#the l in lgtbqia+

[claires-audience]

After the successful completion of 25 seasons of Law and Order :SVU, I wanna personally thank whoever would put Olivia in date night outfits every now and then without reason. You really fueled my bi awakening, please never stop.

[valenday20]

#generacionq#thelword #L#loveislove#lesbian#pride #Pride2025 #couple

[duckprintspress]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH, EVERYONE! We are thrilled to announce our second-annual Pride Bundles for Charity with two all-new short story bundles – 30 stories total! – that we are selling at a discount to raise money for our chosen queer charity!

Last year, our debut Pride bundles raised almost $350 for queer charities. This year, we’re back with a new General Imprint Bundle and a new Explicit Imprint Bundle, each discounted 20% from their list prices (and each including multiple stories that aren’t for sale and are usually only available to our backers on Patreon) and with 20% of the net profit going to Rainbow Railroad.

How This Works

you buy one or both bundles between now and July 8th, 2024.

we tally up all the proceeds earned and do some math-e-magic to figure out how much we’re donating!

before the end of July, we donate the raised money to Rainbow Railroad, we post the proof we’ve done so.

you get fantastic stories!

we all get that happy, glowy feeling of knowing that money has been well-spent on fantastic causes!

About the Press

Duck Prints Press is a queer-owned indie press, founded to publish original works by fancreators. We’ve been in operation for over 3 years, and in that time we’ve worked with well over 150 creators to publish six anthologies and almost 100 other stories, from shorts to novels, and we’ve got more on the works (our next anthology, our first erotica collection, will be crowdfunding within the next month!). The vast majority of our creators and their creations are queer/LGTBQIA+ (maybe even all, but we don’t out anyone and we don’t ask demography because, frankly, it’s none of our business).

25 of our authors have chosen to include their short stories in one or both of these short story bundles, and all our short story authors nominated potential charities and voted to select Rainbow Railroad as the beneficiary for our 2024 Pride Bundles.

About Rainbow Railroad

In countries around the world, LGBTQI+ people face violence and oppression simply because of who they love or who they are. Rainbow Railroad helps them get to safety! Rainbow Railroad is a global not-for-profit organization that helps at-risk LGBTQI+ people get to safety worldwide. Based in the United States and Canada, they’re an organization that helps LGBTQI+ people facing persecution based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics. In a time when there are more displaced people than ever, LGBTQI+ people are uniquely vulnerable due to systemic, state-enabled homophobia and transphobia. These factors either displace them in their own country or prevent them from escaping harm. 

Note: This charity isnot affiliated with the Press, do not know we’re doing this fundraiser, have not endorsed this in anyway and are, as such, utterly uninvolved in this beyond being the beneficiaries of our efforts! Text is from the Rainbow Railroad website.

About the Bundles

We are offering two bundles, one with 18 short stories published under our General Imprint, the other containing 12 stories published under our Explicit Imprint. The shop listings include details about and excerpts from all the stories. Here’s the gist…

Titles in the General Imprint Charity Bundle:

The Princess and the Maze by A. L. Heard

Of Loops and Weaves by Catherine E. Green

Glass Slipper: A Dance by Cedar D. McCafferty-Svec

Songs, Suppers, and Stories by D. V. Morse

Waiting for the Tide to Turn by Genevieve Maxwell

Chinaski’s Dirty Work by J. D. Harlock

Foundations by Johnathan Stern

Seal Island by K. B. Vimes

Into the Wyvern’s Lair by Mikki Madison

Sarisa by N. C. Farrell

Whispers of Atlantis: A Tale of Discovery and Belonging by Neo Scarlett

Be Not Afraid by Nicola Kapron

Awkward and Oblivious by R. L. Houck

Washer Wars: A Laundromat Feud by Samantha M. Piper

The Wayward Timekeeper by Terra P. Waters

if it’s meant to be by Tris Lawrence

Meet C(omm)ute by Violet J. Hayes

Chrysopoeia by Zel Howland

18 stories. 254 pages. 82,462 words of fiction!

Price: $22.50

Approximately 20% of the list price of this bundle will go to Rainbow Railroad.

