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BANGKOK PRIDE 2026 | Cooheart
Designing buttons for a pride event
Other designs
I still need to go to the library to test them
Results!!!!
I think about Matti every day
in absolute tears about the pride module at my work
HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY
Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...
Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).
happy first day of pride everyone
Happy Pride everyone, today is the tenth anniversary of the nationwide right to gay Marriage in the United States and the 22nd anniversary of nationwide legalization of Gay Sex. In 2 days is the 56th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.
We have won nothing without fighting and we have everything to lose, there is no gay liberation without trans liberation, none of us are free till all of us are free, we have won so much and come so far but the road ahead is still long, we must continue to fight for both our liberation and the liberation of all people
The gay liberation movement is young, everything we have fought for and won happened over the course of less than a human lifetime, and there are forces at play that wish to claw back at these hard fought for rights, we must be prepared to defend what we have fought for and we must continue to fight for improvement
We have to celebrate how far things have come, because we never would have made it this far without joy and hope, and while we can and must fight, we also must remain hopeful
This year is:
11 years since nationwide gay marriage in the US
23 years since sodomy was legalized
57 years since Stonewall
My annual Pride sale begins June 1st!
Get 15% off all queer art and merch in my Etsy store throughout the month of June! I have both original and FF7 pride art, including a variety of sapphic and ace pride art and some stickers and pins.
Available birds include: rainbow, agender, aroace, aromantic, asexual, bisexual, demiboy, demigirl, demisexual, genderfluid, genderqueer, lesbian, mlm (toothpaste), nonbinary, pansexual, polyamorous, and transgender.
The sale begins June 1, 2026 at midnight Eastern (UTC-4)!
Yes, birds will be restocked again in the future! If you miss out on the June sale, you can contact me via Etsy to be notified of the next batch.
This Pride Month, we’re celebrating the beauty of diversity above and below the surface. The ocean is full of vibrant life in every color imaginable. It reminds us that nature thrives when everyone has space to belong.
Environmental advocacy and the LGBTQ+ rights movement share a common purpose: protecting vulnerable communities, caring for the spaces we all call home, and creating a world where we all can flourish. Our world is brightest when people can live authentically, love freely, and be embraced for who they are. From rainbow reefs to shimmering tides, diversity makes our blue planet stronger, healthier, and more inspiring.
Here’s to protecting our ocean, uplifting every voice, and honoring the colorful communities that make this world so wonderful.
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Making Black Queer History: William Dorsey Swann
William Dorsey Swann was born into slavery in Hancock, Maryland on November 4th, 1860. At the end of the Civil War, his parents bought a farm, and shortly after that, Swann began his first job as a hotel waiter. He was caught stealing books from the Washington Library Company (as well as an object from his employers' home) at 24 years old, charges of petty larceny he plead guilty to and was subsequently sentenced to six months in jail.
However, luck - and possibly genuine allyship - were on his side: his former employers, as well as the judge and Assistant US Attorney assigned to his case, all supported a presidential pardon on his behalf, arguing he was "free from vice, industrious, refined in his habits, and associations, gentle in his disposition, courteous in his bearing" (quote indirectly attributed to the case). This petition was founded on the grounds that he had demonstrated an effort to improve his own education and provide for his family.
Swann was not only the first U.S. American to lead a gay resistance group, but also the first official drag queen, or as he called himself, a "queen of drag." He organized a series of drag balls in Washington, D.C. throughout the 1880s and 1890s, the majority of the attendees of which were formerly enslaved African Americans. A group of regulars formed the "House of Swann", one of the earliest examples of a drag house or "haus", a.k.a. an organized attempt at creating a LGBTQ found family. Because these drag events were considered taboo, invitations were most frequently placed in the secrecy of safe spaces like the YMCA.
Due to the rampant prejudice against queer folk, free Black folk, formerly enslaved people, and especially people who were all of the above, Swann's home was raided and he and his guests were arrested by the police on multiple occasions. The most infamous of these instances took place on April 12, 1888, during which Swann was arrested at his thirtieth birthday party - the first ever documented case of an arrest made on the grounds of "female impersonation." That was the origin of what I would argue is his most legendary quote, "You is no gentleman", words Swann spoke in abject fury to an arresting offer.
These words made clear exactly what qualms Swann and his fellow Black and queer Americans had with the current establishment: rich and working class whites alike, but especially white nonqueer male landowners, often shared the unfounded belief that they were inherently more sophisticated - and deserving of this perception by others - as a result of their social privilege. These whites thought of themselves as white knights; protectors of white women, white children, and Manifest Destiny, but their desire to defend the innocent and vulnerable from harm did not extend beyond those they viewed as their own kin. By common standards today, this definition of "gentlemanly behavior" is quite ungentlemanly, a sentiment not echoed but rather originating with Swann's famous words of defiance.
Swann died at age 65 on December 23, 1925 after a long life of unapologetic devotion to the Black and queer community of Hancock. Local officials burned his home to the ground in the wake of his death, but their cruel actions failed to tarnish, let alone outlive, his legacy.
"You is no gentleman." — William Dorsey Swann
You might not know that he...
