Bethel CT Pride

We're a small LGBTQ+ group in southwestern Connecticut. We run local and online queer events. Trans, bi, pan, ace, aromantic, and intersex inclusive!

[therapatical]

so one of the largest open source data communities on the internet, data.world, got bought out by a company called ServiceNow, who has decided to fucking delete all of it by July 11th. they've given users barely any notice, no emails, just a fucking banner at the top and a blog post from June that gives barely a month to download your data before they fucking delete it all.

a bunch of archives of incredibly important government datasets like maternal mortality statistics are about to be deleted forever. in a regime where they're known to fudge numbers, we can't trust a lot of the data coming from them to not be altered. open source backups like those found on data.world are vital to being able to verify that the data coming from our government is still intact and not altered. and they're about to delete all of it.

i don't know if we need to start a petition or what. nobody seems to fucking care. there are millions of users on data.world and yet nobody is raising the alarm bells and it makes me feel like I'm going insane. somebody needs to do something. i don't know what to do. it feels like more and more of this world is being destroyed and dismantled. it's not only US centric data, either! it's all sorts of countries from around the world! and they're about to fucking delete everything.

the only things that won't be deleted are private companies who happen to use the paid version of their platform (which isn't accessible data to the open source community; some people have just been using their service to host their own data on privately)

and the kicker? this announcement was made... via an AI generated blog post. so not even any sort of human touch. just a generic, soulless announcement made by a soulless human about to take a wrecking ball to one of the more important websites that exists on the internet.

an example of some of the things that will be deleted on July 11th:

[irreverentworm]

Have you posted this to r/datahoarder? They would probably be most prepared for preservation efforts on such a short time frame

[therapatical]

I haven't, I don't really have a reddit anymore. if somebody else would be willing to do that, that would be great. I'm pretty sure it only lets you post with a certain amount of karma now which is annoying

[makingqueerhistory]

Selected Works from Grant Wood

Grant Wood was born in rural Iowa in the US on February 13, 1891. Wood is known for his role in American Regionalism, an art movement that highlighted rural American life and believed that to be the solution to the problems plaguing the country during the Great Depression. Though Wood studied in France, he dedicated his work to the American Midwest, most notably through his painting American Gothic (1930). Fun fact: American Gothic depicts a man and his daughter or wife, but the subjects are based on Wood's sister and their family dentist.

Though Grant was closeted during his life, he had a circle of friends who knew about his sexuality and supported him. Regardless of how we might feel about Wood's idea of rural America being the "solution" to American cities and the Great Depression, his work did have a large impact on defining a uniquely American art style for the time period.

You can find these works and more in our gallery!

[rainydaypaperback]

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If we want another 250 years of America (flaws and all) we need to invest in a future with educated citizens.

Stop into the store between now and 4th of July and pick up one regular priced kids of young adult book for FREE. One per person, per day. (includes our comics and manga too, just check it's age appropriate for your kiddo!)

No purchase necessary. It really is just pick a book for a child, for free.

Only the irregularly priced kids and YA books are excluded from the offer.

Rainy Day Paperback

81 Greenwood Ave, Bethel CT

Tues.-Friday 110AM-6PM Saturday- 10AM-5PM

If you live out of the area and like what I do, I always appreciate being set as your home store on Bookshop.org and Libro.fm. That lets me do stuff like this.... including giving out around 1000 books for the town's Halloween event and keeping the little libraries around area stocked.

[assaultmystic-archive]

whats cool about being trans is my parents are totally right. i did kill their beautiful son. im the thing that animates his corpse in an ever more convincing parody of a happy girl. i devoured him from the inside out and now there is nothing left of him and he is dead dead dead and there is only me, with my hollow eyes and dark eyeliner and long hair, and my big smile. my limp, effeminate gestures belie the marionetting of the boy they loved. my fagginess is his death. already his body becomes a fitter home for my parasitism in full; the tits, the hips, the thighs. sorry about your kid. thanks for the biomass <3

[mybisexualwife]

[awesome-brick]

reblog if you are ASEXUAL, support ASEXUAL PEOPLE, or SECRETLY A DRAGON IN HUMAN FORM

[lionofchaeronea]

I’m really only a human in iguana form, but sure, I’ll take the ego boost.

[partywithponies]

I love vague labels that make people go "but that's confusing" or "but that could mean anything" Good. Keep guessing lol

[partywithponies]

"Queer doesn't actually tell me anything" who says I wanted to tell you anything. Who even are you.

[livethrushit]

[donutdrawsthings]

I was thinking of a pride art challenge people could do with their OCs, because I thought it'd be cute! A queer/trans artist with their creations.

but then I realised that same challenge would be infinitely more funny with folks who have atypical or horror OCs

[bethelctpride]

InterConnect Summer Conference 2026

Join us for Camp Connect, a weekend of community, kindness, and connection.

On September 7, 1996, the AISSG of North America held its first meeting in New York City. The group, made up of mostly females with AIS and founded by Sherri Groveman, sought to forge a collaborative relationship with the medical community, so that intersex individuals would be seen as more than patients to be fixed and forgotten.

Historically, the medical profession thought that surgeries, hormone therapy, and parental secrecy would ‘cure’ intersex children and allow them to lead ‘normal’ lives. But during the inaugural meeting, doctors learned that these surgeries and hormone therapies led to lifelong health issues and parental secrecy led to shame and broken families.

In 2020, we rebranded as InterConnect. We welcome all intersex people, their families, friends & allies to join our group for support, programming, outreach and education.

