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I haven't been on here in so long and i'm getting immediate regret looking at the my old messages
I haven’t listened to the audio, because it’s too perfect seeing characters emotionally move their mouth with tears while being completely silent.
You…. you REALLY need to listen to the audio though.
No, no it isn’t.
this gif is perfectly timed because it gives you enough time to read it, comprehend it, and still have this too-long-for-comfort moment of suspense before being punched square in the solar plexus
Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.
It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you
It’s called economía del lenguaje.
It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.
Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.
Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.
“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”
Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?
I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.
queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid
every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.
I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.
baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit
every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.
terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.
we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.
I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.
It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.
The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.
They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
My first introduction to the word “queer” was written. In Little Women, describing things both quaint, odd, peculiar, strange, but generally- neutral to positive. There was a lot of whimsy wrapped up when Miss Alcott used the term. It was delightful, and I remember it to this day because the word was even pleasant to say with soft, easy sounds.
My first introduction to the word “gay” was a slur. I heard it before I ever read it in Miss Alcott’s novel. It was equivalent to stupid, wrong, idiotic, disgusting, and everything you should never want to be. A hard G, a braying donkey’s Ay; thrown across the playground at school and I knew it was bad. Gay was bad. When I read it in Miss Alcott’s book, I was confused- because when her girls were ‘happy and gay’, it didn’t make sense. Gay was a bad word. To be gay was bad.
With Lesbian, I never remember where I first heard it- but my grandmother once called me a thespian as a kid & I recoiled, thinking she’d called me a Lesbian & I was horrified. To be a Lesbian was Bad. Even if I had no concept of what it even meant.
My first introduction to Queer in the context of sexuality, I was a teenager. “We’re here, we’re queer!” A rallying cry when I started to learn about the 70s and queer liberation. My second time seeing the word was in the context of community. It was a chant, a united front, an army of people fighting for their rights. I thought I was on the outside looking in, but it still made me smile.
My third encounter with the term was in University, learning Queer History as a proper subject, a topic of history and struggle. It was legitimate, it was lengthy, it was amazing.
Its only in watching really dated films from the 1980s or things like that where I encountered Queer as a slur. But to me, I’d never heard it hurt. It was the words of a friend, and then the words of a family.
I understand some people had the opposite experience. They were barraged with being called ‘a queer’ while I heard ‘thats so gay’ thrown around like a football. To them, the endless acronyms and changing labels is more inclusive; despite every identity label being used against us at one point or another. Despite it being reclaimed since the 1970s, it can still be used to harm. And I would hazard a guess not many folks have been spat at with “you’re such an EL-GEE-BEE-TEE-PLUS!!!”
Though I came out under the label of Bisexuality, Queer fits me so much better. Queer is a more welcoming term to me than boxing us all under a hundred flags and putting up lines of demarcation. If you don’t know how to describe yourself, you’re queer, no giant essay or explanation. You say you’re queer and we know you’re not cishet. You say you’re gay… that means something more specific. With Queer, people can’t pin us down. They can’t prescribe what we are. They can’t tell us what to do, how to be, how to behave to be a ‘real’ queer person.
It’s only in recent years on social media where I have even seen the suggestion to stop using the term. Stop that shit. You may not use the term yourself, and if you do not want me to use it around you, cool. But it’s not a slur. My identity, my history, my community: the QUEER community, the QUEER struggle, the QUEER experience, none of it is a slur. It’s beautiful. We took it back. It’s ours.
TLDR: every queer person has different experiences with words, but almost every label has been used as a slur at some point. queer is also the accepted academic term for a multitude of reasons. so don’t try to regulate what words people use about themselves
Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.
It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you
It’s called economía del lenguaje.
It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.
Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.
Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.
“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”
Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?
I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.
queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid
every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.
I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.
baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit
every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.
terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.
we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.
I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.
It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.
The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.
They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
My first introduction to the word “queer” was written. In Little Women, describing things both quaint, odd, peculiar, strange, but generally- neutral to positive. There was a lot of whimsy wrapped up when Miss Alcott used the term. It was delightful, and I remember it to this day because the word was even pleasant to say with soft, easy sounds.
My first introduction to the word “gay” was a slur. I heard it before I ever read it in Miss Alcott’s novel. It was equivalent to stupid, wrong, idiotic, disgusting, and everything you should never want to be. A hard G, a braying donkey’s Ay; thrown across the playground at school and I knew it was bad. Gay was bad. When I read it in Miss Alcott’s book, I was confused- because when her girls were ‘happy and gay’, it didn’t make sense. Gay was a bad word. To be gay was bad.
