âYou get to see future legends get their start, and other people just flourish and find their niche.â
In a city overflowing with #drag, one unique showcase highlights the creativity of the newest artists: Big Tits, Bigger Dreams! Visit this fabulous event with me.
My latest for The Barbed Wire: https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/05/13/next-top-drag-performer-texas/
#LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #trans #transgender #art #Austin #Texas #culture #photography
#LGBTQ+ #voters in these 4 #states could swing the 2024 #presidential #election.
LGBTQ+ voters strongly #vote for #democrats
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #Election #Representation #Culture #DemocraticParty #Allies #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #Megathread
Hey, so, Christmas is coming, and I have a little Redbubble store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Rhube/shop?asc=u
Maybe there's something in there you'd like to buy for someone? Some of it is Pride themed, and you'd be supporting a non-binary, disabled artist.
#retro #60s #70s #MidCenturyModern #autumnal #geometric #art #design #redbubble #pride #gifts #Christmas #lgbtq+
đ My Roommate from Hell by: Cale Dietrich
Owen is not going to college to have fun. Nothing is going to stop him from achieving his goals: study hard, get a good job, and set himself up for the rest of his life. The last thing he needs is to have a loud, obnoxious, and infuriatingly hot roommate. Especially since said roommate just so happens to be the prince of...
đ Heated Rivalry by: Rachel Reid
Nothing interferes with pro hockey star Shane Hollanderâs game. Now that heâs captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, he wonât let anything jeopardize thatâdefinitely not the sexy rival he loves to hate.
Boston Bears captain Ilya Rozanov is everything Shaneâs not. The self-proclaimed king of the...
https://bookblabla.com/book/heated-rivalry
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #romance #lgbtq #gayfiction #sportsfiction
Reform UK-run council removes trans books from childrenâs sections of libraries
A historic court victory has upheld transgender rights in Australia. A legal academic explains why
#DOJ has opened a #federal #CivilRights probe into the death of #AlexPretti
[but not #ReneeGood. Neither should have been killed, but Iâll say it again, Pretti was a straight man, Good a gay woman. Both shootings were recorded on video by multiple witnesses showing neither was at fault. Yet the #homophobic #misogynistic #Trump admin is only willing to look into the straight manâs #murder.]
#law #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #LGBTQ
https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-ice-fbi-alex-pretti-immigration-65a963816603a08bbc9db83961dd173f?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-30-Breaking+News
Trans Girl Scouts Sell 330,000 Boxes Of Cookies In Public Outpouring Of Support
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-girl-scouts-sell-330000-boxes
A Review of Grief Eater: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-grief-eater/
đ Flux by: Jinwoo Chong
Four days before Christmas, 8-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, 28-year-old Brandon loses his job after a hostile takeover of his big-media employer, and 48-year-old Blue, a key witness in a criminal trial against an infamous now-defunct tech startup, struggles to reconnect with his family.
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So begins Jinwoo Chon...
https://bookblabla.com/book/flux
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #lgbtq #gay
Mary-Ann Stephenson, a transphobic TERF, has been confirmed as the new chair of the equalities watchdog of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Human rights have been taken over by haters in the UK.
The International Congress of Mathematicians (#ICM) decided not to meet in #Russia in 2022, for a list of reasons including Russa's "war of aggression in #Ukraine and the potential dangersâŚin regards to freedom of political expression and the safety of #LGBTQ participants." Now some ICM members have launched a petition asking it not to meet in the US in 2026, for a list of reasons including US aggression in #Gaza, #Greenland, #Iran, and #Venezuela, and "serious concern that academics (or anyone) traveling to the US may be denied entry."
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHJhc8X83b8oL6rH2KDX0I730eraum5I8_IlWY23F82mHuag/viewform?fbzx=7063048079651794343
When ICE Came to Maine, Trans Mainers Fought Back
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/trans-ice-resistance-lgbtq-queer-portand-lewiston-maine
Bay Area-based Philz Coffee reversing course, adding Pride flags back to all of its locations.
They HAD to.
Otherwise a major boycott was soon to come.
ESPECIALLY in the Castro.
#bayarea #sanfrancisco #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq_plus
https://abc7news.com/post/bay-area-based-philz-coffee-reversing-course-adding-back-pride-flags-locations/18900998/
via ABC7 News App
My mom, who lives in a trans-hostile state, told me she wants to read more books about trans people's experiences so that she'll be better equipped to respond when she encounters people with bigoted opinions. Go Mom.
What books/authors have particularly resonated with you, that you would recommend? đłď¸ââ§ď¸
Children are the âlow-hanging fruitâ in a longer effort to end gender-affirming care for all Americans, an official at a Trump administration-aligned thinktank recently said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/children-gender-affirming-trans-care-trump
A researcher from the University of Essex is recruiting trans speakers of any language, but particularly speakers of Italian, Arabic, Slavic languages, Celtic languages, Native/Indigenous languages of the Americas and Australasia, African languages
Email s.nartus@essex.ac.uk
#Trans #Transgender #NonBinary #TransResearch #ResearchSurvey #LGBTQResearch #LGBTQI #LGBTQ #LGBTI #LGBT
đ In the Lives of Puppets by: TJ Klune
In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robotsâfatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. Theyâre a ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/in-the-lives-of-puppets
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #fantasy #contemporaryfiction #humorousfiction #lgbtq
JK Rowling mentioned four times as often as actual trans people in media coverage of 'trans issues', research finds
Murry Foust, Trans Student at Northern Kentucky University, Has Gone Missing
https://www.them.us/story/murry-foust-northern-kentucky-university-missing-person-search
All Anti-Trans Bills Defeated in Deep-Red Nebraska
https://transitics.substack.com/p/all-anti-trans-bills-defeated-in
"Normalizing the abnormal" is what the MAGA-GOP has done with Trump and what "The News" aids and abets hourly
âŞRight Wing Watch:âŹ
Anti-#LGBTQ religious-right activist Tony Perkins celebrates the news that corporations are dialing back their support for Pride Month, saying it shows that "we can bring about the collapse of đđźan ideology that seeks to normalize the abnormal."đđź
Dedicated School For Autistic Students Scrapped By Edmonton Public School Board
https://autisticgoblin.ca/2026/04/17/dedicated-school-for-autistic-students-scrapped-by-edmonton-public-school-board/We mustn't overlook the tireless work, activism and progress since the Supreme Court
![In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robotsâfatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. Theyâre a family, hidden and safe.
The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labeled âHAP,â he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gioâa past spent hunting humans.
When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gioâs former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vicâs assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.
Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?
Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.
An epic quest of rescue and discovery [with] the authorâs trademark charm, heart, and bittersweetness. Library Journal, starred review
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Manag](/proxy/post_attachment/964115/69176bf757.jpg "In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robotsâfatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. Theyâre a family, hidden and safe.
The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labeled âHAP,â he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gioâa past spent hunting humans.
When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gioâs former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vicâs assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.
Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?
Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.
An epic quest of rescue and discovery [with] the authorâs trademark charm, heart, and bittersweetness. Library Journal, starred review
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Manag")
