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you were all light,
you were all the reason.

Photograph of the silhouettes of several conifers in a row, with the cloudy sky behind them. In the bottom of the photo is some blue / teal, while there is less colour and saturation going upwards.

May 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Charlotte Davis

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May 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM

Charlotte Davis

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WIP

February 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM

Charlotte Davis

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January 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM

Charlotte Davis

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January 15, 2025 at 4:39 AM

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Samantha Puc 🍉

@theverbalthing.com

A piece shared in workshop tonight made me think about this post from 2022. Including screenshots with alt text as well as the original link. 🧵 1/2

www.tumblr.com/vaspider/687...

A Tumblr text post from user vaspider reads, "Pete Buttigieg is just a faggot.

It's very important to me that younger queers understand this: to the people who you're trying to be more respectable for when you say things like neopronouns set the trans movement back or you're why the cishets don't accept us or including [aces/bi people with the 'wrong kind' of partners/non-binary people/kinksters/non-passing trans ppl/furries/polyam people] just hurts us, can't you wait until we get all our rights before we talk about some of yours? -- to those people? Pete Buttigieg is just a fag.

On Sunday at Pride Northwest, some kids -- late teens, early 20s -- asked what our button I survived Reagan for this? meant. All of the queer adults at the tables making up our ad hoc counter looked at each other and sighed a little. Emet and another adult started to explain the way that the Reagan Administration handled -- or didn't handle -- the beginning of the AIDS crisis. How many people died. How much we were ignored. The Ashes Action. The Time Magazine article which explicitly blamed bisexual men for passing the pandemic to the cishet community, playing on all the worst stereotypical bullshit. The way that even when the CDC started paying attention, they were so focused on gay men that they ignored AIDS in the lesbian community, leading to the "women don't get AIDS, they just die from it" poster. And so on."

A Tumblr text post from user vaspider continues, "I finished counting out change and passed the last Bear Pride raised fist pin over to a bear a little older than me, then turned my head and interjected, "they didn't care until it started infecting more than just the fags." I turned my head back and handed him his change. He laughed bitterly and said, "remember when they called it 'gay cancer?'"

That what I need you to understand. The people for whom you are folding yourself into smaller and smaller boxes will never see you as anything but a freak. A queer. A dyke. A tranny. A fag.

Never.

These are people who will stand by and let you wither away and die alone, gasping for breath in a cinderblock room, and not even claim your ashes, and they will say you deserve it, because of your lifestyle. If they speak of you at all it will be by the wrong name, with the pictures you hate the most. They will curse at your lover, throw him out of the home you shared, and steal the gift you gave last Christmas to throw it in the trash just so he can't have it and they'll say Jesus loves you! while they do it. They'll feel good and righteous and blessed and holy and pure for doing it.

And for them, you spit in the eye of your sister. For them, you disavow your sibling. For their sake, you trim away bits of your heart and lace yourself up tight. Never too loud. Never too queer. Never inconvenient or embarrassing, never asking for too much.

Pete Buttigieg is what happens when your Boomer dad turns out gay. Middle America. Parents still married. Suburban-sprouted. Valedictorian. Harvard-educated. Rhodes Scholarship. Military service. More power to him: I hope he and Chasten are very happy together. Genuinely, I do."

A Tumblr text post from user vaspider continues, "You couldn't create a more respectable gay if you grew one in a lab run by concerned voter focus groups.

But Pete Buttigieg? Is just a fag.

That's the part you don't seem to get: when they abandoned us, they abandoned all of us. Rock Hudson was a beloved movie star and even personally friendly with that horrid pair of ambitious jackals. Nancy Reagan refused to help him get into the only place in the world that could treat him at the time, and he died.

It was 1985, 4 years after the CDC first released papers on what would eventually become known as HIV/AIDS and 7 years after the first known death from an infection from HIV-2. Reagan hadn't even said the word AIDS by the time Hudson died.

Pete Buttigieg is just a fag, and so am I. Unless I'm a dyke, which seems to depend on who's yelling what from which window and what day it is.

