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i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

autistobrat

*seductively takes off glasses* wow you're fucking blurry

atomikats

my personal take on the matter

#lmao #project hail mary #art

ode-on-a-grecian-butt

rylandgraces

I’ll admit I’ve sent a 👍 in my time

#me to my boss and coworker

targetedknowledge

godlessondheimite

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

nobodys-odyssey

Taylor Swift does this

godlessondheimite

no she doesn’t

nobodys-odyssey

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

#gaylors are something else

prorneth-eus

in the club asking the dj to play the plagues from the prince of egypt

I never really understood the term "howling wind" until a lived on the top floor of an apartment building. Man does that wind sure howl

#crazy #it sounds kinda scary

romanceyourdemons

interview with the vampire (1994) takes a crazy gay script and uses it for an experiment in how absolutely flat dead zero nothing chemistry their actors can have. whole main cast acting like it’s a table reading over zoom. louis and armand are straight up breathing from each other’s lungs and even my highly trained fujoshi spirit felt nothing

romanceyourdemons

they have claudia saying things like “louis, you and armand are sexually attracted to each other” and the interaction she’s referring is the two of them standing on opposite ends of a room talking completely deadpan like 🧍🏼‍♂️🧍🏼‍♂️

romanceyourdemons

however it would be unfair not to acknowledge that the whole time this is going on tom cruise is acting his entire self out like lestat is real and tom cruise wants to fuck him

#Val Kilmer was supposed to be in that movie and I think about that more often than I'd like #considering I've never actually seen it

patrocles

happy pride to all who celebrate

hugsohugs

one genre of fanfiction that seems to have mostly disappeared since i became an adult is shenanigans-type fics. like not exactly crack but just "the gang goes to 7-11" type, extremely low-stakes plot stories. the beach episodes of fanfiction. i just feel like i don't see those around so much anymore. whered they go. i miss them :(

#one of my favorite fics I wrote had a premise like this #it was a shifter au and they decided to go play hide and seek in the backyard in their shifted forms #it was sooooo silly