pride
This #Pride month, I don't want cishet people to change their profile to pride themed, or post about how they want queer people to feel safe around them.
I want them to be unbearable to people espousing casual prejudice around them. To call out sexist, homophobic, racist, transphobic comments, especially when framed as a "joke". To say this is unacceptable to their faces.
Keeping the peace is a privilege for those unharmed by the status quo. Raise hell instead.
LGBT History lesson!
There have been a lot of events peppered throughout history that were frog leaps toward #LGBT rights. These led up to the full on push in the 1970s that brought gay rights into the U.S. national conversation. These radical acts began the decades long push toward LGBT equality and social change.
The big one was the Stonewall Uprising but did you know there was a riot that happened almost three years prior to #Stonewall ?... the Riot at Compton's Cafeteria. Stonewall is often thought of as the event that started the modern gay rights movement but Compton's was equally important.
The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria happened in August of 1966 in San Fran's Tenderloin District. And why did this happen?... because #ACAB Drag queens and trans women had finally had enough.
The first #Pride was a riot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WASW9dRBU
Breaking news: We've taken the next step to challenge the ban on puberty blockers
We have asked for an urgent hearing that will seek to quash the ban. It is clear that this ban is having a devastating - and harmful - impact on young trans people and we do not believe that waiting is an option.
You can support the case by donating to cover the legal costs: https://tinyurl.com/blocker-legal-fund
Full press release: https://transactual.org.uk/blog/2024/06/18/press-release-transactual-issue-urgent-court-proceedings
#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #TransRights #Pride #TransKids
Kevin Necessary's cartoon commmentary on the Republican hysteria about thinking of the children vis-a-vis Pride flags
#Republicans #children #guns #violence #revenge #retribution #bullying #Pride
https://www.gocomics.com/kevin-necessary-editorial-cartoons/2024/06/12
Telling people to fuck off when needed is kindness to *oneself* (just so yanno).
They aren’t on the Fediverse, but you can learn more about the Female Collective here:
https://wearefemalecollective.com/
#feminism #patriarchy #Pride #BlackMastodon #kindness #MentalHealth #LGBTQ #trans #women #life #enby #gender #nonbinary #queer
On the 6th of July, 1919, a man founded the world's first medical and academic clinic dedicated to understanding and helping gay, lesbian, and trans people lead a full and happy life. He died in exile, his life's work destroyed by Nazis.
Magnus Hirschfeld was born in Poland in an Ashkenazi Jewish family. The son of a highly regarded physician, Magnus was interested in medicine from a very early age.
After earning his medical degree in 1892 in Berlin, Magnus travelled to America, visiting among other stops, the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. While in Chicago, he became involved in that city's burgeoning gay scene. Struck by the similarities between Chicago and Berlin's homosexual subcultures, Hirschfeld began organizing a theory about the universality of LGBT people around the world. He began researching the gay subculture of other major cities of the world, reading newspapers from places like Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, and Tangier.
Magnus moved back to Germany with these ideas in the forefront of his mind, and established his medical practice in a suburb of Berlin called Charlottenburg. In 1896, one of Hirschfeld's patients, a young army officer whom he had been treating for depression killed himself, leaving behind a suicide note saying that despite his best efforts, he could not end his desires for other men, and so had ended his life out of his guilt and shame. In his suicide note, the officer wrote that he lacked the "strength" to tell his parents the "truth", and spoke of his shame of "that which nearly strangled my heart". The officer could not even bring himself to use the word "homosexuality", which he instead conspicuously referred to as "that" in his note. However, the officer mentioned at the end of his suicide note: "The thought that you [Hirschfeld] could contribute a future when the German fatherland will think of us in more just terms sweetens the hour of my death."
This officer's suicide was not the only one. Magnus became increasingly concerned about how many of his gay patients were ending, or attempting to end their own lives, despite his best medical efforts. Less than a year later, Hirschfeld co-founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee with the publisher Max Spohr, the lawyer Eduard Oberg, and the writer Franz Joseph von Bülow. The goal of the committee was to undertake research to defend the rights of homosexuals and to repeal Paragraph 175, the section of the German penal code that, since 1871, had criminalized homosexuality, arguing that the law encouraged blackmail and was contributing to increased suicides. The motto of the committee, "Justice Through Science", reflected Hirschfeld's belief that a better scientific understanding of homosexuality would eliminate social hostility toward LGBT people.
