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Hey, I'm Nate. He/They. Aspiring Lighting Designer. Just Another College Educated, Left-Wing Atheist with a Heart of Gold. Community Nuisance. Maryjane Enthusiast. ENFP. Enneagram Type 3. Saggitarious. Queer. Chicago. 28. 💉9.11.17

[red-berin]

Kyle Gordon's back

[mumblesplash]

it's such bs that the whole guilt-ridden stoic self-sacrificing martyr thing doesn't work outside of fiction. repressing all your emotions and neglecting your physical wellbeing should make you god's most tragically beautiful morally unassailable little soldier of righteousness but all it does is give you bad skin and gastrointestinal problems

[mumblesplash]

like what do you MEAN the number 1 sexiest character trait of all time is just kind of offputting and bad for you in real life. next you'll tell me smoking has consequences other than looking like a mysterious badass

[whatdoesthevixensay]

correct

[valtsv]

bro what are you always on

cortisol #STRESSED

[anxiousleftist]

How it feels to be queer & disabled:

[anxiousleftist]

Happy anniversary to this post 💕🌈♿️

[beezlebutch]

"Pride month is over"

WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition

[jehandant]

Reblogging this again bc people in the notes are asking a lot of "Am I included? Am I disabled if I have x?" and I just wanted to add the flag here to show people who the pride month is for.

This is the new flag, the old one was more vivid and in a z shape, but it's been made more neutral to be inclusive of people with seizures or sensory issues.

Each stripe represents a different aspect of disability:

Red: Physical disabilities

Yellow: Cognitive & intellectual disabilities

White: (And this is the key one I think) Invisible AND undiagnosed disabilities

Blue: Mental illnesses

Green: Sensory disabilities

If you're autistic or have ADHD? this is your pride month. If you have a mental illness, it's your pride month. If you're hard of hearing, this is your pride month. If you have an autoimmune disorder, this is your pride month. If you are not diagnosed with anything but you know something is up with you: THIS IS STILL YOUR PRIDE MONTH.

[queer-here-and-in-fear]

as well, i feel its important to mention the meaning of the grey: its remembrance for those who have been harmed by ableist violence, those who have died to suicide because of disability, and all the disabled people who died to get us where we are.

its for the people who have experienced violence too, because of their disability. who were never palatable to abled society and were harmed or killed for it even.

you are remembered. you are loved <3

[blackshvck]

the idea that every summer will be as hot if not hotter than this for the rest of my life is unbearable i need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) murder an oil executive

[emberglowfox]

depression is over it’s done it is obliterated look at this fucking shirt i found at the thrift near my house

[emberglowfox]

i need you guys to know that when i brought this home my mom was like WHAT is THAT. well i think you’re the only person on earth who would wear that, good that you found it

i show her this post every time it hits another thousand note milestone. she thinks we’re all ridiculous but no longer underestimates the Gay Desire For A Fun Shirt

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Op:

[poppetawoppet]

I need ten of this shirt right now

[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.

[is-the-post-reliable]

RATING: RELIABLE

you can listen to the clip of the 1954 interview here and find him on wikipedia here

[beardedmrbean]

this sounds like a party to me

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

[sinthomosexual]

selected works / cuffs by Tamara Santibañez

[k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl]

cis people can never just apologise for missgendering you they always gotta say some shit like "oh sorry i wasn't even thinking" like admitting that it takes concious effort to see me as a woman is going to make me feel better

[marcelshorjian]

anatomy of a humiliation

[qwertycake-deactivated20260711]

messengers

[nic0las-uncaged]

being too high is not a reasonable excuse anymore you either need to figure out how to do it high or not be high okay like grow up you're making the rest of us look bad okay

[siphisket]

irony lives and breathes ٩( ᐛ )و

[the-conquest-of-shred]

[ayamebird]

100万回生きたねこ

45周年記念のクッキー缶 サクサクで美味しい！