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Happy Pride Month Eleanor Roosevelt was queer, the Little Mermaid is a gay love story, James Dean liked men, Emily Dickinson was a lesbian, Nikola Tesla was asexual, Freddie Mercury was bisexual & British Indian, and black trans women pioneered the gay rights movement.

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Florence Nightingale was a lesbian, Leonardo da Vinci was gay, Michelangelo too, Jane Austen liked women, Hatshepsut was not cisgender, and Alexander the Great was a power bottom

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Honestly just reblogging for that last one

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Probably not historically backed but fuck yes

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Eleanor Roosevelt wrote love letters to Lorena Hickok

Love letters Hans Christian Anderson wrote to Edvard Collin contain elements that appeared in The Little Mermaid, which he was writing at the same time

Several people who knew James Dean have talked about his relationships with men

Letters and poems allude to a romance between Emily Dickinson and at least two women

Nikola Tesla was adverse to touch. He said he fell in love with one women but never touched her and didn’t want to get married

Freddie Mercury is well known for his attraction to men but was also linked to several women, including Barbara Valentin whom he lived with shortly before he died. Friends have talked about being invited into their bed and walking in on them having sex (documentary Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender)

Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are two of the best-known activists who fought in the Stonewall riots

Florence Nightingale refused 4 marriage proposals and her letters and memoir suggest a love for women

Leonardo da Vinci never married or fathered children, was once brought up on sodomy charges, and a sketch in one of his notebooks is 2 penises walking toward a hole labeled with the nickname of his apprentice

Condivi said that Michelangelo often spoke exclusively of masculine love

Jane Austin never married and wrote about sharing a bed with women (Jane Austen At Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley)

Hatshepsut took the male title Pharaoh (instead of Queen Regent) and is depicted in art from the time the same way a male Pharaoh would have been

“Alexander was only defeated once…and that was by Hephaestion’s thighs.” is a 2,000 year old quote

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I want to hire you to follow me around and defend my honor with meticulous research

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Gonna add some more to the list:

Donatello, renaissance artist, likely gay (Hey, let’s face it— 3/4s of the TMNT were gay). [source 1] [source 2] [source 3]

Louis XVI, king of France can be presumed asexual. [source 1] [source 2] [source 3]

Baron Von Steuben, a gay man who helped train George Washington’s troops at Valley Forge. [source 1] [source 2] [source 3]

Julius Caesar, a military leader and popular Roman politician who was also a bottom (I mean if he wasn’t a bottom, why else would he have gotten stabbed 23 times?). [source 1] [source 2] [source 3 — a note: this is just stating that the trouble wasn’t the gender of the other person, it was because [Caesar] was the bottom]

Albert Cashier, a trans man who served the Union in the American Civil War. [source 1] [source 2] [source 3]

Elagabalus, a Roman ruler who was presumed to be transfeminine. [source 1] [source 2] [source 3]

Sulla, another Roman general who was not straight. [source 1] [source 2]

Jean-Baptiste Lully, a ballet dancer, and composer close to Louis XIV. [source 1] [source 2] [source 3]

Piotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky, a gay Russian composer. [source 1] [source 2]

(PS. On Freddie Mercury, he was Parsi— Indian + Iranian.)

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This is the greatest post of the universe

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it really is

'Gone to Flowers'

Semi inspired by the Peter, Paul, and Mary song 'Where Have all the Flowers Gone'

And no they still haven't learned...

#art #collage #surreal #existentialism #anti war #poetry #fuck trump #folk music

aralintheobsessive

if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars.

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing!

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getting a lot of responses to this going 'ok but it would be good as a metaphor though' so I will accept a metaphorical interpretation as long as you ALSO (!) promise to be considerate towards larval forms of insects specifically and biodiversity in general, deal?

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If anyone has a right to call people out on this, it's fucking Joan Baez, she was at the forefront of activism in the 60s and marched arm in arm with MLK

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Swifties are just upset that Joan actually has done something for the oppressed people of the world, unlike a certain popstar

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She placed the dignity of oppressed people over her career and was punished for it, she has every right to criticize people for not doing the same

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Come back to me when Taylor Swift goes to Tehran to protest the American War Machine or when she attends an anti genocide march in DC

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"That’s what makes Zohran Mamdani’s election in New York so unsettling to the old order. New York City is not just another municipality; it’s a sovereign-scale entity. Its population surpasses 38 states. Its metropolitan GDP trails only Texas and California.

It is, by any metric, a small country masquerading as a city.

It governs more lives and more wealth than most nations. If democratic socialism — housing reform, public banking, equitable taxation — functions here, it obliterates the myth that such governance can’t work at scale. The fear isn’t ideological. It’s empirical. Because if Mamdani can keep the lights on, reduce homelessness, and maintain economic growth without catering to Wall Street, then the capitalist gospel collapses under its own dead weight.

What terrifies the establishment isn’t failure. It’s feasibility.

If it works in New York, there’s no reason it can’t work in Nebraska. If it works in Queens, it can work in Kansas City. And once proof exists, belief becomes irrelevant. The ship of democracy, fully refitted, will keep sailing — and no one can claim it isn’t American."

- Jackie Summers

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I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.

He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense

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Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.

He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM

'Still I Wonder'

Today feels heavy to me. I had a rough start to my day. I just started cutting out all the phrases that stood out to me from a couple different magazines and they found their way into order.

I hope for anyone feeling similarly, things get better for you soon

The poem says:

Wake up. All this? It's just perception.

Violent. Beautiful. Haunted.

The old order is dead. Limped along, brain damaged.

I still wonder why.

A man on fire rides by.

Oh no. Who's this?

Don't do it, I want to say.

"We can always worry more, but it probably won't help," He told me.

It's not the lighthearted version.

Perhaps it's just a gradual change or a natural thing. But I find it to be really creepy.