dudes and dudettes, chill.

Socially awkward and not in a cute way. I'm probably not trying to be as rude as you think I am. So take a deep breath and chill out, friends. kik/Skype: just ask for my name, message me whenever, for whatever

[liberal-lesbophobia-deactivated]

=/

[ike-loves-men]

Next on How To Dress Up Transphobia and Biphobia as Progressivé,

[savvysapphik]

Are you insinuating that being pan is transphobic? Because as a pansexual that really tells me that you don’t know nor don’t care to understand my sexuality. It exists because there are genders beyond male and female. I would date an agender or gender fluid individual. On the terms of dating transgender individuals wether you like to hear it or not there is a lot of transphobia within this community and many bi, lesbian, and gay people won’t dare trans people “cause they’re not really a man/woman”. My sexuality means I don’t care what you are; if you’re trans but haven’t transitioned or can’t or don’t want to I’ll still respect your choice and your gender and be attracted to you.

[discourseful]

did you just like, not read anything in this screenshot? also as a lesbian fuck you lmao pan people are 100% just as capable of being transphobic as lesbian/gay/bi people and you aren’t making yourself look any better by pinning transphobia on us

[first-i-put-in-earplugs]

"i would date an agender or genderfluid individual" wow thank god for saints like you, who would totally date someone that you refer to in ways that make them seem somehow less human than, you know, *normal* people. I mean, you would - theoretically. If any of them would talk to you. For sure.

And for the record, bi didn't mean "only dates men and women"

[estrogene-deactivated20171022]

This just in!

Cis women and trans women are the same gender.

[pr8r]

To anyone confused: this is bc “cis” and “trans” are adjectives! A blonde woman and a red headed woman are also the same gender! A mean woman and a nice woman are the same gender!

Thank you for joining this quick grammar lesson

[fuckthyhater-deactivated2021061]

that moment when Bill Nye the Science Guy correctly defines bisexuality for the whole world :’)))

[rosenrot234]

BI sexuality

“Two or MORE”

How does that work exactly? Wouldn’t you be pan if you liked more than 2?

[juncti0n-deactivated20211013]

That’s because pan is the exact same thing as bi, but people that want to be ~different~ use pan.

[rosenrot234]

You’re pretty wrong.

[juncti0n-deactivated20211013]

Hmm, I dunno. I think I’m gonna side with the scientist on this one

[rosenrot234]

He points out humans are complicated. Just think its stupid to be all “Yay equality and lgbt on tv this is great” then go “Oh but not these people they’re just special snowflakes. They’re just confused”

Look I really don’t want a dumb argument about this. I asked a question about bisexuality and pansexuality originally. Not what some 19 year old thinks of pansexuality

[first-i-put-in-earplugs]

Basically, there's some overlap between bi and pan. Easiest way to put it, all pan ppl experience attraction to all genders, but only some bi ppl. That's why it's 2 or more, not all. Which one you choose is pretty personal, involving "what fits most honestly," "what messages an I trying to send," and "which history/community fits me better?"

[queer-no-matter-what]

Hi! I want to learn more about the LGBT+ community. Do you think you could answer a few questions? I'm really sorry if I'm disrespectful, really really sorry. What is the difference between bisexual, polysexual? I've heard all of them being referred to as attracted to guys, girls, and nonbinary people. Is transgender only for ftm/mtf people, or is it for other people? Can genderfluid people also identify as agender at times? (if so, i might be so) Anyways, thanks!

It’s completely fine! I actually enjoyed educating people! It’s better than just making assumptions.

The difference between bisexuality an polysexuality is the bisexuals are only attracted to two genders, while polysexuals are attracted to many (at least 3) but not all genders. So polysexuals might be attracted to men, women, agender and bigender people, but not any other gender.

Transgender is an umbrella term for anyone that doesn’t identify as their assigned gender at birth(basically anyone that isn’t cisgender), so it’s not just for ftm/mtf peeps.

Genderfluid people can totally identify as agender as times! The only requirement for being genderfluid is that you fluctuate between at least 3 genders on the septrum!

[first-i-put-in-earplugs]

Hey, came by to see if I had find a new great, queer themed blog to follow, but the but about bisexuality in this is... Not accurate.

Bisexuality is the attraction to more than one gender, it's not necessarily limited to just 2. Polysexuality is more specific, indicating definitively​ more than just 2 (although I can recall a time when they were used pretty interchangeably.) Similar, but serving distinct purposes for the people choosing them. And either of them could easily be attracted to all genders, just socially more than 1 /more than 2.

And genderfluid fluctuates between 2 or more genders, not necessarily 3.

