Tara
@tarall1013.bsky.social
Mom of 2 who thinks the world can be a lot kinder. Book lover. Confused how the US elected a traitor and doing whatever I can to survive the next 4 years unscathed.
25 Jim Parsons - American award winning actor best known for his work on sitcom “Big Bang Theory”. He came out as gay in 2012 and had a made point to do projects that champion the LGBTQ community.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
June 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
25 Jim Parsons - American award winning actor best known for his work on sitcom “Big Bang Theory”. He came out as gay in 2012 and had a made point to do projects that champion the LGBTQ community.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
24 Josephine Baker - French American dancer, singer and actress. First black woman to star in a movie in 1927. Though married a few times to men - it is rumored that she had many female romances with celebrities like Clara Smith, Ada Smith, Frida Khalo & novelist Colette.
#happypride
#loveislove
#happypride
#loveislove
June 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
24 Josephine Baker - French American dancer, singer and actress. First black woman to star in a movie in 1927. Though married a few times to men - it is rumored that she had many female romances with celebrities like Clara Smith, Ada Smith, Frida Khalo & novelist Colette.
#happypride
#loveislove
#happypride
#loveislove
23 Hunter Schafer - Transgender American actress and model. Shot to superstardom after appearing in HBO hit Euphoria. She has been a longtime civil rights activist fighting for equal rights for all and especially the LGBTQ community.
#happypride
#protecttransyouth
#loveislove
#happypride
#protecttransyouth
#loveislove
June 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
23 Hunter Schafer - Transgender American actress and model. Shot to superstardom after appearing in HBO hit Euphoria. She has been a longtime civil rights activist fighting for equal rights for all and especially the LGBTQ community.
#happypride
#protecttransyouth
#loveislove
#happypride
#protecttransyouth
#loveislove
22 Longston Hughes -Famed American writer. Hughes's story "Blessed Assurance" deals with a father's anger over his son's effeminacy and "queerness". His love of black men is evidenced in a number of reported unpublished poems to an alleged black male lover.
#loveislove
#happypride
#protecttranskids
#loveislove
#happypride
#protecttranskids
June 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
22 Longston Hughes -Famed American writer. Hughes's story "Blessed Assurance" deals with a father's anger over his son's effeminacy and "queerness". His love of black men is evidenced in a number of reported unpublished poems to an alleged black male lover.
#loveislove
#happypride
#protecttranskids
#loveislove
#happypride
#protecttranskids
21 William Dorsey Swann - An African-American born into slavery, Swann was the first person in the United States to lead a gay resistance group and the first known person to self-identify as a "queen of drag". Swann organized a series of drag balls in Washington, D.C.
#happypride
#loveislove
#happypride
#loveislove
June 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
21 William Dorsey Swann - An African-American born into slavery, Swann was the first person in the United States to lead a gay resistance group and the first known person to self-identify as a "queen of drag". Swann organized a series of drag balls in Washington, D.C.
#happypride
#loveislove
#happypride
#loveislove
20 Gladys Bentley - performed at Harlem's Ubangi Club, where she was backed up by a chorus line of drag queens. dressed in men's clothes, played piano, and sang her own raunchy lyrics to popular tunes of the day in a deep, growling voice while flirting with women in the audience
#happypride
#happypride
June 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
20 Gladys Bentley - performed at Harlem's Ubangi Club, where she was backed up by a chorus line of drag queens. dressed in men's clothes, played piano, and sang her own raunchy lyrics to popular tunes of the day in a deep, growling voice while flirting with women in the audience
#happypride
#happypride
19 Bayard Rustin-activist and leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, and gay rights.The principal organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. due to criticism over his sexuality, usually advised other civil rights leaders from behind the scenes
#happypride
#Juneteenth
#happypride
#Juneteenth
June 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
19 Bayard Rustin-activist and leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, and gay rights.The principal organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. due to criticism over his sexuality, usually advised other civil rights leaders from behind the scenes
#happypride
#Juneteenth
#happypride
#Juneteenth
18. Lucy Hicks Anderson - Born as a male in 1886 - she was adamant she was a girl and with doctors advice her parents let her live as one. Married twice and was convicted of perjury for lying about her sex on her marriage license. Once released she and her husband moved to LA
#happypride
#loveislove
#happypride
#loveislove
June 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
18. Lucy Hicks Anderson - Born as a male in 1886 - she was adamant she was a girl and with doctors advice her parents let her live as one. Married twice and was convicted of perjury for lying about her sex on her marriage license. Once released she and her husband moved to LA
#happypride
#loveislove
#happypride
#loveislove
17. Alvin Ailey Jr - Openly gay American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist who founded the AAADT. He created it as a haven for nurturing Black and gay artists and expressing the universality of the African-American experience through dance.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
