Queerstions

Calling all queer kids (and non-kids) submit your queer questions to [email protected] to be read and answered on the upcoming episodes of our podcast, queerstions!

[refinery29]

This Brand Is Making Swimwear For The Trans Community

A lot of transguys or masculine people aren’t comfortable with wearing a bikini top, so they get stuck wearing shirts in the summertime, or settling for something that doesn’t make them feel confident.

The Rhodes siblings are currently fundraising for the Bareskin Top, which comes in four skin-tone options, on Kickstarter

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[bettyhooker]

But actually boosting this because they have until December 19th to raise another $13,000 or they don’t get any of the money.

[light-and-magic]

They’re available for purchase now at http://www.flavnt.com/bareskin/

[entivus]

OMG YES YES

[romanochez-deactivated]

RB TO HELP OUT

[makingqueerhistory]

What is one part of LGBT+ history that you wish more people knew about?

Can I say all of it? 

No that would be cheating, but I may bend the question a bit and say a huge focus for me is showing queer history outside of the United States and UK. 

If I was forced to pick a particular moment that I wish people knew more about I would say the Hays Code, just because it would make it so much easier to discuss queer media in a nuanced way with more context. 

Articles focusing on that:

The Future of Queer Media

Queen Christina, Queer Codes and Queer Coding (Part 2)

Queen Christina, Queer Codes and Queer Coding(Part 1)

Different from the Others, the Beginning

I am sure there is some hypocrisy in saying history outside of the US and then listing off something that happened in the US, I will make it worse and quote the American poet Walt Whitman:

“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”

[alexenglish]

Nyle DiMarco & Chella Man Teach Us Queer Sign Language 

[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.

[argumate]

dude had guts, someone needs to update his Wikipedia page

[makingqueerhistory]

[Image Description: Ita Rosenzweig and her cousin Frieda Belinfante walk down a street in Warsaw/Poland.]

Frieda Belinfante

In a world like ours, women like Frieda Belinfante are dearly needed. The first woman in Europe to be artistic director, conductor of an ongoing professional orchestral ensemble, and cellist, she was a woman who put her passions to the side when it became evident that the world around her needed something more. Let us look together at Frieda Belinfante, a queer woman who shaped the world and protected those around her. (Read Full Article)

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[blankblog3212]

since it’s pride month how about we enjoy a list of over 900+ lgbt films it’s my big fat lgbt gift to all of you

[moonsilk-deactivated20200420]

remember to check doesthedogdie to avoid triggers like an lgbt person dying, extreme homophobia etc. have fun and stay safe!!

[nonbinarypastels]

[Image: A pastel rainbow color block with repeating white text that reads “aces and aros belong in pride”]

[antiandrogen]

nobody ever talks about how saying non-binary genders don’t exist is racist as fuck

[stashlecash]

How?

[antiandrogen]

many many many indigenous cultures have historically included more than two genders and to say that those genders do not exist is to say that those cultural traditions are invalid, and that only the imperialist gender binary is correct. which is racism. 

[calli3cd]

Source?

[antiandrogen]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_%28South_Asia%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakla

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathoey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muxe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Spirit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%27afafine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81h%C5%AB

Do you need any more or are you done being a dick 

[cum-guzzlers-for-christ]

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/16/india-third-gender-claims-place-in-law

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820633,00.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/05/30/153990125/in-mexico-mixed-genders-and-muxes

http://www.nativepeoples.com/Native-Peoples/May-June-2014/Two-Spirit-The-Story-of-a-Movement-Unfolds/

http://theculturetrip.com/pacific/samoa/articles/fa-afafines-the-third-gender/

For those who don’t like Wikipedia

[oh-snap-pro-choice]

THISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHIS

THE WESTERN IDEA OF TWO GENDERS IS EXACTLY THAT

WESTERN

THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF CULTURES ACROSS THE WORLD WHO SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM OR OTHER FORM OUTSIDE OF TWO GENDERS

[jenroses]

Judaism has been recognizing six genders for thousands of years. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_and_Judaism

SIX.

