June 12, 2016. Putting a date on this for when it gets reblogged months from now by people who think the post is about something from 30, 40 years ago.
I am a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting, having grown up in Orlando and just turned 20 a month prior. If you didn’t know, there were several families who refused to claim the bodies of their relatives due to their sexuality. One family even had their relative’s name removed from the memorial. Murdered by the same hate with which their families reject them in both life and death.
Many, many people celebrated Pulse. We were told we deserved it. That it was God’s punishment for our sin of loving the same sex. We are sent messages like these I received in 2018:
We in the community often call the victim count 49+ to include the survivors who couldn’t live with the pain.
The event was never officially declared a hate crime or targeted homophobic attack and is rarely listed as one in databases.
At our vigils for those slaughtered, Extremist Christian groups showed up to protest, holding signs like this:
ID: Me kissing a woman I was casually seeing in front of an angry looking man with a “Sodomy is Sin” sign.
Please understand how much more than just a mass shooting this was. We are still to this day harassed and told we deserved it by some.
This year was the sixth anniversary. The first couple years I received dozens of messages checking in on me on 6/12. Year 5 got enough news coverage for people to think to reach out to me. This year it was my therapist, the woman I kissed in that photo, and a couple of other gun violence survivor friends. People are forgetting already.
it's always ethical to kidnap an outdoor cat and make them an indoor cat. shithead owner will just assume a car or coyote got them. outdoor cats are bad for the environment, local wildlife and themselves. the only one that benefits from an outdoor cat is the lazy piece of shit owner that doesn't want to actually look after their cat. give that outdoor cat a better life, a longer life.
saw a tumblr poll that was like "what would be worse to date, a chaser that won't even call you a woman or a tgirl that is unemployed" like i kind of hate it here i kind of hate you all
I love when Arabic loanwords get incorporated into other languages and they keep the al- suffix. I'm studying the gebra. It's a real the batross around my neck.
It’s also lovely when foreign words borrowed into Arabic lose an initial (a)l- because it was interpreted as an article. Like Greek Ἀλεξάνδρεια (Alexándreia, “Alexandria”) -> إسكندرية (ʔiskandariyya) or Farsi لشکر (laškar, “army”) -> عسكر (ʕaskar)!!
"their apology was really monotone and rehearsed so they probably didnt mean it" "they stsrted crying and got overly emotional so they probably were acting and faking"
currently at the clinic for gays and there was a couple radiant trans women in the waiting room and I feel like a little girl around them i am so so so
omfgggg they have a wardrobe chock full of women's clothes and its all FREE, my doc said I can bring all my old boy clothes and donate them and take literally whatever I want in exchange, sometimes the world is good it turns out
ik that transfem tumblr can sometimes be very doom and gloom forward, so i just want to remind everypony: this shit fucking rules and there really is so much beauty, happiness and fullfillment in being a trans woman. no amount of fuckery from the Powers That Be can take that away from us!
ALSO trying to get on VGen (link to mine! https://vgen.co/orcaowlart/ ). If you like or comment on this (need just 100 likes / 5 comments!) it'll get me Artist Status which would be cool so I can post art + commissions there too!