egoist

enrolling in drowning lessons

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Apollo • 18+ • He/Him • DMs OPEN • Personal tag: #egoist-talks

Interests

My Chemical Romance • Pierce the Veil • Vocaloid • Hades (I & II) • Deltarune • Portal • Nintendo • Michael Schur Sitcoms • She-Ra • Horror games

DNI

Bigots (Racists/Homophobes/Transphobes/Zionists etc etc) • Pro-AI • Pro-ICE • <16

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Whenever an mcr fan sees a cute photo of one of the band members (bonus points if it’s an older picture juxtaposed with a newer picture in the same pose/expression) I think they melt. Like the wicked witch

I do too dw

[nicelybeez]

Posted this on insta and forgot to put it here

[charl0ttan]

dog i gotta move like yesterday

[sua-sponte-deactivated20200331]

I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.

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RATING: RELIABLE

you can listen to the clip of the 1954 interview here and find him on wikipedia here

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I basically only listen to MCR in the form of binging the entire albums at once. I need to be able to envision the whole story (esp with three cheers) #myautism

[wizhound]

Animalcr designs I made back in March

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Your mind…you’re unequivocally correct I think. Pack it up everybody

[callingallcars]

casual mcr fans dont exist like mcr is either a lifelong dedication and you know way too much about them after 3 months or you’ve never heard of them

[theaterard]

gerard after giving all the women they draw bobs and then having one for 20+ years: fierce is fierce honey

idk still workshopping this

gerard will draw a woman, ask “is anyone gonna become her” and then not wait for an answer

[digitallyacat]

I am mcrman, find my 7 unreleased albums

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It’s three cheers’ birthday? I didn’t even realize. I’m a fake fan

[formyshotgun]

Gerard at the end of Give ‘Em Hell, Kid (live from MTV2 2$Bill)

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Reblogging this twice because I never noticed that before 😭😭 they’ll let gee talk but they are NOT endorsing that

[formyshotgun]

Gerard at the end of Give ‘Em Hell, Kid (live from MTV2 2$Bill)

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Stripe gerard….i think about them all the time

I did the stripe once on myself but he did it better 😔

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Danger days fans will you fry me alive if I say my favorite character is Val. Gulp

[ddead3ye]

My three cheers cover- did a different process for this one with acrylic paints and colored pencils that was really fun.

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Drooling!!! This is so cool dude

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Hi, what did your URL used to be? Apparently I've been following you for a while, based on my following list, but idk who you are now 😅

I don’t blame you 😭 I used to be apollo-must-die

I was a primarily death note themed blog but I wiped the entire thing and started from scratch xD no hard feelings if you unfollow, interests change and whatnot

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There’s an appalling lack of MCR content in my following tab suddenly. I need some MCR moots 😔