Titles in the Explicit Imprint Charity Bundle:

Brambles, Pollen, and Other Natural Disasters by A. L. Heard

A night such as this by April Steenburgh

Theirs All Along by boneturtle

Orchidelirium by Dei Walker

Old Kings and New by Lyonel Loy

Weather the Storm by Lyn Weaver

Pretty 7 Days a Week by R. L. Houck

Adventures of the Scarlet Sentry: After Dark by Samantha M. Piper

Worlds Apart (but Still Close) by Sanne Burg

Taken at Sea by Shea Sullivan

Warm Anything You Want by Tris Lawrence

LA Photographs Itself by YF Ollwell

12 stories. 198 pages. 69,550 words.

Price: $21.50

Approximately 20% of the list price of this bundle will go to Rainbow Railroad.

Come get some great stories, support a queer-owned business this Pride, and benefit two fantastic causes. Win-win-win situations don’t get much better than this!

These bundles will only be available for one month, so don’t miss out. Visit our webstore between now and July 8th and get yours!

[qnewsau]

Queer Screen awards full Completion Fund allocation to 'Lesbian Space Princess'

New Post has been published on https://qnews.com.au/queer-screen-awards-full-completion-fund-allocation-to-lesbian-space-princess/

Queer Screen awards full Completion Fund allocation to 'Lesbian Space Princess'

Queer Screen has awarded the full $10,000 from this year’s Completion Fund round to animated feature film Lesbian Space Princess. The announcement was made at the program launch for Queer Screen’s 32nd Mardi Gras Film Festival, held at the State Library of NSW.

According to the judges, the film was the standout submission, with the three-person jury unanimous in its decision to bestow it with the full grant amount.

The “queer as fuck” South Australian animated comedy was also recently selected to premiere at the prestigious 2025 Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival).

It will feature as part of Berlinale’s Panorama section, a program strand focused on ‘daring, unconventional and wild’ international cinema.

At the festival, Lesbian Space Princess will be eligible for the Panorama Audience Award for most popular feature film, judged by the festival’s largest audience jury, as well as the Berlinale Teddy Award for LGTBQIA+ film.

‘A perfectly timed and beautifully executed adventure into contemporary romance’

Jury spokesperson, writer and director Sarah L. Walker (The Twelve and The Secrets She Keeps), described the project as a very worthy winner, adding that the funding will help get the film seen.

“I see Lesbian Space Princess as a perfectly timed and beautifully executed adventure into contemporary romance,” she said.

“It’s funny, clever, and broadly relatable: even the villains were drawn with humour and compassion.”

Co-writer, co-director, and co-producer Leela Varghese, who accepted an oversized novelty cheque for $10,000, said the financial support provided by the Completion Fund would “make a big difference to our film.”

“Thank you so, so much, Queer Screen, for helping us get our project out into the world,” she said.

“Queer Screen is so important to the LGBTQIA+ screen community, and we’re truly ‘over the moon’ to have their support for Lesbian Space Princess.

“The belief in our project means so much to us, and we are so grateful to have an organisation that helps amplify queer voices.”

For the latest LGBTIQA+ Sister Girl and Brother Boy news, entertainment, community stories in Australia, visit qnews.com.au. Check out our latest magazines or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

[pattdork]

Bea: Ava isn't talking to me. I don’t know what I did wrong.

Lilith: Enjoy it while it lasts.

* Camila smacks Lilith on her arm. *

Camila: I’m sure she'll come around.

Bea: But, I don't know what's wrong with me. I can't eat, can't sleep. Maybe I'm coming down with something.

Camila: Oh oh oh. Ohh.. I know what you got. The ✨L-word✨.

Lilith: Yeah. Leprosy.

[notalostcausejustyet]

This is such a well-documented phenomenon that women who are diagnosed with cancer are also usually given marriage counseling and support group resources by their care team as a matter of course. The expectation is the male spouse will bail during treatment. I imagine that it's similar for other diseases, but my direct experience is with oncology care.

