Tag: Social Issues
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Oppressive – The Best Gay Possible
Where’s the love? Where’s the love? Where’s the love? I’ve been waiting here for you For so many years Missed this from earlier in the year – after the amazing Panti Bliss speech I posted here, the Pet Shop Boys set it to music. It’s a beautiful and hard-hitting video, and still pertinent. Homophobia never…
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Sitting while black
A lot of conversations have happened since Ferguson and the murder of Michael Brown (and Eric Garner and the rest) about ‘Walking While Black’ (and quite a few about ‘Walking While Trans’ and other minorities) – people getting grief from cops that white cis straight people simply would not get. Not to mention the mealy-mouthed…
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Cardboard Stories and MRA types
You know I was 50/50 about posting this, then I read the comments from rich, white, educated entitled fedora types saying ‘I was homeless once! What are you complaining about!’ and it made me mad, and definitely needed to post this. It’s like the ‘OMG Homeless People / Those On Benefits Have A Phone/Car/Big TV’…
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Commonwealth? Well not for the LGBTQ
With the Commonwealth Games nearly over and seem to be a success, the assumption is the Commonwealth is some happy cuddly family. Well not quite. This graphic gave me cause to pause* – 42 out of the 53 Commonwealth countries still have anti-gay laws on the books, making being gay/queer a crime, and are enforcing…
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Glove and Boots with an important PSA
“So, cocksure in a culture that gangs up on bully-types Mob mentality, as if that isn’t what a bully’s like” as Sage says on Vonnegut Busy. Glove & Boots says it in more humorous fashion, but doesn’t mean the message isn’t important though…
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PREACH! On RuPaul and Hashtag Activists
Firstly, this video by TS Madison is severely NSFW, but she preaches many truths as someone trans who isn’t buying the anti-RuPaul schtick. She tells it like it is, that those who are moaning about this word or that are entitled, rich, usually white, middle class. And quite often they complain about being invisible (on…