This is a good illustration of Tumblr’s brand of social justice
and he still manged to include the q slur lmao
You are literally this person
To people in the notes going “but he should still paint over qu**r because it’s a slur”: I dare you to walk into your nearest LGBTQ Center and demand that any and all mention of “queer” be removed from its displays, literature, and programs. Go ahead and tell me what they say to you. I’ll wait.
I believe I will just queerly reblog this without further queer comment.
Agreed. I shall queerly join you.
To every person on here whimpering about ‘the Q slur’ you need to realise that every single identity under the umbrella began as a slur. None of you know your goddamned history.
Did you know that the first battle cry in a long line of protests was We’re here, we’re Queer, get used to it ? Or how hard people worked to give you what rights you have today? OUT OF THE CLOSETS AND INTO THE STREETS.
People were beaten to death, hung, dragged, shot, stabbed, died in prison protesting and fighting for the rights that you enjoy to this day. People who found and created power in the word Queer so that you wouldn’t have to be ashamed to be one.
And here you lot are, screaming at the older generations that we don’t know what it’s like to be called Queer in the hallways of your high school? Are you kidding? How many of my generation, and the generations before me do you think participated in the sit ins, the protests, the marches, the public displays of noncompliance? How many do you think were beaten by police, by angry bigots, chased away, threatened with violence? How many were tased, water gunned, pepper sprayed, unfairly arrested, unfairly charged, abused, mocked, and denied?
Do you even know who ACT UP are? Do you know who Queer Nation are? Do you know who Dykes on Bikes are? Who the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are? PFLAG, Oasis Centers, PRISM? How drag queens have been such a backbone to our community, those of you who say ignorant shit like “Don’t support drag queens!”? I encourage you, beg you, please do not continue to parrot transphobic bullshit by calling it the Q-slur – because that message originated with a group of transphobic people who didn’t like that Queer was all inclusive. Gay as a term originated as being used for homosexual men only.
How can I tell you. How can I convince you, brother; sister that your life is in danger. That everyday you wake up alive, relatively happy, and a functioning human being, you are committing a rebellious act. You as an alive and functioning queer are a revolutionary. There is nothing on this planet that validates, protects or encourages your existence. It is a miracle you are standing here reading these words. You should by all rights be dead.
Don’t be fooled, straight people own the world and the only reason you have been spared is you’re smart, lucky, or a fighter. Straight people have a privilege that allows them to do whatever they please and f— without fear. But not only do they live a life free of fear; they flaunt their freedom in my face. Their images are on my TV, in the magazine I bought, in the restaurant I want to eat in, and on the street where I live. I want there to be a moratorium on straight marriage, on babies, on public displays of affection among the opposite sex and media images that promote heterosexuality. Until I can enjoy the same freedom of movement and sexuality, as straights, their privilege must stop and it must be given over to me and my queer sisters and brothers.
Straight people will not do this voluntarily and so they must be forced into it. Straights must be frightened into it. Terrorized into it. Fear is the most powerful motivator. No one will give us what we deserve. Rights are not given they are taken, by force if necessary.
It is easier to fight when you know who your enemy is. Straight people are you enemy. They are your enemy when they don’t acknowledge your invisibility and continue to live in and contribute to a culture that kills you.
Every day one of us is taken by the enemy. Whether it is an AIDS death due to homophobic government inaction or a lesbian bashing in an all-night diner (in a supposedly lesbian neighborhood), we are being systematically picked off and we will continue to be wiped out unless we realize that if they take one of us they must take all of us.
Another text (1990):
Being queer is not about a right to privacy; it is about the freedom to be public, to just be who we are. It means everyday fighting oppression; homophobia, racism, misogyny, the bigotry of religious hypocrites and our own self-hatred. (We have been carefully taught to hate ourselves.) And now of course it means fighting a virus as well, and all those homo-haters who are using AIDS to wipe us off the face of the earth.
Being queer means leading a different sort of life. It’s not about the mainstream, profit-margins, patriotism, patriarchy or being assimilated. It’s not about executive directors, privilege and elitism. It’s about being on the margins, defining ourselves; it’s about gender-f— and secrets, what’s beneath the belt and deep inside the heart; it’s about the night. Being queer is “grass roots” because we know that everyone of us, every body, every c—, every heart and a– and d— is a world of pleasure waiting to be explored. Everyone of us is a world of infinite possibility.
We are an army because we have to be. We are an army because we are so powerful. (We have so much to fight for; we are the most precious of endangered species.) And we are an army of lovers because it is we who know what love is. Desire and lust, too. We invented them. We come out of the closet, face the rejection of society, face firing squads, just to love each other! Every time we f—, we win.
We must fight for ourselves (no else is going to do it) and if in that process we bring greater freedom to the world at large then great. (We’ve given so much to that world: democracy, all the arts, the concepts of love, philosophy and the soul, to name just a few of the gifts from our ancient Greek Dykes, Fags.) Let’s make every space a Lesbian and Gay space. Every street a part of our sexual geography. A city of yearning and then total satisfaction. A city and a country where we can be safe and free and more. We must look at our lives and see what’s best in them, see what is queer and what is straight and let that straight chaff fall away! Remember there is so, so little time. And I want to be a lover of each and every one of you. Next year, we march naked.
