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Mirror Monday *70
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Periodical Political Post *148
Queer News
- 51 years after Stonewall, US police raided two gay bars and marked
the start of Pride month with violence against peaceful queer spaces - Don’t forget that the first Pride was a violent anti-police riot
- Pride would not exist today if it weren’t for black queer activists
- Switzerland’s parliament finally talking about same-sex marriage
- Over 20% of Chinese university students say they are not straight
Other News
- A list of positive change that is happening because of the protests
- These four charts describe the police violence in the United States
- How US police use military tactics to turn peaceful protests violent
- For decades, police & FBI used undercover cops to escalate protests
- Minneapolis city council pledges to dismantle police department
I won’t post the unfathomable amount of videos of police violence emerging over the last two weeks here directly (find a few hundred here if you want to) to let people engage this topic at their own pace but let’s recognise that if you’re white–like me–it’s one of our privileges that we have that option. Many others do not have that luxury as they are confronted with them on a daily basis.
If the video is geo-blocked for you, try this link
Please consider helping in whatever way you feel like you can. May it be by donating, being a vocal supporter or even just by continuously educating yourself. None of us is perfect and that’s ok. We can all still learn a lot, me included, by making an effort to listen. Don’t let up. This is working. 
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Pool Time
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Teasing Tuesday *42
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The truth about unwanted arousal
Sex educator Emily Nagoski breaks down one of the most dangerous myths about sex and introduces us to the science behind arousal nonconcordance: when there’s a disconnect between physical response and the experience of pleasure and desire
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Lenny
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Wet Wednesday *105
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Turn It Around
When 15-year-old Bram meets Florian at a house party he immediately falls for him. There’s only one problem: nobody knows Bram is gay.
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pytn
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Tattoo Thursday *46
Edu Beber
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Dress up
Gendered clothing is a scam. Wear whatever makes you happy
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— milkboys
(@milkboys) June 10, 2020
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Roman
Roman Esanu Jr.
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Femboy Friday *36
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Pride: From anti-police action to brand sponsored parade
San Francisco’s first LGBTQ Pride parade was almost unrecognizable by today’s standards. To pay tribute to the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City—a six-day clash between police and queer bargoers in the West Village—around 30 people gathered on June 27, 1970 for a short march down Polk Street.
The marchers were largely hippies, radicals, and “hair fairies,” the latter a colloquial term for trans people before the word “transgender” was popularized. There were no floats and no rainbow Pride flags at the march, as the design for the iconic LGBTQ banner wouldn’t be created by Gilbert Baker until 1978.
A “gay-in” held at Golden Gate Park the next day was similarly low-key, drawing about 200 people. It more closely resembled a large family picnic than the modern equivalent of Pride, a corporate-funded saturnalia featuring mid-level executives dancing on Wells Fargo floats to Lady Gaga.
Beyond aesthetics, though, one of the starkest differences between early Pride parades and actions and the ones we have now is the relationship to law enforcement: Today, Pride parades have a heavy police presence, whereas the San Francisco gay-in ended with cops rounding up attendees.
This “gay in” was five years before California repealed its anti-gay sodomy laws, and homosexuality was still illegal in the vast majority of U.S. states. The frequent police raids at bars like the Black Cat Tavern in Los Angeles in July 1967, in which undercover officers began beating and handcuffing patrons who were kissing to celebrate New Year, were a reminder that the very fact of being gay was treated as a criminal act.
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Antonio Smaniotto
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Surfing Saturday *20
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…it’s hot outside
…it’s hot outside pic.twitter.com/DHXtCrh723
— milkboys
(@milkboys) June 14, 2020
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Periodical Political Post *149
Queer News
- Poland’s president vows to ban same-sex marriage, gay adoption
and LGBT+ education in schools, says queer people aren’t people - Trump admin removes health protections for transgender people
- Shocking percentage of Russians want to “eliminate” queer people
- New law in Japanese prefecture makes it illegal to out queer people
- Several “gay conversion” providers still active in the Netherlands
Other News
- Black Lives Matter protests inspire new laws & actual change
- Is the U.S. a failed state? Indicators are bad but it’s not too late
- Analysis of police arrests in the U.S. reveals stark racial disparity
- Why raising kids to ‘not see color’ doesn’t help fight racism
- Why saying ‘All Lives Matter’ completely misses the point
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