[rovermcfly]

hey. hey look at me. I need you to look at me and listen to me:

A League of Their Own (2022-) is about queer women.

and I'm not talking subtext or one gay kiss or a dead lesbian. I'm talking about the overwhelming majority of the characters are queer women. even black queer women. even a black trans man.

I implore you to support this show. get a trial month on amazon or borrow someone's password to stream, boost the show on social media, do whatever it takes but please. please don't let this show fizzle out after one season into obscurity. it is finally a show about sapphics that is good and complex and both entertaining and emotional and it's about real history and it still said "we will make them all queer". at least let the world know there really is a demand for these stories. stop posting about that show you hate for killing the one queer woman or for being about lesbians but being really biphobic or racist and instead start posting about this one. please.

even if you don't like the show, do it for all the shows centering queer women and telling diverse stories that will follow if it's a success.

[gaycommunist]

a dialogue between the unloved and the loving

neil hilborn // miranda july // @orpheuslament // aaron o’hanlon // natalie wee “least of all” // @fridayiminlovemp3 // maria petrovykh “love me. i am pitch black” // “the seven husbands of evelyn hugo” // sylvia plath “johnny panic & the bible of dreams” // sue zhao // virginia woolf from a letter to katherine mansfield // trista mateer

[starshineselkie]

mate (i'm so hopelessly in love with you)

[just-a-broadway-girl]

#now that’s what I call Black Girl Magic

Keep reading

[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.

[nikeypapi]

how do you deal with anxiety ?

i let it fuck me up then i go to bed

[will-the-frog]

Lucas loves basketball despite no other seasons implying he did. Erica is sassy and has no character development. Argyle is just comedic relief and his only personality trait is smoking weed. Max and Eddie the only two to live in a trailer park both “die”. Robins love interest is constantly sidelined. Eddie the “freak” dies the same season he’s introduced. Will is only used as a plot device to further mileven and suffer. WOOHOO REPRESENTATION FOR THE WIN!

[mabelshair]

the only positive conclusion I had about vol2

[sinclairsmayfield]

look me in the fucking eye and tell me max and lucas talking through little notes and max drawing the cutest little stick figure picture of them holding hands wasn't cuter than ANY and ALL mike and el moments in all the four seasons. oh wait you can't

[robinsgayshoes-deactivated20250]

What really pisses me off is that the duffers have no problem having characters use anti-LGBTQ slurs, but are too cowardly to actually have Robin say the word lesbian or to have Will actually say he’s gay. I hate it here. 

[goditsmeagain]

why did we see Max's letters and not have anyone read them. why did they big up Jason creating a mob when nothing happened. why did they have Eddie say he wasn't a hero then die saving no one. why have will be in love with Mike and not say it to anyone. why introduce new characters just to kill and neglect others. why have so many storylines that are essentially meaningless. why-

[meintheworld3333-deactivated202]

Just thinking about how straight people will never understand how humiliating and heart wrenching seeing these two shots were.

I have never felt so personally mocked before by straight people until today.

[oakleavesandcoffee]

Sooo is the moral of the story "don't be an outcast and don't be queer"? Because that sure is the message i got from this show

[briines]

[soft-anomaly]

Just because I "long for their undivided attention" and "daydream about pinning them against a wall" doesn't mean I'm gay that's just how rivalry works.

"homoerotic undertones" my ass I just want my rival to be down to fuck

[soft-anomaly]

to FIGHT I MEANT DOWN TO FIGHT

[papirfecni]

wet hair & bandages

[sweatflame-deactivated20260110]

dyke masculinity is divine and considerate and sexy