detritus of an insomniac

Random collection of things that interest/amuse/challenge/infuriate/inspire me - a queer, Filipino, activist artist

[north-of-annwn]

Source: https://twitter.com/ImpPoster

[helendamnationx]

I should be able to sue men who touch me without permission

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Under Icelandic settlement law I can kill people who call me names

[punkrorschach]

[santiagonex]

120 Best Gay Themed Movies (1974–2017)

[dilfweed]

Saving this for future watching

[666desativado666-deactivated202]

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[oshun67]

We Exist- we go waaaaaay back

[sixpenceee]

This wax woman embedded with candle wicks was made by A.F.Vandevorst for the Arnhem Mode Biennale 2011.

[rob-pattinson]

EZRA MILLER for Playboy (2018), ph. Ryan Pfluger.

[ex0skeletal]

The Severed Head of Medusa by artist Damien Hirst is made of a single piece of crystal glass that took three months to cool in an oven. This final product is the fifth attempt at molding the work from molten crystal; the first four cracked in the cooling process.

[aestheticalspace]

good night everyone

[alexander]

How Animals Eat Their Food

[pastelvirgil]

this video is fuckin ancient and i honestly forgot how funny it was

[alien-fanbitch]

I always forget how funny this is until I watch it again and die laughing!

[radioactivepeasant]

Oh gosh, I forgot this was a thing!

[naamahdarling]

The guy on the left keeps his shit together remarkably well but loses it a little at “kangaroo” and that always delights me.

[gingersofficial]

The guy on the left can toss my salad like the rhino

[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.

[geek-scientist]

jane the virgin: portraying a bisexual man in a healthy relationship and slaying biphobes since 2017

[shoomlah]

MerMay times eight: The Drag Daughters of Triton, JUST under the wire in time for DragCon. I’ll have a table at #D-15 this weekend, see y’all there!

[odinsblog]

Now that’s how you ally. That’s putting it on the line and showing solidarity. That’s how you use your white privilege for good.

”It’s nice to go out and march, we can do that. It’s nice to wear black at the Golden Globes, but what are you doing behind closed doors?” - Jada Pinkett Smith

It’s easily one of the cleanest examples of intersectional feminism I’ve seen in a minute. It’s the polar opposite of white feminism, where white women are concerned primarily with the wellbeing and advancement of other white women. If more white men and women stood up and demanded basic fairness instead of just talking about it—and not just in Hollywood—we might really begin to impact racism and close the pay gap that always gets inflicted upon black people in most careers.

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Hatched

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Present Past

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[ftmmagazine]

[hudsonmildred]

I’m really glad that I decided to invest in your business David