YES.

[gigglesister]

also "hair removal shouldnt be a gender affirming procedure because it can be based in (trans)misogyny" is a really funny way to indicate that your self-congratulatory progressive trans politics are actually only like six months away from advocating against people being able to have access to hormones/surgery/etc of any kind when you realize the same statement can also be applied to both all trans healthcare and the entire concept of dysphoria itself.

[c86]

The Radical Queer Aesthetics of Gay Power Magazine

[homoidiotic]

Matthew Rice in Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits by Loren Cameron 1996

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

Found this display at the Leather Museum and Archives in Chicago on Billy Lane, the first openly trans man to compete in the International Mr. Leather (IML) contest in 1998.

Placard transcribed under the cut:

I feel a lot of warmth toward the entire IML family and Chuck Renslow for being so welcoming. On the few occasions when I haven't been able to attend the Family Reunion (known to most of you as IML weekend), I have felt a sense of loss. I am proud of Mark Frazier who quickly and decisively took a stand regarding his newly acquired contest. Finally, I am grateful to the entire Seattle men's community who kept inviting me to be a part of their clubs until I was ready and said yes. I still miss all of you!

I have also been a proud member of the Brotherhood of Delta International, which has been having men only BDSM runs since 1994. They invited me in 1998 knowing that I was FTM and asked me to join their club in 1999. While I was initially filled with trepidation at my first run in 1998 as the first FTM, since then I've served on the board of directors for six years, three as Vice Chair and one as Chairman. Our policy is that we welcome all men and don't inquire about birth status.

In 1998, I felt unsure of myself much of the time. I was afraid of rejection and uncertain if anyone would accept me as a man, let alone a gay leatherman. Much to my surprise and delight, most of my interactions were positive. Competing at IML allowed me to turn a page in my life. It was when I fully accepted myself as a gay leatherman among gay leathermen.

Over the past 12 years, I have seen most men's clubs grapple with the issue of including transmen and decide to welcome all men with legal male ID. Others have steadfastly rejected FTMs as men and continue to bar us from their events in the most hurtful ways possible. I have been questioned about what type of surgical procedures I've had completed and falsely accused of trying to destroy clubs. I've also watched long relationships between non-trans leathermen end over disagreements in the policy regarding FTMs in men only spaces. And now, at least one club has what amounts to a Don't Ask Don't Tell policy so if you are known to be FTM, then you cannot attend. However, if you choose to not disclose, you can sneak into events and parties where other FTMs are not welcome. This blatant hypocrisy is not only disingenuous but it also harms FTMs relationships with each others, creating strife where none need exist. The amount of harm I've seen inflicted and experienced is profound considering how so many of us as gay men and leathermen have been marginalized ourselves. I still don't understand how people who have been and continue to be mistreated not only by heterosexual society but by the greater gay community can turn around and do it to others.

Like my very best friend and brother in this struggle, Peter Fiske, I choose, however, to remain optimistic. I strongly believe that with the passage of time, these few remaining clubs will see that FTMs do have a rightful place in men's only space, adding a vibrant, strong masculine energy that comes from having to fight harder than most to find our place in the gay men's leather community.

Billy Lane, May 2010

[lampgate]

has anyone posted this yet. best tweet ever written

[dogboyboyshorts]

[image id: a tweet by Richard Siken that reads “I can guess the tboy part. What is swag?” /end id]

[loki-zen]

like completely aside from the fact that an it's unwelcoming to questioning, nontransitioning & closeted people, how did we (as vaguely progressive-shaped people who can be assumed to have been feminists in the 00s/10s and to be trans-positive now) go from obsession with the idea of unconcious bias and that orchestra thing and everything to "hey let's emblazon everything from email sigs to chat handles with signifiers of gender, in a work context. We'll put it right next to the name so everyone knows it's like the second most important fact about people. I bet this will have no unforeseen consequences."

[d0gg-rr4tt3zz]

anyone who acts like there's some kind of implicit understanding or sisterhood between all women is straight up lying

[d0gg-rr4tt3zz]

i made this post specifically about a friend of mine, so let me say this: if you want to be a girl, but feel like you can't because you would never be comfortable in The Club of Womanhood, don't worry! feeling like an alienated little weirdo who will never Get what other girls seem to pick up naturally is in fact an extremely Girl experience

[senatortedcruz]

at some point every women’s clothing brand decided that no one needs office clothes anymore and everyone dresses like an aspiring IG influencer. what the fuck are these clothes. 

[arsed-again]

had to censor so tumblr doesn't nuke it but this is one of my favourite gerard donelan comics -i don't know what else to say except the vibes are immaculate

[angeltiddies]

AFJHDJSKDNDNFK

[ponyboyfaceshopping]

by Gerard Donelan

[hormelfoods]

For historical context, this is about making a panel for the AIDS quilt, a memorial project which began in San Francisco in 1985. Due to the stigma surrounding both homosexuality and AIDS during this time, victims of the epidemic were often cremated and disposed of or buried without ceremony, their bodies unclaimed by their families or origin or held by hospitals rather than released to same-sex partners.

