Tag: Sexuality
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The Gender Critical Cult Is Moving Mainstream
The whole Gender Critical movement (TERFs, people who hate trans folks, basically, LGB Alliance, Glinner, JK Rowling, that lot) has been bubbling under toxically for a long time, like QAnon, like Flat Earthers but less benign, anti-vaxxers and the like. But it seems that this very vocal small group of Xtian fundie right-wing linked people…
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Disney and Don’t Say Gay
I’ve been watching several of these videos and they sum up not just what’s wrong in Florida and Disney with the Don’t Say Gay bill they helped fund (as did many other corporations including the new owners of Sky and Dreamworks) but also wider problems – with class, representation, and exploitation. The latter point is…
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Percy and Louis 50th Anniversary of Decriminalisation
A few days ago it was the 50th anniversary of partial decriminalisation in the UK – the result of the famous Wolfenden Report, which was fallout over the Peter Wildeblood case. This is a great little video showing how being illegal to be gay affected 78 year old Percy, and the difference in how 13…
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Ruth Coker Burks
https://vimeo.com/226478796 Moving short film by Rose MacGowan about a hero, Ruth Coker Burks, who cared for, claimed and buried those abandoned during the AIDS crisis in Arkansas. This was when people wouldn’t even touch those with GRID/AIDS without gloves, families disowned their children, the plague brought out the worst in people except for the likes…
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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…
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Irish marriage equality
It’s strange, Ireland seems so ahead in many ways, like Scotland. But like Scotland it lags in the marriage equality front – in fact Scotland now has same-sex marriage but Ireland is still debating it, with a vote on May 22nd. Now that Northern Ireland has rejected same-sex marriage for the fourth time, I do…