set-fire-to-rain:

My Mom’s having her bible study in the other room and a minute ago they were ranting about the gay agenda and if you’ve read any of my previous posts they aren’t very christian about the way they talk about it. I would though like to give you my gay agenda. 

Tonight-

• Eat the rest of the noodles I just made with as much butter and garlic and Parmesan, I can muster.
• EAT ALL THE NUTELLA
• Watch Where the Wild Things Are- and cry like I always do.
• Write a little.
• Sleep.

Tomorrow-

• Maybe some laundy.
• Maybe clean my room.
• Probably just not move.
• Watch Imagine You and I
• Eat

Future-

• Be way more outspoken.
• Adopt kids.
• Love them.
• Marry the girl I love.
• Be awesome.
• Knit more.
• Publish my writing.

Ladies and gentlemen, standard Gay Agenda. 

(Source: amumda)

QIU JIN (1875-1907): FEMINIST, POET, AND REVOLUTIONARY

loneberry:

Qiu Jin wore masculine attire before the Qing Dynasty and system of imperial rule fell (in other words, during a time when traditional Confucian values about women’s proper place were still dominant). She made war with the emperor and was beheaded. She’s touted as China’s first feminist…but perhaps we could even say she’s proto-genderqueer? I snagged this photo from the wonderful book Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905–1948 by Yan Haiping. So good.

PROJECT QUEER is 90 followers away from hitting 10,000.

projectqueer:

Let’s see if we can hit 10,000 by the end of the day.

If you support lgbtqiaa+ rights, feminism, and human rights in general, please re-blog and spread the word.

"When you watch Torchwood there is a warning at the very beginning that some scenes may offend or disturb people, so if you allow your children to sit and watch it with you that’s your responsibility, it’s not ours anymore. We kissed, we held each other, we lay on top of each other in bed… and there were lots of complaints about that. Nobody complained that I was shot in the head four times, there were burning people in ovens, that I was stabbed by a mob of 50 people hundreds of times, and I was hanging dripping my blood in a pit. So that’s what confuses me, because you’re not complaining about gay sex, you’re complaining about two men kissing. And it’s 2011. And people say, “Well why should we have that on television?” Because the BBC have to represent the greater public — and there are gay people out there who pay their television license. For people to complain, that’s your prerogative — but you know what, none of them turned it off! They were just embarrassed because it put them in a position where they had to explain things to their kids or their family which probably should have been explained a long time ago."

John Barrowman (via childhoodgames)

Barrowman, everyone.

(via rt-hon-harry-koschei-saxon)

awkward-aeries:

thegreatjame:

swagdemort:

kimbahlay:

fashionhealthy:

myvoluptuouswormstache:

I know I already reblogged a post about it, but I just want to make a more formal one, I guess.

I just discovered Emotional Baggage Check, and I already love it! You can either “check in” your baggage by writing a post venting about whatever happens to be bothering you (it can be about anything) and submitting it, or you can “carry” someone else’s baggage by receiving a post of someone else’s problems, and sending them a song of your choice as well as a personal message. All you need is an e-mail to check in.

This is a lovely tool for getting things off your chest, and for reaching out to someone you might not have ever been able to help otherwise. Not to mention I’m a huge sucker for the power of music!

This is amazing.

Sounds amazing! im trying it. 

This is so thoughtful and amazing. <3

THIS IS MOLTO BENE.

ME GUSTA.

gaywrites:

When the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy officially ended yesterday, United States Marines showed up at the biggest gay community center in Tulsa to start recruiting. 

The Marines didn’t face the kind of protests and insults they expected from people who could still harbor resentment about DADT. Instead, people asked questions about joining - and that’s exactly what the Marines’ goal was. This New York Times piece tells the story.

The Marines were the service most opposed to ending the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, but they were the only one of five invited branches of the military to turn up with their recruiting table and chin-up bar at the center Tuesday morning. Although Marines pride themselves on being the most testosterone-fueled of the services, they also ferociously promote their view of themselves as the best. With the law now changed, the Marines appear determined to prove that they will be better than the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard in recruiting gay, lesbian and bisexual service members.

My instincts tell me this is a good thing, but I have some mixed feelings about how it’s somewhat of a contest to recruit LGBT members. Your thoughts?

Nope, don’t care. Congratulations on having pride, Marines, in everything you do. May it give your open ranks the same pride we all strive to achieve. 

projectqueer:

In what may be the first award to a transgender person under the Illinois Human Rights Act, a taxi company has been ordered to pay more than $100,000 for discrimination against a transgender employee.

By Trudy Ring

 

In what may be the first award to a transgender person under the Illinois Human Rights Act, a taxi company has been ordered to pay more than $100,000 for discrimination against a transgender employee.

The state’s Human Rights Commission awarded Venessa Fitzsimmons $104,711 as the result of her complaint against her former employer, Universal Taxi Dispatch, which serves Chicago and its suburbs, reports Windy City Times. Fitzsimmons worked at Universal from 2004 to 2008, during which time owner Gordon Simic called her a “freak,” a “queer,” and an “abomination,” according to the judgment handed down by the commission Monday. It also says he made Fitzsimmons pay for repairs to her taxi, something not required of other employees.

Fitzsimmons’s lawyer, Joanie Rae Wimmer, further claims that Simic threatened to fire her client because she is transgender — he said he was losing business because of her — and that the company refused to aid Fitzsimmons when her taxi broke down.

Wimmer, who is also transgender, said the award is likely the first one to a trans person under the human rights act, which has covered gender identity since 2006. She added, “This award sends a message to all corporations doing business in the State of Illinois that discrimination based on gender identity will not be tolerated any longer.”