Tag: lgbtq
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Golden
Watch this…it’s beautiful. Apparently a friend asked the director Kai Stänicke to share it as a response to the Orlando attacks. (via Have A Gay Day) It’s perfect. You think you’re alone…but you’re not.
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Let them show your true colours
It’s OK, I didn’t mind becoming a complete mess, honest. Cyndi Lauper performs True Colors at St Augustine, Florida later on the day of the Orlando shooting which was nearby (well 100 miles, but for the States that’s down the road!). And then she dons the rainbow flag from a fan. It’s nearly a week…
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It aint no ‘lifestyle’
‘Lifestyle’ I don’t think everyone gets how offensive that word can be. Choosing to drink in the morning and wear Crocs is a lifestyle. Choosing to eat at Nandos only and always wearing a KFC tshirt when you do, is a lifestyle. Reading comics and watching sci-fi is a lifestyle. Being a homophobe and/or going…
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The obstacle course
A first person look at what it’s like to be queer, a very abridged version from Inter-LGBT France and TBWA Paris. In some sad sense a sanitised version, actually, in others more violent, it depends on the person…but at the basic core, true. This struggle is all too real.
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Japanese Gaycation
Fascinating look at Japan’s LGBTQ culture with Ellen Page and Ian Daniels. Makes me even more want to go there! Glad they covered Yaoi which I find problematic for several reasons – 1) it’s ‘Boy’s Love’ and tends to focus on what we would say in the UK is ‘Barely Legal’ or underage and 2)…
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It costs me £38,000 for being queer
It’s well known that if you’re a woman, not white, queer/LGBTQ that you have to work harder and longer than cis white straight men. This glass ceiling is there, I’ve seen it in corporates, usually hedged in bullshit like ‘corporate fit’ or the like, and it’s well acknowledged that privilege and entitlement means a less…