Sometimes I think of how we went from the simple little line “you’re gonna love my boyfriend” in Paranorman (2012) which felt groundbreaking in children’s media at the time (and ticked off a fair number of people who consider lgbt+ content too ‘adult’ for children asfsdf)
To actual gay weddings in Steven Universe and Arthur, to openly gay and affectionate dads in She-Ra…
Progress for lgbt+ representation is slow and there’s always backlash and opposition. But it feels like there’s hope and I’m so happy lgbt+ and queer kids get to see themselves in media.
And the leaks about how terf are creating a Moral panic keeps on coming!
“The more than 10,000 documents lay bare the outsize influence of a small conservative organization working to lend a veneer of medical science to evangelical beliefs on parenting, sex, procreation, and gender.
The American College of Pediatricians, which has fought to deprive gay couples of their parental rights and encouraged public schools to treat LGBTQ youth as if they were mentally ill, is one of a handful of conservative think tanks leading the charge against abortion in the United States.”
DO NOT CONFUSE THEM WITH THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS
They are basically copying their website but replacing it with like…anti trans bullshit
I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.
The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”
1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.
Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! Hewrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.
RATING: RELIABLE
you can listen to the clip of the 1954 interview here and find him on wikipedia here
so my sister’s dog is named communist gun, but we call him red. right? and every once in a while when she wants him to jump on someone she goes “red scare!” and recently ive been trying to get him to jump on people when i go “mccarthyism!” but it’s not working yet
oh this is absolutely the wrong blog. please ignore
Anyways if you use straight jackets and other forms of restraint, padded rooms, in your art etc as someone who has not experienced this form of psych abuse I really really need you to tread lightly. I need you to be fucking respectful about it. If I see it used as a throwaway aesthetic choice or god fucking forbid as a JOKE one more time. I will set shit on fire.
I need you to understand that this is one of the worst things that can be done to someone, that it completely breaks you down. It is generally paired with isolation from other patients, sometimes In special rooms, sometimes stereotypically “padded” (though in real life I’ve only ever seen thick carpet being used, not whatever exists in those movies).
Really think about what it would do to you to be tied down in an empty room, no clocks, no indicator of time passing aside from the steps you hear coming down the hallway sometimes. Are they having lunch? Are they having dinner? no humans around you majority of the time, the nurses just checking on you through a window that you often cant see them through. They might be painted pink, or purple, etc, meant to “calm” you. It doesnt. It makes you lose your mind. You cant even fucking scratch your nose. There is nothing to fill the time. No reading. No listening to music. No connection to anyone who might help you. You can scream for hours, but you often quickly learn that the more you scream the longer they will keep you there like this. The most human reaction to this treatment is seen as proof of your insanity and as a need to prolong this treatment.
that it is often used to break you into compliance with whatever other fucked up shit they want to force on you. You dont want to take your meds? Well we cant legally force them down your throat (at least in some places I guess) but we CAN tie you down for a shit ton of time and the only way we will let you go is if you “consent” to taking your meds.
Your OC, your fucking blorbos, whatever, laying in a padded room tied up might be funny to you, isnt it so hilarious that they’re (treated like) “one of those crazies”. Look at this funny picture hihi. Sitcoms use this shit too. Psych ward, padded room, restraints, cue the laugh track.
But as one of those crazies we can usually tell when you want to actually depict our suffering and recognize it as such, give it the gravity it deserves. and when you only see this intense abuse as a funny thing or an aesthetic. And both are absolutely disgusting. Is this necessary? Is it worth more than preserving our dignity after the fact with treating our trauma with the seriousness and weight it deserves?
For some reason, I was able to queue twice the amount of posts than the maximum and now Tumblr isn’t letting me queue stuff, and the amount of posts in the queue is still above the limit
If 6 year olds were YouTubers they’d be making 35 minute video essays called like “The Problem with Tag” “How Toys get You to Play Longer” “The Brown Cow Chocolate Milk Theory” “We Need to Talk About Pretend”
and she is losing in the most horrific way possible
It’s a straight up one sided smack down, first time it’s like it punched her and is throwing her about and then she’s just crying on the floor, second time it’s like she’s getting fucking choked by an invisible force
This is straight up like if an invisible man was abusing her
WHY DID SHE GO BACK FOR SECONDS
why does she make source engine ragdoll collision sounds
The idea that sex traffickers are kidnapping random children off the streets and brainwashing them is pure conspiracy with one foot in antisemitism.
