#queer rage

[femgineerasolution]

I'm a trans woman

I'm a lesbian

I love women

AND THE UK SUPREME COURT CAN'T FUCKING STOP ME

[skys-archive]

full of an absolutely insane amount of trans rage right now. currently its about the fact that i, living in the deep south as a nonbinary person, will only ever be casted as male characters in my main theatre, and yet can never be a lead or even considered for a lead because of my trans identity. And for the other, I will likely only ever be considered for female roles. There's a chance at being considered for leads, but I'm forever stuck in a box of playing women. In my main I'm forever stuck in a box of playing men. In both it is likely that they wouldn't want me as a lead, because they are so often romantic leads, and how could they possibly do that? How could they put the other lead in the position of having to be romantic with a trans person? How could they possibly make a woman kiss "the same gender"? How could they possibly make a man kiss "the same gender"? How could they possibly make the public watch a queer performance on stage, and be forced to really notice and see that? How could they possibly ruin their reputation like that? They're theatre, yes, they push the societal bounds, but to put a trans performer in a romantic role? To let them see a trans person be loved? A trans person love? Even if that's not how the character is? Even if they are fully playing the character as the intended gender? Unthinkable.

Just. Absolutely seething. And I feel like I shouldn't be. There are so many larger problems. But that's just the problem, isn't it? So many things. There are so, so many things piling up day after day after day that I can't do a single thing about. From people being killed to people being denied access to bathrooms to passing comments that are sometimes the last straw in a day. There's so much. There is so, so much. And everyone, everyone I've ever complained to, hoping they'll listen and maybe have some kind of solution even though I know they won't, just tells me the same thing. They tell me it will pass. They tell me it's not a big deal. They tell me I shouldn't worry about it. They suggest things that are downright vile. People I thought I know. People I've been friends with. Other queer people. Other TRANS people. I'm so tired. I'm so tired of not being able to do anything and not even being validated when I'm angry about it.

[aaa-battery-not-rechargeable]

we as a queer community don't talk enough about the reality that some people are forcibly outed.

i was forcibly outed and it is jarring and uncomfortable and i wasn't ready for it. it's emotionally violating, and you cannot ever go back into the closet.

the reality is, some people are just not safe, just not trustworthy, and don't actually value your well-being.

it shapes your experience in the world, especially for a young child to learn that someone they thought was trustworthy is not actually willing to protect them. it sets up the basis for fear, and denial, and repression. it cements in someone's brain that no one is to be trusted with your identity, and that you are somehow wrong.

it's never a good thing to tell someone to repress their identity, but the reality is that some people do not have queer safety in their minds. some people do not care.

[crazyjane13]

The Duffers might not find themselves welcome at Paramount

The Duffer brothers have put Netflix in their dust and moved to Paramount. There's been some speculation that this was partly the reason why they completely screwed over their queer characters in Stranger Things.

BUT.

If that is the case, they miscalculated badly.

Paramount is the home of arguably the biggest fan-positive and fan-driven franchises in history - Star Trek.

Star Trek is a show that has consistently pushed boundaries - from the first tv interracial kiss to trans folk across a variety of species, to a canon gay couple across 4 seasons of Discovery, to a canon enby supporting cast member.

It's weathered bullshit from homophobes and racists for decades. It doesn't queerbait. It doesn't use its queer characters as punching bags or hetslop marriage counsellors, and it doesn't push the message that queer folk need to be consent with "acceptance" and don't deserve love. Quite the contrary.

The Stamets/Hugh marriage is fully developed. Like every other couple, they have likes and dislikes about each other. They argue, even come to the point of breaking up, but are emotionally mature enough to work through the problems. They show their love in a myriad of quiet yet unmistakable ways. They have a kid. This isn't 'in spite of' their being gay - their love is as deep and committed as any straight couple ever depicted.

When Adira told her adopted Dads (the aforementioned couple) they were non-binary, they were celebrated for it. There was no awkwardness over pronouns, no "it's just a phase", no "aliens made you enby". Just love.

