are ACE and ARO people part of the LGBTQ community?
Yes yes yes!
You are welcomed and loved
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“So, there’s been this big debate lately, are aro and ace people part of the LGBTQ movement? are asexual, and aromantic, and some other people, under our umbrella?
And the answer is: YES. OF COURSE. YOU ARE.
OF COURSE. YOU ARE. WELCOME.
Of course! And there are two things to remember with that.
So, are ace and aro people part of the community, YES: if you want to be.
Right?
I am not ace, I am not aro, and so it’s not up to me to decide who I want to work with, and who I want to align with.
But if it’s up to ME – I’m genderfluid – YES, we need to do work together, and we need to band together, and of course you’re part of my community!
The, the… the other thing to remember is, this is not a battle of ‘gay people versus everybody else,’ or ‘trans people versus everybody else,’ this is that, like, insular, we’re-better-than-you, heteronormative, like, homophobic, like, regular people that’s in every movie, every ad, every single bit of culture, and has been dominant for so many years….
being dismantled. [laughs]
Which makes me happy.
And of course we all need to work together to do that.
So, are ace and aro people part of the LGBTQIAA+ community? Yeah. Of course they are. It’s a big tent. It’s a big umbrella. Let’s work together.”
George is out here trying to get laid with a poster at the pride parade at ninety years old
This is George Montague, he’s an author who is currently campaigning to have a historic conviction for “gross indecency” from 1974 (PDA with his then-boyfriend) struct from his criminal record. You can sign his petition here!
The epitome of “Distinguished Gay”
Update as of 7 November 2018, this guy is now 95 years old and is still looking for his apology.
Hey, can someone who knows their way around an image editing program please modify an image from Space Invaders to be the colors of the asexual pride flag and change the name to Ace Invaders because we are so damn dangerous and clearly don’t belong in LGBT+ areas and we just love “invading safe spaces”. I may make the design into a shirt and wear it always just so people don’t mistake me for something I’m not.
I did the thing
I read that as change it to the asexual pirate flag instead of pride flag
GRAPHICS PEEPS, CAN WE GET AN ACE PIRATE FLAG, TOO?
A common ask we get is where can I get an ace ring? Where can I get one without my parents knowing? Well I found these at Walmart for really cheap! They also had white ones but I didn’t have time to take a photo of it. (Sorry!) If you need cover you can get a set that has school colors, sports colors, or maybe your just fav color. Happy shopping!
“protect heteroromantic aces” lmao from what? the sharknado?
from corrective rape? from mothers who are open and accepting of gay, bi, pan, etc people and still unknowingly tell their asexual children that people who don’t want sex are sick need help? from their closest friends at birthday parties starting conversations about how weird and fake asexuality is? from the fear of being alone forever because no one could want to be with someone like them? from going against sexual and relationship norms in a society that tells them they’re broken and wrong?? from people like you who delegitimize their struggles in the eyes of much of lgbt+ community, some of the only people who you’d think might understand
I had to reblog this twice bc you just got 100% fucking destroyed my dude
When I thought I was a cis girl, I definitely felt this way. I thought I was just a tomboy and I wanted smaller boobs because “they’re just easier and look nicer!” and I wanted a penis because “that’d make camping easier!” Once somebody called me “flat” as an insult, and I smiled for the rest of the day. I was really deep in the closet even with myself, so I thought it was normal for girls to want to look more like boys.
Hating your body and finding it gross is pretty common in people with gender dysphoria, but it can also be a sign of something else, like body dysmorphic disorder or even just really bad self esteem. A good mental exercise that helped me figure out whether or not I was trans was thinking about how I really wanted to live my life. In the future, did I want to be a middle-aged woman, or a middle-aged man? Did I want to actually have a flat chest and be able to walk around shirtless without feeling naked, or did I just want smaller boobs? When I was old and wrinkly, did I want a deep voice, a grizzly beard, a big belly? Or did I want a saggy chest, old lady hair, slim limbs? Did I want to die a woman or a man?
While a bit gruesome, this exercise really helped me to realize that even though I had nothing against being a girl socially, I really hated being a girl physically. I was suffering from really intense dysphoria that I kept pushing back. I was trans. I didn’t just want to be a different kind of girl, I wanted to be a guy.
For me, I’ve always known my body was attractive, it just wasn’t right. So I never really considered that it might be a self-esteem issue or BDD. I didn’t just want my body to still be female but different, I wanted a male body.
The reason why I stress this part is that sometimes, people with BDD can focus on sexed body parts (like their boobs), and think, “These need to be larger/smaller) without actually wanting them gone entirely. In that case, that’s not exactly normal for cis girls to deal with, but it’s not being trans either.
If these kinds of feelings are really wearing you down, I would advise you to see a therapist, especially one who deals with gender dysphoria or body dysmorphic disorder. They will be able to help you explore these feelings and see if you’re actually trans or if it’s something else.
I wish you the best of luck with finding yourself out. 🙂
imagine talking about alexander the great and not mentioning that he died of grief only 8 months after hephaestion died, that he petitioned the oracle to give hephaestion literal divine status so that people could worship him as a god, that he threw himself on hephaestion’s dead body and refused to leave for two days, that he put together the biggest funeral procession known to the world at the time, that he gave hephaestion a lock of his own hair at the funeral in blatant reference to achilles doing the same with patroclus….like heteronormativity is so wild that he could come back from the dead and come out to every historian personally and it still wouldn’t be enough to render him anything but straight
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