screams in gay

27 | they/she

[cuckleberrywish]

Hold out, if you can. Hold out, my sweet.

[irithyll123]

I suppose 2019 Lesbian culture is seeing Brie Larson with a bow and arrow and going: “s hOOT mEeEE uGhhH.”

Yall funky little lesbians are so valid you go girls.

[kateandtheuniverse-deactivated2]

Willemijn providing us with reaction gifs we all truly needed.

[theshapeofagua]

These two girls on bachelor in paradise australia really exuding dumbass bisexual energies

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[destinytomoon-deactivated202006]

[the-shy-fox]

[egberts]

[aenslem]

What would Madam Satan do if she got stood up on a date?

+bonus from DW interview - About The Master trying to get off with Missy.

[not-freyja]

Know your history:

Gay:

Used to mean carefree

Then sexually deviant

Then prostitute

Then slut

Then sodomite

And THEN as we know it today but only as a slur

Reclaimed in the seventies

LGBT:

Invented in the nineties

Has faced constant backlash (from both straight, queer, and LGBT folks from being not inclusive enough or too inclusive)

Every year there are pushes to change to acronym

LGBTQ

LGBTQ+

LGBTQ*

LGBTQIA

Mogai

Alphabet soup

Queer:

Used to mean “other”

Became a slang term for “not straight” in the 1400s

Became a slur in the early 1900s

Reclaimed in the 80s.

Sudden push back from within the queer community to have it seen only as a slur in the 2010s, a push that can be traced back to terf ideology.

Is the only term that includes all non cishet people

Homosexual

A medical diagnosis

Used for decades to make queerness into a mental illness

Used as a slur for the latter half of the 20th century

Rejected by the queer community as an acceptable term for a brief period of time in the early 2000s before coming back into fashion.

Only describes the experience of cis gay men and cis lesbians

Think what you want, believe what you will, but every word we have ever used to describe ourselves is coated in blood.

[alliluyevas]

National Geographic on Facebook: this is a facial reconstruction of a teenage girl who lived 9000 years ago based on her remains!

half the comments: men criticizing her looks and saying she’s unattractive and mannish

[alliluyevas]

anyway this is the reconstruction and I always enjoy seeing the faces of prehistoric humans and how much we have in common over thousands of years despite how incredibly different our lives are. I support her and I think she looks wonderful.

[frontholemonologues-deactivated]

everyone in the replies of this post saying “well I think she’s pretty!” missed the whole damn point lmao

[benyw]

I remember watching a documentary once where historians were trying to work out who a dead girl was and what her life was like. I’m pretty sure they dated the body back to the early Victorian era, and established pretty early on that she lived in poverty, died young, and was most certainly a prostitute.

The grand finale of the show was the reveal of her reconstructed face. Now, bare in mind that through their investigations they discovered that she had lived an awful life and died an agonizing death (syphilis iirc). So, you can imagine my disgust when the historians reacted with disappointment at the reveal of her ‘face’. This poor girl, who had suffered terribly, was obviously not the poor, tragic beauty they had been hoping for.

She was plain, maybe some would say she was ugly, but what was truly hideous was the fact that you could practically see the sympathy these historians had for this poor girl slip away as they looked at her ‘face’, and you could certainly hear it in their voices.

Even in death our value rests on the basis of our looks. Sympathy is conditional - based on where you fall on the looks scale.

[benegesserwitch]

Science: *gives us the miracle of seeing long-dead faces*

Men:

[lynnocuous]

National Geographic has an idiot epidemic on their hands, honestly.

[one-short-gay]

the confusion glinda and elphaba are talking about in what is this feeling is confusion about their sexuality send tweet

[greencow4]

Cards Against Humanty just released their “For Her” pack, parodying products geared towards women and also giving proceeds to Emily’s List, which helps more women get elected to government.