Hirschfeld spoke out eloquently about the taboo subject of suicide and was the first to present statistical evidence that homosexuals were more likely to commit suicide or attempt suicide than heterosexuals. Hirschfeld prepared questionnaires that gay men could answer anonymously about homosexuality and suicide. Collating his results, Hirschfeld estimated that 3 out of every 100 gays committed suicide every year, that a quarter of gays had attempted suicide at some point in their lives and that the other three-quarters had had suicidal thoughts at some point. He used his evidence to argue that, under current social conditions in Germany, life was literally unbearable for gay people.
Under Hirschfeld's leadership, the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee gathered 6000 signatures from prominent Germans on a petition to overturn Paragraph 175. Signatories included such luminaries as Albert Einstein. The bill was brought before the Reichstag in 1898, but was supported only by a minority from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (the German left-wing progressive party) and was quickly killed.
The next two decades of Magnus' life were a balance between his medical practice, and fierce activism for the rights of gay people to love and be loved, without prejudice. In 1914, Magnus published his book "Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes" ('The Homosexuality of Men and Women'), an attempt to comprehensively survey homosexuality around the world, as part of an effort to prove that gay and lesbian people occurred in every culture.
Hirschfeld's idea, that homosexuality was normal and natural, made him a highly controversial figure in Germany during this period, involving him in vigorous debates with other academics, who regarded homosexuality as unnatural and wrong. One such debate concerned the supposed existence of the Hottentottenschürze ('Hottentot apron'), namely the racist belief that the Khoekoe women of southern Africa (known to Westerners as Hottentots) had abnormally enlarged labia, which made them inclined toward lesbianism. Hirschfeld argued there was no evidence that the women of the Khoekoe had abnormally large labia, and that, other than having black skin, the bodies of Khoekoe women were no different from German women. Hirschfeld wrote: "The differences appear minimal compared to what is shared" between Khoekoe and German women. Turning the argument of the anthropologists on their head, Hirschfeld further argued that, if same-sex relationships were common among Khoekoe women, and if the bodies of Khoekoe women were essentially the same as Western women, then Western women must have the same tendencies. Hirschfeld's theories about a spectrum of sexuality existing in all of the world's cultures implicitly undercut the binary theories about the differences between various races that was the basis of the claim of white supremacy.
In 1906, a military general named Kuno von Moltke sued the journalist Maximilian Harden after the latter had run an article accusing him of having a homosexual relationship with the politically powerful Prince Philipp von Eulenburg, who was Kaiser Wilhelm II's best friend. The series of courts-martial and 5 civil trials which followed has been described as "the biggest homosexual scandal ever", outing many prominent members of the Kaiser's cabinet and entourage in its wake. Magnus Hirschfeld was called to testify for Harden, telling the court that "homosexuality was part of the plan of nature and creation just like normal love." Hirschfeld's testimony caused outrage all over Germany. Because Prince Eulenburg was a prominent anti-Semite and Hirschfeld was a Jew, during the trials, the völkisch movement came out in support of Eulenburg, whom they portrayed as an Aryan heterosexual, framed by false allegations of homosexuality by Hirschfeld and Harden. The prominent newspaper "Vossische Zeitung" condemned Hirschfeld in an editorial as "a freak who acted for freaks in the name of pseudoscience". Another newspaper declared in an editorial: "Dr. Hirschfeld makes public propaganda under the cover of science, which does nothing but poison our people. Real science should fight against this!" As a gay Jew, Hirschfeld was relentlessly vilified by the völkisch newspapers. Outside Hirschfeld's house in Berlin, posters were affixed by völkisch activists, which read "Dr. Hirschfeld A Public Danger: The Jews are Our Undoing!"
