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[yourlesbianneighbor]

please reblog

Hey everyone!

I’m hoping you are all keeping safe wherever you are in the world. 

As most countries ease lockdown measures and schools/universities will soon open again, I am conscious of people who are nevertheless still struggling in non-accepting home environments. This is why I wanted to update this blog with more resources. The link above is from Stonewall UK and includes a number of resources and ways to get support for a variety of different issues you may be facing (e.g. money issues, trans-specific care during the pandemic etc). 

I hope this can help and please repost to help others who may need support too.

(Thank you for supporting this blog and for the positive feedback over the past few months since this initiative started in April. I created this to solve the problem of lack of streamlined resources for LGBTQ+ students during the pandemic and sustain a sense of community that was taken away from us so abruptly.)

Stay Proud. 

[yourlesbianneighbor]

For anyone interested in human rights from a commercial law perspective, follow @businessofhumanrights (The Business of Human Rights) on Instagram, it’s a great page and I would totally recommend.

[yourlesbianneighbor]

Hi everyone! I hope you are all staying safe and healthy (mentally and physically) and know that things will get better soon.

I started this blog as an initiative to help gather resources and support for LGBTQ+ university students who have to live in less-affirming environments after university closures due to the pandemic. This is for you and I hope this blog has helped you. (Thank you to everyone who follows and messages me with support for this blog). This was based on my belief in the importance of community and helping one another. 

I found this website which “is a community-generated mapping project that geo-locates queer moments, memories and histories in relation to physical space.” I thought others would find it interesting and reaffirming that our community is large and wide and we are never alone. 

Our experiences matter and things do get better. Go have a look and maybe add to the map :) 

STAY HOME - STAY PROUD

[yourlesbianneighbor]

I hope this helps someone - I really like this blog and its purpose. 

Another suggestion that I’ve heard other LGBTQ+ university students implement and it helped them is reaching out to their university or college’s LGBTQ+ Network or Society and organize group video calls with coffee like they used to do in person and give each other group support and talk about all of the movies and tv shows that they watched in the same way that the article suggests. It can give you the feeling that you’re still in that same safe space you were and be able to discuss all of the gay things that you may not be able to at home with your family. 

I hope everyone has been coping well so far.

I’m back to remind you that finding time for yourself, relaxing and healing doesn’t conflict with the idea of being productive. 

I found some tips in this article really helpful and if you are a young LGBTQ+ university student in particular back at home in a less affirming environment then these ideas may help you stay calm and feel a connection to the LGBTQ+ community.

As always, if you have any questions, submissions or want someone to talk to, feel free to message me (even anonymously) and even though I’m not an expert I’ll do my best to support you. This project’s aim is to gather resources for young LGBTQ+ people being quarantined in less affirming spaces due to the coronavirus pandemic and support the community through volunteering. Thank you for your support so far and all of your messages and follows. 

STAY HOME - STAY PROUD

[yourlesbianneighbor]

do you ever think about how many people in history were attracted to people of the same gender – people you know, history book names, poets and authors and film stars and war heroes and kings – and you only learn about this years and years after you learn about them and it socks you in the gut? do you ever think about how it’s this vicious cycle where these names from history are erased, these parts of people are erased, so we don’t even learn that it’s possible that other people could be Like This – and then you crush down the part of yourself that could be Like This because it’s not a real thing, everyone in history has been straight and it’s just you that’s the anomaly.

like, this idea that being anything except straight is this brand new thing. being gay was invented twenty years ago and before that it was just books and books and books of women falling in love with men. but it wasn’t. there were people like you. there were always people like you, and you can only learn this through scraps of paper passed under the table by other terrified kids on the internet. it breaks my goddamn heart. this erasing. these loves cut out, just in case a high schooler reading a history book looks at it and goes oh.

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Official Trailer for The Half of It directed by Alice Wu, coming to Netflix on May 1st

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Pride really is within us. Our community always perseveres. 

If you or someone you know has had to go “back in the closet” due to quarantine please look after yourselves and check out this blog 

As a lot of pride events are cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic, it can be disheartening for those who are now stack in conservative environments. I was personally looking forward to Pride in London. 

Pride can now be online and information will soon be released about virtual events so make sure to keep in touch and get involved. 

Pride is within us and it links with a sense of community, remembering how far we have come and keep sight of future goals.

Feel free to submit your favourite memories from Pride events and your thoughts on virtual events. You can do this anonymously if you would like. 

STAY HOME - STAY PROUD 

[yourlesbianneighbor]

"Dear straight people, why do I have to prove my love is authentic?"

-Denice Frohman "Dear Straight People"

[yourlesbianneighbor]

FOLLOW AND REPOST TO HELP SOMEONE WHO NEEDS SUPPORT

STAY HOME - STAY PROUD

You can still be proud of your identities and feel connected to the LGBTQ+ community. Your well-being should be the top priority. You are still who you are. 

 Connect through technology

 Express how you feel (if it is safe to do so)

 Immerse yourself in LGBTQ+ culture and history

 Use your time productively and make time for self-care

Send asks or submissions with your tips to help others or reach out to discuss about it.

You are not alone. 

[yourlesbianneighbor]

REPOST AND FOLLOW THIS BLOG FOR THE SAKE OF EVERYONE’S MENTAL HEALTH 

Confidential Discussions During Lockdown

Missing your local LGBTQ+ centre/network/university society that you could physically visit and express yourself?