Each panel in the AIDS quilt memorializes a life lost to the disease. Each panel is 3′ x 6′ (approximately 1 meter wide and 2 meters long), the approximate dimensions of a cemetery plot. The quilt, which then consisted of 1,920 panels representing 1,920 individuals lost to AIDS, was first displayed in Washington DC in 1987. The public response was immediate, positive, and overwhelming, and the quilt began taken around the country to be displayed in more cities. At each stop, the names of the dead were read out loud. At each stop, more panels were added.

By the time the quit returned to the US capital in 1988, it had more than 8,000 panels.

The quilt continues to grow. Today, it has over 50,000 panels memorializing over 100,000 of our dead. It’s too large now to physically display in its entirety, but you can view the entire thing online. There are also curated virtual displays of just panels which honor the Black and native people killed by the virus because in the US (and likely abroad, although I don’t know enough about public health elsewhere to say so with confidence), communities of color are disproportionately impacted by epidemics, as we have seen time and time again.

You can learn more about the quilt and its history here, and you can learn how to add a panel to the quilt here.

[allthelonelyplaces]

I know we don’t get happily ever afters in real life. I’m a hopeless romantic, not a total fucking idiot. As my friend, Russell, said to me once, “Even with the happiest couples, one of you dies first.” But first there is such unalloyed joy. We went to the supermarket yesterday and we were wandering around and, at one point, he took my hand, because that’s the kind of thing he does. And instantly, I got flustered. Residual anxiety. Remembrance of past battery. Enduring scars. Even though I know I’m hardly likely to get my head kicked in by the salad bar, PDAs can still make me nervous. And then he said, gentle as anything, and I’m not going to do the accent… “If there’s a gay kid in here with his folks, frightened that he’s a freak, don’t you think that it might give him hope, seeing two guys wandering around, being themselves, getting their groceries, like everyone else?” If happiness is a place… it’s the biscuit aisle in Sainsbury’s. And anywhere else I am with him.

[taraljc]

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[gaywebcorenostalgia]

2000

[marlbororeds100s-deactivated202]

literally about to cry at “who share this same gift” 🥺😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[angel-void]

Tom of Finland

[eldritchbauble]

The divisiveness between trans people is so fucking manufactured, stop falling for it.

[eldritchbauble]

Fuck it. Tags.

[eldritchbauble]

Extremely concerning how people have boiled down our community to "whose side are you on?" I'm on everyone's side here. There's one side. Get on it. Take my hand, direct your anger where it belongs; together we can make a better world. Trans people with experiences that differ from yours are your siblings in arms, not your enemy.

[anthonysperkins]

Alan Parker, Joe Leitel and Bruce Reed Ben-Hurry (1959) dir. Richard Fontaine

[that-is-just-so-typically-me]

You’re telling me this was made during the Hays Code

[stjohnstarling]

This is what’s known as a physique film, and it is vintage gay porn. Actual gay pornography was illegal in the 50s, so people created short films like these that existed in a legal gray area - the (paper thin) excuse is that they are about bodybuilding and fitness. No sex happens in physique films, nor any full-frontal nudity, just a lot of the kind of thing you can see in these gifs. The film reels would be ordered by people through the mail (via physique magazines - which were magazines of homoerotic photography along the same lines as these films) and would not have been screened in theatres, so they would not be subject to the Hays Code. These were extremely legally dubious nonetheless. Physique films and magazines were dangerous to make, distribute, and consume because of obscenity laws, and most of the important figures in the industry were arrested at least once.

[hyenaswine]

Unfortunately my brain is too foggy right now to contribute much to this discussion, even though physique magazines & films are arguably the most significant inspiration for the artwork I do, but I can at least give newbies a very basic rabbit hole to start with.

Physique Pictorial - Wikipedia

Bob Mizer promoted his magazine (just one of many physique mags, but one of the most culturally important) as reference material for artists - basically a catalog of models they could hire, for art purposes. Strictly for art! And if one wanted to see more of these fine examples of male beauty, one could order short films through the magazine as well. As time progressed & laws loosened, the mags became a little bit more honest about their purpose. By 1969 they had switched to fully nude photographs (prior to this, models were photographed wearing a "posing strap" to hide the genitals - these were sewn & sold by Mizer's mother). Physique Pictorial was published from 1951 through all the way to 1990, with a few gaps, most notably 1968 when Mizer went to prison on charges of running a prostitution ring.

[weantuniverse]

[heroesofdigitalrock]

Doug Sneyd for Playboy