When WWI broke out, Hirschfeld at first attempted to take an ultra-patriotic stance, reasoning that it might break down prejudices by showing that German Jews and/or homosexuals could also be good, patriotic Germans, rallying to the cry of the Fatherland. However, by 1916, horrified by what he considered needless suffering, Hirschfeld was writing pacifist pamphlets, calling for an immediate end to the war. After the war ended, Germany reformed under the more liberal Weimar Republic, and Hirschfeld purchased a villa not far from the Reichstag building in Berlin, founding a medical research clinic he called the "Institut für Sexualwissenschaft" ('Institute of Sexology'). It opened on July 6th, 1919.
The Institute housed Hirschfeld's immense archives and library on human sexuality, collected over a lifetime of careful study and research. It also provided educational services and medical consultations for gay, lesbian, and trans people. Among them Dora Richter, the world's first known recipient of gender affirming surgery, and her better well-known friend, Lili Elba. Hirschfeld himself lived at the Institution on the second floor with his partner, Karl Giese. People from around Europe and beyond came to the Institute to gain a clearer understanding of gender and sexuality.
On May 6th, 1933, while Hirschfeld happened to be in Switzerland on a speaking tour, a pro-fascist student organization made an organized attack on the Institute. A brass band accompanied them as they broke into the building, looted its contents, and publicly burned its books. Following this, the leader of the Nazi student group gave a speech, and the students sang Horst-Wessel-Lied (Raise the Flag High), the anthem of the Nazi party. Members of the SA, or "Sturmabteilung", the paramilitary wing of the Nazi party, appeared later in the day to continue looting the institute. Four days later, the Institute's remaining library and archives were publicly hauled out and burned in the streets of the Opernplatz by members of the SA, alongside the students, as the brass band played. A bronze bust of Hirschfeld, taken from the Institute, was placed on top of the bonfire. One estimate says that between 12,000 to 20,000 books and journals were destroyed. This included artistic works, rare medical and anthropological documentation of trans people, and charts concerning cases of intersexuality. The Nazis then seized control of the buildings themselves and used them for their own purposes.
On the 28th of June, 1934 Hitler conducted a purge of gay/trans people in the ranks of the SA wing of the Nazis, murdering them in the Night of the Long Knives. He is believed to have used address lists seized from the Institute.
Hirschfeld never returned to Germany, living out the rest of his days in exile. On his 67th birthday, Magnus Hirschfeld died of a heart attack in his apartment in Nice. The slab covering his tomb is engraved "Per Scientiam ad Justitiam".
When you hear people claim that trans people are a "new" idea or that there is not enough "research" about LGBT people, blame a Nazi. They're the reason why you think that.
Tell our stories.
#PRIDE #TransHistory
Out today: “We can’t and won’t let hate win.”
In my latest for #Austin
Free Press, the organizers of a popular #drag brunch are working to reschedule as soon as possible, in defiance of a bomb threat which shut down their event on Sunday.
Here's how the #LGBTQIA+ community reacted: https://austinfreepress.org/queens-gambit-performers-vow-to-return-after-bomb-threat-shutters-drag-queen-show/
#LGBTQ #Texas #extremism #Pride #news #homophobia #transphobia #PrideMonth
It's not enough that #trans people are welcome with you. The transphobes have to be *unwelcome*.
These people must be challenged, corrected and shunned for what they say and do. It doesn't matter to me if they're your co-workers, friends or even family.
You've noticed the hate out there, right? It's rampant and only getting worse.
If you want to be my ally, please realize that I need someone willing to be my advocate. Not just someone to provide me shelter.
Thank you. 🏳️⚧️💖
I was #interviewed on the #localnews to talk about my #collab with the #sfgiants and #pridemonth !
Interview: https://youtu.be/Wq9ZjOq52bk
I also attended today's #pride #baseball game and the Giants filmed me and the other #artist with our #paintings ! #happypridemonth !
THE ARROW - A Circus Film [Love. Pride. Truth.] - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtnJUS30olE
I know many of you depend on my boosting for a curated "best of the Fediverse" feed. And normally I enjoy providing that.
