Rink Foto.
oh the ideas that come to me in my sleep…
*that shit needs to be able to fit in your bag so you can cruise and fuck people casually, right?
-facetiously- this is what gay culture is, no? craigslist, grindr, cruising, and bath houses? its life’s little privileges and aloof detached behavior, consuming is sexy… swallow that shit because if you spit you’ll insult someone.
What would it look like if the LGBT movement had a racial justice agenda? Well, for starters, we’d see our struggle for equality tied to other movements for justice, not just by analogy. So, for example, there’s been a noticeable silence about Trayvon Martin on most of the mainstream gay blogs, probably because most (white) gay folks don’t see the case as “our issue.” But as Zach Stafford recently pointed out here on HuffPost, gay folk should care about Trayvon Martin because all of us who are “outsiders” — whether because of sexual orientation, gender non-conformity, or race — can be targets of violence.
When we say that the gay right movement is the new civil rights movement, we’re playing into the divisive racial politics of NOM. We have to do better than “gay is the new black.” We have to see that the fight for sexual equality hasn’t replaced the fight for racial equality, because that’s not over. When the LGBT movement moves beyond shallow slogans like “gay is the new black” to embrace a racial justice agenda that sees our struggle as tied to others, then we’ll have truly won a victory against opponents like NOM that can only see “gays and blacks” as an easy place to drive a wedge.
"Moving Beyond ‘Gay Is the New Black’: NOM’s Divisive Racial Politics and the LGBT Movement’s Need for a Racial Justice Agenda
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I have seen discussion on a number of gay blogs but I guess those aren’t the “mainstream” ones the commenter is referring to in this essay.
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I absolutely abhor the mainstream - lol! J/K! Who are we kidding? It’s the WHITE gay movement - white voices, white faces and nothing else allowed.
75% of anti-queer violence is against queer PoCs but I see nothing but white faces on “It Gets Better” or on the news when it comes to violence against queer peoples.
It’s not so much appropriating the struggle of Black Americans when white gays say “[white] gay is the new Black” as much as stealing, erasing, trivializing, editing, twisting and tearing apart Black people’s struggles in the world.
White gays trivialize the mass murder (the ever-justified police brutality/self defense)/abuse/marginalization/sexual assault/ETC^1000 of Black Americans, whether queer or cis+hetero today when they dare to be so stupid and racist as to compare being white+gay to being Black+cis/hetero, never mind Black+queer. The white gay movement is not Kosher at all. It’s unhealthy for all, and incredibly dangerous for PoCs in the world.
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CHUCH! All of that
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non-native people using the term two-spirit to mean trans* identified (or using the term to identify themselves). it’s not. really, i promise, it’s that simple. for the record two-spirit is an pan-indian (pan means all, yes virginia there is more than one type of indian) term that was agreed upon…
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Jumping Beyond the Broom:
Why Black Gay and Transgender Americans Need More Than Marriage Equality
While some states and the federal government continue to expand protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, more than half of all states still deny them basic civil rights. Such systemic inequities render people of color who are also gay and transgender among the most vulnerable in our society.
“…I believe that if we think of gender as social production and recognize language as a social means, then the use of inverted appellation is a sophisticated strategy that undermines the ideology of normative gender by challenging gendered grammar. Though this strategy is done mostly amongst gay men, I consider it to be a very powerful strategy. A Hebrew speaker cannot remain indifferent once encountering this strategy. By “gayspeaking”, Hebrew-speaking gays make a statement. They do not only speak – they act!”
It Did Not Start With Stonewall
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reasons i should not vlog while stoned:
1. i cant count.
2. i say things like “i came out as all 4 acronyms” not “i’ve come out as all 4 identities in the lgbt acroynym”
3. i dont notice when spiders are in the room
Super transphobic ad that ran on a Canadian site
Rainbow Health Ontario, CAMH and The Public are incredibly excited to launch the Bisexual anti-stigma campaign in Toronto this fall. Check out the launch party on September 9th. For more information check out http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199052006821971
We are thrilled to have been a part of this exciting initiative. Challenging biphobia is part of building strength in our communities!
Very neat!
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