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Two men dancing, Harlem, 1920s.

According to George Chauncey’s eponymous Gay New York, the Harlem Renaissance of the ’20s provided an opportunity for gay men to create their own social and cultural spaces within the burgeoning nightlife in the neighborhood.

#lgbtq history #harlem renaissance

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File under: Things I did not expect in this month’s Cosmopolitan, but I am quite impressed by. Now if they could write a little more about it that would be great.

(Also if someone who was asexual could actually confirm this is an appropriate and nice response, because I’m assuming it is.)

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reasons why asexuality & ace spectrum orientations need to be recognized and discussed in the mainstream media. i wonder how many people realized asexuality existed after reading this article? and looked into it and felt that relief of “i’m not alone!!! i’m not a freak!!!”

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Color me impressed.

Yes, it is not only a nice response, but an honest, insightful and compassionate one. The writer has put their finger on what I think is probably the primary damage most asexuals grow up with: In a world where everyone seems obsessed with sex, where there seems to be absolutely nowhere to turn and no one to look to if you’re not, the almost inescapable conclusion (typically reinforced by the people around you if you seek advice from friends) is that you must be broken.

(And let me tell you, going through life with every movie, book, TV show, news article and poster ad–not to mention friends and family–telling you basically, “But you should want to bang this hot person right here!” starts feeling pretty rapey after a while.)

Stumbling across a small article in a random magazine that says, “Have you considered that maybe you’re not broken? There are other people like you. Look, there’s even a name for it” is…holy shit.

#asexual #asexuality

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“You didn’t think you had to cook noodles”

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This is how lesbian arguments usually play out

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#‘you’re not in trouble you’re my wife’ just cleared my skin and watered my crops and murdered woody allen

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younger me: why am i so obsessed with gay people

me now: i am a gay people

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Black Women in Love and Marriage

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aweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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transgender. woman of color. drag queen. courageous. talented. headstrong. beautiful.

🏳️‍🌈beauty that is peppermint. 🏳️‍🌈

LA resist march - 6.11.17

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The Kids Are Alrig— Too Pure For This World (x)

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I love this campaign. All members of the LGBT community deserve to feel safe and that includes senior citizens

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“I can’t even say the word. Why can’t I say the word? I mean, why can’t I just say…? I mean, what is wrong? Why do I have to be so ashamed? I mean, why can’t I just say the truth? I mean, be who I am? I’m thirty-five years old, I’m so afraid to tell people…Susan, I’m gay.” – Ellen Morgan (@theellenshow) to Susan (@lauradern), “Ellen,” “The Puppy Episode,” April 30, 1997. . On April 30, 1997, twenty years ago today and two weeks after Ellen DeGeneres publicly acknowledged her sexuality, Ellen Morgan, lead character of ABC’s “Ellen,” came out. . After the first three seasons of “Ellen,” producers were frustrated with a lack of focus and Ellen’s lack of interest in the stereotypical sitcom relationship; one producer suggested Ellen just get a puppy to show the world that a relationship was not in the cards, hence “The Puppy Episode.” . During the fourth season, as word of the coming out episode spread, a backlash started; a bomb threat came, DeGeneres’ safety was threatened, sponsors (including J.C. Penney and Wendy’s) pulled out, affiliates refused to run the episode, and right-wing conservatives hurled anti-gay slurs (Reverend Jerry Falwell, for example, hurled the infamous “Ellen Degenerate,” to which DeGeneres responded, “I’ve been getting that since the fourth grade”). . And, even after “The Puppy Episode” drew forty-two million viewers and won two Emmys, a Peabody Award, and a GLAAD Media Award, ABC still prefaced each subsequent episode of “Ellen” with a parental advisory warning. . The show was canceled after its fifth season. . “It’s easy to forget now, when we’ve come so far,” President Barack Obama said when awarding DeGeneres the Presidential Medal of Freedom, “just how much courage was required for Ellen to come out…What an incredible burden that was to bear. To risk your career like that. People don’t do that very often.” . There is no question that Ellen Morgan’s self-declaration marked a paradigm shift for queer representation in media. Never again would it be impossible to imagine a gay lead character, nor a supporting character that defied rigid stereotypes, in mainstream media. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #ThankYouEllen

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Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jerome from Moonlight (2016) win Best Kiss at the 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards

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I think there are some really important discussions to have about why disclosing aspects of personal identity can be challenging but important for all kinds of people, why the concept of “coming out” has appealed at times to a wide variety of groups (including people who are poly or kinky, sex workers, people with HIV, atheists, and people with mental illness), and why other groups using that language can be harmful to people in the LGBT and queer communities. But it’s going to take me some time to really be able to address all that.

In the meantime, I also think it’s worthwhile to focus specifically on the coming out experiences of people who are LGBTQIA. Of course, these experiences can vary a lot too. There are some differences between coming out about sexual orientation and coming out about gender identity, for example. And even two people who identify the same way may face pretty different challenges in their individual lives. I do believe, however, that there is a certain commonality shared specifically by these groups.

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so i’m a trans dude right and i’m home from college for the weekend and laying up in bed and i just heard my sister in the kitchen say to my mom “yeah well i’m your favorite daughter now because i’m your only daughter and now you don’t have a choice”

i’m crying i’m laughing so hard