Apparently, “Gay or Lesbian or Bisexual Interest” is a category worthy of censorship by the New York Department of Education.
Sorry Autostraddle. Guess I can’t get my homo news at school since it might like, turn all the kids GAY or something.
WHAT
Dan Choi & Amber Heard, 2010
Even though formspring has yet to listen to our pleas of desperation that they begin feeding formspring answers back onto tumblr, we have added a bunch more formspring feeds to the right sidebar of our tumblr page to make it easy for you to ask various team members your pressing questions. You’ll just have to read the answers on formspring instead of on tumblr, unfortunately. However I learned that if you sign up for formspring, you can follow people on formspring and then you’ll get a feed of everybody’s answers who you follow! So that’s neat.
Anyhow, in addition to questioning Riese, Laneia, Rachel, Crystal, Laura, Alex, Taylor, Lizz/autofashion and Jess; you can also question Grace, Gabby, Katrina, Carmen, Kate and Hansen! SO GO FOR IT
“Something is ch-ch-ch-ch-changing over at Change.org, but unlike the Bowie song, someone definitely wants to be a richer man.”
CRYSTAL GONZÁLEZ-ALÉ AND IVETTE GONZÁLEZ-ALÉ OF MARIMACHO PHOTO BY BEX WADE via The Style Manual, Part Three
Part 1 of 3 in Autostraddle’s new series The Style Manual: Suits 101! Marimacho contributed masculine style tips of the trade in all 3 chapters — check out Chapter 1 for An Introduction to Suits!
Featured in this photo: Sinclair Sexsmith!
It’s funny, it’s so complicated because I’d love to play a queer woman on a television show but that’s only because I think we need to see more queer women on television, not because it’s the only thing I can play, certainly. Whenever there’s a space that’s lacking, I’d love to be able to slide in. That’s why with, like The Mindy Kaling Project. I was just Facebooking about it today. I can’t tell you — the first time I saw that pilot — I’m not into romantic comedies. That’s not really my go-to genre. When I saw that pilot, just seeing a woman with skin that looked like mine seem so unapologetic and very un-selfconciouss just made such a huge difference to me. It was unbelievable. It made me want to watch her show, even though I’m not into romantic comedies. There’s something about that that I can relate to. And then there are people who don’t have dark skin necessarily but do like romantic comedies and can relate to looking for love in the modern world or whatever. There’s just so much space for people to have recognition within characters of colors or characters that are queer or gender nonconforming and I feel like we don’t give audiences enough credit to be able to handle that kind of stuff.
This is, as always, an honor, to be recognized and invited to talk about my experiences.. Being seen and heard makes such a difference, and it is a privilege that not everyone in my communities are able to exercise, so I do not take it for granted! Thank you, afterellen :)
Jasika Nicole is the bomb. Follow her Tumblr sugarbooty for more essays about queerness, race, gender, and being an actress in Hollywood. So much respect for her!
SHEROISM via brosetta-stone: The Kiss, today (23/10/2012) in Marseille, France. Two young women kissed in front of anti same sex marriage/adoption protesters.
I am here because when I was young, I wanted very badly to be a writer, I wanted to be a filmmaker, but I couldn’t find anyone like me in the world and it felt like my dreams were foreclosed simply because my gender was less typical than others. If I can be that person for someone else then the sacrifice of my private civic life may have value. I know I am also here because of the strength and courage and love that I am blessed to receive from my wife, my family and my friends. And in this way I hope to offer their love in the form of my materiality to a project like this one started by the HRC, so that this world that we imagine in this room might be used to gain access to other rooms, to other worlds previously unimaginable.