The project’s premise is to try and replicate that safe zone in an online concise environment. Apart from being able to submit posts and ask questions or offer advice on this bog, there are a number of worldwide sites with a similar premise and initiatives that offer confidential support by professionals, especially regarding mental health support aimed at LGBTQ+ youth. LGBTQ+ individuals are disproportionately affected by mental health issues and if you are feeling overwhelmed in environments that are not accepting, please reach out. 

https://itgetsbetter.org/

https://switchboard.lgbt/

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

You are not alone. 

I am networking with a number of university LGBTQ+ societies to help spread awareness of this issue and the resources mentioned in the blog but please share this so that more people are included. 

[yourlesbianneighbor]

This project is very important - it helps support youth who had to go back to living with families that don’t support them. Resources and support will be found there and it’s good to repost and get involved/ submit posts to help the LGBTQ+ community. 

It’s a safe online space to celebrate our community and its resilience during lockdown

PLEASE REPOST AND FOLLOW THE PAGE 

STAY HOME - STAY PROUD introduction to the project

During a world pandemic, acts of volunteering cannot be overestimated. Now more than ever we should help each other and support one another. The LGBTQ+ community is especially vulnerable at times like these. 

When I was younger, social media played a vital role in helping me understand and accept myself as a gay person. Now, I study Law at my dream university and I am proud of who I am and glad for all of the amazing people I met on the way. 

I understand though that the current situation, which caused lock-downs and university closures, means that a lot of LGBTQ+ students who were happy and proud to be “out” at liberal university environments may have had to go back to homes, home countries and environments that do not allow them to do so anymore. This blog is for everyone’s use but particularly those students. 

Project STAY HOME - STAY PROUD is an initiative that respects measures taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus and the importance of staying at home but at the same time aims to empower and support youth who have had to unexpectedly go back “in the closet” due to being dependent on homophobic families. This is a community project so it relies on your involvement. The project will include initiatives to ask or submit anonymous and non-anonymous posts or questions regarding your experiences or any advice you may seek or want to give as well as regular posts regarding this issue, aimed to help the wider community in dealing with the aforementioned situation. I am not a professional therapist, I simply want to help as much as I can and without any liability, as well as inspire the community at large to promote supporting each other at times of need. 

Please repost this and get involved. 

[yourlesbianneighbor]

STAY HOME - STAY PROUD introduction to the project

During a world pandemic, acts of volunteering cannot be overestimated. Now more than ever we should help each other and support one another. The LGBTQ+ community is especially vulnerable at times like these. 

When I was younger, social media played a vital role in helping me understand and accept myself as a gay person. Now, I study Law at my dream university and I am proud of who I am and glad for all of the amazing people I met on the way. 

I understand though that the current situation, which caused lock-downs and university closures, means that a lot of LGBTQ+ students who were happy and proud to be “out” at liberal university environments may have had to go back to homes, home countries and environments that do not allow them to do so anymore. This blog is for everyone’s use but particularly those students. 

Project STAY HOME - STAY PROUD is an initiative that respects measures taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus and the importance of staying at home but at the same time aims to empower and support youth who have had to unexpectedly go back “in the closet” due to being dependent on homophobic families. This is a community project so it relies on your involvement. The project will include initiatives to ask or submit anonymous and non-anonymous posts or questions regarding your experiences or any advice you may seek or want to give as well as regular posts regarding this issue, aimed to help the wider community in dealing with the aforementioned situation. I am not a professional therapist, I simply want to help as much as I can and without any liability, as well as inspire the community at large to promote supporting each other at times of need. 

Please repost this and get involved. 

[yourlesbianneighbor]

my latest piece of advice from the past couple of months is to just go for it. You know in your heart what I’m talking about. 

[yourlesbianneighbor]

i hope my future wife is taking care of herself, wherever and whoever she is. we don't know each othe yet, but i'll be dreaming of her until we do

[yourlesbianneighbor]

i’m back bitches

I’ll be honest with you guys. I had started university in September and everything has been so hectic lately. Uni is great so far but world epidemic not so great. In the past few months I didn’t use tumblr as much, I swear I didn’t abandon you guys, but I just felt like it was time for me to live more and I did. The future is so uncertain, grab every chance you can. I’ve grown so much as a character and can’t wait to share it with you guys. 

I hope you are all well and gay as hell. 

Please send me Asks anons or not about how you’ve been lately.

Thanks for the never-ending support, Your Lesbian Neighbor 

[yourlesbianneighbor]

[yourlesbianneighbor]

this is so relatable wow

ENFJ Ravenclaw Pukwudgie Pisces

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Africa - Toto

Heroes - David Bowie

I Wanna Get Better - Bleachers

Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie

Cecilia And The Satellite - Andrew McMahon

Wildest Dreams - Taylor Swift

Light Surrounding You - Evermore

Absolutely (Story Of A Girl) - Nine Days

High Hopes - Panic! At The Disco

Umbrella - Rihanna ft Jay Z

The Reason - Hoobastank

Midnight City - M83

SING - My Chemical Romance

Heaven - Troye Sivan ft Betty Who

A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton

Somewhere In Neverland - All Time Low

Dreams - The Cranberries

Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap

Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Death Cab For Cutie