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[venacesaur]

[geopsych]

Snow update, still falling.

[tenderfish]

#jealous

[kosmogrl]

they should invent a january that doesn’t make you go through every emotion known to mankind every day

[tenderfish]

welp

[tenderfish]

add me on snap ☁️⬇️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CRegK5CgBY8xTsN_g0ojRPIjVNR2l47vF6ZWkk0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[tenderfish]

queer as in fuck u 🏳️‍🌈🖕🏼🏳️‍⚧️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CQJhKSLMMwNybSJp23fnZaCmq-LxfHvtQzlo1U0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lgbtculture]

I want my gay rights now! - Marsha P. Johnson (NYC Pride Parade, 1973)

[understands]

[seduced]

[popularsizes]

[homomilitant-deactivated2019071]

if you say anything homophobic in June this truck comes out of nowhere and crushes you like that bus crushed Regina George

[koizik-deleted-deactivated20241]

it’s optimus pride

[fuerza-valor-realidad]

[nemfrog]

Where clouds form. Understanding Our World. Book 2. 1947. Internet Archive

[cryinginthelightofthetvstatic]

can we like…get rid of the so-called leather and rubber “pride flags” ? it’s honestly ridiculous and offensive to the lgbtq community. those aren’t pride flags. 

[dead-dyke]

The leather pride flag is the second oldest pride flag. It has been at almost every single US pride parade and protest in history.

It’s older then you are, it’s older then I am. The leather community is responsible for pride. Leather daddies were the ones chasing away cops when they tried to arrest us for being queer in public back when Pride Parades were illegal in the US. They are still the ones chasing away cops and corporations from smaller pride events and those that aren’t sanctioned by Wells Fargo. The leather community is essential to the queer community and has a long and rich history.

Please fuck off if you’re not going to learn the actual history of pride.

And don’t fucking out your hate in our tags, asshole.

[budgiesmuggled-deactivated20210]

The leather pride flag represents an expression of self which is inherently queer, and a community which has been around for generations. It is not offensive to the LGBT+ community in any way. I have seen cis gay and bisexual men standing shoulder-to-shoulder with trans men, all of them united by their leather community roots. The leather community is more diverse and nuanced than you perhaps know, but that is no reason for you to shit on a community you don’t understand.

Here is a photograph from 1998, displaying the leather pride flag, the bear gay pride flag, and the rainbow flag. This is our history.

Source.

Here is a photograph from 1987: three queer women entering into the Ms. National Leather Association Contest, or simply gathering as spectators.

Source.

A flyer from 1989, rallying the leather community to march in a Stonewall anniversary protest.

Source.

A photograph from 1988: Tony Deblase, the creator of the leather pride flag, and a gay man, embracing a fellow member of the leather community. Over his shoulder is Judy Tallwing McCarthy, a Native American woman who was part of the leather community from 1959. She co-founded the first lesbian BDSM group in Portland, along with her partner, Sashie Hyatt.

Source. Source.

Just because you don’t know the history, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Be humble, and always assume you have more to learn. Hatred, and outright dismissal of communities you know nothing about, is the most aggressively anti-LGBT thing I can imagine.

The leather community has always included trans people, lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals. The leather community is global and nuanced. The leather community is where many of us encounter our found families, and our lovers. For you to dismiss that is cold-hearted and ignorant. Just because queer sex is involved, doesn’t make the community dirty or bad.

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[pyromanictendencies]

shoutout to people who make zero sense. just speaking with absolute word salad that's incomprehensible to anyone else.

[bustnuttington-deactivated20151]

no one ever wants to mention that marsha p johnson was also a sex worker no one ever wants to acknowledge that sex workers have always been on the frontline of most radical historical movements

[rohgoreihgiorefdhgirehgreihg-de]

miss major and sylvia rivera were also sex workers and all of them used money from their sex work to keep lgbt kids from homelessness

[somethingaboutsomethingelse]

Brenda Howard, the mother of Pride, was also a sex worker. Sex workers (particularly trans and bi sex workers) were instrumental to forming the modern queer and LGBTQ+ liberation front. If your praxis and activism doesn’t include and uplift sex workers and sex worker rights, then it’s nothing more than a sham.

[yekkes]

Brenda Howard was also a bisexual Jewish woman

[love-jk]

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