Another (1990):
If You’re Queer, Shout It!
Queers are under siege.
Queers are being attacked on all fronts and I’m afraid it’s ok with us. In 1969, Queers, were attacked. It wasn’t ok. Queers fought back, took the streets.
Shouted.
In 1990, there were 50 “Queer Bashings” in the month of May alone. Violent attacks. 3,720 men, women and children died of AIDS in the same month, caused by a more violent attack – government inaction, rooted in society’s growing homophobia. This is institutionalized homophobia, perhaps more dangerous to the existence of queers because the attackers are faceless. We allow these attacks by our own continued lack of action against them. AIDS has affected the straight world and now they’re blaming us for AIDS and using it as a way to justify their violence against us. They don’t want us anymore. They will beat us, rape us and kill us before they will continue to live with us. What will it take for This not to be ok? Feel some rage. If rage doesn’t empower you, try fear. If that doesn’t work try panic.
Shout It!
Be proud. Do whatever you need to do to tear yourself away from your customary state of acceptance. Be free. Shout.
In 1969, Queers fought back. In 1990, Queers say ok.
Next year, will we be here?
One last one:
Why Queer? – (1990)
Queer!
Ah, do we really have to use that word? It’s trouble. Every gay person has his or her own take on it. For some it means strange and eccentric and kind of mysterious. That’s okay; we like that. But some gay girls and boys don’t. They think they’re more normal than strange. And for others “queer” conjures up those awful memories of adolescent suffering. Queer. It’s forcibly bittersweet and quaint at best – weakening and painful at worst. Couldn’t we just use “gay” instead? It’s a much brighter word. And isn’t it synonymous with “happy”? When will you militants grow up and get over the novelty of being different?
Why Queer …
Well, yes, “gay” is great. It has its place. But when a lot of lesbians and gay men wake up in the morning we feel angry and disgusted, not gay. So we’ve chosen to call ourselves queer. Using “queer” is a way of reminding us how we are perceived by the rest of the world. It’s a way of telling ourselves we don’t have to be witty and charming people who keep our lives discreet and marginalized in the straight world. We use queer as gay men loving lesbians and lesbians loving being queer. Queer, unlike gay, doesn’t mean male.
And when spoken to other gays and lesbians it’s a way of suggesting we close ranks, and forget (temporarily) our individual differences because we face a more insidious common enemy. Yeah, queer can be a rough word but it is also a sly and ironic weapon we can steal from the homophobe’s hands and use against him.
They did it for you. They did it for me. They did it for all of us. So you wouldn’t have to go through it. So you could be freer than they ever could, than we could at your age, than our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents ever could. Not for you to invalidate the indentities of others, and your own community. You silencing Queer people and calling it a slur dishonours their legacy.
I am here. I am Queer. You will not call my identity a fucking slur and have me be silent about it. I will still fight for the rights of my community – the Queer Community.
This isn’t simply a question of vocabulary. Exclusionists and transphobes and their ilk want you to stop using “queer” because they don’t want queer people to exist. They may not be straight, but their only problem with heteronormativity is that they’ve been barred from participating in it. They’re conservative bigots and as soon as same-sex marriage was no longer blocked in the US they were ready to betray everyone in the queer community.
A good thread on whether “queer” is a slur and if it should be used or not.
“If I am unashamed of being queer, you do not get to give that word BACK to the fuckwits who made it a slur.”
you do not get to give that word BACK to the fuckwits who made it a slur
EVERYBODY WHO CAME OUT BEFORE YOU HAS TAKEN THE ROCKS AND BOTTLES AND MADE THEM INTO SHIELDS AND WINDCHIMES
Holy motherfucking shit. Don’t fucking come at me about Queer is a slur. I FUCKING KNOW IT IS. It was hurled at me like a fucking spear all through my youth. I know it’s a god damn slur. And it’s mine. You don’t get to take it away from me because you can’t take also away the scars it gave me while I was standing in front of my younger queer siblings in this community.
always, always reblog this one.
If my enemy swings a sword at me and I take that sword away from them, it’s my sword now. And the person telling me I can’t use it because it belongs to my enemy and I have to give it back to them sounds quite a bit like an enemy themselves.
Happy Pride Month Eleanor Roosevelt was queer, the Little Mermaid is a gay love story, James Dean liked men, Emily Dickinson was a lesbian, Nikola Tesla was asexual, Freddie Mercury was bisexual & British Indian, and black trans women pioneered the gay rights movement.
Florence Nightingale was a lesbian, Leonardo da Vinci was gay, Michelangelo too, Jane Austen liked women, Hatshepsut was not cisgender, and Alexander the Great was a power bottom
Freddie Mercury is well known for his attraction to men but was also linked to several women, including Barbara Valentin whom he lived with shortly before he died. Friends have talked about being invited into their bed and walking in on them having sex (documentary Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender)
Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are two of the best-known activists who fought in the Stonewall riots
Becks – (dir. Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and Daniel Powell) After a devastating breakup with her girlfriend Lucy, a lesbian musician heads back home to her very catholic mother. There, she begins a friendship with a married woman. Released February 9 2018.
