Rainbow capitalism is a cheap marketing tactic and Oreos posted an ace pride graphic but since corporate acknowledgement of asexuality is still so new I’m taken back by it every time
And honestly probably will buy some and through the following week when I hear yet another story about how fascists are in power in America I’ll have a cookie and think about how little, pointless things give hope.
wait, wHAT?!
They aren’t donating to charity so it’s not like I’m gonna rush out and buy some but still it feels nice to be seen in places I’d never suspect.
i made these last year but didn’t finish before the pride month ended… and i’m running a bit late this year too
i’m glad we all agree on megamind being a bicon 😀 also i’ve gathered some people headcanon minion as aro and/or ace, i hc him as aro, hence the text for the aro flag. “renny” is to “parent” what “daddy” is to “father” and some of the new generation bots are up for adoption now that megamind is helping the city, so i thought it made sense for the nonbinary flag
FYI tumblr makes the backgrounds look white but they’re all transparent because i couldn’t choose between all the backgrounds (you can totally tweak them to your liking if you want to use them!). alternate versions (with and without text) are in this drive link
“Bisexuality is a whole, fluid identity. Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in nature: that we have “two” sides or that we must be involved simultaneously with both genders to be fulfilled human beings. In fact, don’t assume that there are only two genders. Do not mistake our fluidity for confusion, irresponsibility, or an inability to commit. Do not equate promiscuity, infidelity, or unsafe sexual behavior with bisexuality. Those are human traits that cross all sexual orientations. Nothing should be assumed about anyone’s sexuality, including your own.”
(From the 1990 Bisexual Manifesto, Bay Area Bisexual Network, “Anything That Moves”)
“In fact, don’t assume that there are only two genders.” -From the 1990 Bisexual Manifesto
So maybe people can stop saying bisexuality’s inclusion of nonbinary folk is ‘new’. Signed, a bi nonbinary person.
I keep seeing these otherwise fantastic and magnificent Tumblr posts, about that horrible Stonewall movie, that basically boil down to:
they weren’t gay white men they were trans women of color
and as a trans person I’m excited and encouraged by the fact that so many people feel like it’s really important to say THEY WERE TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR. That it’s important that they’re trans, and that Sylvia Rivera was Puerto Rican, and that Marsha P. Johnson was Black.
but as a bisexual it kills me a little bit every time that nobody ever says they were *bisexual* trans women of color.
like, particularly since we’re specifically talking about the people who started the riots, people who were fundamental in the movement for the rest of their lives. We’re talking about Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson. Who were bisexual. [Citations: Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson]
[Yes: there are a lot more bisexual/trans/people of color involved, including legendary Black trans activist Miss Major, who is amazing and whose sexuality I don’t know. (UPDATE: SHE’S BI TOOOOOO AND NONBINARY JUST LIKE THEM 💙💜💖 I’m on mobile so I can’t embed a link, but for now just search my blog for “Miss Major” to get the source.)
But this discussion tends to be centered particularly around these two and the “what is a white gay man doing throwing the first brick” fiasco.]
I haven’t reblogged each or any of these posts to say, one by one:
and bisexual
And bisexual
AND BISEXUAL
Because tbh, bisexual issues are so de-emphasized within the queer community that I think it would be interpreted as if I were tugging on the community’s sleeve and meekly piping up, “They were also Baby Boomers! Don’t forget!”
But today I figured out how to explain this.
When you say:
they weren’t *gay white men*
they were *trans women of color*
you’re correcting “[cis] men” with “trans women.”
You’re correcting “white” with “of color”.
And you’re erasing their sexualities as trans women of color.
You’re acting as though “trans woman” replaces “gay man”, as though trans is your sexual orientation. Or as though you can only be one kind of queer, and if you’re trans then that’s it, you can’t also count as bi, gay, or lesbian.
You’re also telling other bi and pan people that our identities and our contributions don’t matter – that no matter what we do, we’ll be remembered as we always have been, as something other than who and what we were.
You’re feeding the people who say things like “bisexuals don’t belong at Pride” and “when bisexuals fight for our issues they can be part of our community,” as if we haven’t been here from the literal beginning of the modern-day movement (and before). And as if we don’t share many of the same issues.
So: thank you for re-centering trans women of color in queer history. And please start re-centering their bisexuality too.
I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.
The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”
1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.
Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! Hewrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.
dude had guts, someone needs to update his Wikipedia page
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