[first-i-put-in-earplugs]

Facebook is such a fucking cesspool, I s2g

[artemisblogs]

In good news, I met several older lesbians recently (like over 50, the was an age range), 2 of them were a married couple, and it was just so nice to see these ladies, who are part of the generation that did so much for the lgbtq folks of my generation, so happy, healthy, and thriving

[first-i-put-in-earplugs]

I think what's most alarming to me today is the concept of "the president tells the CIA what is 'true' "

[beautiful-bi]

[b-rainrot]

why is this weak ass font over a lake and some mountains they deserve better

[12345--678-deactivated20230525]

[b-rainrot]

THIS IS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT

[incorrecttlcquotes]

Unfollow me if you wish, but this blog will NEVER support Trump and instead supports the LGBT community, racial minorities, women, people with disabilities, immigrants, Muslims, Jewish people, and anyone else who is afraid now. I am with you, and this will always be a safe space for you.

[adayinthelesbianlife-deactivate]

The first Pride was a riot.

Wall sticker in Marlborough lesbian pub, Brighton.

i’m actually realizing this now

but the original poster said “queer power” and someone erased that and replaced it with “gay power”

real classy

[barbidreamdumpster-deactivated2]

[wetwareproblem]

#is this real Well. I’m not exactly an expert at image analysis, but the bottom text in the first one looks much cleaner than the top text while the second one matches better. Also, the creases in the second one on the Q and U seem like the sort of detail that wouldn’t be faked. Finally, this actually matches up significantly better to “queer” politics than “gay” politics; it was always queers who advocated and took the front lines in direct action.

[vergess]

If you put the image in an editor or just view the full size of the first image, it becomes very obvious that the text on the bottom was added later: all of the vertical lines in every letter are pixel perfect straight lines. That is basically impossible with a photo of a poster that is both visibly at an angle, and has paper weathering and other distortion. Look at the verticals of the white text to compare. The only distortion of the text is the jpg artifacts we would expect in that level of contrast. There is no lighting on the pink text either, another highly suspicious trait.

Additionally, if you crop out the pink text in op and run an image search you get the second photo, as well as four or five other photos of the poster, all reading “queer power.”

With the pink text left in, however, the only version of the poster is this exact image, sourcing to op.

[wetwareproblem]

I want every single person who ever argued with me on That Queer Post to take a long, hard look at this. I have been told at least dozens of times that “nobody is saying you can’t identify as queer,” that I’m “ignoring history,” that they’re not trying to shift back to gay, etc.

Now, here’s this post, in which queer people are having their art defaced in order to rewrite their identity. Where they’re being forcibly rewritten as gay. Where history is being literally goddamn erased. It’s got three times the notes of That Queer Post, and as far as I can tell, @bifoxstiles is the first one to challenge this narrative. And I’m not gonna hold my breath on y'all to call out OP.

They’re literally stealing our history, rewriting it into a new version that excludes more than half of the community. And nobody’s challenging this. You’re too busy trying to shut down inclusive, egalitarian language.

Shame on every last one of you.

[vaspider]

Uhhhh. That’s like a really famous poster, at least if you are over a certain age. I recognized it immediately. 

Yeah. It… it never said ‘Gay Power’ originally. It said ‘Queer Power.’

What the actual fuck.

[sepdet]

OKAY KIDS. HISTORY LESSON TIME.

Ironically, just before this crossed my dash, Oxford University Press shared a link to a new archive of queer oral history. If not for Tumblr’s recent push to wipe “queer” from our collective memory, I wouldn’t have thought twice about OUP using the term. After all, it was chanted in pride and defiance when over a million of us participated in the 1993 March on Washington to demand an end to discrimination…

Video clip from that day: “We’ve come to Washington to show everyone that we’re here, we’re queer, and we’re not going anywhere!”

Queer theory, queer studies, new queer cinema, queer liberation: it was and remains the umbrella term in academia, since “gay” leaves out the bulk of people discriminated against for their gender and/or sexuality.

In the past year, I’ve seen some Tumblr members trying to suppress the word “queer,” just as people back then tried to suppress us. The excuse is that it’s sometimes used as a slur. But so is “gay.” In my 45 years, I have heard/seen “gay” used as an slur far more often.

At first, I tried to respect the fact that “queer” bothered some Tumblr users, even though it was painful for me to see queer-positive posts tagged “q slur.” But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that caving in to those asking us to drop the term “queer” would permit homophobic and/or transphobic sensibilities to define our identities. Do we have to drop “gay” now as well, or tag it “g slur”? Since when did we stop reclaiming these words as a matter of pride? 

Isn’t this just the latest ploy of internalized homophobia/transphobia sneaking up on us? 

Unfortunately, erasing “queer” from our vocabulary has hurtful real-world consequences.

Silencing “queer” silences many of those who fought, marched, rioted and died for your rights. It erases those of us who are queer but not gay: trans, intersex, nonbinary, lesbian, bisexual, aromantic, asexual people, and more (see why the term is so necessary?) Erasure/minimization of queer people is how we end up with disrespectful historical revisionism like that Stonewall movie. Or the Photoshopped poster above, rewriting our history with a lie. 

And that’s the real kicker.

Erase “queer” from our vocabulary, and we erase future generations’ ability to learn about their past. How will they be able to find LBGTA+ history, if you teach them not to use one of the main keywords they need to search for to find it? 

