Wall sticker in Marlborough lesbian pub, Brighton.
i’m actually realizing this now
but the original poster said “queer power” and someone erased that and replaced it with “gay power”
real classy
#is this real
Well. I’m not exactly an expert at image analysis, but the bottom text in the first one looks much cleaner than the top text while the second one matches better. Also, the creases in the second one on the Q and U seem like the sort of detail that wouldn’t be faked. Finally, this actually matches up significantly better to “queer” politics than “gay” politics; it was always queers who advocated and took the front lines in direct action.
If you put the image in an editor or just view the full size of the first image, it becomes very obvious that the text on the bottom was added later: all of the vertical lines in every letter are pixel perfect straight lines. That is basically impossible with a photo of a poster that is both visibly at an angle, and has paper weathering and other distortion. Look at the verticals of the white text to compare. The only distortion of the text is the jpg artifacts we would expect in that level of contrast. There is no lighting on the pink text either, another highly suspicious trait.
Additionally, if you crop out the pink text in op and run an image search you get the second photo, as well as four or five other photos of the poster, all reading “queer power.”
With the pink text left in, however, the only version of the poster is this exact image, sourcing to op.
I want every single person who ever argued with me on That Queer Post to take a long, hard look at this. I have been told at least dozens of times that “nobody is saying you can’t identify as queer,” that I’m “ignoring history,” that they’re not trying to shift back to gay, etc.
Now, here’s this post, in which queer people are having their art defaced in order to rewrite their identity. Where they’re being forcibly rewritten as gay. Where history is being literally goddamn erased. It’s got three times the notes of That Queer Post, and as far as I can tell, @bifoxstiles is the first one to challenge this narrative. And I’m not gonna hold my breath on y’all to call out OP.
They’re literally stealing our history, rewriting it into a new version that excludes more than half of the community. And nobody’s challenging this. You’re too busy trying to shut down inclusive, egalitarian language.
Shame on every last one of you.
Uhhhh. That’s like a really famous poster, at least if you are over a certain age. I recognized it immediately.
Yeah. It… it never said ‘Gay Power’ originally. It said ‘Queer Power.’
What the actual fuck.
OKAY KIDS. HISTORY LESSON TIME.
Ironically, just before this crossed my dash, Oxford University Press shared a link to a new archive of queer oral history. If not for Tumblr’s recent push to wipe “queer” from our collective memory, I wouldn’t have thought twice about OUP using the term. After all, it was chanted in pride and defiance when over a million of us participated in the 1993 March on Washington to demand an end to discrimination…
Video clip from that day: “We’ve come to Washington to show everyone that we’re here, we’re queer, and we’re not going anywhere!”
In the past year, I’ve seen some Tumblr members trying to suppress the word “queer,” just as people back then tried to suppress us. The excuse is that it’s sometimes used as a slur. But so is “gay.” In my 45 years, I have heard/seen “gay” used as an slur far more often.
At first, I tried to respect the fact that “queer” bothered some Tumblr users, even though it was painful for me to see queer-positive posts tagged “q slur.” But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that caving in to those asking us to drop the term “queer” would permit homophobic and/or transphobic sensibilities to define our identities.Do we have to drop “gay” now as well, or tag it “g slur”? Since when did we stop reclaiming these words as a matter of pride?
Isn’t this just the latest ploy of internalized homophobia/transphobia sneaking up on us?
Unfortunately, erasing “queer” from our vocabulary has hurtful real-world consequences.
Silencing “queer” silences many of those who fought, marched, rioted and died for your rights. It erases those of us who are queer but not gay: trans, intersex, nonbinary, lesbian, bisexual, aromantic, asexual people, and more (see why the term is so necessary?) Erasure/minimization of queer people is how we end up with disrespectful historical revisionism like that Stonewall movie. Or the Photoshopped poster above, rewriting our history with a lie.
And that’s the real kicker.
Erase “queer” from our vocabulary, and we erase future generations’ ability to learn about their past. How will they be able to find LBGTA+ history, if you teach them not to use one of the main keywords they need to search for to find it?
How much of our past and present community will be rendered invisible and their needs ignored (this article is really, REALLY worth a read), if those now lobbying against the term “queer” are successful?
Decades ago, when being out was taking a huge risk, we chanted, “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!” It would be a bitter irony if, even as mainstream society becomes “used to it,” as demonstrated from the Supreme Court to the bridge of the U.S.S.Enterprise, our own community becomes less “used to it.”
