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charlie; 18; brazil; bi; they. / sometimes nsfw / i follow from @paodelicia

[fy-ace7]

Charlie’s #ACEinBrazil

(Alternatively titled: I Swear I’m Not Donghun Biased)

안녕하세요 여려분! 번역을 맡고 있는 모드 샤리입니다.

Hello! This is Charlie who is in charge of translation. I met A.C.E for the first time at the fan-con in São Paulo on March 9!! I didn’t have time to work on translations the last week because of my trip, and I was too focused on enjoying the moment to take pictures, so I’m compensating everyone with a very long fan account of my experience there. I haven’t read other fan accounts or rewatched anything yet because I wanted this to be completely from my memory. I’m sorry for everything I forgot… feel free to quote this account crediting back here and send me questions if you want!

So here comes A.C.E Sweet Fantasy Fan-Con in Brazil, or maybe A.C.E Adventure Calling Fanmeeting in Brazil, or the A.C.E Brazil Showcase, if they ever pick which one is the real title of this.

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[shesnake]

Dirty Computer (2018) dir. Andrew Donoho, Chuck Lightning

[iv-fischer]

oftentimes, people say that queer people are godless heathens. but what they fail to realize is that we are outcasted by the very same people who preach “love thy neighbor as thyself” in church every sunday. i love that as a trans woman, i was given the chance to be depicted as Mother Mary, as i feel that these pictures will help to open the eyes of hyper-religious hypocrites. check out my insta to see more!

photos by @kaynjames creative direction by me :)

instagram.com/iv.fischer

[aridante]

moonlight (2016); dir. barry jenkins.

[gangsters-wife]

[won-anda]

dressroom (2018)

[alistofbeauties]

The Siren’s Allure. A new gay painting in the vintage style of Felix d’Eon;  mermen in love.

[sex-thrill]

[sleepylittledomme]

Waaaaaaant!

[fyeah-redvelvet]

cr; sgsgom

[honeycha1-deactivated20181021]

Rainbow Teen Safe Space

Our FINAL goal is to develop a self-sustaining long-term shelter which will assist homeless queer teens make their way toward independence in Korea. But initially (Phase I), we want to reach out to and counsel LGBTQ teens right out in the streets as we conduct surveys to determine a specific strategy to develop the shelter.

hi! you may remember ddingddong queer teen safe space from when we pitched in in jonghyun’s name to help homeless lgbt individuals and support this organisation. in their newest update they report on their latest activities! they are still gathering funding so if you can, donating would be wonderful. their activities in the last few months included:

an lgbt pride party for around 50 lgbt teens

free counseling for over 30 youths

social lunches where 10 young people gather to have lunch together

giving out necessities and medical aid

[11thsense]

Have you any dreams you’d like to sell?

[enoughtohold]

this post amazes me every time i see it because almost every single thing in it is wrong. blatantly wrong, even. but everyone passes out around as fact because no one on this site knows a god damn thing.

there were genderqueer people in the ’90s but the “genderqueer movement” isn’t really a thing people talk about from that time? google it and you’ll get people talking about the last ten years. they’re probably thinking of queer nation, whose chant that actually was

they probably have no clue ACT UP was founded and was most effective in the late ’80s

they got the fucking chant wrong, it’s “get used to it” for fuck’s sake

decontextualizing the chant, which was of course aimed at straight people, and the word “queer” which was used along with “gay” and “lesbian,” but don’t take my word for it

neither queer nation nor ACT UP nor the “genderqueer movement” made the fucking AIDS quilt. that’s the NAMES project. many ACT UPers hated the quilt

i’m almost certain this user thinks die-ins were mass suicides which they absolutely were not no matter what tumblr tells you

neither queer nation nor ACT UP nor the “genderqueer movement” were about same-sex marriage, again for fuck’s fucking sake! the demand for same-sex marriage did grow largely out of the need for relationship protections in the wake of AIDS, but that doesn’t mean it was ACT UP, read a fucking book!

total lack of awareness of the ACTUAL accomplishments of ACT UP because that would involve like ACTUALLY learning shit about AIDS activism and not just using ACT UP as an empty name you can attach to your petty tumblr bullshit to give it radical cred

the word queer was definitely popular in ACT UP but i doubt everyone used it. not every ACT UPer uses it now. it’s not required. why? because these internecine terminological squabbles are KIND of beside the point of an organization dedicated to ENDING AIDS.

