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Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan (1951 – 1959) was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter known also by the nickname ‘Lady Day’. At the age of 18 she was spotted performing in Harlem nightclubs and in the 1930s and 1940s enjoyed mainstream success.

#billie holiday #LGBT history month

Sappho (630 – 570) was a Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. The terms Sapphic and Lesbian are derived from her and her poetry is notable for its presentation of passionate love between women.

Her work was popular in Ancient Greece and greatly revered by figures such as Plato who called her “the tenth muse”. She was also known as “the female Homer” but, of the nine volumes of poetry she wrote, only fragments of her work survive today – her poetry was one of the many works lost in the destruction of the library Alexandria.

In Fragment 31 she admires another woman out of her reach, whose ‘sweet speaking/ and lovely laughing – oh it puts the heart in my chest on wings’.

#sappho #LGBT history month

Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992) was a feminist writer and civil rights activist. She described herself as ‘black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.’

As well as poetry she also wrote essays that explored homophobia, racism and class such as ‘Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches’. She criticised second wave feminism for what we now recognise as ‘white feminism’, a narrow type of feminism that doesn’t account for racism or homophobia within the movement. Lorde introduced the idea of intersectionality and her pioneering work remains highly petienent today.

#LGBT history month #audre lorde

Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) was a Mexican painter famous for her self-portraits which show her mono-brow and moustache. She suffered from Polio as a child and nearly died in a bus accident when she was a teenager which led to numerous operations and chronic pain for the rest of her life. After the accident, she began to paint bed with an easel propped up in front of her.

She had a turbulent relationship with her husband Diego Riveria and both had affairs. Frida was openly bisexual – some of the women she was said to have relationships with include French dancer and singer Josephine Baker and the America painter Georgia O’ Keefe.

She had solo exhibitions of her work in New York (1938), Paris (1939) and Mexico (1953). The Louvre purchased a painting from Kahlo, making her the first Mexican artist to be featured in their collection.

“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” – Frida Kahlo

#LGBT history month #frida kahlo

LGBT charity Stonewall shares tips on how to create a safe, inclusive learning environment

Calling all teachers and pupils! This might be a useful read...

#lgbt #inclusion #diversity #schools #guide #out in education #stonewall

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any and all genders, including a lack thereof. you. are. valid.

rock on with ya bad selves.

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We’re honoured to have won first place in ‘Project of the Year’ at the Student Volunteer Awards at @uniofnottingham! Thank you so much for this recognition of the work our amazing volunteers do in bringing LGBT+ education into classrooms! @uonsu @uon-lgbt-network

#out in education #volunteer #project of the year #students #university #UoN #university of nottingham #awards #UoNSVC #SVAwards2017 #LGBT+#LGBTQIA #pride #diversity #acceptance

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This is important.

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What do you do when your son comes out to you and you want to be supportive? Why, cover your car in pro-equality decals, of course!

That’s what Geoff Thomas of Sydney, Australia did, anyway:

Thomas told BuzzFeed News he “grew up homophobic” and spent a lot of time in settings that were hostile to gay people.

“I spent nine years in the army, I’m a Vietnam veteran, I was a plumbing contractor,” he said. “I was conditioned to be homophobic, and then one day my son comes out to me.

“I had to ask myself the question – what is it about gays that I didn’t like? After that, I decided it was unfounded fear, ignorance and prejudice. Then I came to the view that my son wasn’t equal in law and that really got up my nose, so I became a very strong advocate for marriage equality.”

"I’d had this talk with some people and I said, ‘Every man and his dog supports marriage equality’. And I thought, I’ll put that on my ute!”

I love this so much. (via BuzzFeed)

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2017 - The #FreeSpeechBus tour has ended, in total failure.

The tour, which was supposed to hit US cities on the east coast and organize a wide variety of rallies, press conferences, and protests, by and large never materialized, was kept completely off schedule, was physically run (or driven) out of various towns, and in some cities, was never even able to set foot on the ground.

First, in New York, the bus was attacked and vandalized, which took it off the road for several days, knocking it off it’s schedule. By the time the bus was up and running again, it had become both a lightning rod and a laughing stock, generating a social media storm and a negative spotlight on organizers who gave a radio interview that essentially endorsed a genocidal policy against trans people.

As the ‘tour’ attempted to continue, so did demonstrations and disruptions. In New Haven, people even rented a U-Haul, fitted it with pro-trans signs, and pushed the bus out of the city and stopped it’s rally from ever happening. In Philadelphia, a mass militant confrontation took place, forcing the bus once again to quickly depart. In Boston, protesters surrounded the bus, and in other cities it appears that the stops the bus planned to make – never happened. [article]/[video]/[video]/[video]/[video]

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Please remember to include transmasculine & non-binary & other identifying people with vaginas in the fight for reproductive rights, we need this stuff too!

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submission for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, by @thequeerpoc

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Marginalized sexual/romantic orientations represented as the real and very accurate mythical creatures they are.

This is based on a tumblr text post, but… I can’t find it anymore…

You can drag them ! They are transparent !

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Meet 13-year-old transgender girl Trinity. Her family was forced to sacrifice everything for their daughter, who decided to be a girl when she was only 4 years old.

Her mom DeShanna understood that her child’s anxiety was the result of her not accepting herself as a boy. And she realized that if she didn’t accept her child she would loose her. When Trinity transitioned, her kindergarten rejected her forcing DeShanna to quit her job and to start homeschooling her kids. This decision cost her a lot, it pushed the family into poverty and they still couldn’t climb out of it. This fall Trinity is planning to return to public school but she still has nightmares about teachers who used to call her a boy.

Today there’s no federal ruling on the issue of transgender bathroom use so kids like Trinity continue to fight for basic civil rights. The society segregates trans people from the general population disrupting the lives of trans children and their families.

This is so amazing that this mom does for her child, but they still need our support here. Help me raise awareness of this story.

This is very important!