happy pride to everyone except the people who discount your queerness because you haven't had a "same sex" relationship yet

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happy pride to everyone except the people who discount your queerness because you haven't had a "same sex" relationship yet
i know you'll probably see this much later than i send this but i'm about to have a work zoom meeting with a girl who had me questioning my sexuality for the last few months (turns out i'm not as straight as i thought i was...) and i'm freaking out a little a lot rn... just had to share this with someone that's all
ahhhhhh best of luck!!!! hope everything goes/went well š
bisexual VIOLENCE
okay. now everyone say i love u bi women
i love being bisexual. good job if you're also bisexual. really funny and sexy of us all
one thing about me is that i am bisexual
shout out to queer people who havenāt āknown the whole timeā, or didnāt hear labels for the first time and have something āclickā. youāre not faking it, your story is still worthy of being told.
A bisexual dating another bisexual is a level of power only the gods understand.
bitchiness š bitterness š bisexuality š
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Mark Ashton died on this day, the 11th of February, in 1987.
Mark was born on the 19th of May, 1960 in Oldham, but grew up in Portrush, Northern Ireland. He moved to London in 1978, where he worked in a bar in Kingās Cross, in drag as a barmaid with a blonde beehive.
In the 1980s, he volunteered for London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard, campaigned for CND and joined the Communist Party, becoming the first gay secretary of the Young Communist League. Though Mark transformed the Partyās approach to LGBT rights, he and Mike Jackson, who heād met through Switchboard, wanted to be active as openly gay people. They formed Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) when they collected donations for miners on strike at 1984 Gay Pride.
In the evening of 1984 Pride, a miner spoke at a rally, and they were struck by the similarities between the two struggle, of LGBT rights and the Minersā Strike. Having collected about Ā£150, they advertised a meeting in Capital Gay. 11 people turned up and from the meeting they made a leaflet to launch LGSM - the leaflet was accepted except with an amendment to āone in ten miners is gay.ā
As LGSM, they supported the miners as lesbian and gay people. At the second meeting, they decided to focus on one community, of the Dulais Valley, as one of the members, Hugh Williams, was from there. They then met David (Dai) Donovan, who also had thought through the similarities of their struggles and how LGSM could help. A month later, 27 lesbians and gay men, arrived at Onllwyn village in Dulais Valley.
Other than some hostility (and confusion towards vegetarianism), they experienced warmth, friendship and solidarity. LGSM raised Ā£20,000 for families of miners on strike, and based on The Sun writing thatĀ āa group of pervertsā were āsupporting the pits,ā they organised the Pits and Perverts concert in December, 1984, headlined by Bronski Beat. The miners marched with LGSM at Gay Pride in 1985.
Mark was admitted to hospital on 30th January, 1987, and died 12 days later from pneumonia, aged 26. At his memorial, there were banners from the Communist Party, Anti-Apartheid, anti-nuclear, Caribbean and community groups, as well as from LGSM. The Mark Ashton Trust was created to support individuals diagnosed with Aids; Mark is also remembered on the UK Aids Memorial Quilt and by Terrence Higgins Trust, with the Mark Ashton Red Ribbon Fund and a plaque at their London headquarters. In 2017, on what would have been his 57th birthday, he was honoured with a blue plaque above Gayās The Word bookshop.
[Images: 1. Mark Ashton at Gay Pride 1981. 2. Mark Ashton at Gay Pride 1985, wearing a LGSM t-shirt and holding a pink āCommunist Partyā banner with the words āpinko commie queers.ā 3. Blue plaque reading: āLesbians and Gays Support the Miners. Mark Ashton 1960-1987. Political and Community Activist. LGSM met at Gayās the Word bookship on this site 1984/5.ā]
The mile-long rainbow flag being carried down First Avenue in New York City.
i support bi rights. but more relevantly i support bi wrongs
the best part of being bi is that i can yearn for a girlfriend AND a boyfriend. duality of clown.
Just saw a TikTok where this bi woman was like,
āIām a woman-leaning bisexual and you know what pisses me off? The fact that Iām dating a skinny white man and I love him and Iām happy, like what the fuck.ā
And I just have to say. What pisses me off as a bisexual woman is that TikTok.
This is the Woke version of āmy wife is the olā ball and chain, doesnāt it suck to be married,ā jokes. Itās not funny. Your queerness is not negated or tarnished by opposite-gender attraction, dating men isnāt inherently worse than dating women.
Love your partner.
Cherish them.
For fucks sake.
So much this. Iāve had a rant building for a while and it looks like todayās the day.
Iām getting REAL SICK of that ābisexual means Iām attracted to all women and two menā joke. Iām getting equally sick of the implication, in a thousand ways, that men are bad and itās inherently worse to be attracted to them. If youāre a woman or woman-adjacent and you fall in love with a man, thereās this horrible and easy-to-internalize idea that youāre taking the lesser option.
Like yāall. Yāall? You know thatās gender essentialist radfem bullshit, right?
If you didnāt, Iād like to gently suggest you consider the idea that "Men are problematic (read: sinful) and violent, women are pure, beautiful and lovingā is just conservative Christian ideology in a gay hat. We are not advancing towards equality for all genders by flipping which end of the scale is The Bad One (TM).
Iām bisexual. I make a point of talking about being queer (because itās my identity and culture, and thatās important to me), and I present mostly in the androgynous area of the spectrum. People often assume Iām only/mostly interested in women.
Thatās actually not true. I like all genders, but when it comes to specific people, Iām most often attracted to men. And it makes me sad -- really, genuinely sad -- how many times Iāve felt ashamed to talk about that. Even though Iām not a woman, liking a man has made me feel ānot queer enough.ā Hell, some days it still does.
Iām gonna say this, even though I know a lot of people wonāt like it. And I will also say in advance that I am not accepting criticism and I donāt argue on the internet as a personal mental health policy.
That said, here is the statement: This too is a closet.
Anytime youāre ashamed to admit to liking someone because theyāre the āwrongā gender, anytime falling in love is treated like a disappointment instead of a celebration, I donāt care who you are or who your partner is, that is a FUCKING CLOSET. And I would appreciate it if we could STOP PUTTING PEOPLE IN THOSE.
Honestly, shit like that should be seen for the relationship red flag it is.
If youāre a man, absolutely do not date someone who thinks their attraction or affection for you is something they ought to be ashamed of.
And regardless of your gender, avoid women who subscribe to the idea that women can do no wrong and are inherently pure and safe because holy fuck is that an easy and gaslighty shield to hide behind for abusers. Iāve heard a variation of that story too many times to think thereās not a correlation there.