Voiceless

Notes: 37 / 3 weeks ago from fuckyeahlgbt (originally from rocksinthedryer)

Notes: 819 / 3 weeks ago from justinjustin (originally from filthyphil)

Notes: 62 / 1 month ago from travs (originally from miiitch)

"You don’t go up to your parents and say, “Mom, I’m feeling black. I don’t know, maybe it’s a phase… but I think I might be black."

- Wanda Sykes, on how being gay is harder than being black. (via miiitch) (via travs)

Notes: 12 / 1 month ago

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A friend of a friend has a 14 year old nephew who just came out to his parents. The only reason I know about it is that his big sister called to confide in me (she knows I’m gay).

His mother’s reaction is fairly common (and some of it is sensible): I love you, but I am worried about you in this culture. You are too young to make this decision.

His father’s reaction can only be described as cuntish: No more dance class for you. If you can’t be straight then I’m going to take away all the gay stuff from your life. Oh, plus you’re not allowed to eat with me once you’re gay. So starve.

I agree that he is too young to make the decision to come out in this culture. He doesn’t fully comprehend the danger he is in. This is culture that rapes young men and women for being gay (both literally and figuratively). This is a culture that stones those who stand out. Age 14 is too young. We are not America where you can run away to the big city and find like minded people. There is nowhere to run here. Here you are stuck. Here your job prospects can be damaged by coming out, not to mention all your future interpersonal relationships.

I do not agree that he made the decision to be gay. Being gay is not a decision. It is not a choice. It is a state of being that we do not decide.

I want to beat his father to a pulp. My own parents never let me believe that they did not love me when I came out to them. Then again, my parents never grew dreadlocks and pretended to be Rasta the way this young man’s father did. Rent-a-dread mother fucker.

I want to speak to the young man. I want to speak to the young man’s mother. They all know I am gay, and they are close enough to me. But they have tried to keep this very secret. I only know because the big sister wanted my advice. I do not want to speak to the father; all I want to do is smash his fucking ignorant, homophobic, hate-filled face in with a brick.

Is it in my place to speak to these people, or should I just leave well enough alone and hope that the young man does not come out of this whole experience as an extremely damaged, self-loathing adult?

Notes: 374 / 1 month ago from fuckyeahsodomites (originally from thedailywhat)

Not just in America. In fact, in some countries, we wish gay rights were at least on the back of the bus. Here, gay rights got purposely left behind at the bus stop. They’re making us walk around in costume. If we want to get on the bus we have to pretend to be straight.

Keep fighting though! Americans are lucky they live in a country that allows them the freedom to fight.

Notes: 28 / 1 month ago from travs (originally from kevinrobotica)

Craigslist Ad:

travs:

kevinrobotica:

19 y.o. white male looking for 19-21 y.o. male (good looking!) to fuck me under my parents’ Christmas tree on Christmas morning. You can keep one of my gifts (assuming my parents let me keep them, but I guess you could just run off with one) if our love-making knocks over the tree.

This is how I’m coming out to my parents. No email tag plz!

I dunno why I find this somewhat disturbing. Then again, it IS Craigslist I suppose. Funny though.

Notes: 5 / 1 month ago from blahblohblog

Awesome sign from National Equality March on DC

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Notes: 4 / 1 month ago

When "Christians" Get Me Mad

I get really irate by people who judge me without understanding me.

Thumping your Bible does not make you either a Christian or morally superior. It just means that you need some sort of spurious justification for your ignorant, narrow-minded bigotry.

Real Christians love people no matter what, and forgive them what they perceive as sins (like homosexuality - which is only sinful if you believe in that sort of thing - which I don’t).

I know this is not news to anyone, but I just felt like ranting.

1 month ago

I crave this.

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Notes: 2 / 1 month ago

I don't like it when I...

Just because you dislike something about yourself, does this mean you should change it? Isn’t it possible that the very thing you dislike is perhaps something that other people may consider endearing?

Maybe we should try to understand why we dislike something about ourselves rather than simply trying to change it without introspection.

Notes: 3294 / 1 month ago from resurrecthobbes (originally from brennadaugherty)

resurrecthobbes:

travs:

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todaywasmisery:danielladarling:mofosluv:sarah182:

trickistokeepbreathing:allisoninterrupted:sarahmaexvi:

lostfoundloved:glowinthedarkvagina:brennadaugherty:

When I made this // originally posted it, we got 1,856 notes. Think we could try again, and possibly beat this number? It’s worth a shot.

Notes: 1 / 1 month ago

Sometimes...

I feel empty, hollow. But not tonight. Not tonight at all. Tonight I feel okay. :-)

Notes: 241 / 1 month ago from travs (originally from loveyourchaos)

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Notes: 1 / 1 month ago

The Lucky Lesbians

Last night I ran into a pair of 70 year old lesbians. They’ve been together for the past 31 years. Of course, they don’t live in the Caribbean, they live in Canada. They come to visit ever so often. I consider them something of an inspiration. I mean, 31 years right? I guess because they’ve lived away for so long, they get a bit paranoid about words when they’re here. Even speaking to me, in a private setting, they vacillate between friend, companion, girl-friend and partner. It’s almost like they’re scared to admit their relationship.

I also have a pair of lesbian friends who’re my age and who’ve been together for 4 or 5 years. Their relationship is mostly long distance, because one of them is off in the Great White North studying something or other. By that I mean she’s studying art in the USA. They wear rings, call each fiancee and spend hours every night on skype. They’re an inspiration too. They live pretty openly. And they don’t get upset when I call then Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Lesbian (it works because one is involved in film).

So what is it about lesbians that they get to find partners and settle down? Where are my gay, male inspirations (apart from on tv)?

Notes: 2 / 2 months ago

?!

I don’t know what tumblarity is or what it means or how it works. But I know that it makes me anxious, and has the potential to make me either deliriously happy or inexplicably depressed.