Think about the forces of prejudice who were trying to silence us when that “queer power” sign was made. Please don’t let them win.
This. If we are talking one on one and you tell me “queer” triggers you, I will be extra careful to call myself “bi” around you and say something like “LGBT” when we discuss the community.
But if you expect me to change how I talk about all of this, you’re asking for revisionist history, and I’m sorry, but no, I will not do that for you.
When I was in high school, I was transphobic and acephobic. Not to any great extent, I certainly didn’t think these people were bad, or disgusting, or unnatural–in fact, I tried to be very supportive of them, and believed they deserved all the same rights I had. I’ve always been for equality.
But I was bigoted in other, smaller ways.
One time, there was a trans person on television. I think they may have been a gay trans man–if not, they were a gay trans woman. I looked over at the others in the room and said, “I don’t get why they’re transgender if they’re just going to keep dating the same gender.” I thought, for some reason, that trans people could only ever be straight, and that the whole point of transitioning was so that they could bestraight.
Another time, I asked my mother, “If I came out as asexual, would you disown me?” and she told me no, she would not. I took this as proof that asexuals were not oppressed, that they were just whiny babies trying to muscle in on the LGBT+ community’s territory. I took my bigoted mother’s oddly tolerant reaction to asexuality and used it to support my own bigoted beliefs.
Fast-forward to now.
I’m a gay trans man, and I support asexuals and aromantics wholeheartedly.
Recently, there’s been a bit of an uproar about Kubo, the creator of Yuri on Ice, tweeting something homophobic–seven years ago. Since then, she’s gone on to create an anime that is deeply personal and inspiring to many people, especially LGBT+ folk, especially mlm. She has talked at length about protecting the world she made from homophobia, about a world where everyone is free to love who they wish. She has paid homage to so many openly gay skaters–real people, who she obviously admires and studied at length.
She has been nothing but supportive of us and our community. She has given us something wonderful and uplifting, and…
…if that tweet from seven years ago is real, she’s changed.
Seven years ago, I was a completely different person. I was still in high school. I was still bigoted in a lot of small, insidious ways. I hadn’t figured out who or what I was yet. I hadn’t come to terms with it. I hadn’t opened my mind to different possibilities, and ways of life, and cultures.
Kubo comes from an extremely xenophobic culture. Anything foreign, anything out of the ordinary, is touted as “bad” and “wrong.” Japan isn’t the well-spring of equality a lot of westerners seem to think it is. It’s plagued by bigotry–in some ways, even more severely than America.
Seven years ago, when she was younger, maybe she was a part of that culture.
But she’s had time to grow and change, and she has spread nothing but positivity and acceptance during her time in the limelight. She has used her popularity to be uplifting and open-minded.
Now westerners are trying to throw something embarrassing she believed seven years ago in her face, and are using her ignoring their attempts to stir up trouble as proof that she hasn’t changed.
I’m sorry, but you aren’t doing this as a good deed. We all know you aren’t. You aren’t sneaky. You aren’t slick. We know what you’re up to, we’ve seen it a thousand times. You’re trying to do exactly what Kubo’s trying to avoid–stir up trouble.
Let us have this. Stop trying to take something positive and turn it into something negative. Stop digging years and years into peoples’ pasts to find a single thing they said when they were fourteen and use it as justification for ruining their online presence.
People change. People are supposed to change. It’s a natural part of the human life cycle.
Put down the torch and pitchfork, and let them.
#whats the point in trying to change the world if you demonize ppl for having to change in the first place
So with the recent UN resolution regarding Israel many disgusting racist antisemitic republicans such as Paul Ryan and Orange Mussolini have either tweeted or made comments about it.
They neither care about Israel nor about Jews.
So what worries me is that in time where being a Jew is clearly no longer somewhat safe in America will have even less safety and protection.
There is already rampant antisemitism such as blood libel, Jews control media/banking/world canards, and rhetoric that would not be out of place if it came from neo-nazis in leftist activist progressive circles.
This is a massive problem and terrifying in its own right and I worry that that those that would be the more likely group to help Jews during these times will look at the right and go see they care about Jews and won’t do anything to Jews and Jews must clearly agree with them.
Basically I worry that the shit the people to right who don’t actually give a fuck about Jews and who are antisemitic will be taken as an excuse to harass Jews and as a reason to not have our backs in time when being a Jew is very much not safe.