But recent events, especially politics, are taking a toll. It's very difficult to read not just the news itself but your reactions to it.
I'm dealing with a LOT of existential dread right now. As are many of my #trans siblings. And mental health comes first.
So, you may notice the firehose slow to a trickle. Or even stop for awhile.
Thank you for understanding. 💖🏳️⚧️
Thanks @medium for featuring my story about my experience as a #Black #transmasculine US-American in today's newsletter. Originally published in December, but timely as we enter #Pride weekend here in #SanFrancisco.
Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:
Official Introduction Post:
#GenX #actor, #writer, and #transit advocate. I believe in #cities and #urbanism. Live in #WeHo in #California.
Hablo español. Aprendo português.
Minister of the Science of Mind and Spirit for #csl #newthought #ACIM #sober
#Gay #leather #drag #pride #LGBTQ
Also on Threads at @danwentzel@threads.net
I have ridden my bicycle 9 times from S.F. to L.A. with #AIDSLifeCycle
https://giving.aidslifecycle.org/participant/44198
A small group has gathered to honor #Palestine at #Austin Pride. They initially planned to protest an apparent ban on symbols of Palestinian liberation at Pride, but are now having a rally after a meeting and Austin Pride apologized to the Palestinian community.
(edit to update: see thread below. Police actually made multiple arrests from this group as they tried to watch the parade.)
#LGBTQIA #Pride
Why were activists arrested at Austin Pride 2024?
I made a short video update about what happened last night. I'll have more soon as I continue to investigate..
https://youtu.be/ATIxsD157Js
#AustinPride #LGBTQ #Police #news #LGBTQIA+ #Palestine #Pride #Austin #Texas #activism
“They don’t want to be seen with you in public. They don’t want to be on the record as sympathizing with any of your positions because they’re afraid that it will be used against them.”
Out today, from me, in LGBTQ Nation: Dallas-area town Frisco, #Texas supported #Pride ... but only when it was politically convenient. Now they're changing the rules to avoid honoring their #LGBTQIA+ community.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/08/a-texas-town-killed-off-its-diversity-committee-after-proud-boys-marched-against-it/
#NorthTexas #politics #homophobia #extremism #USpol #news #DEI #diversity
Out today, a story months in the making...
In August, #Austin Police Department violently arrested two pro-Palestine activists at the city's annual #Pride march, and I investigated why and how it happened.
Even though Pride itself claimed to be welcoming to symbols of Palestinian liberation, police who were deployed to "protect" the #LGBTQIA+ community from violent threats ended up attacking us instead. https://thebarbedwire.com/2024/10/18/you-can-fly-any-flag-at-austin-pride-except-a-palestinian-one/
#police #Palestine @palestine #queer #news #Texas
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+
Here's my favorite stuff I wrote ... and also that others wrote about me ... in 2024. Featuring stories I wrote for The Advocate, The Barbed Wire, Deceleration, @TexasObserver and more. https://kitoconnell.com/kits-best-of-2024/
(I'll probably make a thread highlighting all these over the weekend)
🏳️🌈 Pour les Marches des fiertés 2025, je met à disposition un calendrier iCalendar (ICS)/CalDAV via mon Nextcloud, auquel vous pouvez vous abonner depuis votre PC ou smartphone.
Je tâcherai de le mettre à jour régulièrement, avec dans la mesure du possible les horaires et lieu de départ des Marches (qui ne sont souvent qu'une partie de l'évènement lui-même).
🔍 Je me base sur la page suivante : https://www.gaypride.fr/pride-2025/
🔗 Le lien : https://cloud.lucasbenard.fr/remote.php/dav/public-calendars/Abxjbm3iftC2FEBE?export
Soon the rewritten version of #Moshidon should be ready, and also soon it will be my birthday again!
2nd of June is coming up, and if you wish to give me a little present for celebrating my third birthday with Moshidon (damn time flies) and for working on Moshidon for all this time, please consider throwing a little money at me on either:
Libeapay: https://liberapay.com/LucasGGamerM/donate
Or Github Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/LucasGGamerM
Thank you for staying with me for all this time, also, happy #Pride month!