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not that my input really matters, but i don’t know much of lgbt history other than bits and pieces of stonewall, a little bit of the aids crisis, and the legalization of gay marriage; i’m an actual child and nobody here (kentucky) educates anyone/gets educated on it

iwilleatyourenglish

how about instead of shaming people—especially young people—for not knowing our history, we provide them with credible resources?

here’s a long list of LGBT+ historical events worth googling and learning about. i’m not sure if all the dates and details are spot on, but, again, this is really just a guide for what to research on your own. to warn you, a lot of this history is ugly, including things like the conflation of pedophilia and LGBT+ people, genital mutilation, homophobia, transphobia, nazis, and wide scale persecution.

Free Resources:

an interactive timeline of LGBT+ world history

The 1950s and the Roots of LGBT Politics (American-centric)

Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community (warning: this documentary was made in the 80s and is dated in a lot of respects as a result; it also features quotes from Allen Ginsberg, who we now know was a pedophile, but it’s still very informative in terms of history)

a brief history of the bisexual movement from the 1960s-early 2000s (American-centric)

Bisexual.org has a TON of resources on bi (and often pan) history, historical figures, research, and media

“Here’s A History Of Bisexuality, From Ancient Egypt To Stonewall”

a brief timeline of trans history, beginning in the 1890s (European and American-centric)

“Gender Variance Around the World Over Time”

Some Purchasable Resources:

(most of these can be bought used online for pretty cheap and some can be found in libraries)

Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context by Vern L Bullough (it’s a bit dated, but still informative)

A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World by R. Parkinson

Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women (Intersections) by Leila J. Rupp

Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora) by A.B. Christa Schwarz

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson

Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism edited by Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, and Salvador Vidal Ortiz

Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution by Susan Stryker

Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill

lgtbird

The fact that we don’t know our history is the result of deliberate erasure and the fact that alot of the people we’d learn this in person are dead. It’s good to see online resources like this, spread them and archive them (webarchive, waybackmachine, downloading, saving physical copies even)

apocalypse-tights

^^^ you said it better than my tags did

calmandsexy

No one is gay - or straight - or even Bi or Pan.

All of these are invented identity concepts around expressing your sexuality.

Just because you sometimes go swimming doesn’t make you a fish. And even while you are swimming that doesn’t make you a fish. A fish is any of a large group of “cold-blooded, finned, aquatic vertebrates that respire by passing oxygenated water over gills.”

You aren’t a label - you’re a human being.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLJzzbtGLVI

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/16/books/straight-talk.html

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170315-the-invention-of-heterosexuality

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-07-30-bk-29249-story.html

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ronamato

Yesterday I posted a photograph much like this one, EXCEPT IT WAS OF MEN. INSTAGRAM TOOK IT DOWN. The was nothing sexual in the photo. The was no nudity beyond the sides of hips (less than you see here). I am left to much no other conclusion than these social media platforms make these de based on #homophobia. My work has been targeted on Facebook and Instagram. A few weeks ago I posted something on Facebook that I had posted before and had similar attributes to yesterday’s photo and I was banned from Facebook for 40 days. Despite writing repeatedly to get an explanation, one was not forthcoming. This is Herb Ritts’ famous photograph of Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Tatjana Patitz, and Naomi Campbell. It actually shows more than mine did. Let’s see what happens. . . #socialmediahomophobia #bias #instagramishomophobic #facebookishomophobic #herbritts #beauty #beautifulnudeshades #supermodels

ronamato

#tbt Looking forward to seeing some tan lines soon. Dominic, May, 2011. . www.ronamato.com/torsos . #ronamatophotography #ronamato #torsosandmore #tanlines #malemodel #malenudes #blackandwhite #photography #blackandwhitephotography

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#tbt @mjm282 January 2016, from #thebox shoots. In my Torsos and More gallery. . ronamato.com/torsos . #ronamatophotography #ronamato #torso #torsosandmore #mensback #sexygay #sexymen #butt

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How to Backup your Tumblr

I was just semi-complaining that I was still looking for a decent way to backup my +6k posts without having to use paid services or even just wordpress (which has an import from tumblr tool that asks for permission to access your blog and also make posts), when I decided to actually put some effort into my google search.

Results were positive: I have successfully backed up my blog*

*By which I mean: everything that I have ever posted. Not included: drafts, queue, likes, followers, following, comments, notes, chat.

I followed this method (word by word), and now have a 450 MB folder on my computer with the name of my blog on it containing:

1. Folder “Archive” (contains .html files listed by month) 2. Folder “Media” (contains gifs and images, mine has +1k files in it; might contain also audios but I have no way of confirming that because I’ve never reblogged an audio post from this blog) 3. Folder “Posts” (contains single .html files, each one a post; I have +4k files in it) 4. Folder “Theme” (contains only my avatar, but it might be a matter of if you have personalized themes or not) 5. .html file “Index” (by opening it it will give you the archive of your blog organized by month; clicking on a month will open up the archive for that month, and you’ll be able to read all the posts for that month as if you were on your blog**, except sans your theme graphic, with each page containing 50 posts)

**I can see gifs, links, embedded videos, tags, number of notes (but I can’t open up the notes, clearly), text is also correctly formatted.

So yeah, in case anyone wants a very quick way to back up their blog, it took me less than 10 minutes.

P.S. I didn’t have any issue, but to be on the safe side always check for spyware and virus threats before and after downloading anything.

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this is actually really useful if you have an art blog full of years of work that you otherwise no longer have access to the original files. A lot of the art I have in the early days of my art blog are in that boat. I did this process JUST for that reason and I was pretty astonished at just how many pieces of media it backs up! (literally all of it) Drawings I didn’t even realize were sitting in my archive due to having been posted to text posts or undercuts, or untagged for years! It’s worth it if just for that, even if tumblr isn’t shutting down or deleting your blog.