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Someone reported my last one lol

[titusafterdark2]

New blog because the last got nuked

Old rules still apply, and if you don’t know what they were: too bad, I’m not typing all that out again

[fandomsandfeminism]

This may be the best Pride merch I've seen from a major corporation.

Levi's said yes, actually. Assless chaps and a biker vest. Happy Pride.

And the assless chaps sold out on June 1.

[aetherograph]

They also specifically contacted members of the leather community, used them as models iirc, and donated $100k to Outright International. They talked the talk and walked the walk and put their money on it too. I don't really care that I can't afford and don't want this merch, I love to see my community getting the respect it deserves. Levi's said, "We make jeans which gays wear lots of jeans? Oh leather daddies? Let's call them."

[fandomsandfeminism]

I think Levi's donates to Outreach International every year too, as well as sponsoring pride events and other community support. They were offering Same Sex domestic partner benefits to employees in the 90s, and have been very public about their support for pro-lgbt legislation all through the 2000s.

So, you know, a giant corporation that walks the walk pretty consistently.

[sprinkledsalt]

Ah, I see that Terminally Online "it's American imperialism's fault that I don't know about queer history in my own country (New Zealand)" post is making the rounds again this year. That post has tens of thousands of notes. "It's American imperialism's fault that June is considered Pride month!" uhh, or modern Pride parades as we know them started in America, and American Pride Month is in June lol. Other countries don't need to hold their Pride parades in June (and the person said their country's biggest cities already hold parades during different months! Then they complained that July should really be their country's Pride month. Okay? America isn't preventing you from making that happen lol)--but if you're going to adopt another culture's practice, you can't be shocked and appalled when that culture is associated with that practice. People can totally adopt a practice and make it their own, sure, go for it, but there's a reason why people hear about Stonewall outside of "imperialism" lol, it actually has a lot to do with why modern Pride parades are even a thing! Like I'm sorry you're mad something good came out of American culture, but the American LGBT+ community didn't make anyone else around the world start holding Pride parades at all, let alone in June.

Moreover, if you want to see more information about your own country's LGBT+ history, you could look it up and/or follow more of your countrymen instead of American bloggers, and you could make posts to share that information with others. It's true that other cultures don't get as much attention as America due to its cultural hegemony, and the stories from those cultures are worth telling. But that doesn't mean information about your own culture is stifled and hidden from you by those dastardly gay Americans posting about Pride lol, your dashboard is chosen by you. I know people get mad every time someone points this out, but learned helplessness isn't exclusive to America. Rotting in bed while passively scrolling is global. It's not imperialism that you won't use the same phone you scroll on 24/7 to look up anything useful about your own country and instead passively absorb information from the American bloggers you choose to follow. Honestly it's one thing for someone really informed about their country's history of LGBT+ rights to say "I wish more people outside of this country knew about this" (fair, valid!) and another to act like your own lack of knowledge is some evil plot. No one is responsible for your education but you (especially because the OP was from fucking New Zealand like...you're not in an authoritarian regime that suppresses this information lol).

And quite frankly I think this is just another version of the Terminally Online bullshit you see on here and twitter/bluesky from time to time that's like, sneering at Pride and posts about Pride as "privileged white gay bourgeoise bullshit" (because these people associate America with whiteness and see no issue with that at all lol), which is actually the tankie version of the classic homophobic view that gay rights and Pride are just effeminate, frivolous bullshit. It's brain worms all the way down

[laterkiss]

happy pride to my favourite post on reddit

[cutesexyrobutts2]

i did the box cover illustration for this VR-compatible toy Keon 2, Wild Life collector's edition ! Collab project between Kiiroo and Wild Life; super grateful for the opportunity

link: https://wildlife.kiiroo.com/collectors-edition

[circumstantialsimultaneity]

i just never really feel as empowered by the pictures of buttons from the 1990s that say DYKE on them as i imagine i am supposed to

[titusafterdark2]

It’s pride month once again, and I feel compelled to yell about how in the deleted scenes featured in the Criterion edition of Paris is Burning, you see a sign for a diner advertising a full breakfast for $1.25

Two eggs (cooked your way), choice of toast, bacon, coffee, two pancakes for less than a 20oz bottle of soda in 2026

God inflation is a bitch and a half

[thecrumbez]

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

[erratic-dragon-fruit]

out of the tags with you

[quasi-normalcy]

Sooner or later, you need to acknowledge that the 2017 women in the pink pussy hats were 100% right about everything.

[quasi-normalcy]

Also "orange man bad" is, was, and ever shall remain a trivially true statement.

[liquidpaperfoundation1]

I can't help but think about how much political discourse is about how people look while expressing their opinions more than what those opinions are. If you get too upset while defending women's rights you're a screaming blue hair sjw, and suddenly all you are is a caricature of an annoying person. Meanwhile people say shit about how Charlie Kirk "did political debates the right way" because he performed civility and rationality, even though the viewpoints he was trying to push were deeply racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic, christian nationalist, and just all-around bad and violent ideas, but because he was semi-polite about it that makes it okay.

[quasi-normalcy]

I can't stress enough the extent to which men think that virtually anything women say is frivolous and cringey no matter how they say it.

[quasi-normalcy]

#the way some dudes still get mad at any hint that spending years cracking jokes about “pussyhats” could be sexist

[leighlew3]

ALL. OF. THIS.

[wellillbedamned]

PETE??????

[cunt-ceptual]

Feminist ally and gay rights hero Pete

[shounenchild]

Character development

[titusafterdark2]

Another pride month means another 30 days of having to listen to literal children revive the Mattachine Society’s corpse

[zombiecollector-deactivated2012]

[kiefbowl]

the most important virtues for the young woman are as follows: time theft, selfishness, orgasms, irreverence to authority, sacrilegious behavior, a questioning mind, and eating regular meals.

[titusafterdark2]

Some of yall haven’t separated sex from intimacy and it shows

[butchfemmethoughts]

“strap-ons are heteronormative” try telling that to me and all the other butches and femmes who go outside.

[quantumshade]

like damn if your “lesbian community” is More welcoming of trans men than it is of trans women then i want no part of it. sorry.