JUDAISM.

Fuck off with this “binary gender is commanded by God” bullshit. 

[littlestpersimmon]

to all my lgbt+ friends who are into aliens and mystery.. for pride month  ️‍🌈

Y’all wanna help out a trans content maker? I make a comic called Eerie Crests.

set in a quiet little town in Oregon, the main character is a mentally ill transboy named Dallas Margolin who is in love, and searching for his missing, declared dead best friend, Malek Solh

It’s spooky, filled with creepy crawly forest critters and sad gay kids who hunt for aliens

 currently ongoing and updates every month sporadically

the blog | read on tapas  | support the author

[makingqueerhistory]

[ID: QUEER HISTORY FACT 1: The earliest known queer couple is Niankhknum and Khnumhotep from 2400 BCE. Their titles were “Overseers of the Manicurists of the Palace of the King. want more? become a patron!]

[asexualdinosaur]

I saw this magazine in a grocery store and I immediately started freaking out. I have no idea what the article is about, because I was leaving checkout and had to rush out of there, but just knowing that asexuals are spotlighted in one that’s carried in stores makes me very happy.

[bioware-critical]

You can read the article here

[sleepingreader]

There are asexuals who find themselves attracted to television characters as they get to know them over the course of a season, but feel no stirring in their loins for the actors who play those characters.

That explains so much

[thepheonixesorphanage]

If you don’t understand asexuality please read this. It’s so great and you get to see what an asexual is thinking in the midst of it all

[queerstions]

Hey bum babes can I get a link for episode 2

Shoot, hell yea gimme one sec

[queerstions]

Time to get hype! Episode 2 comes out tomorrow!

[ratbastarddotfuck]

‘20GAYTEEN - Year of the Queer’ by MakeMeASidekick

You know ;) • Buy this artwork on apparel, stickers, phone cases, and more.

Did someone say… Twentygayteen? 

Available on shirts, mugs, notebooks, bags, stickers, and even wall tapestries! Hit it up, y’all.

[khaleesi]

In honor of Lord Byron’s birthday I would like to remind you all of the time that Shelley and Keats, having not heard from him for some time, became concerned for his safety and it was determined that Shelley would go looking for him. Keats received a letter some time later that Shelley had found him in Venice, where he’d been having so much sex that he’d nearly died from malnourishment and dehydration. Keats’ entire response amounted to essentially, “You should probably have let him.”

[friendlyfrankenstein]

“I found him, he’s in a gutter.” “Well go put him back”

[queerstions]

It’s happening guys. The first Queerstions episode is officially published!!! You should be able to search for it on any regular podcast provider (except iTunes because it’s taking a long time to do the thing but soon).

Even if you don’t listen to the show, we’d really appreciate if you could reblog this or tell your friends about it! We’re working on a fortnightly schedule, the next episode will be posted 28th April, but we won’t be able to create more episodes without people to ask questions so it’s important that we get the word out there.

Thankyou so much for your support thus far, please give us any feedback you might have.

[queerstions]

UPDATE: you can get to the first episode of Queerstions on iTunes with the link http://www.buzzsprout.com/170319.rss

Please go check us out and send questions, it means a lot!

[queerstions]

It’s happening guys. The first Queerstions episode is officially published!!! You should be able to search for it on any regular podcast provider (except iTunes because it’s taking a long time to do the thing but soon).

Even if you don’t listen to the show, we’d really appreciate if you could reblog this or tell your friends about it! We’re working on a fortnightly schedule, the next episode will be posted 28th April, but we won’t be able to create more episodes without people to ask questions so it’s important that we get the word out there.

Thankyou so much for your support thus far, please give us any feedback you might have.

[queerstions]

@sophrosyiiine podcast addict is the app I use, if normal search won't work you can search with the rss code https://www.buzzsprout.com/170319.rss and it should be there :)