Everything's All Tilted

Literal Faerie and Actual Trashcan. They/them/their/theirs/themself Fae/faen/faer/faers/faerself Queer enby trashcan cleverly masquarading as a person, horrible sense of humor remains constant, sorry about that Autistic and otherwise disabled in more ways than is pointful to list here Every couple weeks I break down and this devolves into a Chess fanblog im so sorry

[sonseulsoleil]

the three pillars of gay music are 80s music, pop punk music, and showtunes 

[betterbrighterbecki]

if i may, 

[sonseulsoleil]

the three pillars of gay music are 80s music, pop punk music, and showtunes 

[betterbrighterbecki]

if i may, 

[a-candle-for-sherlock]

Gorgeous thread this morning on Twitter by @jeffreymarsh!

[stoportotouch]

fellas, is it gay to be a character in an opera?

[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.

[argumate]

dude had guts, someone needs to update his Wikipedia page

[fedyavoidart]

f-f-f-fatality

we germans are nothing if not utterly savage.

thanks to the dokomi staff for this display of pure brutality.

[royalwilmon]

two by two - a playlist of duplicate song titles in musical theatre [listen here]

did i miss some good ones? add some more to this collaborative playlist!

[movedtobitchphobic]

what a lovely day to remember that aces didn’t exist until like 20 years ago and aren’t inherently lgbt+

[aphobephobe]

what a lovely day for me to be in this tag. 

Let us first turn to the talking about drivelessness, but we have to answer the question beforehand: “Are there even anerotic people, men and women of a post pubic age without any desire for sexual activities?” It is often said about someone, even male but especially female persons who don’t have any sexual desires whatsoever. They be called asexual, anerotic or how one could also say “atropic” [i haven’t found any reference for that word…maybe he meant “atrophic”?]; It is not uncommon that such claims are made by relatives of those people. It is also not uncommon to claim from people who are celibate -something that is from a standpoint of biological and psychological factors something that goes against nature- that they have no sexual feelings 

Sappho und Sokrates, by Magnus Hirschfeld. 1896. Translation to English.

121 years.

We affirm that all people are sensual, sexual, and compassionate beings and shouldn’t be labeled as hetero- homo- bi- or asexual.

December 1, 1970. “It Ain’t Me Babe”, a feminist newspaper from California.*

47 years.

“this right can be for us all - lesbians, celibates, bisexual, asexual, amazon virgins and heterosexual….

“For the most part, the herstory of heterosexual women can be summed up in three words: used, abused and abandoned. Not that the destructive male spares the lesbian or the asexual woman when he is set to mate the female.

1975, for both of these. (Also note how it doesn’t group asexual women with heterosexual women.)**

42 years.

1976, in a publication of Move, a UK newspaper.***

41 years.

(All of these pictures come from here if you’re wondering.)

*I do not necessarily share the opinions of any of these authors.**Bi erasure.***TV/TS appears to likely indicate outdated slang from 1976 to refer to a trans person.

Remind me - how long has ace exclusionary discourse existed?

[nevver]

Children’s Nuclear Warning Poster (1979)

[snake-farm]

I’ve been staring at this for like five minutes and I just do not get it.

[archivedbarfblog]

People who haven’t read Scarfolk Council need to experience it.

Seriously if you haven’t visited Scarfolk Council

You are missing out.

[wolfgang-the-miserable-deactiva]

CAKEY.

[ommanyte]

[nationalharmonica]

[property-is-theft-deactivated20]

Mood (gen 2 fan)

[ana-sola-deactivated081518]

Uh excuse you but as a gen 3 fan you can shove your foot up your ass

[kameratar]

Only people are allies

I think it’s nice to see rainbows everywhere, and I get where people are coming from when they’re happy from seeing rainbows in stores. But while I get it, I still think we should avoid becoming naive here.

In all of the mess where corporations make lots of rainbow products… They are slowly turning our symbols and image into a branding campaign you can use to look progressive. And in all of this, they are making profits off our image.

For years have these same companies denied us employment, their shops denied us entry legally, and many of them still probably do not genuinely support us… There has been no apology and no genuine recognition of the suffering corporations have also imposed on the LGBTQ+ community.

