muffdiver:

kawaiinchesters:

really old vintage photos of homosexual couples

See the rest, they’re all amazing.

Reblogging for sharp old butches in suits.

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tobeymacguire:

when straight guys ask how lesbian sex works i feel really bad for their girlfriends because if you dont understand how to have sex with a girl in any way other than repeatedly putting your dick in her you are having some really bad sex

It confuses me even worse when women ask. 

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artoftransliness:

codedecoded:

code…decoded introduces the transgender code - a starting point and only the beginning. Gender neutral “Identity” icons developed for a NEW generation of LGBT+. Top, bottom, or versatile; butch or femme, bi, transgender, straight… what’s your code?

Interesting concept. This might be an interesting way to communicate that you’re transgender to people in the know while still remaining stealth (if that’s something you’d want to do). Hmm. 

Dammit, what’s wrong with hankies?

omgfabulous:

thescurfofworse:

gailsimone:

newlevant:

Hi! I’m stoked to present my thesis comic, If This Be Sin, based on the life of Gladys Bentley. It’s for sale on Gumroad! You can download the 16 page full-color PDF for $2.

Gladys Bentley, was a blues singer, piano player, and drag king who performed bawdy tunes in Harlem nightclubs throughout the 1920s and ’30s. Despite the social obstacles she faced as a black, openly queer woman, her outrageous and energetic act became a mainstay of the Harlem cabaret. In 1952, under the oppressive social conditions of the McCarthy era, Bentley publicly renounced her previous identity and claimed to have found happiness as a feminine housewife.

Gumroad is super simple to use, you just have to enter your credit card number and you’ll be sent a direct download, plus Gumroad will email you a link to re-download it if you ever lose track of the file.

FOR EVERY 100 NOTES, I’LL GIVE AWAY A DIGITAL COMIC TO A RANDOM TUMBLR USER so please share if you can! (Within each 100 notes, only people who reblog are eligible for a free copy.)

Thank you and I hope you enjoy the comic!

This looks amazing!

OMG FANTASTIC. 

one of my favourite humans, is this Gladys Bentley.

Yes!

Reblogging to remind myself to download it on my own computer.

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Ellen, you know I love you, but what did we learn about proclaiming the strength and beauty and perfectness of our relationship on national TV?

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Transposes (you know, that book that I’m in) has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for transgender non-fiction.  Dylan deserves to win this award.  Not just because he wrote about me, either.  Each biography in this book is told in a different style, with tone and word choice, and Hell, panel shape and arrangement, tailored to the subject.  That is talent, man.  Plus, it’s actually funny, which is something desperately needed in trans nonfiction.

Whole story here.  Buy tickets to see the award cermony in New York, which is guaranteed to have people even more ridiculously well-dressed than the Oscars, here.

catbountry:

rapidfireredhead:

tupacabra:

this is a real page on facebook

please go look at this and help me understand

no.

I am sorry dog but I think you look gay as hell.

Dudes.  That ape on the right?  That’s a bonobo.  I got some shit to tell you about the bonobo.

genderedintelligence:

Marsha P Johnson was a trans activist, performer, and popular figure on the New York City gay scene from the 1960s to the 1990s.

She was on the front line of the Stonewall Riots in 1969. She was the “mother” of S.T.A.R. (Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries) house with Sylvia Rivera,…

Listen up: every last one of you who call yourselves gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, agender, genderqueer or just plain queer, this is your grandmother.  Her unwillingness to take any more shit in a dingy bar one sweaty night was the direct cause of a movement that has lead to a world in which we can hold our heads up high and hold hands in public.  Learn about her, try to be like her.

If you are a person of colour, trans, queer, homeless, or a flaming misfit, you can be proud to have an ancestor like this.  If you are white, cis, normative, living indoors, or enjoying any combination of those privileges (like me), understand that Marsha P. is your ancestor, too, and treat all of your cousins with decency and respect.  

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the-unfeminine-female:

calebthefox:

Del LaGrace Volcano. Jax Back & Jax Revealed (Jackie McConochie). 1991.
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art

Be my valentine.

Let’s hear it for butches’ backs.

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altonym:

brotherjames:

think-progress:

They’ve found a way to make a horrible idea even worse.

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

facefuckingpalm

I know that this is the worst possible iteration of a shitty thing, but it’s come so far around awful that it’s ALMOST bent back round to being a good idea.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wished that someone, anyone, out of the dozens of people in my little town who knew that I was a raging queer had had the basic decency to fill me in.  Apart from beating the shit out of me from second grade on, I mean.  More like an extra-credit section of Health class, maybe.

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Anonymous asked: I'm thinking about coming out to my mum and Dad.I like both men, and women. However if I was to say anything, it would be pansexual. But i am worried about being kicked out, i know i could just not tell them. But well It's something i feel they should know.

