Queerness - Tumblr Posts
I really love being a secret 6th thing. Like, i used to think it was so important for me to have a label, an answer when people asked, but like being as i am now, i realized that i don't care. I know i don't like she/her on me but i'm always a sister and a daughter. I am not a man, but i'm not inbetween or nothing. I love women, i love men, i love my abillity to feel comfortable without a relationship and i still love the thought of myself in one. I'm open to open relationships and don't even really feel the need to label my relationships, i'm always gonna be a little in love with everyone i know. Remember that you DON'T HAVE TO LABEL THINGS!!! just be as you are, you don't have to explain <3
Shrek 2, while a cinematic masterpiece, is also an interesting look at queerness and comp het.
Fiona is married so it's time to reunite with her parents. But instead of marrying a prince, she's married to an ogre. Not just that, but she's also an ogre. (Yes everyone knew she would sometimes be an ogre but that was when she was a child, she didn't know she would be an ogre for the rest of her life, and besides once she met the right prince she would stop being an ogre. She was supposed to stop being an ogre.)
But okay they're both ogres. We can still ask about when they'll have children because even if they're ogres they can still have kids, right? That's what married princes and princesses do so naturally that's what everyone does. Even if ogres might not be great parents (I've heard that ogres eat their young, is that something you people do?) it's still something that should be discussed.
And okay you can stay in Fiona's childhood bedroom filled with all the reminders that hey, everyone thought she was just a princess and princesses marry princes. Her toys left out from the last time she played with them. The prince slays the ogre. The princess offers a token of gratitude for slaying the ogre. Fiona wrote Mrs. Fiona Charming a million times in her diary because what else was she supposed to grow up to be?
And Harold you have to fix this, your country can't be ruled by ogres. You were unfit to rule when you were a frog but I changed you, I made you better, I made you a prince. You know how this works. Think of your daughter's safety.
Shrek goes to the Fairy Godmother and oh honey, ogres don't live happily ever after. It's just not done. It hasn't happened in all of fairy tale history. You have to change the both of you to be happy. You have to present as a prince and a princess. It will be better. You'll fit in better that way. You'll be accepted that way.
There's part of me that wants to hard pivot back into my cis femme side but I'm more comfortable with my boy side with short hair and wearing oversized baggy men's clothes.
IF YOU WANNA BE MY LOVER
YOU GOTTA tell me really explicitly because I can’t tell when people are actually flirting with me
"We can't have kink at pride because there are kids there!"
Pride isn't for kids. Full stop. Pride is for queer people to celebrate themselves and make it clear that we're not going back in the fucking closet. There are kid friendly events at pride, and by all means bring your kids there, but pride isn't for kids.
So many people seem to have forgotten that pride was a protest and frequently a riot, and all prides today carry the implicit threat that if you try and force us back into the closet they will be riots again. The corporate sanitized version of pride is just a fucking smoke screen to allow companies to use the event for marketing and to pay for permitting and shit.
Back in the day, being queer was itself considered kink by broader society. Hence why it's so frequently mislabeled as a choice or a life style, and not an indelible part of someone's being. You can't choose to stop loving who you love, or being who you are, but to the cishets, it was seen that way, and if some groups had their way it would be considered that again.
If you accept the premise that we need to sanitize pride to make it acceptable to those who previously rejected us (and we fucking don't) then you accept the possibility of our identities being erase from public life again the moment they stop being "respectable". Nobody ever won their liberty by politely asking the boot to get off their neck now please, it's won through blood, sweat, and direct action.
An entire fucking generation of queer people died of AIDS to get us where we are today, and by playing into respectability politics you spit on their graves. None of them were afforded dignity while they lay dying in hospital beds, their chosen family forbidden from seeing them while their birth families refused to acknowledge their existence. It didn't matter how 'respectable' they were before they contracted HIV and it advanced to AIDS, they were refuse from that point. Marked as disposable and left to die by the Reagan administration.
Respectability won't save you. Assimilating won't save you. The people who want us gone do not care how much you conform to the white picket fence and life in the burbs with 1.5 kids and a dog. They want you eradicated no matter how respectable you are. They want you to go back into the closet. They want queer people to stop existing in public life. They want to kill those of us who refuse to suffer in silence.
The only way we survive and thrive is by being loud, being proud, and refusing to apologize for who we are.
Happy fucking pride everyone.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the queer black woman who started rock 'n' roll!
Good news in the world!!! Read the article here.
The law also will extend adoption and inheritance rights to same-sex couples!
Happy LGBTQIA History Month!
I just encountered þe only person I've ever seen actually trying to bring back þe "þ" by using it casually.
I scrolled þeir blog for like 2 minutes before finding, like, antisemitic shit and oþer far-right-wing fuckery.
however, I really like "þ" as a letter, so in light of þis discovery and in an attempt to make þe list of people using "þ" be a list þat isn't 100% composed of alt-right fuckers, effective immediately I'm gonna start using "þ". if you pay close attention you might have already noticed þis.
let's all do þis. let's make it a queer þing. let's make it so þat if you see "þ" online you know þat person is gay as fuck.
maybe we can make it even funkier by using "ð" for ðe voiced version. ðat way we can use boþ. I þink ðat's neat
So i went to a drag show the other day and one of the Drag Kings was especially iconic
he introduced himself as "Oliver Garden, because when you're queer you're family"
His persona was a blond elvis impersonator/church preacher? (ironic because he's jewish). With the iconic line of "in this church LGBTQ stands for 'LET GOD BLESS THESE QUEERS'"
DID NOT LIP SYNC HIS SONG HE SANG AND ROCKED THAT ELVIS VIBE HARD
anyways i had a blast and fuck yeah Let God Bless These Queers
people telling me my style has improved, but i just realized im gay and started dressing like it
I think the entire queer community deserves to see this victim. every voice makes a difference, and we need as much representation as we can get. we may not "win", but progress can be made #FREESUKI
WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE ONE VOICE AT A TIME BUT BEFORE YOU THINK IM FOOLISH, LOOK HOW MANY PEOPLE CARE ALREADY REBLOG, SAY IT, SHOUT IT #FREESUKI FOR EVERYONE
“fem-presenting” this, “masc-presenting” that. what if i wanna just be Presenting. i am showing you something and you have no idea what it is
Gender Splendor #1
okay, so I have two headcanons for bi steve and there's no in between. It's either he's always sort of known he liked guys too but shoved it down and oppressed it as hard as he could, because "it's not normal", "it's not okay", especially because of all the hateful comments his dad makes; he's just always known and always hated it and been scared of it and then he has to slowly realize, with the help of Robin and Eddie and maybe even Will (because he gives Will advice, helps him come to terms with it and helps himself in the process), that, you know what, it actually is okay and he actually does deserve love and it's all gonna be fine.
Or. It's Steve figuring out he's sort of in love with Eddie after 20 years of thinking he was exclusively into girls or at least never realizing he might have had crushes on boys too and just being like. Huh. Isn't that something. Because he's seen monsters and murdurous vines and has been literally tortured and literally dragged through hell, so a crush on a guy is really not that big of a deal, is it?
(that second one always features robin being like "are you kidding me? I had a gay crisis for literal years and you're just like oh, oh.??)
Thinking about the idea of the murder itself in Rope (1948) being a metaphor for queerness and the ways that they go to lengths to keep it hidden and I can go on and on about this topic and who knows I might laterrrrrr
literally about to write a lesbian ass fanfic about Annie Edison that no one will read because I feel like it
feeling very unsure about my gender lately and I’m scared.
Nagitoqueer Pride Flags + Icons """i just put the definition on here""" emoji combo: 🔋🍀🤍