Every Day (dir. Michael Sucsy) – 16 year old Rhiannon falls in love with A, a mysterious spirit who inhabits a different body every day. Rhiannon and A try to find each other each new day, always unsure of what the next day will bring. Released February 23 2018.
Blockers –(dir. Kay Cannon)Julie, Kayla, and Sam are three high school seniors who make a sex pact to lose their virginity on prom night. Sam’s going to prom with Chad, but thinks she’s a lesbian. Released April 6 2018.
Disobedience – (dir. Sebastián Lelio) Photographer Ronit Krushka flies to London after learning of the death of her estranged father. She returns to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her budding sexuality during childhood. There, she reconnects with an old friend, Esti. Released April 27 2018.
Rafiki (dir. Wanuri Kahiu) – The story of two Kenyan lesbians Kena & Ziki as they navigate life and love. Film festival release May 9 2018, undetermined wide release date.
The miseducation of cameron post – (dir. Desiree Akhavan) Set in 1993 after teenage Cameron is caught in the backseat of a car with the prom queen, she is sent away to a remote Christian “treating center” called Gods Promise. To be released August 3 2018.
Lizzie (dir. Craig Macneill) – A queer, feminist retelling of Lizzie Borden, the infamous ax murderess. Set in 1892, Lizzie begins a secret romance with the live-in maid, Bridget. To be released September 14 2018.
Tell It to the Bees (dir. Annabel Jankel) – Set in 1950’s Britain, Jean Markham returns to her hometown to take over her fathers medical practice. There, she begins a romance with the mother of a patient. Undetermined release date.
Vita & Virginia –(dir. Chanya Button) This British film tells the true story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Virgina Woolf. Undetermined release date.
My Days of Mercy (dir. Tali Shalom Ezer) – Lucy is the daughter of a man on death row. Mercy is on the opposing side of Lucy’s family’s political cause. They fall in love. Released in film festivals on Sept. 8 2017, wide release undetermined time this year.
Colette (dir. Wash Westmoreland) – Produced by the same team that did “Carol”, this autobiographical period piece follows author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. She ghostwrites a novel for her husband and it’s sucess inspires her to fight for her creative ownership. It also tracks her many romantic and sexual relationships with other women (never other men) while married to her husband.
I’ve been seeing some people forgetting/misunderstanding the definitions of some basic terms that are used to talk about gender identity so here’s a post to remind people of what words mean to try to clear up some confusion.
1. Being cis means that you identify 100% completely with the gender you were assigned at birth.
2. Being trans means you don’t 100% identify as the gender you were assigned at birth.
3. Being non-binary means your gender identity does not fit the boy/girl binary of our society. Non-binary people can be partially boy, partially girl, some mixture of the two, neither of the two, etc. There’s tons of ways to be nb and none of those ways are wrong. Sometimes it involves name changes, hormones, pronoun changes, clothing and hair changes, and surgery. Sometimes it only involves some of those things. Sometimes it involves none of those things. All nb people are valid no matter what.
4. Some nb people don’t identify as trans and some do. The ones that don’t identify as trans may do so because they don’t feel the need to medically or socially transition and to use the trans label may imply that these are things they want in their perspective. This is totally fine. Nb people don’t have to label themselves as trans if they don’t want to and that should be respected. Whether or not a nb person decides to use the trans label can also change over time. I discovered I was nb 5 years ago but didn’t start identifying as trans until about 2 years ago when my dysphoria started getting really bad. Different things factor into why and when a nb person decides to call themselves trans or not.
5. If a nb person does not identify as trans, this does not make them cis. Nb people don’t have to force themselves to “pick a side” in this false trans/cis dichotomy. Being nb is its own thing in and of itself and sometimes it aligns with being trans for some people and sometimes it doesn’t, but it doesn’t ever align with being cis. Besides, nb people literally cannot be cis because they don’t 100% identify as their agab and to act like nb people can be cis implies that they have privilege over trans and other nb people, which is not true. Truscum, which are notorious for going on crusades to invalidate nb indentities, would have a field day over the notion that nb people can be cis. It will give them and other types of REGs more fodder for their desire to falsely claim we oppress them so they can have an excuse to exclude us from the lgbtq and queer communities, which puts us in danger.
At the end of the day, anyone can identify however they want but we also need to make sure we are using these words correctly so we don’t confuse people, spread misinformation, imply that we are not oppressed or marginalized, or accidentally give tools to those that wish to kick us out of the community and harm us. I can’t stop a nb person from calling themselves cis and misusing words but if they do, they need to understand the implications it could have for other nb people and make sure that they let others know that they should not ever go around calling other nb people that don’t use the trans label cis as that would be harmful and extremely invalidating to a ton of people.
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