How much of our past and present community will be rendered invisible and their needs ignored (this article is really, REALLY worth a read), if those now lobbying against the term “queer” are successful?

Decades ago, when being out was taking a huge risk, we chanted, “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!” It would be a bitter irony if, even as mainstream society becomes “used to it,” as demonstrated from the Supreme Court to the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise, our own community becomes less “used to it.”

Think about the forces of prejudice who were trying to silence us when that “queer power” sign was made. Please don’t let them win.

[fierceawakening]

This. If we are talking one on one and you tell me “queer” triggers you, I will be extra careful to call myself “bi” around you and say something like “LGBT” when we discuss the community. But if you expect me to change how I talk about all of this, you’re asking for revisionist history, and I’m sorry, but no, I will not do that for you.

I don’t care if they got a body like Nicki Minaj with their boobs pushed up to their chin and wear more pink and ruffles than a unicorn in a tutu. If they tell you they’re nonbinary, then they’re fucking nonbinary.

I don’t care if he’s got the highest, prettiest voice and wears dresses and pink glittery nail polish and high heels. If he tells you he’s a boy, then he’s a fucking boy.

I don’t care if she looks like the Hulk and talks like Morgan Freeman and has a beard to rival Thor and the hairiest chest and legs ever and wears a suit. If she tells you she’s a girl, then she’s a fucking girl.

Deal with it.

[ms-meredith-milton]

Riding public transit shortly after Caitlin Jenner introduced herself to the world, I heard two men in their sixties with thick Southern accents turn conversation to ‘this whole Jenner business.”  I braced myself for something ugly and considered moving further down the train; I’m glad I didn’t.

“I just don’t get it, ya know?” one of them began, shaking his head.  “I mean, you bump into somebody in the supermarket and you say, ‘I’m sorry, sir,’ and hear back, ‘actually, it’s ma’am,’ then you say, ‘so sorry, ma’am; my mistake’ not ‘I’LL CALL YOU SIR IF I DAMN WELL FEEL LIKE IT!!!’”  More head shaking.  “What’s the matter with some people?  They just got no manners.’

“Couldn’t agree more Hoyden.”

Got off that train with a big smile on my face.

[alexandrites-deactivated2025082]

Positivity aesthetic I made 🍇💜

[bashana-haba-ah-deactivated2017]

things bi girls deserve: • happiness • a long, fruitful life • appreciation • a place in the LGBT community

things bi girls don’t deserve: • having to put up with biphobia

[wlwocsource-archive-deactivated]

@ girls who are starting to realize they’re bi, or have just begun identifying as bi, or who have come to terms with identifying as bi: 

I love you! 

Bisexuality is good. Being bi is good. Identifying as bi is good. 

There is no “good” or “bad” way to be bi. 

You are not dirty, wrong, impure, bad, or fake for identifying as bi. 

Your identity is pure, whole, and important. 

You are not “half” of anything. 

You don’t have to date anyone or have romantic/sexual experiences to wholly identify as bi. You are just as bi as bi girls who’ve dated people before. 

Whether you are in the closet or decide to come out, your decisions with respect to how you identify are entirely up to you and can’t be dictated by anyone else. 

I hope you come to love your identity, I hope you make peace with internalized biphobia, and I hope you become confident in who you are! 

[first-i-put-in-earplugs]

Fun fact: every terf I’ve ever met has used the same tactics as narcissists and abusers

[deactivated-blog]

Unpopular opinion: I'm a lesbian who would literally never be able to date or have sex with a transwoman ://

[angelo-caro]

That’s not an unpopular opinion, that’s like 8 layers of misinformation and bigotry wrapped up in a pretty little transphobic package.

[menywod]

This is rape culture

[spencer-shayy-archive]

@angelo-caro honest question why do you hate homosexuals so much?

what have we ever done to you?

why do you think we’re unnatural and wrong?

[first-i-put-in-earplugs]

Bonus, since you asked "what have we ever done to you?"

Nearly all of the verbal harassment and sexual violence that I've dealt with in my life has been from lesbians. As you've decided to act as a spokesperson, I must know: why are you all so biphobic and hateful to another female?

[deactivated-blog]

Unpopular opinion: I'm a lesbian who would literally never be able to date or have sex with a transwoman ://

[angelo-caro]

That’s not an unpopular opinion, that’s like 8 layers of misinformation and bigotry wrapped up in a pretty little transphobic package.

[menywod]

This is rape culture

[spencer-shayy-archive]

@angelo-caro honest question why do you hate homosexuals so much?

what have we ever done to you?

why do you think we’re unnatural and wrong?

[first-i-put-in-earplugs]

Cute.

30000th time, I don't give a fuck who she dates, it's not my business. So there goes the whole rape culture thing

And I get it, you've conflated glib with cute. I have 0 issue with homosexuals, that would be ridiculous, and I definitely never said anything about unnatural and wrong. But you know that.