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thesociologicalcinema

Some of the principle actors of the stonewall rebellion

queerbert

Pride month has ended, but Pride is never over.

#queer #queer history #pride #history #trans #queer poc #trans poc

Coo cooo!

(I fell in love with Yamamura and made these phone wallpapers!)

#mario maker #nintendo #super mario maker 2 #phone wallpaper #yamamura #mario #smm2 #mm2 #coo coo #rainbow #pigeon #pride

queerbert

Here's some essential signs/phrases to know for Pride month! Queer Signs: https://youtu.be/KfPAkVGWtMY RT66 Pride Shirt: https://www.rt66shop.com/products/pr...

Rogan Shannon, one of my favorite vloggers, teaching some signs for Pride! He links to his video on gender and sexuality signs, which is a little more in-depth than the Nyle/Challa one I’ve seen floating about.

He includes several phrases, including this one:

“We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.”

#asl #deaf #happy pride 🌈#happy pride #pride #pride 2019 #pride month

genderqueerpositivity

no one is saying you have to stop calling yourself queer, and its great that you can reclaim a slur!! Its amazing to bring piwer to urself!!! But some ppl have trauma with the word and that needs to be respected by not using it on lgbt who are uncomfy with ut

Y'all are some of the most disingenuous motherfuckers. I am exhausted. And I am really done with this trauma argument.

A confession: I have been harassed and verbally abused with it/its pronouns before.

I don’t fully understand why some trans people choose to use it pronouns for themselves, and I don’t follow anyone who does anymore because seeing someone referred to as “it” upsets me.

However, I do not shame or belittle trans folks who use it/its pronouns in a reclaiming fashion because it’s none of my business and I am not a piece of obnoxious shit.

If you have trauma associated with the word queer, then you need to respect me and yourself enough to not interact with my blog.

This blog literally has QUEER in its url, name, and description. Every other post on this blog contains the word QUEER. This blog is about QUEER people, for QUEER people, by a QUEER person.

No one is forcing you to interact with this blog. No one is forcing you to interact with the QUEER community. No one is forcing you to apply the word QUEER to your own identity.

Block blogs that have queer in their url. Add the word QUEER to your Tumblr tag blacklist. Download one of the many different apps and browser extensions that exist and use it to hide posts with the word QUEER in them.

Try taking at least some responsibility for your own mental health.

You aren’t queer? You don’t like the word? That’s fine. Your feelings and your trauma are valid.

But hear this: y'all need to leave QUEER people the FUCK alone.

Stop adding “queer is a slur” to our posts.

Stop inviting yourselves onto our posts to whine about the phrase “queer community”.

Don’t reblog our posts if you’re going to tag them with “#q slur”.

Stop making discourse of our genders and sexualities.

Stop trying to create rules over who is allowed to call themselves queer when you yourself are not queer.

Stop sending us invasive messages demanding to know “how” we’re queer or if we’re “really lgbt”.

Stop trying to make the queer community responsible for your personal baggage, as if we aren’t surviving with our own.

Let QUEER people live.

toothmuncher3000

god yes OP

ludinusdaleth

“Stop trying to make the queer community responsible for your personal baggage, as if we aren’t surviving with our own.”

Holy shit. Exactly.

naegkawa

We’re just saying don’t use a slur as an umbrella term and act like it’s revolutionary.

We don’t call the lesbian community the dyke community. Because not everyone is comfortable reclaiming it.

Reclamation of a slur is something incredibly personal— don’t shove people under an umbrella term that brands itself using a SLUR. Calling gay people a slur without their permission, regardless of whether or not they’re comfortable with it, is bad. And implying that LGBT people who don’t want to be called the queer community are somehow problematic, or separated from the rest of the community, is shitty.

We don’t want to be called the queer community because it’s a harmful word and shouting that word back at those who voice their discomfort is shitty. Acting like the “"queer”“ community is a separate entity from the LGBT community because they’re okay with using a slur as an umbrella term and judging those who don’t. That’s really shitty.

No one is saying to not let people call themselves queer. But don’t call the whole community queer. That makes straight people think it’s okay to call us queers. That makes it alienating to people who don’t want to be called queer, regardless of trauma. I don’t want people to call me a slur!! Is that wrong or bad?? Am I not a part of your community?

genderqueerpositivity

We don’t call the lesbian community the dyke community?

Because I’ve been a dyke for a long time and

It looks to me like the folks in these pictures are using a slur as an umbrella term and acting like it’s revolutionary.

I mean, they sure don’t seem worried about triggering lesbians and other wlw/nblw who’ve been traumatized by the word dyke. You really think that all lesbians are comfy going to an event where the word DYKE is painted on huge banners? You don’t think that dyke marches are alienating to lesbians/wlw/nblw who haven’t reclaimed dyke?

Because that is not personal reclamation, that is very public. You really think that seeing those dyke march signs won’t convince straight people that it’s okay for them to say dyke? You think that dyke marches don’t cause straight people to associate the word dyke with the lesbian community?

