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April 27, 2013

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"Thus, while Bradley Manning is persona non grata at SF Pride, illegal eavesdropping telecoms, scheming banks, and hedge-fund purveryors of the nation’s worst right-wing agitprop are more than welcome."

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“Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride Parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced” (x)

done with lgbt politics. fully done. done with yr marriage/military/state pride bullshit.

(via mirrortheories)

This is fucked on a few levels. Even the people nominating Manning can’t get their shit straight pertaining to Manning’s ids.

(via brujacore)

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August 08, 2012

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Ugandans Both Proud and Brave

Activists attended Gay Pride events this weekend in Uganda despite the country’s antigay climate, and their bravery earned the admiration of many worldwide.

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The importance of this Pride event cannot be understated. The fact that these brave activists could pull this off in this milieu of persecution is a great victory for the community. Visibility like this notes the ongoing legacy of late activist David Kato, it defies the export of American Evangelical hate, and it helps ensure defeat of the Bahati Bill. It shows leadership for all of Africa, and above all it shows that the LGBT people of Uganda simply refuse to give up their right to exist and to live their natural born sexual orientation.

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August 04, 2012

so i’m not up on either zines and lgbtq books as much as i should be. i find ones i like in both categories, but i’ve never really delved too much into the depths. i’m trying to put together a package for someone who, with one line, simply asked for “books of lesbian stories or zines of lesbian interest.” i’m not in a position to go buying new books, regrettably, but if anyone knows of relevant zines (and links?) and maybe a book that might be easy to stumble upon that may be particularly good, i would love some input.

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February 26, 2012

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"

I was tormented a lot in highschool for being a very well-built and very flaming gay in a Catholic high school. One day, a group of seven or so classmates followed me home and beat the shit out of me and ripped up all my clothes in the middle of a busy street.

I took a day off to recuperate and mull things over. Then, the following day, I followed one of them home and viciously attacked him. First I blindsided him in the jaw, then i repeatedly took shots at the underside of his ribs until he couldn’t breath.

Once he was on the ground, I grabbed him by the hair and ground his face into the pavement almost down to the bone, telling him “who’s the freak now, asshole?”

I left him on that street with a warning, that if he or anyone else ever ratted me out, or they ever tried to start shit again, it would be the last time their family saw them in one piece.

He never said a word to any authorities. I think the rumor that was spread was a car accident or something.

That was the last time I was talked to, tormented, or looked at funny for three years.

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— anonymous

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January 11, 2012

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October 26, 2011

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"Contemporary queer youth cultures may occasionally fall under the shadow of the Human Rights Campaign and the corporate sponsors of Pride marches, but our hearts lie in the riots of Stonewall and the direct action of Act Up!. It’s time to get back to these roots, where the patriarch is not met with ballots and compromises, but blockades, bricks, and broken bottles. We need to remember that that first brick wasn’t thrown by some fashionable white gay man in a suit, but by a pissed off Latina drag queen who turned tricks to get by. These are our roots."

— Queers Bash Back, by sweet tea.

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