InterConnect is committed to building a community for all intersex people, their families, and allies. A space where you are heard, valued, and embraced regardless of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, socio-economic background, ability, experience, or perspective. A community where you can bring your whole self. We’re in this together, join us.

Our Mission: InterConnect is a compassionate and affirming community of intersex individuals, family members and allies, working together to promote a better quality of life through connection, support, education and awareness.

Our Vision: A world in which intersex individuals are celebrated as a natural variation of human biology, and all intersex people feel safe, seen and supported.

Our Values: We value the journey of intersex people, their families and allies, who support our right to self-determination, dignity, and purpose.

InterConnect welcomes inquiries from families, practitioners, teachers, clergy, and anyone who is looking to better support an intersex person that is important to them.

THIS CONFERENCE ALSO OFFERS VIRTUAL TICKETS FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT ATTEND IN PERSON

[heavyweightheart]

We always have to bear in mind when reading media and the scientific literature on body shape and health (e.g. abdominal fat and insulin resistance) that science is ideologically embedded, and in the global north that means embedded in imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Anti-fat biases are racialized, gendered, and classed. While it’s true that there are some risks associated with certain bodies—not only people who are larger in the abdomen (which is natural for many populations from the global south) but also shorter life span in tall people, skin cancer in redheads, osteoporosis in thin people, and so on—the risks and bodies that become stigmatized, that are used to fearmonger and to manipulate people’s behavior, are the bodies of the oppressed. We don’t want to dismiss research data out of hand but we do want to remember that prevailing biases shape Science and serve ruling class interests, and we perpetuate harm by collaborating in that

[bethelctpride]

Dragon Dads help fathers and caregivers build understanding, develop confidence, and become active advocates for their LGBTQIA+ children and

Helping fathers and caregivers become confident advocates for their LGBTQIA+ children—through education, mentorship, and connection.

[mattpresents]

How do you know you're not Asexual? Maybe you just haven't met the right nobody.

[aroaceenjolras]

This "allosexuality" thing is just a phase. You just need to have really bad sex, and then maybe you'll change your mind.

[podcastwizard]

los angeles is not known for having a good or even decent public transit system but in the past few years they’ve been expanding the train lines and have been pushing to get people to ride the trains more often, which includes making official la metro merch and, well:

this is a restock because they sold out in less than a week the first time

[tpwrtrmnky]

the real answer to almost every "does [identity A] belong in [identity B] spaces" question is actually just "these spaces are informal social groups and if you're cool you can hang, don't worry about it"

[tpwrtrmnky]

You can be Homer Simpson at the lesbian bar. It's fine. Don't worry about it.

[coelii]

I think that’s part of what makes the payoff for this joke one of the best in the series

you’re supposed to think Homer is just being his usual idiot self and is about to realize the obvious (har har har he doesn’t belong there!)

but no!

props to them for not only making the actual joke a funny misdirection, but topping it off with this (surprisingly progressive) stinger:

[elierlick]

Thirty-year-old Tamara Rees shows us what trans empowerment looked like in 1954. She fought Nazis, taught parachuting, and traveled the world... but her biggest challenge came when the press learned of her identity.

1950s news coverage of Tamera Rees' transition shows a time before the trans moral panic. Most stories regarded her as brave or heroic for her openness. National newspapers even celebrated her wedding in 1955.

The New York Daily News, which now hosts daily anti-trans editorials, ran a shockingly respectful series on trans people in the 1950s. Tamara Rees's narrative was among the longest and most detailed. She thoughtfully implored the public to respect not only her identity, but also other trans people like her.

Tamara wasn't the first famous trans woman of the 1950s, nor was she the best known. However, she had a unique opportunity to share her own story. You can read Tamara's 1955 autobiography, Reborn: A Factual Life Story of a Transition from Male to Female, at transreads.org/reborn 

[playwrongs]

Stephen King’s Fujo

[kungfunurse]

yeah @sunderwight these tags are gold

[magicalshopping]

♡ Pride Suncatchers by Piney Woods Mystic ♡

[depsidase]

[fenrislorsrai]

My mother was from the generation ahead of the boomers, the Silent Generation. And while a whole hell of a lot of them also did not make it through to get old, something *interesting* happened when a lot of them retired.

They came out. A lot of friends knew, but they were never officially, publically, out. For all the reasons above, plus dealing with workplace retaliation and potential loss of healthcare for same when they were at age of really needing it.

With current rollback on a lot of those protections and the general proliferation of "at will" states and decline of unions, there may still be a significant number of boomers in the closet trying to make it to that finish line. They saw how bad it all was and currently is. and the lower they are on the economic ladder, the higher the risk of being out.

That healthcare is tied to employment is a big factor there. Anyone who's working and dependent on not losing that for themself, a spouse, or child, is going to be extra cautious about making too much noise. Proving discrimination in a labor dispute is HARD... and the less money you had to start, the less ability you have to win.

Once social security and Medicare kicks in and they're safe... there may be more LGBTQ+ boomers that made it to that age than we thought. And are now unleashed to raise hell.

But this also may *not* happen. It's going to be up to individual choice.

They may stay relatively quiet. But LGBTQ community being actively hostile and indicating those people who stayed in the closet for their safety (or family safety) aren't welcome among younger community members means they may never come out.

Understand that sometimes that surviving may have been all they could do for years while also encouraging them to finally come find a home with the broader LGBTQ community. You don't have to be friends, you just have to acknowledge a bigger community has more power. Make it bigger. Bring the lost members home.