can look back and see footsteps in the sand and tell how far it really is. It turned out in the end that they’re* right: you can’t suppress your innermost self, you can’t hide what you know is the brightest part of your soul, without making yourself profoundly sad and causing yourself endless pain. And when you stop doing that, you feel so much happier. It may be sappy, but it’s true. All the sappy stuff turns out to be true. 

* - There’s “they” as aux. for person(s) of unknown gender(s). We do use it already.

{ Coming Soon: Part Two }

[hellomynameisbisexual]

The B in LGBTQ+ has long been invisible, erased, and maligned, both within the queer community and outside of it. People who identify as bisexual experience attraction to or have had sexual contact with people of more than one gender. However, misconceptions about bisexuals abound, from the ‘they’re just confused’ statements, to the idea that they’d be more likely to cheat on a partner, and the overarching argument that bisexual people don’t actually exist at all — they’re either gay, straight, or lying.

The consequences of these assumptions have a real, quantifiable impact on the mental and physical wellbeing of bi folks. A brief from the Human Rights Campaign showed that bi people face “minority stress,” commonly experienced by stigmatized groups, and have a higher risk of self-harm and attempted suicide than their gay, lesbian, or heterosexual counterparts. The stigma around being bisexual often stops people from coming out, seeking help, and exploring their sexuality. So, let’s parse through what these misconceptions really are, and what we’re getting wrong about bisexuality.

Myth: There’s no such thing as bisexuality.

Reality: More and more, we’re coming to understand sexuality and gender as fluid concepts. The idea that someone must either be attracted to one sex or the other assumes that our preferences are rigid and permanent. So, why put bi people in a box?

While it’s ridiculous that this needs to be said, studies have confirmed that bisexuals exist. Researchers from Northwestern University tested straight, gay, and bisexual men by exposing them to various erotic film clips and measuring their physiological responses, proving that people aren’t ‘just hiding that they’re gay’ or lying about their sexuality when they identify as bisexual. They really are attracted to people of more than one gender. (Of course, if we’re only going to use sexual stimulation as a marker of sexual orientation, a study also found that ‘straight’ women showed signs of physiological arousal when exposed to clips of masturbation, lesbian sex, bonobo chimps — everything except naked men. Hmmm.)

Myth: Only women are bisexual.

Reality: Women are not more naturally predisposed to identifying as bisexual. Rather, the lack of bisexual men who are open about their sexuality is due to the stigma attached to it. Our culture of toxic masculinity doesn’t allow men to explore their sexuality, whereas women have arguably more leeway, since their relationships with each other aren’t seen as a threat to their femininity in the way that such male friendships threaten ‘manliness.’

While 7% of gay men and 4% of lesbians reported that they were not out at work, 49% of bi men said they didn’t feel comfortable coming out, according to the LGBT in Britain – Work Report by Stonewall, an LGBT rights charity based in the UK. Bisexual men are also at a disproportionately higher risk of contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, because stigma and erasure make them less likely to seek medical care. The idea that only women are bisexual, a la some sort of Katy Perry music video fantasy, is not only ridiculous, but also actively harms the health and wellbeing of bisexual men.

Myth: Bisexual people can’t be monogamous/ will cheat on their partners.

Reality: The assumption that bisexual people are attracted to more than one gender and, therefore, won’t be able to stay in a monogamous relationship, or will cheat on their partners, just isn’t true. A 10-year longitudinal study, published in Developmental Psychology, found that 89% of the bisexual women studied were in long-term, monogamous relationships. The mere fact that someone is attracted to men, women, and gender non-conforming people, doesn’t mean they’re more likely to cheat or sleep with someone else; neither does it mean they’ll always be faithful. The likelihood that a bi person will cheat on a partner is the same as a straight person — it depends on the individual.

Myth: Bisexuals are transphobic.

