shandeleers:

Wonder Woman-ing up for tonight’s @DelinquentDebs bachelorette party. Fuck I love my #bootyandthegeek #booty shorts. They’re one of the only things I LIKE putting on my ass, & I HATE covering my ass. Thanks @missladyk10! #bum #assfordaysclub #leotarded #wonderwoman #wonderbooty #silverfox #silverhair #greyhair #redlips #blueeyes #nopantslife #danceitout #monodonmonoceros #narwhal

YES!!!!

shandeleers:

Wonder Woman-ing up for tonight’s @DelinquentDebs bachelorette party. Fuck I love my #bootyandthegeek #booty shorts. They’re one of the only things I LIKE putting on my ass, & I HATE covering my ass. Thanks @missladyk10! #bum #assfordaysclub #leotarded #wonderwoman #wonderbooty #silverfox #silverhair #greyhair #redlips #blueeyes #nopantslife #danceitout #monodonmonoceros #narwhal

YES!!!!

sinidentidades:

CeCe McDonald
TW: Racism, Violence, Transphobia, Murder 

Around 12:30 am on June 5, 2011, CeCe was walking to the grocery store with some friends, all of them young, African American, and LGBTIQ or allied. As they passed a local bar, the Schooner Tavern, a group of older, white people who were standing outside the bar’s side door began hurling racist and transphobic slurs at them, without provocation.  They called CeCe and her friends ‘faggots,’ ‘niggers,’ and ‘chicks with dicks,’ and suggested that CeCe was ‘dressed as a woman’ in order to ‘rape’ Dean Schmitz, one of the attackers. When CeCe approached the group and told them that her crew would not tolerate hate speech, one of the women said, “I’ll take you bitches on,” and then smashed her glass into CeCe’s face. She punctured CeCe’s cheek all the way through, lacerating her salivary gland. A fight ensued, during which one of the attackers, Dean Schmitz, was fatally stabbed.
The only person arrested that night was CeCe.  She was briefly taken to the hospital where she received 11 stitches in her cheek. While she was still suffering both physically and mentally from this traumatic incident, she was left alone in a room for three hours and then interrogated, and then placed in solitary confinement at the Hennepin County men’s jail. She spent the next several months in jail and had to wait almost two months between her initial doctors’ visit and a much-needed follow-up appointment.
After her arrest, CeCe was quickly charged with second-degree murder. In short, she was prosecuted for surviving a violent, racist, transphobic attack. 

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CeCe McDonald

TW: Racism, Violence, Transphobia, Murder 

Around 12:30 am on June 5, 2011, CeCe was walking to the grocery store with some friends, all of them young, African American, and LGBTIQ or allied. As they passed a local bar, the Schooner Tavern, a group of older, white people who were standing outside the bar’s side door began hurling racist and transphobic slurs at them, without provocation.  They called CeCe and her friends ‘faggots,’ ‘niggers,’ and ‘chicks with dicks,’ and suggested that CeCe was ‘dressed as a woman’ in order to ‘rape’ Dean Schmitz, one of the attackers. When CeCe approached the group and told them that her crew would not tolerate hate speech, one of the women said, “I’ll take you bitches on,” and then smashed her glass into CeCe’s face. She punctured CeCe’s cheek all the way through, lacerating her salivary gland. A fight ensued, during which one of the attackers, Dean Schmitz, was fatally stabbed.

The only person arrested that night was CeCe.  She was briefly taken to the hospital where she received 11 stitches in her cheek. While she was still suffering both physically and mentally from this traumatic incident, she was left alone in a room for three hours and then interrogated, and then placed in solitary confinement at the Hennepin County men’s jail. She spent the next several months in jail and had to wait almost two months between her initial doctors’ visit and a much-needed follow-up appointment.

After her arrest, CeCe was quickly charged with second-degree murder. In short, she was prosecuted for surviving a violent, racist, transphobic attack. 

fripperiesandfobs:

Costume designed by Bob Crowley for Maggie Smith as Lady Bracknell in the 1993 production of The Importance of Being Ernest.

From the V&A

THIS……with a veil…

sisterevelyntensions:

Some of the Orlando Sisters dot up verrrrrry early this morning to cheer on the walkers of the AIDS Walk Orlando 2013.

We had a wonderful time and the crowd was amazing; great energy.

knowhomo:

LGBTQ* People In History (of Great Importance)

The “Einstein of Sex”: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld

14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935

Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld was a scholar, physician, sexologist, and arguably the first outspoken gay and transgender activist in modern history. 

Why he rocks?

Hirschfeld’s Accomplishments:

1. Jewish gay* identified doctor, fought to end Paragraph 175 in Germany ( a law that made homosexuality punishable by law)

2. Founding member of Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee(WhK) ( English: The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee), which acted advocacy group to many underrepresented individuals (including the queer* population).

3. Led the FIRST congress for sexual reform

4. Co-wrote and acted in the 1919 film Anders als die Andem  (“Different From the Others”)

5. Created a way of cataloging identities, 64 of them, outside of “gay/lesbian,” including many ways to identify oneself outside of cisgender identification. Hirschfeld is one of the earliest scholars and advocates for the transgender community in Western culture. 

6. Created the Institute for Sexual Research, which became a safe haven for queer* individuals in Berlin

7. Joined the Bund für Mutterschutz (League for the Protection of Mothers), fighting for women’s equality and the decriminalization of abortions

8. Lost his entire library and most of his life work to the Nazi party but was able to flee and save his life (and rumored to have saved a few others). Nazi soldiers burned the entire institution’s contents on May 6, 1933 (80 years ago this month).

Imagine what the world might be if we still had all of his notes and the stories of hundreds of queer* identified and trans* identified individuals.

 

  1. (Photo Source:Magnus Hirschfeld)
  2. (Photo Source 2/3: International Sexological Congresses)
  3. (Photo Source: Institute for Sexology)
  4. (Photo Source: Nazis burning Hirschfeld’s Institute’s contents)

 

Things to remember

bzedan:

  • You don’t owe anything to the people who created you by smashing cells together.
  • A bully is a bully and emotional mistreatment is abuse.
  • Don’t let a dictionary definition of what “family” is guilt you.
  • Love those who love you and are worthy of your love.

samwanda:

meganmonroes:

Rare colour footage of Marilyn meeting Lassie at Ray Anthony’s Party in August 1952.

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