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Slow Sunday *20
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Why Kink belongs at Pride
Earlier this month, just weeks before the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a Twitter user shared a since-deleted viral tweet directed at Pride goers. It contained a number of statements about the nature of Pride, with one particular remark sparking a string of intra-community discourse: “Please don’t bring your k*nks/fet*shes to pride, there are minors @ pride and this can sexualise the event.”
Debate quickly followed within the queer community, calling into question the place of public displays of kink and BDSM at queer events.
Some agreed with the original tweet, assenting that wearing fetish gear or publicly expressing one’s sexuality would violate the consent of those present, as it could make people feel uncomfortable or triggered.
Others challenged these sentiments. “Kinks, sex, and protest are all inherent parts of pride,” wrote Nicolette Mason on Twitter. “One of the core tenets of pride is liberation and working against cultural shaming,” wrote a user under the handle @atty_boy. “Calling to make pride ‘kid-friendly’ implies that celebrating sexuality and kink openly is bad. Normalizing these things is a GOAL of pride.”
Pride doesn’t exist as a circus for straight people to gawk & feel like they’re “accepting” a sanitized version of LGBTQ people. It exists as a statement of PRIDE, resilience, resistance, and a celebration of sexuality. Kinks, sex, and protest are all inherent parts of pride.
— nicolette mason (@nicolettemason) May 27, 2019
Wherever you stand on the issue, the fact remains that BDSM, subversive sexuality, and leather culture have enjoyed a long history within the LGBTQ+ rights movement, and such public displays of sexuality are driven by much more than libido or countercultural impulses — they’re an inherent expression of queer culture and sexuality, and as such, deserve a place at Pride as much as anything.
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Harry Potter and the Gay Awakening
“As for how I knew I was gay, it was a bunch of little things… Like this one recurring dream I kept having about Daniel Radcliffe.”
Bryson Pitts in Love, Simon
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Model Monday *64
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Surviving homelessness as a queer teen
Travis was disowned by his family at 17 for being gay. He used his savings to move to Los Angeles and lived on the street for weeks before the Los Angeles LGBT Center provided him a bed and helped him find a job. Now he’s helping others in his situation.
“In my mom’s house, it’s God first and then family,” said Travis in a heartbreaking interview. Check out his story below.
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More art by モエミ
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Beautiful Bois *10
Vincent Littlehat
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Periodical Political Post *105
Queer News
- Young Americans less comfortable with queer people
- Anti-queer hate crimes up 144% in England and Wales
- US psychoanalysts apologise for calling gay people ill
- US cop gives church sermon calling for gay executions
- Iceland axes lengthy medical process for trans people
Other News
- The horrifying conditions facing kids in border detention
- Historians: US is running concentration camps for kids
- ICE agents left 5-year-olds in parked van for 39 hours
- 11 Oregon senators join white supremacist terror org,
threaten to kill cops to stop climate protection bill - American extremist Pastor who wanted to ‘save the
children’ arrested for repeatedly molesting a child
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Pool Party
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pink *172
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Wonderwear Wednesday *64
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Slow Sunday *20
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50 years after Stonewall most queer Americans are still too scared to hold hands
Fifty years after the Stonewall riots queer rights have come a long way. It would be easy to lean back and tell yourself that it’s a job well done. It would have little to do with reality though. There are many major milestones still to achieve and we even have to be careful not to lose some of the progress made so far.
Since Trump took office as president of the U.S. Nazis, religious extremists and other homophobes feel safe again in speaking their mind and often actions follow soon after. Trans people of colour are being murdered on such a regular basis that the subject became a major point for candidates in the presidential race. And that is just the gruesome tip of the iceberg.
Many queer Americans feel the consequences of a homophobic racist running the country. The acceptance of queer people even among young Americans dropped for the second year in a row and most queer Americans don’t dare to hold hands in public because they fear to be met with violence and discrimination.
In a survey 85% of respondents said they were scared when displaying this type of affection in public spaces. Only 15% said they had no fear at all of holding hands or showing other displays of affection in public.
More than three quarters of queer Americans surveyed said they believed that transgender people experienced more discrimination. With this in mind, just over 80% of trans people said they were “very” or “somewhat afraid” to hold hands in public, and not a single respondent said they had “no fear at all.”
26% of the respondents have personally experienced discrimination in the workplace. With 47% the number was almost twice as high for trans people. 12% of queer Americans said they had been refused service by a business before while 36% of trans people had such an experience.
Of all queer people surveyed, 77% said they were discriminated again sometimes or often when they apply for jobs. In terms of offensive slurs; 59% of queer people said they had been called a slur, and 81% of transgender people said the same.
However, people said there was also discrimination within the queer community itself. The types of prejudice cited as problematic included transphobia (60%), sexism (51%), and racism (52%).
Among LGBTQ people, 40% would not date a trans person. For gay gay men specifically that number was even higher at 66%.
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Ben Cameron
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Tattoo Thursday *32
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Are traps gay?
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Fanart Friday *13
Sword Art Online fanart by SL
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Face Friday *37
Ronan Parke
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Ben Trigger
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Cosplay Cutieday *15
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