Tag: lgbtqia

letters-to-lgbt-kids:

My dear lgbt+ kids, 

If something makes you feel better, it’s not “cringeworthy”. 

Even if it’s writing long posts that explain why Harry Potter is bisexual and nonbinary – if that makes you feel even a tiny bit better about your own identity, stick to it. 

Life can be bitter enough. Don’t give up anything that makes it sweeter for you. 

With all my love, 

Your Tumblr Mom 

belovedblabber:

My little brother loves the adventure zone, and his favorite character is Taako.

My little brother is 8, and he just told my mom he thinks he’s gay. “sort of gay now” he said, noting that he’s a kid. But he told her he knows he’ll be gay when he grows up.

My little brother knows I’m gay, and he’s been asking me about it. Tonight he asked me about what gay weddings were like. “Not crazy?” he said, because he’d been to one recently, and it had been a little ceremony on the beach. I didn’t realize at the moment that he might be trying to feel something out. It took me so long to come to terms with who I am, I didn’t consider that some people start thinking on it earlier.

My little brother read the Taz graphic novel with me a few months ago, and Taako was his favorite. I told him “Taako’s dating the grim reaper, his name is Kravitz”. He looked up really fast. “Taako’s gay?” he said it in a voice I now realize was peaked with interest. I thought he was just curious, but I think it was delight, and a feeling of something dawning on him.

Taako’s gay, and he’s my brothers favorite. Taako’s gay, and this was one of the first things my little brother told my mom when he told her he thinks he’s gay. he told her about a podcast with a gay wizard.

I don’t know the nuances of this story yet, and I don’t know how things will shake out down the line, but I know one thing: my little brother saw Taako as a way to help him work on figuring out who he was.

Taako’s gay, and my little brother found this fact and felt brave.

I can’t really articulate everything I’m feeling right now, but I know that representation is important, and I know that a wizard named Taako helped my little brother feel brave enough to start voicing who he is

agracefularo:

Shout out to aros who realized they weren’t aro later in life. 

You weren’t “fake” or “going through a phase”. People grow and learn more about themselves all the time. Identifying as one thing during a point in your life because it helped you describe how you were feeling is nothing to be ashamed of.

Additionally, shout out to aros who didn’t realize they were aro until later in life.

There is a lot of pressure these days to find a romantic partner, and it can often force you to be in a romantic relationship when you are not comfortable with it.

fandom-and-feminism:

theconcealedweapon:

You’re able to call your parents “Mom” and “Dad”. They were not born with those names.

You’re able to call your teachers “Mr” or “Mrs” and their last name. You’d get in trouble if you addressed them by first name.

You’re able to call a celebrity by their chosen stage name.

You’re able to call your friends a shortened version of their name, their middle name instead of their first, or a completely random nickname.

You’re able to call a married woman by her husband’s last name, even though she was not born with that last name.

But when someone’s transgender, how does calling them by a name they were not born with somehow become a hassle?

If y’all can call a drag queen by their stage name and call a fucking pokemon by the name of their new evolution and if you correct yourself after misgendering someone’s pet animal then for fuck’s sake honestly have the same energy for trans and nb folks. Real talk.

inadequatebananas:

since i never see any positivity for aros like me, here’s a post for the ones with low empathy:

shoutout to the aromantic people with low empathy, the ones with antisocial or narcissistic personalities, the autistic aromantic people, the ones that everyone vehemently tries to erase to make aromanticism seem more “okay” to alloromantic people. it’s perfectly fine to not feel connected to people in general and to identify as aro due to this. you’re still valid. it’s okay to not relate to humanity to the point where you can’t possibly picture yourself falling in love. it’s okay to only experience platonic feelings for people because you don’t want to bother with having to consider another person’s feelings in the way romance requires. shoutout to the aros that actually are somewhat “heartless” and don’t care about others, the psychopathic aros, the sociopathic aros, the narcissistic aros.

i feel like the aro community as a whole spends so much time on positivity and making sure people understand that most aromantic people can love people platonically or do experience deep meaningful connections with people that they forget that, for some of us, our inability to relate to people and indifference to others does not make us any less aro.

acebythecards:

discovering your orientation is like untangling yarn. it takes a while to sort out, is frustrating, and depending on what identities there are identities there, along with how large they affect you, it could take a long time.

sometimes, you’ll find yourself with some pieces knotted together so tight, that you have no choice but to cut them apart. this can damage what you are severely, but it can be mostly fixed by tying the matching pieces back together.

when you finally untangle one color from the rest, it is such a wonderful experience. you have successfully cleared part of the confusion, and now have less to sort through.

eventually, you’ll have it all sorted out. each yarn is rolled into neat individual balls, and with them you can create something beautiful, which you can choose to share with others, or choose to keep to yourself.

maybe someday you’ll find someone (whether it be a good friend, datemate, or soulmate) you want to make something beautiful together with, and integrate both of your yarns together to create something bigger.