The vast, vast majority of child sex trafficking is done with the aid of a family member. Massive, organized child sex trafficking rings are a complete fantasy. Even epstein didn’t have fleets of kidnappers. He had bribes, and access to desperate young women.
The insistence that sex trafficking kidnapping gangs are a real and present danger is conspiratorial nonsene. It is a belief on par with being worried about serial killers.
This is one of the many reasons why that shitty sound of freedom movie was genuinely harmful in addition to just being bad. It whipped a bunch of weirdos who were already primed to accept misinformation into a frenzy about an issue that was portrayed with dangerous inaccuracy. It told them that there were rings of brown criminals in Central America behind it all and not so subtlety leads the viewer to the conclusion that the answer is to strengthen our borders, throw more money at law enforcement, and that we should also be giving those cops more impunity to operate outside of oversight so they can get the job done.
Meanwhile, none of the things that we know reduce trafficking, like comprehensive sex ed for kids, investing in low-income areas (affordable/public housing, access to quality education, addiction services, etc), and protecting the most marginalized and victimized demographics in our communities, are nowhere to be seen. It’s a complete refusal to tell the truth about the reality of the issue.
One of the worst things about combating this particular depiction of trafficking is how common it is for the people spreading the falsities to roll back on “spreading awareness” as being the only thing that matters even when genuine anti-trafficking orgs are begging them to stop making stuff up. This kind of stuff is grossly performative and designed nearly entirely for pearl-clutchers to be able to point the finger to immigrants (read: black and brown people) while pretending like they’re a part of the solution when they don’t even know what the problem looks like.
I was once at a protest where some guy came out and was like “I’m gonna sue your organization! Where’s your head office?” And 100% did not believe us when we said there was no office, there was no funding, and we had no leader. The more authoritarian someone’s beliefs are the more they are truly baffled by a leaderless movement. They don’t believe anarchist organising is possible, and they waste their energy trying to find “the people in charge”.
The term and concept of “rent lowering gunshots” has seeped into my mental vocabulary, and I’ve welcomed it there. Something I’m up to is gross and weird? Good, keeps the rent low. Keeps judgy people out. Post weird shit on your blog, do weird shit to your hair, be as fucky as your heart ever wants to be. If you’re not the one making the profit, make yourself unprofitable. The aposematism of brightly coloured creatures is there to warn predators, not friends.
You have no moral obligation to make yourself palatable for those who would consume you.
You have no moral obligation to make yourself palatable for those who would consume you.
You may be surprised at how often I see someone saying “Nobody is talking about (problem)” on my tumblr dash while my entire dash is filled with almost nothing but posts about how nobody is talking about (problem)
“Nobody is talking about this!”
My brother in christ you just linked to a CNN article about it.
I especially don’t appreciate the implication by some posts on here and some anons I get that because I’m not joining in on reblogging those posts that I don’t care about (problem). I do, but I also don’t like guilt tripping people, I don’t like weighing in on things I haven’t researched yet, and I’m generally here on social media to try and forget about my credit card debt for a few minutes. Not pledge my allegiance to the correct social causes every day.
Getting the USA out of South Korea (and Japan!) is a trans rights issue, too, by the way.
Many trans people, of all gender spectrum, in South Korea and Japan both, find themselves doing sex work (as is true with cis ppl and is true in much of the west of the world). What makes this exceptionally a trans rights issue is that esp in case of South Korea, the big area for LGBT+ activities is right next to one of many the U.S. bases in Seoul.
This creates an environment where a lot of soldiers will abuse trans sex workers, and the governing bodies that are supposed to protect the South Korean citizens, already unwilling to intervene on behalf of trans people, doubly turn them away because they aren’t willing to mediate disputes between U.S. soldiers and South Korean citizens.
This has created an environment where trans sex workers I work with in my irl activism in South Korea have all pointed to the U.S. soldiers as the most dangerous and worst customers for their work. What’s more, they say that the soldiers know that they can really get away with all of this, much than with cis sex workers, and target trans sex workers.
I have literally seen people that are supposedly trans-safe get mad at me for pointing out that the U.S.A and its legacy in South Korea is toxic in every avenue (the discussion was about the environment a few days back), and, like, please fucking get a grip. You’re abandoning your international siblings that are victims of your awful empire.
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