When neo-nazis are making lists of Jews and their address, when newspapers are inciting mobs to go after Jews for crimes we haven’t even committed such as cancelling a xmas play, white supremacists are coming into the white house, the president to be is an honorary Cossack, and more along these lines being Jewish is extremely dangerous.
It has never been safe to be Jewish in America it has just been far more safe then most places.
Even in liberal blue cities being Jewish has not been safe no matter the year, but now it is not just not safe it is actively dangerous.
If you, yes you, consider yourself to be a progressive person who cares about marginalized minorities, racism, and discrimination then you need to step and have the backs of Jewish people and help us because these are some dangerous times for us.
The founder of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer has announced that the site’s campaign of harassment against Jews in alt-right leader Richard Spencer’s hometown of Whitefish, Montana will continue with an armed march in January. Andrew Anglin claimed on Thursday that 200 people are already expected to participate in the march “against Jews, Jewish businesses and everyone who supports either,” which will take demonstrators carrying “high-powered rifles” through the center of the town.
The unemployment rate for transgender people is double that of the general population. Now, California has set up the nation’s first ever large-scale program to help transgender people find jobs.
And it’s all because of Michaela Mendelsohn, a trans woman who’s employed trans people at her restaurants for years.
General Manager Kristy Ramirez has worked for El Pollo Loco for four years and knows many of the regulars. She’s loyal to the company because it gave her a chance that no one else would consider, since she’s transgender. For that, she thanks Mendelsohn.
“The word’s just gotten out that I’m a trans owner supporting trans people,” Mendelsohn says.
Reblogging again cause this is a big fucking deal (BFD)
THIS IS NOW IRRELEVANT. THIS ARTICLE IS FROM SEPTEMBER AND THIS EXECUTIVE ACTION CAN BE OVERTURNED.
“Permanent” simply means that this order would not have an expiration date, but it CAN be overturned by Congress, and overturning this will be one of the very first things Trump does in office.
STOP reblogging this; it’s incredibly misleading and no longer relevant.
Planned Parenthood is NOT under protection, PLEASE continue to donate to them and fund them, cuz they need it so much! Seriously, it will soon face federal and state level defunding!
And remember, if you see folks with tattoos, car decals, or flags of these symbols or any other recognized white supremacist/neo-nazi/fascist symbols, GET PHOTOS OF THAT SHIT. I really cannot stress this enough. Make their faces and vehicles known.
If any of my followers believes that “brain sex” is a rigid and well defined category check this out
I actually did a study on this in my freshman year of university!
I had to give a ten minute presentation on gender and a) how it’s different from sex, and b) whether or not there’s such thing as a “male” and “female” brain.
I found COUNTLESS studies supporting the idea that the brain itself is unisex- there is very little, if any, difference between “male” and “female” brains, with one exception. I’m by no means a neuroscientist but this is what I understood from this particular article: there’s this tiny part of the hypothalamus (a small part of the brain) that has neutrons in it, and the number of neutrons varies. HOWEVER, when the brains of cis men and women and trans men and women (who had not taken hormones for years prior to the time of death) were studied, it was found that the cis men and trans men had almost identical average neutron counts, and the cis women and trans women had almost identical average neutron counts. So if you’re DMAB but realize at some point that you’re a trans woman, as far as your brain is concerned, you ARE a woman! The same goes for DFAB trans men (intersex/nonbinary individuals weren’t studied, unfortunately).
TLDR; Your brain doesn’t care what you were “born as”, only what you really are!
If you have the Calculator% app or any other hider app(things that hide apps and pictures), GET RID OF IT QUICKLY. This jackass district attorney has put the lives of a lot of teens in danger by revealing these apps to parents. Now parents everywhere are going through their kids’ phones, looking for trouble(which they’ll likely find).
Closeted teens everywhere are likely in a lot of danger right now. If you use a hider app to hide resources or a diary or anything else, it’s very possible your family might find it.
Please please help yourself and remove these apps immediately! Switch your SD card if you need to! I’m not even trying to scare people but I know that when I was a teen, had mom found my hider app I would have been in for a world of hurt. Please be safe!
You will move out. You will finally do your hair the way you want. And dress the way you want. You will find someone who loves you for everything that you are (and aren’t). You will get that tattoo. And probably many more. People will use the right pronouns. You will meet people just like you. And time really will heal the wounds of living at home.
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