#we're here we're queer

[victusinveritas]

All of these are by @mattxiv on Instagram.

Here's to all the shockingly single bachelor uncles or the two very close friends who just happened to be girls and are only living together until one of them finds a man (they lived together for forty two years).

[queergraffiti]

[photo: red graffiti on concrete pillar reading “We’re here, We’re Queer, We will not live in fear”] 

seen in Warwickshire, West Midlands, England

[mx-loar-tev]

Sometimes I just... Really dislike straight people.

Like, can't they leave us queer people in peace? We're just minding our queer business but just us existing is an affront to them apparently.

We can't talk about queer things, about things that bring us joy that happen to be queer, without straight people saying we're pushing the gay agenda or whatever bullshit.

I just want to exist in peace, is that too much to ask?

[crazycatsiren]

Tagging my posts that contain the word "queer" with #q slur gets you automatically blocked. No fucks given.

[shellminded]

We're here, we're Queer! Happy Pride!

[girlofcosmicmagic]

[systemserendipity]

A Pride Message

(from your local pluralqueer)

You are enough, as you exist.

You do not deserve to be treated badly, on the basis of who you are.

Sexual, romantic and platonic relationships are ALL social constructs. So, do what makes you the most comfortable.

No matter how you look, feel, sound, etc.: you deserve happiness and safety. Whether disabled, neurodivergent, queer, plural, mentally ill, all of the above or even none... However that joy and security may look for you (and, yes, that'll be different per individual)-- seeking them is your right.

Queer people (in and out of the closet) are a living testament to the fierce love, stubborn endurance and beautiful uniqueness of those that stood before us. So, however you currently contribute, you help the cause for liberation. Just by being yourself.

Do what you will with all this information. See our pinned post for a link to a bunch of queer resources. Happy Pride!

🏳️‍🌈♡🏳️‍⚧️

[cattttttttttttttttttttttttttttt]

"queer is a slur!!!! you are just calling yourself weird!! it's a slur a slur slur!!!!"

bitch no it isn't. QUEER is not a slur. It's OUR word that we FOUGHT for. Why do you want to hand it back to the homophobes? We Reclaim stuff so they can't use it agasint us. Every word we reclaim thats one less insult they have agasint us.

It's the QUEER COMMUNITY. This is our community. We are here we are queer. We aren't handing the word back to the bigots just because you don't like it.

We fought to reclaim that word and we fought for our community. The QUEER community.

[littlest-photography]

Happy Pride Month!!!

(Gonna try posting more often this month)

[theenbyroiderer]

Just started on this new project.

[lady-in-yearning]

Queer people are unstoppable

The orthodox church promised me love and salvation, yet what I saw was judgement, oppression and hate. The Russian-speaking (pseudo-)Marxist organisations promised me education and solidarity. They fulfilled the education part (and then some), but instead of solidarity I saw impotence, toxicity and elitism. The queer community promised me nothing but acceptance. I got that, and love, and further education, and a stronger sense of solidarity than I ever hoped for. And as for salvation/change? The battle is far from over, and no matter how bleak things might seemingly get, I don't believe anything or anyone can truly defeat us. We didn't choose to be lesbian, bi, pan, gay, trans, etc. We didn't choose our identity, or our genders, we're only choosing the way we express them (what a terrible transgression, right). Being queer is part of nature. And that makes us, put together, a force of nature. We might stagger, we might suffer, but as long as we're together, and stand by each other, we can never be defeated!

[sapphic-courtship-for-dummies]

If you're ever feeling like you're alone or isolated. Check out this site.

"Queering the Map is a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space.

The platform provides an interface to collaboratively record the cartography of queer life—from park benches to the middle of the ocean—in order to preserve our histories and unfolding realities, which continue to be invalidated, contested, and erased. From collective action to stories of coming out, encounters with violence to moments of rapturous love, Queering the Map functions as a living archive of queer life. If it counts to you, then it counts for Queering the Map.

Through mapping LGBTQ2IA+ experience in its intersectional permutations, the project works to generate affinities across difference and beyond borders—revealing the ways in which we are intimately connected."