Was fully literate; capable of both reading and writing in English
Had an intimate relationship with Pierce Lafayette
Requested a pardon from President Grover Cleveland, who refused to grant it (July 29, 1896)
And his drag balls laid the foundation for modern day "voguing" with the cakewalk, a dance that mimicked the mannerisms of plantation owners
Was the first American on record who pursued legal and political action to defend the LGBTQ community's right to gather
Read more:
William Dorsey Swann, the Queen of Drag (Rediscovering Black History)
The First Drag Queen Was a Former Slave (The Nation)
House of Swann: Where Slaves Became Queens (Channing Joseph, Whiting)
William Dorsey Swann: The first "Queen of Drag" (American Masters, PBS)
How a former slave became the world's first drag queen (Alva French, Dan John, BBC)
The First Drag Queen (Channing Joseph, American Academy in Berlin)
William Dorsey Swann (Otis Alexander, Black Past)
From slavery to voguing: the House of Swann (Marjorie Morgan, National Museums Liverpool)
Already know I wanna send this to people on June 1
Audio:
Erika, referencing ebenezer scrooge: You, boy! What day is it?!
Brennan, as a young boy: It's Pride, bitch!
It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.
Annual reblog of Freddie and his magnificent cats.
happy Pride Eve!
Happy Pride Eve!
had a fun experience on the subway the other day
Making Queer History Podcast: Marsha P. Johnson
Our second episode of the rebooted Making Queer History podcast, covering the incredible Marsha P. Johnson.
Read the full article about Marsha P. Johnson here.
You were born with blonde hair.
You hate it.
It looks terrible on you and you've always thought that. When you were really young, you thought that's just what everyone thought about their hair colour. When you were a teenager, people chalked it up to hormones and wanting to be unique and follow the trends of dying your hair. It wasn't.
You've seen people with brown hair. It looks so good. You start imagining yourself with beautiful brunette hair. What if you could be that? And then you hear someone talk about you, call you 'that blonde over there' or someone telling you, 'your blonde hair looks so good!' and you're reminded all over again.
Your parents talk about something. Something you've never heard of before. "All those young kids, dying hair everywhere," they say. You ask them what it means. "Oh, that's when someone with one hair colour thinks they're better off with another hair colour." Your heart lights up. There's more people like you. You're not insane. And then- "Fucking insane. They just want to feel special. All this ridiculousness over trends." It hits you in the heart. You say nothing, just mumble an 'okay' and turn your attention back to your food.
That night, you're scrolling on your phone, and one video pops out. It's talking about dyed hair. You see people not just with natural-coloured dyed hair, but blues and greens and so many other colours. It looks beautiful. You remember your blonde hair. Could it finally be brown? These people are like you. They might be able to help.
You do research. You reach out to people online. And finally, you have your hands on a box dye from a store. it's not the highest quality, but you have it. At midnight the next weekend, you do it. You dye it brown. It's messy and tricky, but your heart is swelling with joy the entire time.
You expect people at school to be happy. Your hair is beautiful. You're beautiful. You finally feel comfort in your hair, confident in the way you look. Instead, you get side-eyes. People whisper and glare. One of your friends pulls you aside. "What happened to your hair?" You tell her you dyed it. Asks her if it looks nice. She grimaces. "Yeah... it looks fine.... but your blonde hair was your natural hair colour and it looked fine as well." You tell her the truth. How you've always hated it on you. Found brown to be so, so much prettier. Looked so much more amazing on you, and felt it too. "Yeah... but blonde is still your natural hair colour, right? No amount of dye is going to change that." Your confidence starts to sink. Will everyone think this?
Turns out, they will. You hear people still refer to you as "that blonde there". New people express confusion. "But her hair's brown? It's very clearly brown." "Well, yeah, but she dyed it. Her natural hair colour is blonde." "Oh... okay."
Your parents don't like it. "Your blonde hair was so beautiful," your mother sobs through her tears. "Why did you have to ruin it? My beautiful blonde child is gone! Gone forever! Why did you do it?" And you tell her that her child is not gone, her child is right here, just with different hair. She doesn't listen to a single word. Your father is mad. He yells at you to get out of his house, that you're a fucking disgrace, that you're mentally ill and brainwashed by trends and so many other hurtful things. You can only leave.
You try to go to another friend's place. She answers the door with a scowl. "Why are you here?" she seethes. She's angry. Why? You tell her about your situation. "Serves you right," she spits. "You're incredibly offensive to everyone with blonde hair." You ask her why, puzzled. "You clearly hate blonde hair. Why else would you dye it? Do you find blonde people disgusting?" No, no, that's not it. Blonde people are fine, you try saying. It just didn't suit me. I wish it did, but it didn't, so I changed it. "Stop twisting everything," she says. "I don't want to see your face." The door closes and you're left there on the steps.
You don't know what else to do. Were you truly lying? No, blonde hair has never suited you. Brown looks better. Brown makes you feel secure. You feel it's what makes you feel like yourself. But why can no one grasp that?
You search up more on your phone, and you find a community for similar people. People thrown out, disowned, abused for dying their hair or expressing wants to. When you get there, you find that they accept you with the warmest smiles and the coziest hugs. You find people that bleached their brown hair to blonde and dyed their blonde hair to brown, just like you, and they look so amazing. You find people with all sorts of coloured hair too, red, blue, yellow, purple, multicoloured and hair that gets redyed differently depending on the day. They all have similar stories. You've finally found a place you belong.
Outside, people are still outraged. They scream at the community that they're brainwashing their kids, that they're grooming every kid to dye their hair until there's no natural hair kids left. You don't feel hurt anymore. You know now they make no sense. They push out their own children, and this is the result. They don't want people with dyed hair banding up together.
Brown hair has always suited you. You're rather tired of people trying to pretend it doesn't.
This is not about dyed hair.
RIP to the legend
This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!
I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:
He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.
Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.
Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.
When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.
Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.
Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.
As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.
His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."
Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.
Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.
What a time to be alive???