[thecryptkeeper]

Selection of photographs (1966-70) from Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (1972)

A young man in curlers at home on West 20th Street, N.Y.C. 1966

Two men dancing at a drag ball, N.Y.C. 1970

Seated man in a bra and stockings, N.Y.C. 1967

A naked man being a woman, N.Y.C. 1968

Transvestite at a drag ball, N.Y.C. 1970

Transvestite with torn stocking, N.Y.C. 1966

[genderqueerpositivity]

Minnesota’s Giant Rainbow and Leather Pride Flags

June 28, 1998. Both flags measured approximately 50 feet wide and 75 feet long.

[ryuutchi]

Friendly reminder that the leather flag predates almost every other flag. We owe this community to leather daddies and kinksters

[nightmarechamillian]

In the era of corporate sanitization never forget it was leather daddies and S&M folks who protected some of the earliest pride parades.

[tboyblues]

halfway through reading Stone Butch Blues and its already so important to me, and has made me feel even more affirmed in identifying as butch. some thoughts ive been having:

• reading about the relationships between butches and femmes has made me realize that there is potential for me to be with a femme, which is something ive struggled with the idea of for the past few years because i thought no woman would ever be interested in me because of things like my body as a trans person. its been really fulfilling to imagine being in a relationship with a femme one day, and freeing to feel like its possible

• ive been realizing how much i relate to being stone as someone with so much sexual trauma, i could never place why i felt so uncomfortable or not myself when bottoming or being touched in certain ways but this book has opened me up to the idea that i dont have to do that, i can have boundaries while still exploring and enjoying sex. also outside of sex, i really heavily relate to having such a wall put up due to enduring so much pain and trauma, and the way that can shape your identity

• the relationship between toughness and tenderness has really changed my mindset about myself and identifying as butch. before i thought butch meant only being hard and tough and not showing softer emotions, so i derided myself for the soft parts of myself and thought i could never indentify as butch because of them, but now understanding that tenderness for those you care about is integral i just feel so affirmed and its so beautiful

anyways this book is amazing, happy pride

[flinsgrave]

puppy paw nips !

[evisxerate]

shirt i made for pride, its far from perfect but i love it

[crreature]

portraits of butches of color pt 2. via butchisnotadirtyword

[cryptidclub]

a design I made for a donation sticker for Pride Month! i love all of my friends in the community very much ❤️ mwah mwah i will be making these into stickers with the profits being donated here, feel free to check em out and donate while the sticker is in production :)

[bratprincedyke]

Bratking666

Unapologetic dyke illustrator and tattoo artist

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[crazysodomite]

im kind of obsessed with this graphic.

[spiralmindz]

i will never be forced to be in "community" with nazis and pedophiles i dont give a fuck

[spiralmindz]

ppl have been saying this but i really do despise how much radqueer 4chan type bullshit is being spread thru queer tumblr space currently like. what are we fucking doing man. hating lolicons and nazis used to be normal

[andreii-tarkovsky]

Gaycation - “USA”

[powerbottombrucespringsteen]

The thing is nobody at pride is evaluating you to determine if you’re queer enough to be there because they’re too busy thinking “it’s so hot out” and “why is this lemonade 12 dollars?”

[cowboy-heart]

'BUTCH MANIFESTO'

inspired by 'FEMME SHARK MANIFESTO' by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

(ID under cut)

Ko-Fi (Commissions Open!)

[ID: an original poem titled 'BUTCH MANIFESTO'. the stanzas are all on the left side of the page and lineated, except for the first line, and last stanza. Poem begins:

Listen up! Butches hold it down! We don’t spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes and black and white tuxes – we shop off the charity shop rack, hand-me-downs from our bois, our men, our women. Butch is not a glamour word - Butch is not for the white collars in their 9-5 and their office parties, Butch is not for the woman in a police uniform with short cropped hair, Butch is not for the masc who looks down on our femmes, Butch is not for the dumbass white people who call themselves stud, like our people haven’t taken enough from black lesbians, Butch is not for the politician or the soldier, it’s for those of us who get shit done and don’t throw anyone under the bus; who stand between our loved ones and the white-knuckled fist; it’s for the people who take a breath of relief when they get home and get to lay their head on the shoulder of their baby and say, it’s hard, and I need you right now; it’s for those of us with hard-soled feet, worn by hours of standing, just so people can buy some useless shit on a Sunday. Butch is for the primary school teachers, the neighbour keeping your package safe, the hairstylist, the barber, the youth worker, the locked up, the sectioned, the evicted, the boy on the dole. Butches hold each other up, Butches stand up for communities, no matter how different we might be.

Butches stand up for Butches, because only we know the shit we face, we don’t argue over what butch looks like for someone - their struggle doesn’t counteract ours. We’re brothers, sisters, siblings, lovers, mentors, we don’t fight over femmes or fight each other. We help up our siblings who can’t hold themselves up and shouldn’t have to.

