#mgsri

[sleepymouses]

Seeing rainbows everywhere is nice and all, but I just hope for all the allies out there that putting a filter over ur facebook profile picture isn't the extent of ur support for the LGBTQIA+ community.

This also goes for all the companies out there suddenly capitalizing on marriage equality by adding a new colour scheme in their ads, when they really haven't really done all that much to actually help out the community. 

[sleepymouses]

just so u know, every time someone changes the lyrics of a song to make it straight, an angel loses it’s wings

[ahundredhundredheartbeats]

Supernatural fans: we'd like some queer representation that's not a gag and we think it could become canon realistically

Supernatural writers: we're gonna troll people desperate for positive representation and make fun of the very idea of queer relationships by taking advantage of the blatant homophobia we've written into the characters since day one

[punkfistfights]

A couple of weeks ago my very touchy-feely (straight) friend was sitting in my lap and I was tickling her, right? I know that sounds a little weird, but she and I have a very hands-on friendship. Anyways, I was tickling her when a girl I kind of knew walked up to us and asked if we were dating. I said no, she's straight. The girl looked shocked "She's straight?" she asked, eyes wide. We nodded and she looked at me. "Are you straight." I laughed and told her, no. If possible her eyes widened even farther and she exclaimed, "You're not straight?!" It's just so amusing to me that she was equally shocked my friend was straight as she was that I'm NOT straight.

[ahundredhundredheartbeats]

why did i let myself get sucked into a gay marriage conversation at my place of work? like obviously i don't feel comfortable just letting people say shit, but then it was work and that's not a professional thing to do ... BUT we're unusually close at my work and my older catholic lady coworker was giving this party line and i really had to draw the line at "we have rules, and if you don't follow the rules we'll have chaos." because. seriously.

as a catholic i don't believe my church endorses that kind of shit. and that's not what i read in my bible either.  and even though obviously the hierarchy and the code of canon law say things that i think are bullshit, what she was saying was not even what the church actually teaches and i get really fucking irritated when someone cuts me off and completely dismisses me when i actually know a lot about this shit dammit

[gifted-united]

My experiences being gifted are kind of similar to my experiences being queer. Stick with me, here. Both giftedness and “queerness” (if you can call it that) are kind of inborn. They are traits that were always at the back of my mind, but, as neither is an external factor, took a while for me to realize. Both traits excite the same questions from cis straight people and NTs. “When did you come out?” is a common question, rather than the understanding that one must come out over and over again in a cycle of reassertion and validity of identity, no matter how others may think of me. “When did you realize you were gifted?” “When did you realize you were queer?”-- when really, both of those things took me a long time to process the apparence and meanings of. I didn’t realize I was gifted by taking an IQ test; I didn’t realize I was queer when I first kissed a girl, or when I looked through a list of genders and picked one out. There was no “aha!” moment with either of these things. Rather, discovering both took long, confused bouts of asking myself: “why do I feel different from other people?” and trying to discover who I was. Honestly, I’m still discovering who I am. Community helps with that. I like being in groups of other gifted people so that I feel understood. The same comfort comes from attending a queer youth group. I often have to fight to be understood, but both experiences of being gifted and being queer have given me unique and valuable perspectives on the world that I wouldn’t have gained otherwise. Fostering pride in those traits in an important process-- one I’m still learning. There’s also a certain amount of “screw what other people think, I am who I am” attitude that developes with both of these things. Why do I have the tendency to be a sassy little shit? Who knows.

[subliminaltwist]

hey heads up, MGSRI (Marginalized Gender Sexuality Romantic Identities) is actually a better term to use than GSRM because using the word "minorities" is actually problematic because of its primary association with poc

Fixed! And good to know, thank you. :)

[subliminaltwist]

Discuss!

I started watching this documentary called "Outrage" about conservative, anti-gay, gay politicians.

Thing is, it's starting off with the outing of this guy named Senator Larry Craig. The outing happened a while back--the documentary didn't do the outing. I always think it's terrible to out people, but is it different in this instance?

Senator Craig routinely voted against freedoms and protections for MGSRI (marginalized gender sexual and romantic identities) people, from gay marriage to workplace discrimination protection to hate crime protection. In more than one instance, his vote was the deciding vote which cast aside protections. (He would also not treat the men he slept with very nicely, though that's a side issue.)

When someone is this powerful a force against MGSRI equality, do they deserve the same privacy and protections as the average closeted person?