carol-fucking-danvers:

If you say the “A” in LGBTQIA+ is for “Ally” I will personally paint the word “Asexual” on a baseball bat and beat you with it. 

steffalopod:

basically gay marriage should be legal but it’s basically the least pressing queer issue there is. coincidentally it’s the one that allies care most about. haha ok come back to me when you care about the rates of homelessness and violence and suicide among queer youth

marieantoinettes-last-bong-rip:

anarcho-queer:

Fuck the HRC! Fuck their mainstream/assimilated politics. Fuck their whitewashing of queer culture and conforming to the capitalist heteropatriarchal ‘norm’. Fuck their demotion of trans* rights in the queer struggle. Fuck them for dismissing queer POC issues while focusing all their attention to the gay white middle/upper class in return for donations. Fuck them for policing gender roles and identity and attempting to erase transvestism and drag from gay culture to make the community look more attractive to the heterosexual majority. Fuck the HRC for pretending to care for LGBTQ people when in reality, the L and G are the only acronyms they care to ‘help’. Fuck the HRC for refusing to recognize and help LGBTQ sex workers. Fuck the HRC for ignoring pressing LGBTQ issues like (youth) homelessness, high unemployment for transgender folks and unaffordable housing for elderly queers. Fuck the HRC for everything they’ve done to hurt queer liberation in return for the right to serve in the military and live a heteronormative lifestyle. Fuck the HRC!

bringing this back because of the new shirtstorm HRC campaign 

File under: reasons to be wary of bandwagon Facebook campaigns without first critically examining the organization you’re supporting. Just saying.

“Same-sex marriage shouldn’t be banned, but at the same time it shouldn’t be celebrated as if it was some profound step toward a change in the material conditions that impact queer people’s lives. Trans, queer, and gender non-conforming people are dying, losing their jobs and being locked up at dramatically higher rates than straight, cisgender populations. Celebrating the ability to get more documented monogamous couples into an exclusionary institution at best obscures and at worst condones the punishment industrial complex, police brutality, employment and housing discrimination, and immigration persecutions that queers of color are subjected to.” — My professor’s explanation of the unimportance/violence of the marriage equality debate. (via tenderqweer)

“Homophobia isn’t the same as heteronormativity, at all, and I think that heteronormativity can be harder to fight because it’s so subconscious, so deeply ingrained throughout our entire society in all kinds of cultural productions, TV, film, books, everything. It’s everywhere. That’s harder to fight.” —

Malinda Lo (via arcadiaego)

#yeah i think straight ppl sometimes assume the world can be sorted into homophobes and queer allies #which no it isn’t that fucking simple #and it’s a really dangerous assumption to make b/c you can support equal marriage and have queer friends and queer relatives #and yet still perpetuate heteronormative ideals on a daily fucking basis (via electricskeptic)

Freeing Logan

blastadiamond:

Hello everyone, this is my good friend Logan. He is a tans male who could really use some help. His dream is to feel comfortable in his own body, and part of that would include getting top surgery. Unfortunately the procedure is not covered by insurance, and he has very little support from his family. He has started a campaign called Freeing Logan, and needs to raise 5,000 dollars in order to get the surgery. Any extra proceeds will be donated to Egale, a Canadian Human Rights Trust towards all LGBT people. 

To Donate or learn more about Logan, the procedure or Egale you can go to this link: 

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/348470/

Everyone wants to feel comfortable in their body, and you can help someone feel better in their own skin today! Even if you can’t donate it would mean a lot if you help spread the word! 

ancestryinprogress:

callingoutsexists:

sourcedumal:

gradientlair:

christel-thoughts:

seethroughgrayeyes:

Intersectionality described in 4 minutes.

Utterly brilliant. Just…goosebumps…

Damn. I don’t even have the words. 

LGBT and Black oppression y’all….

This will take 4 minutes of your life and make you a better person

and then there are those of us who are both black and queer. 

and then we fight for our right to speak for both sides.

Welp, I cried.

altogether-ooky-avaedgeworth:

theburningpile:

Beyond this being really cool, I just gotta say…

HOLY SHIT STAPLES DID SOMETHING THAT POSITIVELY AFFECTS THE UNIVERSE?!?

STAPLES OF ALL THE COMPANIES

CARSON. THE NEXT TIME YOU COME OUT TO SOMEBODY WE ARE MAKING THIS.