Honestly, I think every queer kid should have an emergency backup escape plan.  If you don’t have a job, get one. Save up at least $500 of your own money.  Find a friend you could stay with for a few weeks if things go entirely south, preferably close enough to home so that you can stay in school.  If you’re not in school, see if you can get involved in a local school-to-work program; you’ll get an education and money at the same time, plus quite possibly a place to stay.

While you’re saving your money, though, try to make a realistic assessment of how likely your parents are to kick you out.  First off, how homophobic are they?  Even if they’re OK with queers in general, they might have different feelings about one of their own being gay. See if you can assess how they feel about other queers’ parents; if they feel that having a queer kid is a sign of a bad parent, they’ll probably take the news pretty hard.  

Also, consider how tight-knit your family is, and how forgiving.  Are transgressors against the norm routinely disowned, brought to heel, tolerated, or cherished as entertainingly quirky?  Does your family have a history of kicking kids out of the house, or of having the kind of rifts where relatives no longer speak with each other?  If your family doesn’t do this type of thing, odds are they won’t do it to you.

If your family doesn’t seem virulently homophobic OR apt to kick you out, I highly endorse Ms Jess’ patented subtle method of coming out.  Instead of making any dramatic speeches, just don’t hide your attractions.  Talk about your celebrity crushes, all of them.  Sing along to pop songs professing love for the “wrong” gender.  Ask them for tips on how to catch the eye of the cute gender-queer in your third-period math class.  Invite people of various genders out on dates- and make sure that your parents know that the event is indeed a date.  If they don’t cotton on after all of that, they are either terminally dense or in deliberate denial.  You might then have to make a speech, but at least you’ll have concrete examples to point out to them.

laughingsquid:

Sworn Virgins of Albania, Portraits of Balkan Women Who Live as Men by Jill Peters

Ever since reading Psychopathia Sexualis at age 14, I’ve been on the lookout for images of other people who don’t fit the rigid sex-and-gender roles ascribed to their body type.  I read about sworn virgins and elected men some time ago, but I’ve never seen pictures, and so I’m very glad to see these images.  There is a tendency in white America to racialise and exoticise historical trans* experience: Native Americans had (always past tense, though I’ve met evidence to the contrary) a third gender category, Indians used to have other genders, but that’s a superstition that’s dying out, ancient Egypt had a female king, and so forth… It is soothing for me to see images of a trans* population with a long history in Europe.

The photographer’s commentary suggests that she doesn’t exactly understand certain aspects of what makes one transgendered; she says that women became sworn virgins to escape arranged marriages, and “Male gestures and swaggers were practiced until they became second nature.”  I don’t know any traditional Albanian sworn virgins, but I do know trans men and stone butches: the gestures and swagger are first nature, not second, and while they sure as Hell wouldn’t put up with an arranged marriage, they certainly don’t do what they do just to avoid matrimony.  I don’t believe that Peters understands quite how deep gender conviction can go. 

In describing the sworn virgins’ experience, Peters says “they have very few regrets for the great deal they have sacrificed.”  What is the sacrifice of living as a man, when one feels like a man and doesn’t want an arranged marriage to some old bastard, anyways?  She seems to be ascribing her own values to her subjects.  

Though her outlook seems slightly cissexist to me, it is certainly far LESS problematic than the gender division encoded in Albanian Kanun law, which held that a human being was either a man, or a man’s property.  

Peters describes the lifestyle of the sworn virgin as an “archaic tradition.”  Perhaps this is true, in that Albanians are no longer required to choose manhood over non-personhood.  However, I know that Albanians have access to the same Internet as the rest of us, and I wonder how sworn virgins like Mark, above, view their position in relation to the other female-bodied masculine people in the world.

Hi, Mark.

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sthealth:

NOTHING can describe this level of frustration. Being transsexual fucking sucks, my life is tainted and I’ll always have to live in shame.

Whoa.  Sthealth, you don’t know me from Adam, and all I know about you is what’s on the header of your blog, but… I swear it’s not that bad.  The condition of life is to suck occasionally, but, as my father said, this too shall pass.  

I’m older, productively employed, and while I can’t say I’m not ashamed of anything,* I’m definitely not ashamed of being transexual.  If you want to talk to someone who’s been there, though, drop me a line.  Same goes for anyone who read your statement and agreed.  I’m not even going to pretend to have it all figured out, but at least I’m a good listener.

*I don’t call my mother often enough, frequently fail to write thank-you notes, and still have yet to put away the Hallowe’en decorations.

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knowhomo:

LGBTQ* Photos You May Have Missed

Washington State’s Newest Married Couples

As of Thursday, December 6, 2012, Washington state now issues equal gender identity and gender pairing marriage licenses. 

S. Bear Bergman, “The Field Guide to Transmasculine Creatures”

The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You

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“if twinkly ladyboys are sometimes tops in bed”

If? IF?!  I wonder if Bear has ever been hit on by someone looking for trans-but-the-other-way on Craig’s List or similar.  Those guys are ALWAYS looking for a fancy, feminine translady to pound them in the ass. Man, “straight” dudes.

Incidentally, Bear is a wicked nice guy and you should all buy his book.

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