In my experience, dyke has been very widely reclaimed within the lesbian community, even though it is still used as a slur. I’ve had “dyke” screamed in my face more times than I can count, but I see that word untagged on this website everyday.

No one other than terfs and nonbinary-exclusionists has ever given me grief over reclaiming the word dyke, and even then it’s rare. I’ve never been asked to tag posts where I’ve referred to myself as a dyke with #d slur tw. If this blog were titled “dyke positivity”, I bet that I wouldn’t get even half the harassment that I’ve received for having a “slur” in my url.

Apparently calling myself queer is an issue, even though calling myself a dyke isn’t.

(People have told me that I shouldn’t identify as genderqueer, and that I should just use nonbinary instead because genderqueer invites straight people to say queer. For awhile, I tried to switch–until I realized it’s bullshit. I want straight people to call me genderqueer, because that is my gender identity.)

So what exactly is this double standard? Why are lesbians able to reclaim dyke so fully, but LGBTQ+ folks who reclaim queer are not allowed the same freedom?

Questions to ponder.

Anyway, I will continue using queer as an umbrella term for those who identify as queer, and our queerness is revolutionary as fuck.

Die mad about it.

queerbert

“Calling gay people a slur”—let me stop you right there. Gay is a slur. It started as a slur and was reclaimed. You act like queer is different, but both are still used pejoratively in English. In my experience, gay is used as a pejorative far more frequently. If you’re personally bothered by the word queer, blacklist it and carry on with your life. When you argue like this, I can’t help but to assume you have an issue with queer being an inclusive word that doesn’t meet your narrow definition of LGB-and-sometimes-T.

Our history is queer. If you don’t identify with the word, that’s your choice. But I am queer, and that is my right.

QUEER POWER!

queerbert

Some things bear repeating. Happy Pride, y’all!

#queer community #pride #queer pride #happy pride 🌈#queer power #happy pride #discourse #long post #pride 2019 #queer discourse

genderqueerpositivity

(Image description: ten variations of the rainbow pride flag, including the more color more pride, Love Fest, Victory Over AIDs, rainbow bi, and gai pride flags; white text says reads “the first pride was a riot”.)

vaspider

Queer is the label we used when we weren’t sure. Queer is the label we used when we were sure no other label would do. Queer is a gender that is my own and only my own. Queer is a sexuality that defies definition.

Queer is the label which became genderqueer, and from which non-binary and genderfluid sprung. Queer is the label which is the un-box, in which everyone who is not cishet (including ace people!!) fits. Queer is community.

Queer is activist. Queer is in the streets screaming ‘we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!’ Queer is not ashamed.

Queer was ours from the beginning. Queer was ours a century ago. Queer was used against us, and we said ‘fuck you,’ and we took it BACK. Queer is butches and bears with bats, protecting our community.

Queer is blue-collar. Queer is working-class. Queer is poor. Queer is people who can’t afford to sit out Stonewall quietly and then go fight for marriage equality when the tax bills come due. Queer is a distinct identity, and queer is the un-box.

Queer makes TERFs and exclusionists angry, because it doesn’t let them define people by gold stars and terms like ‘SGA’ that come from conversion therapy. Queer doesn’t give a shit about historical revision to exclude members of the community who have always been here, because queer has always been here and always will be.

Queer is the life raft onto which we climb. Queer is community. Queer is important, and people will have to pry it from my cold dead hands. I’ve been queer for thirty years. My community is queer, and it is opt-in.

If you tag my fucking posts ‘q slur’ or any variant thereof I will immediately fucking block you. Don’t fucking do it. If you feel obligated to tag my posts ‘q slur,’ don’t interact with them. My identity is not a bad word and does not require censoring.

genderqueerpositivity

(Image description: the queer chevron, genderqueer, queer loving queer pride flag, and three versions of a queer pride flag with the words “When you mess with one queer you mess with us all!” centered in white text.)

queerbert

Here’s some header images I made for Pride. They are sized for Facebook and crop nicely to Reddit, Tumblr, and other socials. Please use them. Please reblog this. Remember why we are here.

queerbert

Happy first of Pride! We are still fighting, 50 years later.

queerbert

Here’s some header images I made for Pride. They are sized for Facebook and crop nicely to Reddit, Tumblr, and other socials. Please use them. Please reblog this. Remember why we are here.

queerbert

Here’s some header images I made for Pride. They are sized for Facebook and crop nicely to Reddit, Tumblr, and other socials. Please use them. Please reblog this. Remember why we are here.

lgbtqa-aesthetics

Queer history mood board!

Submitted by @queerbert

queerbert

Here’s some header images I made for Pride. They are sized for Facebook and crop nicely to Reddit, Tumblr, and other socials. Please use them. Remember why we are here.

Here’s some header images I made for Pride. They are sized for Facebook and crop nicely to Reddit, Tumblr, and other socials. Please use them. Please reblog this. Remember why we are here.