Happy Pride Month Eleanor Roosevelt was queer, the Little Mermaid is a gay love story, James Dean liked men, Emily Dickinson was a lesbian, Nikola Tesla was asexual, Freddie Mercury was bisexual & British Indian, and black trans women pioneered the gay rights movement.
Florence Nightingale was a lesbian, Leonardo da Vinci was gay, Michelangelo too, Jane Austen liked women, Hatshepsut was not cisgender, and Alexander the Great was a power bottom
Freddie Mercury is well known for his attraction to men but was also linked to several women, including Barbara Valentin whom he lived with shortly before he died. Friends have talked about being invited into their bed and walking in on them having sex (documentary Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender)
Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are two of the best-known activists who fought in the Stonewall riots
Baron Von Steuben, a gay man who helped train George Washington’s troops at Valley Forge. [source 1] [source 2] [source 3]
Julius Caesar, a military leader and popular Roman politician who was also a bottom (I mean if he wasn’t a bottom, why else would he have gotten stabbed 23 times?). [source 1] [source 2] [source 3 — a note: this is just stating that the trouble wasn’t the gender of the other person, it was because [Caesar] was the bottom]
Albert Cashier, a trans man who served the Union in the American Civil War. [source 1] [source 2] [source 3]
Elagabalus, a Roman ruler who was presumed to be transfeminine. [source 1] [source 2] [source 3]
Sulla, another Roman general who was not straight. [source 1] [source 2]
Jean-Baptiste Lully, a ballet dancer, and composer close to Louis XIV. [source 1] [source 2] [source 3]
Piotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky, a gay Russian composer. [source 1] [source 2]
(PS. On Freddie Mercury, he was Parsi— Indian + Iranian.)
the easiest way to get a good url is to have an aro headcanon. just slap ‘aro’ before literally any character’s name and there’s a 90% chance it isn’t taken. what im saying is, HAVE MORE ARO HEADCANONS YOU COWARDS
When I first realised I was aromantic, I didn’t think I’d been affected by amatonormativity, nor thought I had any internalized aropobia. Guess what? I was wrong. Up until recently I hadn’t really thought about my aro journey in such a way, but I realise now that that was a mistake. When I figured it out I was still in a romantic relationship, and my first thoughts were: “okay so, I’m not comfortable in a romantic relationship, but, I still want a relationship of some sort! I want kids! I want to share my life with someone!”
It took me a while to realise that this wasn’t quite the case, but I assumed that was just me developing into my aromantic identity. I now know that I don’t want a qpr or relationship of any sort, and I’m not 100% set on the kids thing, either. It’s gonna take a lot of work to sort past the amatonormative ramblings of society in my brain, but when I get there, I’ll know that I don’t need anyone to make me whole, and I can be happy and fulfilled alone.
So basically, what I’m trying to say is, arophobia and amatonormativity around us can have a much larger effect than we may acknowledge or even anticipate. Try your best to sort through how you really feel, rather than listening to what society has to say.
Hot take: Westley is way too dramatic and Extra ™ to not be bisexual.
He can fence with either hand, if you catch my drift
By this logic, which is utterly impeccable, so is Inigo.
Of course he is. That was the most flirtatious sword fight in cinematic history. You could literally cut the sexual tension with 2 swords.
*slams the reblog button so hard* This, THIS is the kind of content I want to see!
I remind you he convinced a notoriously murdery pirate captain to keep him alive via a Scheherezade Gambit, the specifics of which we never do learn about.
“’Gay’ and ‘Lesbian’ are words we chose ourselves”
Gay was used to mean promiscuous and morally destitute. A “Gay
woman” was a prostitute. A “Gay man” was a philanderer. A “Gay house” was a
brothel. Later the term meant uninhibited, sexually active, and hedonistic. By
the mid-20th century it came to mean all those things AND engaged in
sexual relations with people of the same gender. It largely supplanted “homophile”
as a descriptor of LGBTQ people in the 70s but has been used as a slur since,
especially during the 90s and 00s.
“Queer is a slur”
Queer gained a pejorative meaning in the early 20th
century, meaning sexually deviant. It was reclaimed in the 80s, and quickly
rose to prominence. “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it,” became a
rallying cry at pride marches. It was especially used by those who worried that
the policies of some LGBTQ rights groups were verging toward conservatism and
assimilation which was leaving people of color, trans people, immigrants, etc.
out of the loop. Queer became an identity that stoop opposed to the cry to keep
your head down and be presentable and quiet and private to garner the tolerance
of straight society. The Queer identity was seized on by trans rights
activists, people who did not neatly fit the labels of “gay” and “lesbian,” and
people passionate about political causes (especially AIDS).
Like “gay” and “lesbian,” queer has continued to be used as
a slur by straight people. The only difference between the reclamation of “gay”
and the reclamation of “queer” is a couple years.
“Reclaiming slurs is individual, you can’t apply it to
everyone.”
Queer has been used as an umbrella term longer than most of
the people who call it a slur have been alive. Having lived through the 90s and
00s I remember when “gay” meant bad, when everything bad was “gay.” People
sneered “gay” at me when they tried to beat me up as a kid and teenager. Gay
and Lesbian are every bit the slur today that queer is, yet anyone who said
that “gay” shouldn’t be used because of its history as a slur would be laughed
at.
“It excludes people who don’t want to be called ‘queer’.”
Refusing to allow queer to be used in public discourse and
robbing it of its history and use excludes queer people.
“LGBT is better because it’s been an umbrella longer and no
one takes offense to it.”
LGBT has been used since the 1990s.
Loads of people take offense to it and its adoption was and
is a fight in activist circles. There are dozens of different variation,
addition of + and *, both of which are celebrated and decried in equal measure.
There is endless argument over whether the “T” belongs there, whether the “B”
belongs (traditionally you see most of the anti-queer rhetoric in-community
coming from people who want to pare down to “LG”). People have pitched MOGAI
and MOGII and GSM and GSRM. MLM/MSM and WLW/WSW get tossed around. “LGBT” has
been fraught with discourse.
“Academia appropriated ‘queer’ without asking, had they
talked to actual (LGBT/Queer/MOGAI/MOGII/GSM/GSRM) people they’d have know it
was a slur.”
When Queer Studies began in the 1970s who do you think was
teaching it? Who was taking it?
So sure, Queer is a slur, Gay is a slur, Lesbian is a slur, newsflash, to the straight world WE are slurs. All our words are taken from
the slurs they called us, our identities themselves are reclaimed.
So kids, go learn your own history.Don’t listen to people on the internet making arguments in bad faith. Don’t make assumptions about what is and isn’t ancient history, or what is or isn’t settled fact.
To the people who stomp their feet and demand queer never be used when ever given chance: if your argument against using queer is only that it was/is a slur, then you do not have an argument. If what you are trying to argue is instead that queer is too inclusive for your personal preference and that you would like to pick and choose who can be a member of “your” community, then please just say that.
best most succinct argument i’ve ever heard for “queer is not a slur”: universities don’t have fag studies
The change in the number of queer people you see over time is not an indication that more queer people exist, it is an indication that less queer people are in the closet.
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