actually, historically, ACT UP has been much whiter than it should be! this is an odd case where someone’s desire to make themselves look good by associating themselves with a renowned group leads them to give that group MORE credit than it actually deserves. ACT UP’s racial makeup did change over time; its latino caucus and majority action committee did important work, as did other groups ACT UP worked in coalition with. ACT UP is currently working to preserve the relatively forgotten history of people of color (and women) within ACT UP, and people of color have been CRUCIAL to the fight against AIDS. honestly, in my opinion, it’s inappropriate and frankly racist for this white user to erase the actual experiences of people of color within ACT UP and to pay lip service to the many heroic AIDS activists who were not white, not out of real respect or knowledge, but out of shameless ignorance in order to make THEMSELVES look better and lend a radical veneer to their, again, personal, petty, non–AIDS-related tumblr bullshit.

the people who spread shit like this should be ashamed and should channel that shame into actually going and learning something about HIV/AIDS and AIDS activism.

[persianflaw]

a quick addition re: act up members being comfortable with the word queer:

larry kramer visited my university last year to talk about his new book and his activism history and stuff, and afterwards the moderator read him some student questions that had been written down beforehand. the first question used the word queer and when the moderator read it, larry kramer immediately cringed and shook his head, saying that he hated that word, that “queer” had been a valuable rhetorical tool for act up but that it had also been the word that accompanied screaming and violence.

i honestly think it’s deeply fucked up how people pushing this narrative try to wash over the horrible violence of the way “queer” was used against act up, just because it’s politically convenient for them

[aftenhimlen-deactivated20210306]

[plastic-pipes]

Agent Reign: Recovery

L-corp couch naps

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[arepeegee]

Night Flight (2014)

[re-id-en-ti-fi-ed-deactivated20]

i remember being taught by my butch lesbian neighbor how to figure out if a button-down shirt fits properly, and her femme wife teaching me how to tie a tie. it was in my dining room that we used as a makeshift nursery for my sister. the walls were blood red, and the floors and ceiling were dark. the whole world felt like it was suffocating you in that room, much like life felt for me at the time. i was fifteen years old, and it had been seven months since my mother had last spoken to me. my father was drinking. i was failing my classes partially because my brain couldnt stop projecting old home movies onto the backs of my eyelids and i couldnt stay present and partially to see if anyone would notice.  no one did.  no one but my neighbors.

they invited us over for dinner. the butch always greeted us while the femme finished dinner and we took off our shoes and one would take our coats and the butch would clap her hand on my shoulder, and the femme would touch my elbow gently while she took out my chair. they fed us, we played board games, they talked openly about being gay. they held hands across the dining table, and twirled their wedding rings, neither seeming to notice they were doing it. watching them methodically work, hosting this beautiful dinner, moving together like two pieces of an intricate puzzle, like weaving together yarn and hemp, like gears, like one soul split evenly between two bodies–

i had never seen love like that. i had never met women like them. women who wore athletic sandals in november. women who wore sundresses with denim and cowboy boots and called her wife “sonnyboy,” whose wife was always quite put together, button-down buttoned to the top, tie straight (with the constant help of her wife), hair short & cropped to the scalp all the way round. women who both did the dishes. 

i didn’t know love like that was an option. i had only been shown angry, volatile love. i didn’t know i could be a woman like that. or rather, i didn’t know i could be loved as that kind of a woman. i had been taught that women like that are lonely. they’re ugly. but i watched her. her crisp leather jacket, her darkwash, baggy jeans on summer days that she folded once over her brown boots with the yellow shoelaces. she wasn’t ugly. i watched her, and i bought brown boots.

[berryartistic]

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here it is at last, RED, our contribution to @liliesanthology ‘s 4th volume, Spider Lily! 

for the spooky theme Miss Pi (@the-picayune) and I did a queer retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood fable, but the lines between who’s the big bad and who wears the cape are a little more blurry this time around

you can buy the entire anthology, which features this comic and over 200 more pages of gal pal goodness, in print or digitally from only a few dollars here. and if you like our work and enjoyed our comic, please consider donating to our ko-fi, so we can continue creating fun cute queer content!