[diehellasrache]

I think I'm going to remember this phrase every time I cook for the next five years

[lovevintagestuff]

illustration from the Soviet magazine for young children Merry Pictures (Весёлые картинки), nr 3 from 1963

[ourlittlesister2015]

Akihiro Miwa in Black Lizard [黒蜥蜴] (1968), dir. Kinji Fukasaku

"Black Lizard, you are an old-fashioned romanticist. In this age, soiled by corruption and murder, you believe that crime should wear a gorgeous gown with a train 15 feet long."

[rebirth654]

Darina Muravjeva, Hole

[k-simplex-deactivated20241001]

[deathandmysticism]

Young folks library, 1902

[weepingwidar]

Shyama Golden (Sri Lankan-American, 1983) - Cover Art for Ravens (2019)

[chilewithcarnage]

this is the second case ive seen of a black child going missing and then found lynched, what the fuck is going on

[glamygdala]

Her name is Juliana Nzita.

[d1anna]

Donate in MEMORY OF JULIANA NZITA, organized by Bueia Umba

Hi, my name is Bueia Umba and I am fundraising for Juliana Nzita. It is with deep sorrow… Bueia Umba necesita tu apoyo para Donate in MEMOR

her family’s gofundme!!

[beaft]

common advice for social anxiety is to tell yourself "people aren't going to think less of you just because you said something a bit daft" but the thing is. sometimes they will. and you just have to learn to be cool with that and to treat it as a dnd random encounter rather than letting it ruin your whole day

[cauliflowerscans]

Malice Mizer

Pays de Merveilles

ヴェル・エール ～空白の瞬間の中で～de l'image

VHS + photocard scans

1997

Download 7zip file on Mega: https://mega.nz/file/JeMxFTLR#HrEtjFFNgsvAU8rZ5jNedg8TjVNtzhAocYkQdHpLXCY

[theodorafrompluto]

Circe's Palace (1907)

by Maxfield Parrish

[polkadotmotmot]

Annieo Klass - Daydream no. 5, 2025 - Oil on canvas

[naderalanqar2007]

This is the image that Israel is trying to hide from the world. This is Gaza. This is the reality of 90 percent of the Gaza Strip that has been subjected to genocide.

[naderalanqar2007]

The explosives dropped on the people of the Gaza Strip are equivalent to 20 nuclear bombs like those dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Does anyone still doubt that Israel committed and continues to commit genocide and ethnic cleansing against us here in the Gaza Strip?

[naderalanqar2007]

We have been through so much, and we are still alive thanks to your help and donations. Without them, we would have perished long ago. The campaign has not received any donations in the last seven days, and the last donation was 14 days ago. Thanks to your donations, we can buy food and medicine and pay for the surgery for his daughter Iman, who was injured in her legs during the war. Iman is a child who needs care; she has already suffered enough during the first three of her eight years. Please don't hesitate to donate now. Please donate now.

GOFUNDME Please give this little girl hope and donate

[socalgal]

Please help Ahed's family and donate if you can, and share this post if you can't. Everything can make a difference in saving an entire family.

Donate to I lost everything in Gaza, but I won’t lose my daughter Iman, organized by Aahed Alanqar

"Our home in Gaza wasn't just walls and a roof; it was the pl… Aahed Alanqar needs your support for I lost everything in Gaza, but I won’t l

[naderalanqar2007]

I implore you to support Ahed's family and donate now. Please give whatever you can. The last donation was 6 days ago. Please donate now.

[naderalanqar2007]

Please, everyone, donate now and share this post. Please continue to support Ahed's family and don't ignore them. Please donate now.

[jetix]

‘White Cat with Gemstones’ by Joseph Jones Oil and acrylic on linen, 2026

[stout-stoat]

PAINTING

[teaboot]

PAINTING

[hagiomoto]

[hagiomoto]

[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

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[fleshfriend]

2004