Butch is recognising our hurt, our pain, and making sure nobody has to go through that, in the very least not alone. Butch is not reproducing that hurt, butch isn’t the transfem exclusion, the toxicity, it’s driving our girls and boys to the abortion clinic, it’s holding your femme’s hair back over the toilet bowl, it’s telling your darlin’ to take a deep breath, before you poke the needle into her thigh, it’s holding back on punching the catcaller because you know it’ll put your lover in more danger, it’s fishing in your closet for an old, dusty dress for your questioning girl, it’s never calling the cops, it’s carrying the Narcan, it’s gathering the funds for bail, it’s tipping the waiter, it’s kissing the bruised chin of a fellow butch who’s built like a brick shithouse.

Butch is not all muscle, able-bodied, white Butch is not all skinny and androgynous Butch is care Butch is NURTURE. Butch is a cane and an unsteady step Butch is putting down the ramp Butch is wheeling up it Butch is addict Butch is straight-edge Butch is diaspora Butch is desi Butch is antiracist Butch is socialist Butch is punk Butch is black Butch is brown Butch is fat Butch is fat-loving Butch is mental illness Butch is antipsych Butch is autism Butch is trans Butch is anger Butch is tears Butch is grief Butch is the old bull Butch is the closeted kid in a dress Butch is the baby dyke wearing a rainbow flag cape Butch is smile lines Butch is crinkled eyes Butch is crying in your friend’s beat-up car Butch is foetal position Butch is pink Butch is motherhood Butch is fatherhood Butch is cat-dad Butch is fucking Butch is getting fucked Butch is stone Butch is bashful Butch is humble Butch is cocky Butch is proud Butch is single Butch is uneducated Butch is poet Butch is poetry Butch is council estate Butch is gentleness Butch is bones and spit and the soft curve of our lower backs the clenched jaw under a double chin the hard-eyes that any femme can see right through the estradiol the testosterone the carabiner clink the thick hands the cellulite the bloody pads the tampon string the mood swings the sagging tits the top surgery scars the swinging cock the hairy pussy the protruding t-dick the leather harness.

Butch is eternity Butch is sewn into the fabric of atoms Butch is love and solidarity Butch is never leaving anyone behind and never selling anyone out.

End poem. In the bottom right corner, the poet is signed as 'Ren H.' End ID].

[yourfavstonehigh]

The stone butch that I created flag and It's meaning!

First, what is a stone butch? A stone butch is a butch who only gives sexual touch but does not receive it (on their genitals or, for others, on their erogenous zones). It is a sexual and cultural identity within the lesbian community. For some stones, their sexuality is expressed through dominance, being hypermasculine in a butch way, and, above all, respecting themselves, their partner, and each other’s boundaries. Now, the meaning of each stripe, from top to bottom, 7 stripes and a brief explanation.

Masculinity and stone identity

It is meant to represent butch masculinity and the stone identity as a whole.

Sexual boundaries

It is meant to represent the respect for boundaries that is fostered in the Stone culture.

Unique relationship with gender and sex

This is to show that every stone butch has a unique and different relationship with sex and gender.

Trans and gnc stone butch

It is intended to represent the history of gender non-conformity and transgender/transsexuality within stone butch communities.

Sexuality

It’s meant to show how butches proudly express their stone sexuality to the world.

Respect for high femmes

It’s about the respect, protection, and love that stone butches have created and nurtured with their high femme partners.

Community

Finally, the community. This last stripe on the flag reminds us that, above all, we are a community, one that exists only because others before us fought and resisted, and spoke out so that we could be here today. It serves as a reminder that, even though we are all unique and different, we are still part of the same community, and we must protect and respect one another.

Thanks for reading! Free to use.

[busket]

both trans men and trans women are punished for our proximity to both feminity and masculinity. people decide when we are men or women based on what is the WORST option at the moment. we both get treated like women only when someone needs to infantalize us or call us bossy, bitchy, stupid, vapid. we both get treated like men when someone wants to demonize and paint us as violent, predatory, abusive, perverted. NONE of us are benefiting from any gendered privilege, because we are always treated like the worst of either gender depending on the scenario. this is something all trans people experience, regardless of agab, both trans men and trans women. so why do we assume that the other side has the opposite experience as us?? why do you think that because your life as a trans man or a trans woman is painful, that a trans person of a different gender must have the opposite experience?? like i just dont get the preschool level understanding of gender like "well boys and girls are opposites so of course our experiences are opposites too" we are living the same transphobia and if you cant see it you need to listen to other people more

[thebookewyrme]

I want to staple this post to the foreheads of a huge swath of the trans people on this site. Specifically here and at this time. My IRL trans community, my other online trans communities, all get this. Granted those are both significantly more curated but still. WE HAVE TO HAVE EACH OTHER’S BACKS BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WILL. I don’t get what is so hard about that concept. We are all having the same sorts of experiences. I have more in common with my trans-femme girlfriend than my cis ex. And this is NOT because I was badly matched with my ex. Maybe my girlfriend injects her hormones with a different size needle than I do, but we’re both still holding a fucking needle you know???

Anyway, trans solidarity is a matter of basic survival right now. Stop doing the fascists’ work for them by turning on your trans siblings. It’s actively dangerous.

[auxphono]

Needed a clean graphic for a project, and figured while I was vectoring I would put sex and magic back in.

Happy Pride Month

[auxphono]

Reblogging this yearly for anyone who needs a very clean version <3 Happy Pride.

[drosophilamania]

Reblog to put the sex and magic back into pride

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”