Reality: Being bisexual doesn’t imply that a person is only attracted to two genders, it simply means that a person isn’t only attracted to the opposite gender. People might assume that bisexuals subscribe to the gender binary of either man or woman, but in actuality, bisexuals may be attracted to cis people, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and trans folks as well. In order to clarify this, people may also use the term ‘bi+’ to indicate that they’re attracted to more than just two genders.

Myth: Bisexuals face less stigma.

Reality: Bisexual people, if in a relationship with someone of the opposite gender, have the ability to ‘pass’ as heterosexuals. Because of this, they’re often told that they face less stigma than a queer person, who often has no choice but to be out about their identity in order to have a relationship. And data from the Pew Research Centre shows that 84% of self-identified bisexuals are in a relationship with someone of the opposite gender. But this isn’t a cop out — it might be more likely for bi folks to find straight partners, because they are the majority of the population.

However, being with a heterosexual person does not invalidate a bisexual person’s sexuality. And the risks have been well documented — bi people are at higher risks for experiencing mental health issues like anxiety, depression, substance abuse, as well as heart disease, cancer, and STIs. This is directly because of the stigma and simultaneous erasure and invisibility that they face. And if we don’t start combatting some of our assumptions, bi folks will continue to be affected by them.

These misconceptions about bisexuality are directly impacting people’s mental and physical health, causing them to feel isolated and delegitimizing an integral part of their identity. Only when we start breaking down these myths for what they really are — myths — can we begin the work of reversing the years of bi-erasure and fully accepting the B in LGBTQ+.

[remmie-reads-too-much]

Tw: mass shooting mention, homophobia mention, violence mention

On June 12, 2016, a man opened fire at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. He killed 49 people and injured 53 more before he was killed by police. I will not include his name in this post, as his memory is not what I wish to honor. I wish to pay respects to the victims of that violent night, and I will be listing their names as a way for anyone who reads this post to remember them. None of them deserved the violence and inhumanity that they experienced.

Stanley Almodovar III

Amanda Alvear

Oscar A. Aracena-Montero

Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala

Alejandro Barrios Martinez

Martin Benitez Torres

Antonio D. Brown

Darryl R. Burt II

Jonathan A. Camuy Vega

Angel L. Candelario-Padro

Simon A. Carrillo Fernandez

Juan Chevez-Martinez

Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25

Luis D. Conde

Cory J. Connell

Tevin E. Crosby

Franky J. Dejesus Velazquez

Deonka D. Drayton

Mercedez M. Flores

Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz

Juan R. Guerrero

Paul T. Henry

Frank Hernandez

Miguel A. Honorato

Javier Jorge-Reyes

Jason B. Josaphat

Eddie J. Justice

Anthony L. Laureano Disla

Christopher A. Leinonen

Brenda L. Marquez McCool

Jean C. Mendez Perez

Akyra Monet Murray

Kimberly Morris

Jean C. Nieves Rodriguez

Luis O. Ocasio-Capo

Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez

Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera

Joel Rayon Paniagua

Enrique L. Rios Jr

Juan P. Rivera Velazquez

Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan

Christopher J. Sanfeliz

Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado

Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez

Edward Sotomayor Jr.

Shane E. Tomlinson

Leroy Valentin Fernandez

Luis S. Vielma

Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon

Jerald A. Wright

I am writing this post as a way to honor the victims of that night, and because I wish to remember them. I want to remember that these people lived and breathed within my lifetime. I was 12 years old when the shooting happened, and I remember sitting on the couch and watching the news. I wanted to cry out of grief and fear. But all I could do was sit in silence because my family did not know I was queer and would not have understood if I tried to explain why I was grieving for those people that died. I knew from a very young age that there are people in this world that hate people like me. I knew that I would experience hate. And I knew that violence against people like me happened, but that day was the first day I was scared to be myself, and it was the first day I was scared for everyone like me.