With Lesbian, I never remember where I first heard it- but my grandmother once called me a thespian as a kid & I recoiled, thinking she’d called me a Lesbian & I was horrified. To be a Lesbian was Bad. Even if I had no concept of what it even meant.
My first introduction to Queer in the context of sexuality, I was a teenager. “We’re here, we’re queer!” A rallying cry when I started to learn about the 70s and queer liberation. My second time seeing the word was in the context of community. It was a chant, a united front, an army of people fighting for their rights. I thought I was on the outside looking in, but it still made me smile.
My third encounter with the term was in University, learning Queer History as a proper subject, a topic of history and struggle. It was legitimate, it was lengthy, it was amazing.
Its only in watching really dated films from the 1980s or things like that where I encountered Queer as a slur. But to me, I’d never heard it hurt. It was the words of a friend, and then the words of a family.
I understand some people had the opposite experience. They were barraged with being called ‘a queer’ while I heard ‘thats so gay’ thrown around like a football. To them, the endless acronyms and changing labels is more inclusive; despite every identity label being used against us at one point or another. Despite it being reclaimed since the 1970s, it can still be used to harm. And I would hazard a guess not many folks have been spat at with “you’re such an EL-GEE-BEE-TEE-PLUS!!!”
Though I came out under the label of Bisexuality, Queer fits me so much better. Queer is a more welcoming term to me than boxing us all under a hundred flags and putting up lines of demarcation. If you don’t know how to describe yourself, you’re queer, no giant essay or explanation. You say you’re queer and we know you’re not cishet. You say you’re gay… that means something more specific. With Queer, people can’t pin us down. They can’t prescribe what we are. They can’t tell us what to do, how to be, how to behave to be a ‘real’ queer person.
It’s only in recent years on social media where I have even seen the suggestion to stop using the term. Stop that shit. You may not use the term yourself, and if you do not want me to use it around you, cool. But it’s not a slur. My identity, my history, my community: the QUEER community, the QUEER struggle, the QUEER experience, none of it is a slur. It’s beautiful. We took it back. It’s ours.
TLDR: every queer person has different experiences with words, but almost every label has been used as a slur at some point. queer is also the accepted academic term for a multitude of reasons. so don’t try to regulate what words people use about themselves
the humanity of the AIDS crisis: the ward by gideon mendel
colorized by me
Never forget 🏳️🌈😔
OP you did a beautiful job colourising these shots
Notice how OP says “colorized?”
I want to remind you this was the eighties. THE EIGHTIES. Color cameras existed. Color VIDEO CAMERAS existed.
Someone put these in black and white to make them seem long ago and far away.
OP is returning them to their proper place in history: ONLY TWO GENERATIONS AGO.
that’s not fair to gideon mendel, the photographer who took those photos in 1993. he took them in black-and-white even though color cameras were available, yes, but not to “make them seem long ago and far away”. he was photographing in black-and-white so they would be taken seriously.
mendel is still documenting and lifting up the voices of people who live with hiv/aids in the project “through positive eyes”.
if mendel hadn’t taken these photographs, we wouldn’t have a record of these patients and the ends of their lives at all. it was extremely unusual for aids wards to let photographers in, and the patients took a risk in letting mendel photograph them and their loved ones.
rest in peace, andré, steven, and john.
gay🤜🏼irl
Betty & Veronica in Harlivy’s bodies lmao
Harley and Ivy Meet Betty and Veronica #3-4
Gay_irl
just wanna sit on his lap and feel him get hard
Leave the mall Santa alone
“Fucking Pig.”
“I’m a stripper not a cop.”
“Oh god I’m so sorry, thank you for your contribution to the community, sir.”
other ppl have been sending me images of this all day
Thanks, tumblr mobile, for unintentionally making this even funnier
Just as I said, “is this ever going to load?” One gif loaded and honestly it answered my question perfectly.
Together they create the full set.
saw this again on my dash after reblog and…
tumblr black out poetry
Edinburgh, Scotland // Newhaven Harbour // (2021)
HELPPPPPPP fshljgkhskfljgkshj
Britney is gonna be super cringe for a minute but we need to support her through this tough transition
One of my former students, Danielle McLarty, shared this with me, and I honestly lost it 😭😩.