I love Jesus but I drink a little

Marie. I have one sweater.

[fanonical]

dumbledore: come on, what's the worst that can happen

harry: my entire life so far?

[cheaphalloweencostume]

literally traumatizing to learn that the london bridge is in fucking arizona

[cheaphalloweencostume]

this is rocking my world view i feel like i have to call my family

[rercho]

....where did people think 'london bridge is falling down' came from?

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i don’t necessarily conflate “falling down” with “being dismantled brick by brick and shipped to arizona to be rebuilt” but i guess its not my area of expertise

[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.

[leaving-this]

being on omegle in middle school had me feeling like in chamber of secrets when ginny wealsey had that diary and could talk to tom nook

[leaving-this]

YOU KNOW I MEANT TOM RIDDLE!! SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT !!

[argumate]

"why would urban supercities depopulate?" plague, obviously

something to look forward to in 2020

[argumate]

oh for fuck’s sake

[kanda-franca]

OP first posted this in 2018 for context. what an on point prediction

[black-kids]

[gotsteakhoe-gotbeef-deactivated]

Lmao she lookin like “nigga, HELP ME”

[yourcanyonmoon]

Fine Line as Lush Bath Bombs

[lovestory]

felt that

[taylorswiftdaily]

And all I’ve seen Since eighteen hours ago Is green eyes and freckles and your smile

[heartbreakprncess-archived]

In the world we live in, much is said about when we are born and when we die. Our birthday is celebrated every year to commemorate the very instant we came into the world. And a funeral is held to mark the day we leave it. But lately I’ve been wondering… what can be said of all the moments in between our birth and our death? The moments when we are reborn… — 1989 days of 1989

[chrishemsworht]

“We’ve all got light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.”

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) dir. David Yates.

[sosuperawesome]

Laura Lhuillier on Instagram / Etsy

[utopians]

after a thorough medical assessment, the doctors have described me as ‘a lot. just like a lot to deal with’

[pglang]

my whole vibe is on do not disturb

[unclefather]

A warning

[ottermatopoeia]

well there goes my weekend plans

[astrobro]

The Irish bottom community takes another hit

[rneliflua]

there’s a large grey area between “this creator is a misogynist/homophobe/racist” and “this creator did not fully think through the implications of some of their writing choices” and it would be nice if people would stop to assess where in the scale between those two cases their criticism applies, instead of going for a hard zero on the first option all the time

[zorilleerrant]

even on the first option, there’s a pretty big space between “this creator is actively trying to recruit other bigots and/or convince people to increase their personal bigotry/society’s bigotry” and “this creator is reflecting the normal amount of bigotry in a social position that is more bigoted than the social position the audience is consuming the work from” and those could really use different reactions when trying to dissect how the work is harmful and what to do about harm reduction

[really-sheety-ghost]

Listen, at some point during this quarantine you might watch Tiger King on Netflix. I'm here to tell you that whatever memes you've seen, whatever people have told you, or whatever you think it's about from the trailer,,,, nothing, and I mean NOTHING in heaven and earth Horatio, can fully prepare you for the amount of whiplash this crazy dumpster fire of a show gives you every 3 seconds from the 5000mph curve balls it's throwing.