I am older now, and I know that violence and hatred have not gone away, and I don't know if they ever will. I would be lying if I said I don't still feel afraid sometimes, but I know that I am stronger now as a person, and I know that the LGBTQIA+ community is stronger too.

I will list some links to LGBT+ charities and organizations below if anyone would like to donate to honor the memory of those we have lost.

Happy Pride everyone.

The Trevor Project

COLAGE

Human Rights Campaign

LGBTQ Victory Fund

PFLAG

ILGA

Stonewall Community Foundation

[historyisgaypodcast]

Episode 42: Rainbow Rising: Homo-Feels about Homophiles, Part 1

We return with another episode in your podfeeds today, this time from our long-since visited mini-series, Rainbow Rising! Leigh is joined by guest host Tyler Albertario to talk about pre-Stonewall gay rights and the rise, heydey, and subsequent fall of the Homophile movement and how the fight for gay civil rights evolved into the struggle for queer liberation. In this first episode of a two-parter, Leigh and Tyler discuss the birth of the homophile movement and some of the main players – gay civil rights organizations in 1950s-1960s America who dared to gather together amid communism moral panic, FBI raids, and spurious homomedicalist points of view about queer identity. Scandalous tales found within, including secret identities and anonymous cells, the gaslighting J. Edgar Hoover himself, fake “ancient Greek” lesbian poetry, and more!

  Next time, we’ll come back in Part 2 to discuss how all these groups came together at regional and national conferences to organize, including all the juicy drama and disagreements, and the decline of homophile-style organizing post-Stonewall. Learn more about Tyler Albertario and his work by checking out his articles on Medium, follow on Twitter @TylerAlbertario, and support him on Patreon! 

Outline 0:00 – Introduction and Announcements 5:34 – Socio-Historic Context 6:41-7:44 – Content Warning: Mention of anti-gay medical treatments  17:16 – Main Topic: The Rise of the Homophile Movement 15:20 – Mattachine Foundation/Mattachine Society 16:00 – Word of the Week 39:21 – ONE, Inc. 52:49 – Daughters of Bilitis 1:17:38 – Mattachine Society of Washington & Frank Kameny 1:21:03 – Pop-Culture Tie-In 1:22:31 – Main Takeaways and Conclusions 1:25:15 - 1:27:22 – Content Warning: Mention of pederasty/NAMBLA 1:27:24 – How Gay were They? 1:31:36 – Closing and Where to Find us Online

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[harvardfineartslib]

In 1950s - 1960s, homosexuality was illegal in 49 states, and members of LGBTQ+ community were harassed, imprisoned, fined, and targeted for violence and discrimination.

The Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in New York City was a bar where gays, lesbians, and people with a wide range of gender identities gathered together and found refuge, though not without harassment. Police often raided the Stonewall and other gay bars and arrested patrons.

During the early morning of June 28, 1969, nine police officers raided the Stonewall Inn once again. Already fed up after decades of harassment, patrons resisted by pushing through barricades, throwing bottles, and finally, setting fire to the bar. Meanwhile, the crowd grew bigger outside the bar as the hours passed. Hundreds of people chanted “Gay Power,” “We Want Freedom,” and “We Shall Overcome.”

The uprising against unjust treatment and violence by police lasted until July 1st and marked a watershed moment for the LGBTQ+ rights movement. It sparked the establishment of the Gay Liberation Front, the first activist group to publicly advocate for gay rights.

LGBTQ+ History Month is observed annually in October to celebrate the achievements and contributions of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer communities. Learn more about LGBTQ+ History Month or check out Harvard resources and events online.

Image 1: Front cover with a jacket

Art after Stonewall : 1969-1989 edited by Jonathan Weinberg with Tyler Cann, Anastasia Kinigopoulo, and Drew Sawyer. Published: Columbus, Ohio : CMOA, Columbus Museum of Art ; New York, New York : Rizzoli Electa, 2019. 304 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, photographs ; 27 cm English 2019 HOLLIS number: 99153771490003941