[anarcho-queer]

While the head honchos at the HRC are making 6 figure salaries from donations to support ‘marriage equality’, hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ youth are homeless and are purposely ignored by mainstream gay organizations. The ‘fight’ for same sex marriage has proven to be a profitable business for gay ‘non-profit’ businesses, so it’s no wonder why gay marriage overshadows all other LGBTQ issues. After all, helping the needy results in smaller pay.

Supporting gay marriage doesn’t mean you support the queer struggle. In fact, most ‘allies’ and even a large portion of more fortunate queers don’t know the facts about LGBTQ homelessness, violence against trans* people, high unemployment, discrimination, etc, nor do they bother to research it. They are just concerned about their favorite gay celebrities being able to tie the knot.

If you care about the queer struggle, take a minute of your day to familiarize yourself with some of the disturbing statistics:

20- 40% of homeless youth are LGBTQ. In comparison, the general youth population is only 3-10% LGBTQ.

LGBTQ youth are twice as likely to experience sexual abuse before the age of 12.

LGBTQ youth, once homeless, are at higher risk for victimization, mental health problems, and unsafe sexual practices. 58.7% of LGBTQ homeless youth have been sexually victimized compared to 33.4% of heterosexual homeless youth

LGBTQ youth are roughly 7.4 times more likely to experience acts of sexual violence than heterosexual homeless youth

LGBTQ homeless youth commit suicide at higher rates (62%) than heterosexual homeless youth (29%)

At least 20% of ALL transgender people will be homeless sometime in their life.

29% of transgender people reported being turned away from a homeless shelter due to their transgender status.

Please consider taking action to help combat LGBTQ homelessness. I suggest making a donation to the Ali Forney Center or volunteering at your local LGBTQ homeless shelter.

P.S. Fuck the HRC!

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Yes, I will go with you here.

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Inadvertently decorating my apartment based on this scene.

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Lee Miller (1930) by Man Ray

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Say what you must, but those birthday Celtic tarot card readings are always startlingly relevant and personally profound.

[infoneer-pulse]

Maybe worst of all, Romney’s plan invests no new ideas in the public school system. It transfers funds from public schools to privately run charter schools and goes the extra mile of diverting money from the public system to low-income parents for “supplemental tutoring or digital courses from state-approved private providers.” That’s right: school budgets will shrink so that the federal government can send checks to parents to hire private tutors and buy online courses for their children. This is a prescription for ending public education as we know it. While Romney hails charter schools for their “dramatically positive effects while working with some of the nation’s most disadvantaged students,” he derides public schools as “local education monopolies.”

The Absurdity of Mitt Romney’s Education Plan | Praxis | Big Think (via infoneer-pulse)

Only 13% of charter schools function higher than public schools. 13%.

But this is also misleading, because dismantling the public education system is very much a bi-partisan effort. Barack Obama and Cory Booker are democrats. Wall Street lackeys, but "Ds" nonetheless.

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Man Ray, “Woman With Long Hair”, 1929

[zealotry]

It is an important feature of the ideological system to impose on people the feeling that they are incompetent to deal with important and complex issues: they’d better leave it to the captain. One device is to develop a star system, an array of figures who are often media creations or creations of the academic propaganda establishment, whose deep insights we are supposed to admire and to whom we must happily and confidently assign the right to control our lives and to control international affairs.

Noam Chomsky (via zealotry)

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God Damn America.

I won't reblog out of courtesy, but someone just reposted an image of a man lying on top of a woman, with--omg--his penis inserted into her vagina and said that it looked romantic, but he or she didn't know why...

Two people having sex...romance... Apparently these are mutually exclusive in this society. Jesus fucking Christ.

[theatlantic]

What Straight Allies Need to Understand About Gay Marriage and States’ Rights

Too many people whose marriages are not up for debate have been griping that President Obama’s announcement was too little, too late. He’s endorsing federalism, argued Adam Serwer in Mother Jones. He’s championing state’s rights, complained left-of-center blogger Digby: “This is the essence of retrograde, reactionary politics and there’s a long history of these ‘sovereign’ states exercising their ‘rights’ to deny minorities their freedom.” Even House Assistant Minority Leader Jim Clyburn was upset with the president’s approach. “I depart from the president on the state-by-state approach. If you consider this to be a civil right, and I do, I don’t think civil rights ought to be left up to a state-by-state approach,” he said Monday.

Such critics of Obama are wrong. They are wrong about what the administration has done and said, wrong on the politics of gay marriage, and — most important — they are wrong on the law.

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

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Oh God, you really told us, Atlantic!

I'm starting to think Obamabots are worse than Republicans. In that, shouldn't you at least kind of fucking know better?

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Stunning creature.

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Love the sentiment, but let's go a bit further back for the goth, eh?