June 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
17. Alvin Ailey Jr - Openly gay American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist who founded the AAADT. He created it as a haven for nurturing Black and gay artists and expressing the universality of the African-American experience through dance.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
16 Lisa Power - LGBT rights campaigner. co-founded the Pink Paperand Stonewall, later becoming Policy Director at the Terrence Higgins Trust. first openly LGBT person to speak at the United Nations and continues to work and volunteer as an LGBT+ and sexual health activist
#loveislove
#happypride
#loveislove
#happypride
June 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
16 Lisa Power - LGBT rights campaigner. co-founded the Pink Paperand Stonewall, later becoming Policy Director at the Terrence Higgins Trust. first openly LGBT person to speak at the United Nations and continues to work and volunteer as an LGBT+ and sexual health activist
#loveislove
#happypride
#loveislove
#happypride
15. Charlie Craggs - British transgender activist. She launched the “Nail Transphobia” project which provided people with free manicures from trans people to open dialogue and reduced transphobia in the UK making her one the most influential activists.
#protecttranskids
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttranskids
#happypride
#loveislove
June 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
15. Charlie Craggs - British transgender activist. She launched the “Nail Transphobia” project which provided people with free manicures from trans people to open dialogue and reduced transphobia in the UK making her one the most influential activists.
#protecttranskids
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttranskids
#happypride
#loveislove
14. Barbara Gittings - American LGBTQ activist that was part of the movement to get the American Psychiatric Association to drop homosexuality as a mental illness. She won the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award.
#loveislove
#happypride
#protecttransyouth
#loveislove
#happypride
#protecttransyouth
June 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
14. Barbara Gittings - American LGBTQ activist that was part of the movement to get the American Psychiatric Association to drop homosexuality as a mental illness. She won the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award.
#loveislove
#happypride
#protecttransyouth
#loveislove
#happypride
#protecttransyouth
13. Simon Nkoli - an anti-apartheid, gay rights, and AIDS activistin South Africa. He founded the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand (GLOW) and organized South Africa's first pride parade. After his death many lobbies for expanding HIV treatment.
#happypride
#loveislove
#happypride
#loveislove
June 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
13. Simon Nkoli - an anti-apartheid, gay rights, and AIDS activistin South Africa. He founded the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand (GLOW) and organized South Africa's first pride parade. After his death many lobbies for expanding HIV treatment.
#happypride
#loveislove
#happypride
#loveislove
12. Angela Davis - American feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. Davis was twice the Communist Party's candidate for the VP of the US. Very politically active. In 1997, she came out as a lesbian in an interview with Out magazine.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttranskids
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttranskids
June 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
12. Angela Davis - American feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. Davis was twice the Communist Party's candidate for the VP of the US. Very politically active. In 1997, she came out as a lesbian in an interview with Out magazine.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttranskids
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttranskids
11 Rachel Levine - American pediatrician who served as the United States assistant secretary for health, the admiral in charge of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, from 2021 - 2025.
She is one of only a few openly transgender in government.
#happypride
#protecttransyouth
She is one of only a few openly transgender in government.
#happypride
#protecttransyouth
June 12, 2025 at 3:21 AM
11 Rachel Levine - American pediatrician who served as the United States assistant secretary for health, the admiral in charge of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, from 2021 - 2025.
She is one of only a few openly transgender in government.
#happypride
#protecttransyouth
She is one of only a few openly transgender in government.
#happypride
#protecttransyouth
10. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs - German lawyer, jurist and journalist. Pioneer of sexology and gay right. He is considered to be the first openly gay man. He wrote several books and articles on the subject matter urging others to be themselves.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
June 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
10. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs - German lawyer, jurist and journalist. Pioneer of sexology and gay right. He is considered to be the first openly gay man. He wrote several books and articles on the subject matter urging others to be themselves.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
9. Virginia Woolf - Famous English writer and pioneer of the stream of consciousness style of authorship. While she did marry a man - she had several affairs with women. While She said she did love her husband she was not ever attracted to him physically.