Yes, there will be people who genuinely love and accept you. Those people are worth all the frustration of the rest, thankfully, and they're the ones who love you in a pup mask or a leather harness and a neon jock like the ones sold by the men up the row from us last weekend. They're the ones who laugh out loud when you tell them you hid the word "dyke" in your company name, the ones who love you in all your messiness and uncertainty and the way you don't fit into neat boxes all scrubbed up and clean.

Most cishets, though... well, they don't actively mean you specifically any harm, at least not when they have to look at you. Not when you're right there in front of them. Maybe they'll be okay with you, personally, especially if you're the kind of gay who makes a good rhetorical device, and as long as you remain a good rhetorical device."

A Tumblr text post by user vaspider continues, "They need people to know that they don't have a problem with the gays, after all, and there you are, being all convenient. You make a nice token, and as long as you do, well. You're useful.

But they call you by your deadname when you're not around, and they put the wrong pronouns in your medical record even though they met you years after you came out, and they won't put themselves out to save you. Not one little bit.

I didn't want to be here again. The year I graduated from high school was the worst year of the AIDS crisis. The world into which I became an adult was a world in which an advisor and friend to Reagan, William F. Buckley, openly advocated for forcibly tattooing the HIV status of HIV+ gay men on their buttocks (and IV drug users on their forearms), and in which my father not only told me that when I was 14 or so, but when was told me that he'd advocated for that tattoo being "over their assholes."

(Buckley wrote that in '86, but he doubled down on it in 2005.

Fucker.)

But yeah. I didn't want to be here again. I wanted my daughter to inherit a better world. I wanted Obergefell and Lawrence v. Texas and Hope & Change to really mean something. I work for it, today and all days. I haven't given up.

I need you to know that, too. This isn't a white flag. I'm not surrendering. This isn't over. To misquote Henry Rollins, this is what Marsha and Sylvia and Stormé and Leslie and Brenda and Auntie Sugar trained us for. This is punk rock time."

November 26, 2024 at 1:29 AM

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Konner Knudsen

@penzerker.bsky.social

They hate queer people because we are actually free.

Let that sink in. Feel it in your heart. That is what this is about at the end of the day, Freedom. No group embodies the concept more than LGBTQ people.

Imagine being so shallow, and hateful to demand that everyone conform to a rigid ideal.

January 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM

Charlotte Davis

@charlottedesigns.bsky.social

Womp womp

The Anti-Fascist Angel 😇 ✨️ 🏴🚩 @thornqueenjunko.bsky.social · Jan 9

Karma doesn't discriminate. The fascist is just lucky a forest fire can't choose its target. No tears for fascists elites here...
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
#CeasefireNow 🚫🚫
#EatTheRich 🍽💵

January 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM

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WeRateDogs

@weratedogs.com

This is Lady. She is on a very important phone call right now, if you don't mind. 13/10

January 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM

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Katharine Hayhoe

@katharinehayhoe.com

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · Jan 9

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

January 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM

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Dana Goldberg

@dgcomedy.bsky.social

I just saw a post on Facebook start with ‘Convicted Rapist Mark Zuckerberg….’ Let’s see how long this no fact checking lasts.

January 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM

Charlotte Davis

@charlottedesigns.bsky.social

January 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM

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Erin Reed

@erininthemorning.com

If you work at Meta and support LGBTQ+ people no you don't.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jan 8

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions:

1. Insults about:

Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality.

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits.

2. Highlighted section:

The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."

January 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM

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It’s a Wonderful Life of Sharks 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@thelifeofsharks.com

The comic that got us demonetised on Facebook back in August. (We’re no longer on Facebook).

January 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM

Charlotte Davis

@charlottedesigns.bsky.social

January 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM

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Erin Reed

@erininthemorning.com

1. Yesterday, Nancy Mace used a slur targeted at transgender people in response to bathroom sit-ins.

The slur was posted to her official account, which could pose trouble for her as clear evidence of discriminatory animus in her anti-trans legislation.

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