Now, I have a thing I do that nobody knows about, but it makes me feel really good about myself and the world around me.
I think everyone should have a thing that nobody knows about.
BIG PHOTOSETS FOREVER FOR THEY ARE MUCH HARDER TO IGNORE / a lot of these don’t have hi-res versions available, but i still want to post them
This was not an exaggeration. The government ignored the issue of HIV/AIDS for years before anything was done. Gay and Queer communities had to form their own clinics because no government agencies cared for them. Back then, being diagnosed was equivalent to a death sentence or extreme debt and poor quality of life/a significantly shortened lifespan.
Things got so desperate that people literally had “Die-Ins”— in contemporary usage this refers to masses of people simulating death in order to protest something (like the War in Iraq). In this case, however, fatally sick people would literally lie down in public places and protest with what little energy they had left until they died. There is some footage of a church Die-In in the documentary Beyond Stonewall. The middle image here of that person’s jacket is not an extreme political statement; it’s what people had to do because they had no other options.
wow.
never forget
There is going to be a time when I can run into her and not immediately start crying. Right?
I sure hope so
Although I can’t make any promises
About immediately feeling like you’re going to throw up
I think that’s normal though
It’s weird to see somebody from a distance
Who used to be inside you
I want to get out of my parents house so bad but I can’t afford it now, and have to wait a couple more years before I escape to toronto. how can I deal with waiting? I’m going crazy right now!
I left when I was 15
Maybe ask Alex
But I think ultimately
You just do what you must do
Make lemonade, etc
In the olden days, only smart people could read long boring books like “The Well of Loneliness” and think “I am a queer invert, that is me,” now anyone can see Gimme Sugar, so anyone can see “that is me” (or text “thsizxh jis me”) and then go get drunk like party time. That is good too. This is human progress in America, we aren’t any better than other people, we’re just widening the scope so all kinds of people are involved, including people who haven’t read “The World Split Open” or “To Believe in Women” or “Women, Race, & Class.” I haven’t read them either because I just learned how to read and am reading “Beezus & Ramona” you elitist bastards.
Tinkerbell, via The Autostraddle Roundtable: Is there a Lesbian Generation Gap? (via ohheygrace)
couple and iraq war veterans Nicole & Jen in Alaska via love is love
Although we liked the idea of a story that would allow Cat to return to the show, the writers basically said that if we lose Cat then we also lose Sam. I wasn’t part of that main group of friends; if Cat suddenly decided that she didn’t want Sam or Frankie and that she was going to go and get a job in London, Sam wouldn’t just start hanging out with that crowd. Her story would come to an end. So it was quite flattering that they said, “we have to kill Cat in order to keep you.” The only way the group could unite with Sam was through that grief over Cat’s death.
something I did not know about “Lip Service” via Autostraddle — Heather Peace Gets Honest: The Autostraddle Interview