The website will probably be laggy due to all of the posts. We really are everywhere.

[endapartypod]

If there's one thought specifically for Pride that we can take away from Sally Ride's story, it's that queer people have always been here, and we've always been making history and doing incredible things.

If you want to learn about more incredible queer people and queer history, we highly recommend following and supporting @makingqueerhistory !

[luckyladylily]

First off, pride is not about being gay or trans or whatever. I mean it is, but at its core what it is actually about is being something that society hates and shames and would rather go away or be actively destroyed and taking pride in your existence. Hence why it is "pride". It is a protest against the very idea of in groups and out groups in society.

And the protests that gradually morphed into our current pride celebrations were never just about being gay or trans. They were also very much about sexual lifestyles that our society views as transgressive. So sex workers, the kink community, etc. Originally everything associated with pride was considered not family friendly. If we make pride family friendly by removing transgressive sexual elements what we are doing is kicking out and abandoning the groups that supported gay and trans people from the beginning now that we got ours. And make no mistake, a huge amount of the no kink at pride push is coming directly from gays that hate these groups as much as mainstream society does.

Sanitizing pride removes the point completely. At that point why are we even doing this. It's useless.

The second thing is that no one is having kinky sex in public at pride. It isn't a sex party. At literal worst you might see someone in leathers and a puppy dog mask on a leash. I've seen people say they don't want kink at pride, but they are not going to kick out leather daddies and such but that is exactly what the people really pushing "no kink at pride" are trying to do. It never gets worse than people wearing kinky costumes and engaging in the most mild of kinky activities. And I am going to be bold here, people thinking a young teenager seeing a leather puppy on a leash is a problem is nuts.

Sexual education in our society is in an abysmally poor state because we, as a society, hate and fear sex to an irrational degree. But sex is not inherently traumatizing. If we were not taught to hate and fear sex then the idea of kink at pride being a problem would seem like nonsense. Seeing a leather puppy at pride isn't going to hurt anyone unless they have been so conditioned to hate and fear sex that they have an irrational reaction towards it. And in that case it isn't seeing kink that traumatized them, it is the years of conditioning to hate and fear sex.

What seeing kink at pride might do is let a person know that alternative sexual lifestyles exist. And that, more than anything, is why people hate kink at pride. Because our society hates alternative sexual lifestyles, and many people (including gay people) would rather a person die than embrace kink or get into polyamory.

I wont go on full a rant about sexual education, but I think kids should know the basics of sex as early as possible and especially should be educated on the basics of kink and subversive sexual fantasy by early teenage years because the prevalence of rape fantasies and other subversive sexual fantasy exists at a really high rate, and dealing with the shame of thinking your sexuality is violent and tainted is extremely damaging to young teenagers. No matter if we like it or not these kids are sexual individuals. That ship sets sail the first time a kid has a sexual fantasy, which often is in the preteen years but can happen even before that. And some of them are kinky from the very beginning, and let me tell you from personal experience it is terrifying not understanding why your mind keeps on bringing up fantasies like that.

The only sensible thing to do is arm kids with the knowledge and tools to deal with their sexuality, whatever form that might take. The fact we don't is a failure of puritan prejudice that all of us have been conditioned to see as normal. If a kid has the bare minimum of proper sexual education then they wont even blink an eye at a leather puppy at pride. And if they don't, it is better that they are exposed to the idea of alternative lifestyles and sexually subversive fantasies (in this very mild and safe way) as early as possible because they might need to know.

[crazycatsiren]

Since it's Pride Month, I just gotta say this: Being queer in and of itself is an act of non conformity.

Queerphobic cishets don't want queer people to exist, precisely because we don't conform to their perception of what this world should look like.

By expecting fellow queers to conform to an imaginary standard and fit into a neat little box so we can all be the same, you're basically copying what our oppressors have been doing to us since the beginning by the book.

We're queer because we're diverse. We're beautiful because we're different. It's why we're the rainbow.

[i-like-the-eyes]

Me at pride yesterday 🏳️‍🌈