I would also like to note that the lesbian community is who rallied around gay men during the AIDS crisis when they were abandoned by their families. There's a reason the "L" comes first in LGTBQIA+

[jennyfuckingschecter]

Okay so let’s get one thing straight: all of the main characters were toxic at one point or another, for some characters they were just consistently toxic

Here is a list of my interpretation from least toxic to most

7.) Dana Fairbanks

6.) Helena Peabody

5.) Shane McCutcheon

4.) Alice Pieszecki

3.) Bette Porter

2.) Tina Kennard

1.) Jenny Schecter

For my list I’m keeping track of not only romantic and sexual toxicity— I’m keeping in mind the ways in which they treat their friends and other characters

[y-r-m--art]

A hush to all the homophobes, anti-lgbtqia+ supporters and terfs 🤫

Happy Pride Everybody! 🌈🏳‍🌈 ~ @inspired-by-my-insecurities

My shop {x}

It's been pointed out {x} to me that I've forgotten the lovely lovely lesbians so I do truly apologize. I hope this makes up for it and I'm so so sorry. All the love <3 Y.

[seriously-susan-blog]

I’m SO happy.

[tuttle-did-it]

M*A*S*H was constantly attacked because it was far left, pro-equal rights, pro-queer, anti-gun, anti-establishment, anti-US government and the gross futility of war. For 11 years, Hawkeye and everyone else railed against war, trauma, the incredible incompetence of governments who use people like tissue paper, the impossible and sadistic cruelty humans were capable of, and the senseless death of every war. Every week, they all got more and more trauma just trying to survive.

Mary Tyler Moore Show was the first mainstream American television show that explored the life of a single career woman. She struggled with relationships in a changing world, workplace sexism and the limitations society put against women. Mary smashed against the glass ceiling every week, and the spin-off Rhoda was the first mainstream American television show that explored the life of a divorced woman.

Frank Burns and All in the Family’s Archie Bunker were the the representations of the Republican American man— and he was the repressed, absurd, sadistic, sexist, bigoted, incompetent, hateful buffoon that was mocked, argued with and defeated every week.

These shows mattered. They changed lives, they changed hearts, and they tried, desperately, to change minds.

Trump is the incarnation of Archie Bunker — but sadly, unlike the actors Carroll O’Connor who played Archie, and Larry Linville (Frank Burns on M*A*S*H) two delightful, incredible humans, who played Frank Burns, Trump has no concept of how evil he really is.

Norman Lear, James L Brooks, Burt Metcalf and Larry Gelbart did more for television and audiences than Jerry Seinfeld ever did.

Every week, these shows tried to say something about something- racial rights, LGTBQIA+ women's rights, the futility of war, the importance of connecting with other people, the dangers of human cruelty-- they TRIED to say SOMETHING.

And Seinfeld? Seinfeld was, famously, about nothing. They said nothing. They did nothing. Which means it means NOTHING.

Oh, and by the way, Jerry— the M*A*S*H finale ‘Goodbye Farewell and Amen,’ had more than 106 million people watching in 1983— and there were a LOT of parties who got together with a big party (HUGE parties) so that’s a low estimate.

More people watched 'Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen' than the moon landing. It is still the most watched television episode of ALL TIME.

It was such a massive event that it caused a city-wide water pressure problem in New York City. Alan Alda wrote,

"the city's water supply was strained at every commercial break because so many hundreds of thousands of toilets were flushed at the same time."

An estimated million viewers in New York City alone used the toilet after the show ended, pouring 6.7 million gallons of water through the city’s sewers, United Press International reported at the time. “In speaking to engineers who’ve been around 30 or 40 years, they haven’t encountered anything like this before,” Peter Barrett, a spokesman for the city Department of Environmental Protection, told UPI.

Seinfeld only got 76.3 million viewers in 1998 compared to M*A*S*H's 106 million. And there were a lot more people in 1998 than there were in 1983, so percentage-wise, it's probably even more significant difference than it looks.

So maybe you didn't make nearly as big an impact as you thought, Jerry.

May 15, 1998: (huge thanks to @mimi-kkyutie for jumping the paywall for this article!)

