not just because of this, but because of this.
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transgender couple Katie Hill & Arin Andrews (Katie is the first openly transgender student to graduate from high school in Oklahoma!) via Sunday Funday
MOTORCYCLE AND BIKER BOOTS. PHOTO BY JULIANA WIGMORE VIA: QUEER FASHION 101 VIA Boots for Your Masculine-of-Center Feet
“ This year, things look very different. While Obama’s victory was still closer than many of us felt comfortable with, we had something of a landslide when it came to marriage equality. Four different states – Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington – saw voters defend marriage equality at the ballot in an unprecedented instance of the majority voting on the rights of a minority and doing the right thing. In the days after the election, many are wondering whether there’s some kind of new era at hand, whether we’re looking at the beginning of something different than we’ve ever seen before. For queer communities, this question is maybe even more urgent. Votes on marriage equality look very different now than they did a few years ago, but does that mean this is change we can believe in?”
a commenter on our post about the demographics of our readership according to our recent audience survey, via Comment Awards are throwing a victory party
I agree with Dorothy Allison that the truest way to change someone is to get them to “inhabit the soul of another person who is different from them.” And fiction allows us to do just that. But not didactic fiction, which is necessarily one-dimensional, it has to be fiction that seeks to represent the world more completely, more accurately and fully, than does fiction that leads with its message and uses its characters as props for the message.
Sometimes when people ask me why I write, I tell them that it’s because I grew up gay (very gay) way out in the middle of cowboy country in the windswept and dusty badlands of eastern Montana.
Yeah, there are always going to be kids who are resistant and homophobic and closed-minded and, just, difficult. You may not reach them, but you might reach that one kid in the corner who’s trying to figure out if it’s okay to have two dads. And you might reach that other kid across the room who thinks she’s falling for her best female friend and has no idea what that means. If the conversation is happening, and is peppered with positive, supportive comments from the teacher, then someone is reaping a benefit from it.
this is a really wonderful post
I know you’re nervous. But if it somehow doesn’t work out, you’ll be okay. Because you’ll have taught yourself that you can make a big change and you’re still here, and life has gone on. Don’t you love how we go on?
Rachel via You Need Help: Moving On And Out
this is why people like me vote for people like him –> President Obama: “I’m Really Proud of All of You.” (by BarackObamadotcom)