Let us just not act like corporations are or can be allies. They are a part of an exploitative system. They essentially do forced labour in countries like Bangladesh or Sri Lanka, where our products are made in horrendous conditions. Do you want your rainbows to be sewn by slave labour?

I don’t think we should act like there is something ethical or positive in the consumption here. It’s a neoliberal myth that any of this is good, they often just scratch the surface without really thinking of this too critically.

So let’s think of this critically… Corporations exploit poor people in other countries to make their products, corporations are only now starting to “care” about us, they are profiting off of all of this whilst few are donating to our activist organisations…

While people are buying products with rainbows in support of us, our organisations are struggling to get money to organise events, and are still actively struggling and fighting for our rights. This is a clear situation of our community’s image being exploited and not contributed to.

You don’t need to be some communist or militant anti-capitalist to agree with me on this… But please realise that this all actually isn’t a good thing, even if you personally are not calling for the abolishment of capitalism… Please don’t get fooled into thinking corporations are allies.

[heterodox-heterographer]

Example: YouTube has rainbows on their site for Pride month but still consistently demonetizes queer content

[1992hondacervix]

*80s pop playing as I lay dead in the middle of the woods*

[pyomorphic]

if you ask a right winger why a job like, say, sanitation worker has such an abysmal wage even though their job is necessary they’ll tell you that it is an unskilled occupation. we could contest that but for the sake of argument let’s concede.

by this logic, value is derived by how much labor is required to accomplish something, in this case the labor of learning the skill in addition to the labor of completing the task at hand. a doctor would earn a much higher wage because of the labor required to earn the necessary degrees to practice. okay.

but then if you ask a right winger why the price of a pair of glasses, a mattress, or even a bottle of water is so expensive, despite these things being cheap and easy to make, they’ll tell you that value is not determined by the labor that goes into it, but by need and demand.

this inconsistency reveals how neoliberal economics functions: the value of something means whatever is most convenient to the ruling class.

[spudfuzz]

Was too fun to make.

[d3dans]

For my followers to reference:

do your research and go wild

[poultrymancy]

Holy shit this is seriously fantastic!!!

[ourartandsouls]

Dude… there’s highlights and shadows of each color too?? BLESS YOUR SOUL!

[tealeaftieflings]

This is amazing for d&d character’s when creating literally any race.

[whitepeopletwitter]

The airport is a lawless place

[explodingcrenelation]

Princess Bride + Infinity War — 1 / 2

(Just gonna quietly file this under real life Infinity War reactions…)

[led-lite]

YES. I AM HERE FOR FURTHER CARY ELWES MOVIE-INFINITY WAR CROSSOVERS.

[motherhenna]

Ok so I was looking for historical slang terms for penis (gotta be era-accurate when writing vintage dick jokes) and I came across….something

some linguist compiled a literal timeline of genitalia slang–a cock compendium, if you will–that dates back all the way to the fucking 13th CENTURY. This motherfucker tracked the evolution of erection etymology through 800+ years, because if he doesn’t do it, who else will? Thank you for your service, Johnathon Green.

[motherhenna]

Some of my favorites include:

Shaft of Delight (1700s)

Womb Sweeper (1980s)

Master John Goodfellow (1890s)

Nimble-Wimble (1650s)

Corporal Love (1930s)

Staff of Life (1880s)

Spindle (1530s)

As good as ever twanged (1670s)

Gaying Instrument (1810s)

Beef Torpedo (1980s)

and last but not least, the first recorded use of the word Schlong, which was in 1865 CE. Tag yourself, I’m Nimble Wimble 

[motherhenna]

And are the lovely ladies feeling left out? not to worry! Johnathon’s got you covered, gals, because he also made one for vaginas. Highlights:

Mrs. Fubb’s Parlor (1820s)

Poontang (1950s)

Spunk Box (1720s)

Ringerangroo (1930s)

Ineffable (1890s)

Itching Jenny (1890s)

Carnal Mantrap (1890s - a busy decade apparently)

Bookbinder’s Wife (1760s)

Rough Malkin (1530s)

Socket (1460s)

and a personal favorite, crinkum-crankum, circa approximately 1670.

[theymightbegiantsquids]

@antique-symbolism

[jumpingjacktrash]

this alone has justified the internet