Article from The Patagraph, Bloomington illinois reads above:

As "M*A*S*H" star Mike Farrell spoke at the Evening of Stars benefit in Bloomington-Normal, millions of viewers were glued to their television sets watching the final, much-hyped episode of "Seinfeld." Farrell was not taping it. While he was careful to insist he meant no offense to the cast or viewers, he said at a news conference earlier in the day that "M*A*S*H" had a far bigger impact on people's lives. "Popular shows come and go," he said. "'Seinfeld' is a show about nothing, as they describe it. I'm proud to be a show about something." For a show to really reach an audience and to make an impact, he explained, it had to have a powerful, lasting theme that resonates with viewers. "M*A*S*H did that," Farrell said. "And continues to do so in reruns. Seinfeld has not. And never will," Farrell said. "These shows come and go. They just try to attract people's attention for a certain period of time and you can do that by making a fool of yourself. For a little while. Then people get tired of you and appropriately so." M*A*S*H was effective on many different levels," Farrell noted, "including comedy and drama. And it carried a great message: the portrayal of people doing a job they didn't particularly like, but which had to be done. And despite difficult circumstances, they did it well, often with great humor and courage."

"That's a terrifically admirable characteristic and people across the country and across the world understand that," he said. Farrel added that there has been far too much hype surrounding the final episode of "Seinfeld," especially when one considers that much of it is self-generated But he understands why. "We have to remember we're talking about selling a product. The network is selling itself as a product. It's ending amid a flurry of publicity, and they're going to use it to wring every drop, every last rating point they can get out of it. That's the nature of the business." Farrell's speech at the Evening of Stars, which benefited the McLean County chapter of the American Red Cross, was held at the Radisson Hotel in Blooming-ton. However, his appearance there was closed to the media. But he said earlier that his message was going to be a simple one: that people matter, and that he was disturbed by the increasing lack of care and concern for those who suffer around the world. "When we make heroes out of people who stand for nothing, as opposed to people who stand for something, we are doing ourselves a disservice," he said.

Farrell currently serves as the co-chair of the Western Regional Branch of the Human Rights Watch in California. He also is the spokesman for CONCERN Ameri- 5 if If -r "MASH" star Mike Farrell, shown second from left in this photo from the taping of the show's final episode in January 1983, believes his show had more significance than "Seinfeld." ca, an international refugee aid penalty, Farrell also has debated and development organization. and spoken about the issue as a lifelong opponent of the death many occasions.

Seinfeld was the empty calories you eat because you want something in your mouth. It's what you put on to kill 22 minutes. But it means absolutely nothing.

I have every episode of M*A*S*H memorised. I have every episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show memorised. I have most of All in the Family memorised (but frankly, America having a president just like Archie Bunker makes it much too real, these days). Why? Because these shows were all so damned good, I thought about the episodes for days and had to rewatch them. And over 40 years later, I am still rewatching them.

I cannot recall a single episode of Seinfeld, save the clip-show of a finale in which it was reiterated what horrible people they all were. And even that is the most I can tell you about it. Because it means NOTHING. Frankly, I forget that Seinfeld ever existed until someone mentions it.

I would take the worst episodes of M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and All in the Family over the best episode of Seinfeld any day because they were TRYING to say SOMETHING. Even the few episodes that didn't quite land or work-- they were TRYING.

"When we make heroes out of people who stand for nothing, as opposed to people who stand for something, we are doing ourselves a disservice." -- Mike Farrell

“In a new interview with the New Yorker ahead of his 70th birthday on Monday, the comedian explained his theory about why there’s no “funny stuff” to watch on TV anymore. “Nothing really affects comedy,” he said, “People always need it. They need it so badly and they don’t get it.” Instead of getting sitcoms like M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and All in the Family, audiences miss out, he said, as a “result of the extreme left and P.C. crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people.” […] A look back at some of his earlier comments on a similar subject adds some context, if not clarity. In 2015, Seinfeld sat down for an episode of The Herd with Colin Cowherd podcast, where he explained his aversion to performing stand-up on college campuses. “I don’t play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me, ‘Don’t go near colleges. They’re so PC,’” he said on the show. After giving an example of his teenage daughter using the word “sexist,” he concluded that young people “just want to use these words: ‘That’s racist’; ‘That’s sexist’; ‘That’s prejudice.’ They don’t know what they’re talking about.””

