Julian

29. he/they. Trans. Nonbinary. Queer. Autdhd. Gaymer. Horror fanatic and lover of romance tropes. 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

[thisisexorsexism]

not an experience but this tik tok

this is exorsexism

[transfemme-shelterdog]

Girl. That's not your theory, that's TERF 101.

"Trans men and enben AFAB transition to escape misogyny"

[vee-dmsr]

[boyd-stevens]

THE DRAMA 2026, dir. Kristoffer Borgli

[evahdestrvction]

POSSESSION (1981) / OBSESSION (2026)

[makingqueerhistory]

New Research Reveals How the Nazis Targeted Transgender People

Last year, a German court acknowledged the possibility that trans people were persecuted by the Nazis

[lobstabear]

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

[knittingontheroad]

I became a tattoo artist at 49.

Married the love of my life at 50.

Got my Class A CDL at 59.

You've got time.

As long as you're breathing, you've got time.

[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.

[is-the-post-reliable]

RATING: RELIABLE

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

[cosmictransmasc]

Cannibal Mukbang (2023, Dir. Aimee Kuge)

[ily-a]

Inde Navarrette as Nikki Freeman OBSESSION | 2026 dir. Curry Barker

[livnothewson]

I Wish You All The Best (2025) dir. Tommy Dorfman

(sorry about the quality of these ones, lighting was not on my side)

[yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere]

this scene killed me in the best way <3

[celluloidrainbow]

VERA (1986) dir. Sérgio Toledo Bauer is a transgender man who lives in a correctional facility for young people. After publishing a book of verses about his life as a young troubled youth, he meets a benevolent, educated man, who helps him, even allowing him to spend some time at his home, and arranges for a job for him as an intern in his office. He comes into his gender identity and begins to dress as a man, eventually falling in love with a woman and passing as cisgender to her family. Based on the life of Brazilian writer and poet Anderson Herzer. (link in title)

[linusbenjamin]

Gen V 2.08 "Trojan"

[nessa007]

"Preparing [for the role of Nikki] was really fun. We got to watch a lot of fun movies, and kind of pick and choose, like a puzzle, what we wanted in the film. Moments that we took inspiration from, and made them our own." — Inde Navarrette for Fandango "We watched Get Out, and focused on a lot of the moments where characters are showing an emotion underneath but saying something completely different [on the surface], and how horrific that is. There's a scene where [Nikki] is saying, "no", and there is a [similar] scene in Get Out [which we took inspiration from]." — Inde Navarrette for A Shot Magazine Obsession (2026) Dir. Curry Barker Get Out (2017) Dir. Jordan Peele

[detailspecialist]

GEN V | 1.08 | 2.01

[psdfilms]

SWARM S01E04

[98izzark6]

[hunterobsessed]