Deep Space Nine features a trans allegory character - Dax, a symbiote whose host can be any gender. Their name changes with each host. When Kor, a Klingon leader (Klingons being the most warlike and generally fairly intolerant) greets Dax after a long time away, he says, "Curzon, my old friend!" Curzon is the previous host, who has since died, so Dax corrects Kor. "It's Jadzia, now." Without missing a beat, Kor declares, "Jadzia, my old friend!"

And also from Deep Space Nine, we had Bashir and Garak, whose seasons-long flirtation was finally confirmed as an actual romance in Lower Decks, 27 years later.

Star Trek has no time for pandering to bigots, and never has.

And Paramount knows when it's on a good thing. Star Trek is still one of its biggest earners. If the Bluffers think that going to Paramount will be a place where they can pull the same sort of shit they did on Stranger Things, they are sadly mistaken - and I, for one, cannot wait to drink those delicious tears.

[kyriefae]

On the anniversary of Stonewall, I feel like sharing this song by Rise Against.

Across the generations, we are the voices all ignored.

They are erasing our history in real time. We are a credible threat to the rules they set. We are not the problem...it's the fucking system they design and enforce to break us down and break us apart.

Never forget our strength. Never forget our beauty. 🤘🌈🧱

[oranghost]

Queer youth of the U.S. This is not the time to lay down and die or let the anxiety get the better of you. Our community needs numbers & protection.

I get it, we're all fucking tired-- exhausted, even. I am, too. The president has been targetting specifically me (puerto ricans; disabled people; queers) since I was literally 12. Now he's coming for my adult life, too. You think I ain't nervous?

But I'm noticing a lot of anxiety and defeatist mentality in people a little younger than me. And a lot of privileged queers out here in New York/Jersey aren't even excited or making pride plans, even though they could be.

Fucking what?? No. This isn't the year you should sit out for! We've got WORK to do!

Jesus christ, people! We've got to grow up sometime. The older queers did not go through all that hell just for Gen Z to turn out all soft & fumble the bag like this. One "Big Beautiful Bill" and a shitty legislation & we REALLY start seeing who is/isn't a coward.

This isn't the time to speak a Republican victory into existence talking about some "they're gonna win." 'Course they will with that attitude.

Contact the political people and raise hell. Go to the festivals, marches, the pride centers, and the mutual aids if you can. Google is your friend.

Get little trinkets from queer owned businesses, even if its just one thing because they're pricey and we're broke. Support queer art, queer conversation, queer innovation, queer media, and history. Bask in all forms of love & heart that beat louder than the hands of these incapable old fucks who'll never know the feeling.

If literal loud celebration & the chaos of a pride march overstimulates you, opening some gay little book or film works, too.

Go out and have fun with your dumb gay friends if you have 'em-- queer joy is resistance, too! It could be literally just climbing trees together, Mario Kart, or getting stoned in someone's basement. If you're laughing, it's working.

Get that binder, that piece of clothing, or haircut that you want. Go on that date with your partner(s) or ask out that long time crush of yours, or bang that cute stranger; whatever.

And post about pride. Even if it's subtle.

Whatever you can access and do, revel in it this June and make the most of it. Everyone wants to act like we're all gonna die tomorrow. It's our job to fight like hell, make sure we don't, and make the most out of living on the off chance that we do. 🌈

[momijigari]

[chr0n1c4l-n3rd]

I‘m so MAD. Im at the anger stage of grief rn and it’s actually so awful: the straights got, once a-fucking-gain, EVERYTHING.

They even got their stupid mileven kiss, with awkward handplacement, after that weird nothingburger platonic shit tension between them the whole season. Mike called Jane his friend, my god.

And it would’ve been so easy to include at least rovickie. Just a glimpse of them at Enzos or idk any date at all.

It would’ve meant SO MUCH to every queer person watching this. It would’ve meant the world to me. Straight rep is everywhere, it means literally nothing.

But no, instead we got being gay as wills only character trait, apparently he spends his whole future touching random no-name arms in a gay bar in New York, and a rovickie breakup “off screen”, where their whole fucking relationship also happened because apparently lesbian story’s aren’t worth to be told, including a complete feminisation of rockin’ robin.

So yeah, I’m FURIOUS.