—

Jerry Seinfeld Draws Right-Wing Praise for Comments on ‘Extreme Left’

This is such a bummer. Tell me you’re a privileged, entitled, myopic Boomer without telling me you’re a privileged, entitled, myopic Boomer.

It’s interesting to me that he says these legendary sit-coms, none of which were cruel, punching down, or hurtful, but were actually satirizing power, celebrating women, changing societal norms through representation, and using comedy to do it all, wouldn’t exist if “the extreme left” had anything to do with it.

Umm. Who does he think created these shows? And is he really that ignorant? Has this guy never read a single interview with Norman Lear? Or literally anyone in the cast of Mary Tyler Moore? I mean. Come on, man!

Teenagers and college students don’t know what they’re talking about when they tell a privileged, entitled, multimillionaire Boomer that his “jokes” can be hurtful, and maybe he could use his tremendous talent to do comedy that is just as funny without being hurtful. Okay. Got it. Keep saying that, and see how far it gets you, buddy.

Hey, Jerry Seinfeld: when blue checks on Twitter are celebrating you being a dick, it’s not because you’re so funny and such a brilliant comic; it’s because they love how you’re validating what garbage they are. You can’t see that, or don’t care, and that’s such a huge bummer.

[multigloria]

When i’m watching a forced heterosexual romance vs when there is good lgtb representation

[underthebluerain]

I just found out my dad thought the L in LGTBQIA+ stood for League

[disneyprincessmodelworld]

La chronicles: he earned that one.

At a dinner party last night to meet some people who might possibly invest in the lgtbqia project.

Semi formal. You get the picture.

L brother G is with us.

G: let me introduce you to so and so.

Me: fantastic.

G: so and so, it is nice to see you. I wanted to take a moment to introduce you to my lady friend (me)

Me: *looks at all three old women eyes widen and one quietly gasps" hmm. Hello

Lady 1: hello dear.

Lady 2: dear.

Lady 3: *just gives me a look then chats with g, l and x.*

*we move on to make a circle of the room*

Me: *pokes g in the side and whispers* the hell is wrong with you?

G: what?

Me: *hiss at him* you just introduced me as your mistress.....

G: what??? I did not.

Me: yes you did.

G: I said lady friend. You are my friend and a lady.

Me: omg. Dont you read romance novels??? *hisses* that is what every one says when they are talking about a mistress. He has a *do air quotes* "lady" friend. Especially for that age group.

G: you are being ridiculous. I just said my friend.

Me: did you see that one old bitties face? She was horrified. She didnt even shake my hand.

L: bro. Let it go. Just apologize and say it different next time.

G: she is being ridiculous. *walks off to talk to someone real quick*

Me: *narrows eyes* oh.....

X: *whispers to L.* u mm should we warn him. She has that look.

L: nope, he earned it.

Me: *grumbles*

....... Five minutes later........

Doctor: well hello, your father said I would run into you this evening.

Me: oh I didn't expect to see you here. How have you been.

Doctor: well dear *small talk about my minis and project and my parents and her grandchildren*

*L, X, and G walk over*

Doctor: and who are you companions?

Me: oh yes, this is L and X. I stay with them when I am here in town. And this is G, he is L brother and my friend with a penis.

G: *stands there with his mouth on the floor*

X: *hysterical laughter.*

L: *says to his brother* I did try to stop you

G: *gaps at me*

Me: what?

G: I can't believe you said that.

Doctor: *laughs* you are just like your father.

Me: *smiles happily* thank you!!!!

............

I'm telling you the old bitties looked at me in horror when he said it.

[jennyfuckingschecter]

this scene had me DYING

I was just wondering if you had those…sweet little figs.

The L Word || 1x03 “Let’s Do It”

[m-j-c-22]

Happy #pride2019 and #pridemonth to all #lgbtqtogether #lgtbqi #lgtbqia #lovewins #lovewins🌈 https://www.instagram.com/deardeanpublishing/p/BybOBC-hB-l/?igshid=q09r6u8gobcq