#loveislove
#happypride
#protecttranskids
#loveislove
#happypride
#protecttranskids
June 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
9. Virginia Woolf - Famous English writer and pioneer of the stream of consciousness style of authorship. While she did marry a man - she had several affairs with women. While She said she did love her husband she was not ever attracted to him physically.
#loveislove
#happypride
#protecttranskids
#loveislove
#happypride
#protecttranskids
8. Alok Vaid-Menon - American artist, writer and media personality. They are gender nonconforming and use they/them pronouns. Their work centers around violence against the trans community. They advocate for bodily diversity and self determination.
#happypride
#protecttransyouth
#loveislove
#happypride
#protecttransyouth
#loveislove
June 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
8. Alok Vaid-Menon - American artist, writer and media personality. They are gender nonconforming and use they/them pronouns. Their work centers around violence against the trans community. They advocate for bodily diversity and self determination.
#happypride
#protecttransyouth
#loveislove
#happypride
#protecttransyouth
#loveislove
7. RuPaul - American drag queen, TV host, singer, producer, writer and actor. He has been dubbed the queen of drag and is known to be the most commercially successful in the field. He is a cultural icon.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
June 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
7. RuPaul - American drag queen, TV host, singer, producer, writer and actor. He has been dubbed the queen of drag and is known to be the most commercially successful in the field. He is a cultural icon.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
6. Michael Dillon - first openly trans man to undergo a phalloplasty 1946. After graduating college in 1938 he read about a doctor using testosterone and started to take the hormone to be become more masculine this turned to seeking surgery.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttranskids
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttranskids
June 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
6. Michael Dillon - first openly trans man to undergo a phalloplasty 1946. After graduating college in 1938 he read about a doctor using testosterone and started to take the hormone to be become more masculine this turned to seeking surgery.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttranskids
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttranskids
5 Audre Lorde - American poet, writer, philosopher, professor, intersectional feminist and civil rights activist. She believed there could be "no hierarchy of oppressions" among "those who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children”.
#happypride
#loveislove
#happypride
#loveislove
June 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
5 Audre Lorde - American poet, writer, philosopher, professor, intersectional feminist and civil rights activist. She believed there could be "no hierarchy of oppressions" among "those who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children”.
#happypride
#loveislove
#happypride
#loveislove
4. Harvey Milk - American politician who was the first openly gay man to be elected into office. He led gay rights movements and sponsored a bill banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. After 11 months in office he was assassinated in 1978.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
June 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
4. Harvey Milk - American politician who was the first openly gay man to be elected into office. He led gay rights movements and sponsored a bill banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. After 11 months in office he was assassinated in 1978.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
3. Marsha P. Johnson - an American gay liberation activist and self identified drag queen. An outspoken advocate for gay rights and one of the prominent figures in Stonewall. She was very active in NY’s art scene in the 1960s.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
June 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
3. Marsha P. Johnson - an American gay liberation activist and self identified drag queen. An outspoken advocate for gay rights and one of the prominent figures in Stonewall. She was very active in NY’s art scene in the 1960s.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
2. Pete Buttigieg - former naval officer, Mayor of South Bend Indiana and secretary of transportation. He has worked hard legislation for anti discrimination laws for LGBTQ Americans. He and his husband, Chasten Glezman, have 2 children together.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
June 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
2. Pete Buttigieg - former naval officer, Mayor of South Bend Indiana and secretary of transportation. He has worked hard legislation for anti discrimination laws for LGBTQ Americans. He and his husband, Chasten Glezman, have 2 children together.
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
#happypride
#loveislove
#protecttransyouth
1.Sylvia Rivera - American gay liberation and transgender rights activist. She was first known as a drag queen but then came out as trans. She is the co-founder of STAR. An organization that supports young homeless members of the trans community.
#PrideMonth
#loveislove
#protecttranskids
#happypride
#PrideMonth
#loveislove
#protecttranskids
#happypride
June 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
1.Sylvia Rivera - American gay liberation and transgender rights activist. She was first known as a drag queen but then came out as trans. She is the co-founder of STAR. An organization that supports young homeless members of the trans community.
#PrideMonth
#loveislove
#protecttranskids
#happypride
#PrideMonth
#loveislove
#protecttranskids
#happypride