#queer cheer

[allheartcards]

Happy Holigays!

[rhodrymavelyne]

Conversations with Christopher: Queer Cheer

Poetry and prose meet as one character steps in the world of another.

He’s a ghost among many airy figures, yet the air hums with their passion, enthusiasm, and the sheer joy of being so close together.  Christopher almost jostles two men, his elbow passing through them. They’re so engrossed in kissing each other, they don’t notice, exuding a ruddy glow of lust.  He backs up into a couple of women with high-necked collars undone, holding glasses of amber wine in…

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[rhodrymavelyne]

My poem for Bay Area Queer Writers's upcoming anthology!

[toptierqueer]

Make the yuletide gay!!! 🤣🌈

[jennacolemans]

omg i love those icons and i was wondering where some of the pics are from? they don't look familiar and i'm wondering if i missed a trailer or something haha

THANK YOU!  I think the ones you might mean, like the one you choose to use :P, are from Spoiler TV’s stills they released (just search spoiler tv and the man in the high castle and you should be able to find them…) but others are just old stills/bts photos like Klemm’s.

happy to answer questions  ||  accepting

[sunnylovestoby]

it’s funny how straight people complain that queer people are talking about their sexuality too much meanwhile straight people feel the need to assure you about their heterosexuality within the first five minutes of meeting them

[annachibi]

3, 10, and 16!

how long have you been aware of your sexuality/gender?

phew okay I’m just gonna do sexuality cuz I’m still figuring out the gender bit tbh. so I identify as bisexual, but I honestly was not fully aware of it for a LONG LONG time. like, part of me kinda knew as early as 11 when I wrote in my diary that I didn’t “want to get bisexual” from roleplaying guys all the time and should try to balance it out by playing some girls too. (I didn’t exactly know what roleplaying was at the time either so I didn’t use those words but I DID use the word “bisexual” which was honestly a shock to me when I discovered it years later.) when I was in high school, I vividly remember having a conversation with a gay guy about bisexuals being confused or whatever, and part of my (our?) logic at the time was that almost everyone has a certain amount of same-sex attraction, so it’s really just a matter of which one you like best. (at the time, I also had no idea there were other genders.) what I didn’t realize was that bisexuality doesn’t mean you’re 50-50 attracted to men and women, and I didn’t really understand that until years later on tumblr. and even then, it took me a few years (and a giant crush) to accept that I was bisexual and to settle into using the term for myself. I was probably 23-24 when I started trying it out for myself. I didn’t create a separate tag on tumblr for bisexuality until about 3 years ago, which was pretty much when I started becoming comfortable identifying that way. one of the biggest pieces of THAT puzzle was getting confirmation that bisexuality is not about being attracted to just men and women, the way it’s most often explained in the mainstream. the BI part of bisexuality is actually referring to the two ORIENTATIONS it was attempting to combine, essentially: heterosexuality and homosexuality. which, when you think about it, includes everyone, because “same as you” and “different from you” encompasses literally everything. although “two or more genders” is also a valid way of defining bisexuality! ANYWAY. that was more information than the question asked for lmao

who has been your supportive idols in your self discovery?

*shifty eyes* am I allowed to say Rufus Sewell for this? is that too predictable? XD even before I found out he kinda thought he was gay when he was a young teenager (he’s not, but he’s never exactly identified his sexuality, to my knowledge, and honestly that’s just such a hot-button issue for a lot of actors that I don’t ever really expect to get an answer one way or another), he just sorta made me feel like whatever I figured out about myself sexuality-wise or gender-wise or whatever, it was fine. not that I needed approval or anything, just that y’know at least there would be one person I admired who I didn’t really have to wonder if they’d be accepting, if that makes sense. I mean, the dude is lowkey (used to be highkey) into genderfuckery, okay? and every time I find out something new about him re: that stuff, it only serves to make me realize he’s even MORE inclusive than I thought he was!

others are David Bowie (do I even have to explain that?), Freddie Mercury (who I found out was bisexual via tumblr btw), Eddie Izzard (”No, I wear dresses. They’re not women’s dresses, I buy them.”), Alan Cumming (very adamantly bisexual and possibly the first one of these I read about identifying as such, and his words on the subject were very helpful in my early search for understanding), umm… THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT MALE, I SWEAR, I JUST CAN’T THINK OF THEM AT THE MOMENT this is part of why I’m still waffling on my own gender ugh

any tips on coming out?

above all else, ONLY ever come out (voluntarily) if you feel that you will be SAFE doing so. you are not lying by staying in the closet! your personal details don’t have to be public record for them to be valid!

coming out actually isn’t a one-time thing. at all. you do it every single time you meet someone new. you can come out to one person and not another; it’s up to you. do what you think is best for YOU. did you come out to your mom but your grandfather is a homophobic/cissexist jerk? then don’t tell him. but it does become easier every time you do it because it’s practicing!

have some resources on hand if you think whoever you’re coming out to will need them

ease into it if you have to! drop little hints here and there. use hypotheticals to gauge their reaction and see if they’re open to the topic. talk about relevant news or media. just generally show a bit of an interest or curiosity in stuff that’s relevant, and they may start learning things and becoming more understanding without you even coming out yet.

do it lowkey if you want to! one of the first things I did was change my facebook header to the bisexual flag. that way, if they knew what it meant, they’d probably understand and not be judgey, but if they didn’t know what it meant then they’d just think it was a nice set of colors lol! start putting rainbows on stuff or something like that. I have a bracelet with the bisexual colors that I sometimes wear, and another bracelet that literally says “bisexual” on it for when I want to be more clear. little signals like that are also helpful in finding others in the community. :D

thanks for the questions!! gosh, I never thought I’d be at the point where I could actually give useful advice for coming out. :’D

[sleepingwiththegods]

Homosocial - advj. A term describing same-sex relationships that were referred to in popular and literary culture as romantic or intimate friendships.

An old-world term for gal pals.