[justlurkingoverhere]

god I love this company

[but-dude-why]

Current mood

[parakeet]

honestly sometimes i think about how straight ppl will never understand what its like to be gay (obviously) and its wild to me cus you know as a Gay it’s my whole like… life experience? 

like they’ll never know whether or not its safe to talk to someone abt ur crushes or to come out or like, they won’t pick up on all microaggressions all the time and remember them forever, or feel guilty for liking someone of the same gender n feeling scared to wear pride merch cus what if someone comes after u? n that they won’t have to experience tht horrible longing feeling u get when u think about how impossible it is to date anyone cus like where are all the gays at? where are they?

its wild cus im like used to this but like if for one day the tables turned straighgt ppl would not be able to cope rip also i guess i’ll never know the straight life either like   what do straights think about? math? idk

[coinkydirks-deactivated20190724]

this is why when people say “being gay is just part of a characters personality” rubs me the wrong way like… no every aspect of our lives is often adjusted to our sexuality and it’s exhausting how it fundamentally affects every interaction we have

[anarchetypalarchive]

i saw this post earlier about therapists and it reminded me of my old therapist paul, who in my opinion is one of the greatest men alive and who did not put up with my bullshit for even one second

anyway i go in to see paul one week in the summer of 2016, and i’m doing my usual bullshit which consists of me talking shit about myself, and paul is staring at me, and then he cuts me off and says that he’s got a new tool for helping people recognize when they’re using negative language, and gets up and goes over to his desk

and i’m like alright hit me with that sweet sweet self-help article my man, because i’m a linguistic learner and whenever paul’s like here i have a tool for you to use it’s pretty much always an article or a book or something

paul opens a drawer, takes something out, and turns back around. i stare.

i say, paul.

is that a nerf gun.

yeah, says paul.

i say, are you gonna shoot me with a nerf gun in this professional setting.

he happily informs me that that’s really up to me, isn’t it. and sits back down. and gestures, like, go ahead, what were you saying?

and i squint suspiciously and start back up about how i’m having too much anxiety to leave the house to run errands, like it was a miracle to even get here, like i’ve forgone getting groceries for the past week and that’s so stupid, what a stupid issue, i’m an idiot, how could i–

a foam dart hits me in the leg.

i go, hey! because my therapist just shot me in the leg. paul blinks at me placidly and raises an eyebrow. i squint again.

i say, slowly, it’s– not a stupid issue, i’m not stupid, but it’s frustrating me and i don’t want it to be a problem i’m having.

no dart this time. okay. sweet.

so the rest of the hour passes with me intermittently getting nailed with tiny foam darts and then swearing and then fixing my language and, wouldn’t you know it, i start liking myself a little more by the end of the session, which is mildly infuriating because paul can tell and he’s very smug about it 

anyway i leave his office and the lady having the next appointment walks in and i hear what’s all over the floor? and paul very seriously says cognitive behavioral therapy tools.

[ranawaytotelltheworld]

[elodieunderglass]

oh. ohhhhhhhhh. oh nooooooooooooooo

[dr-dendritic-trees]

[A mom and baby otter are floating together. The baby otter is sleeping on his mom’s tummy so he’s still all dry and fluffy.  She keeps giving him little otter kisses.]

[geminigeek]

Now this is quality content.

[iashvee-deactivated20190311]

my heart feels so warm seeing this

[candiikismet]

I will always reblog this. OTTERS!!!!

[all-fades-away]

Visit Original Link

Wicked | First National Tour | February 24, 2013 Cassie Okenka as Glinda Upland u/s “No One Mourns the Wicked” Optional High Note

[amauzing]

Cassie is back with 1NT, which means there is indeed an active Glinda who does the optional note!

[thegingeregg]

My favorite sign from the Women’s March.

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

my parrot is a fucking dumbass with no sense of self-preservation. proof? he got spooked by a pear - by all accounts a green and tasty friend - and flew into a wall to escape, but when greeted with a sink full of soapy boiling water - by all accounts a harmful, bird-killing abyss - he launched himself into it at top speed and cried when I locked him in baby jail to stop him from killing himself. 

[allandnot]

Please tell your parrot I still love him.

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

he just threw his seeds all over the carpet and laughed about it so I will not