Freaky Friday *54
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Outed, and kicked out of Home
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I know You love to fall
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Freedom for Some
For some Americans “Freedom” means that Christians and “conservatives” should be allowed to discriminate everyone who isn’t straight like they used to and often enough still discriminate everyone who isn’t white. On the other hand they liken those who demand the freedom to love whoever they want to the Nazis. Literally. In their eyes not wanting to be treated as a second class citizen because of your sexual preference makes you just as bad as those guys who killed millions of Jews, gays, intellectuals and socialists in concentration camps in World War II. Literally.
This mind-set is once again expressed in a film US senator Rick Santorum is producing in the wake of a verdict from the US Supreme Court that ruled that companies are people and can have religious views and therefore are allowed to circumvent the law that would require them to cover women’s contraceptives in their health care plans (which, unlike Viagra that these companies don’t object to at all is something many women actually need) and also gives them the freedom to just ignore laws made for example to protect queer employees from discrimination.
Please read more about you being a Nazi on Bilerico and watch the trailer for the film below…
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Time for Dota!
Hope you guys are watching The International 2014; which is, contrary to popular belief, not only a handsomeness competition between Pajkatt and Akke (see below) but also the greatest eSports event in history with a prize pool of 10. Million. Dollars. Games starts today (CET)! Go, Alliance! :)
No idea what Dota is? No worries! If you ever played video games you’ll have a great time watching it even if you never tried the game yourself. The International will also have a cast just for beginners!
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Coming Out with Noah
Submitted by Gotham
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Tender Thursday *67
There’s these two boys in my school… this morning they were holding hands in French class and here one is fondly stroking the other’s arm. When a friend of mine asked them if they were dating the one with the black sweater just smiled while the other one started blushing really hard and just stuttered a weak “what”.
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Into Circle
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Model Monday *82
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Coming Out Simulator 2014
For a young queer person, coming out in North America can be really hard. Everyone has a different experience, but inevitably, it changes your life and it changes your relationships. It can also be a horrible nightmare. Kids are routinely bullied, not accepted by their families and even kicked out of their homes for being queer. The statistics are depressing, and the reality of the situation is that it’s scary for many, whether their parents, loved ones and friends ultimately accept them or not. But it’s also the only way forward for most queer people, since the alternative is to live a lie.
Coming Out Simulator 2014, by indie developer Nicky Case, is a deeply personal adventure game that details precisely that struggle with humour and gut-punching emotional honesty. It allows the player to join them, and in fact, play as them, as they come out to their parents. Case’ game is inspired by real-life events, they call it "emotionally authentic, factually inaccurate."
"The main arc of the story, coming out to my parent and it ending in me having to break up with my boyfriend, is true," Case told me in an email. "More or less. A lot of the dialogue [consists of] things my mother actually said, such as ‘Don’t let the gays recruit you’ or ‘Which one of you is the woman in the relationship?’ My father did punch me, as he does in one ending of the game, but he didn’t hit me when I came out, since he left the family long before."
"And his violent tendencies [were] partially why my mother divorced him."
Case made the game partially as an enrichment exercise — they wanted to experiment with a narrative-heavy game, and work on story writing skills. The Nar8 game jam — which Coming Out Simulator 2014 debuted at — gave Case "an excuse and a deadline." But the primary reason was an opportunity to explore a traumatic, life-changing event.
I finally feel secure enough to … basically … broadcast my personal story
"Four years after my messy coming out experience, I finally, finally feel secure enough in my emotions and identity to … basically … broadcast my personal story to tens of thousands of players worldwide. Y’all get to see my dirty laundry now."
via polygon
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Wet Wednesday *139
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Freckle Friday *25
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Sexytimes Sunday *32
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Periodical Political Post *193
Queer News
- Plane crash claims 100 top AIDS researchers heading to Melbourne’
- World AIDS Conference speakers take aim at countries with anti-gay laws
- Croatia passed law allowing civil partnerships for same-sex couples
- Singapore Court of Appeals considers end the country’s ban on gay sex
- Turkey court recognizes hate speech against gays for the first time
- US president signs executive order banning (some) LGBT criminalisation
Other News
- Whistleblower: NSA stores 80% of all phone calls: not metadata, full audio
- While housing decreases, homelessness now a crime in many US cities
- US state accidentally decriminalized prostitution, good things happened
- The World Health Organization calls for the decriminalization of drug use
- Members of US Congress declare "immunity" from insider trading probe
- Snowden: NSA employees routinely pass around intercepted nude photos
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Teasing Tuesday *90
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Feasting Friday *39
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Sex Ed Uncensored
Including the “guess the gay” game 
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Mirror Monday *88
Hej, Finn!
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Trap Thursday *94
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One Mom’s moving Speech
"My daughter is six years old. She transitioned, which means she changed her outward appearance from male to female and started living full time as her true gender, when she was four. Until that point she was quite a rough and tumble little boy with a buzz cut and a shark tooth necklace."
And so begins the absolutely beautiful speech Debi Jackson gave earlier this year about her transgender daughter, AJ, in Kansas City. As Jackson continues, she outlines how her family came to realize that AJ is transgender, what happened the first day she went to school "in girl clothes" and the bigotry her family faced.
But the best part of the video may be when Jackson addresses the comments she’s heard about her daughter and sets the record straight about statements like you "wanted a girl so you turned your child into one" and "kids have no idea what they want or who they are — my kids wants to be a dog, should I let him?" Spend six minutes and get to know Jackson and her family a little better. You’ll be happy you did.
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