Surfin’ Summer Otter Dress-Up Paper Doll
Better Together: Queer Sultry Summer zine
Autostraddle & Everyone Is Gay
Gosh golly Peggy has a nice smile. The kind that just warms a girl up from toe to top.
I know I’m clear with my responsibility in going forward: to tell my story the right way, for me, to keep learning, to do whatever I can to reshape the landscape of how trans issues are viewed, how trans people are treated, and then more broadly, to promote a very simple idea: accepting people for who they are. Accepting people’s differences.
You had me. You had me convinced that there were redeemable parts of you, that your leadership was making you less of a cesspool, that, like literally any other group of people, you contained both decent humans and horrid man-babies who throw tantrums when anyone tries to tell them how to behave like a person. Reddit, I thought you were largely interested in getting to know me, in treating people better than you have in the past. But dammit, Reddit, I may have been wrong.
Tig is a story about losing love, family, and comedy and then finding them all again in places you never would’ve thought to look because Jesus Christ, you’d never want to.
When Sydney [Lucas] steps out and sings ‘Ring of Keys’ or when I say the word ‘butch,’ I say it with the color of, like I’m saying the word supermodel. Because from my lens, the word butch is the most beautiful adjective I can come up with. ‘Oh my God, she was an old-school butch!’ Like satisfying words coming out of your mouth. Still, it gets titters because the word ‘butch’ is a punch line. For every other show that has ever existed, ‘butch’ and 'dyke’ have been a punch line for the end of a gay man’s joke. So now we are taking that word, like the word queer, we’re owning it and saying, butch is a beautiful thing. When Sydney starts to sing about seeing this, there’s a laugh about the ring of keys, but the worm has turned by the end of that song and people are wrecked because they realize that she’s seeing something beautiful.
Beth Malone, Playbill interview, 6/29/2015 (via bethmalones)
autostraddle just gets me omg
her “goth” phase on glee was 👌👌 tbh
