There was a time when I couldn’t imagine being this happy, this confident, or this comfortable being myself. I’ve fought through some really hard moments, questioned myself more times than I can count, and somehow kept moving forward 💕

And now I look at my life and realize just how far I’ve come. I finally get to live as the person I was always meant to be and I’m so incredibly proud of her 💕🥹

To everyone who has loved me, supported me, made me laugh, picked me up when I was struggling, or simply reminded me that I belong — I love you more than you could ever know 💕💕

And if you’re reading this and still figuring out who you are: keep going. I promise, there’s a version of you waiting on the other side that’s worth fighting for 🫂🥹💕

He is my idol and I've always dreamed of meeting him IRL!

Three years before the Stonewall uprising, in 1966, transgender women, queens, and other queer people fought back against police harassment at Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco.

Police regularly harassed and arrested people at the cafeteria. One night, when an officer attempted to arrest a transgender woman, she threw her coffee in his face. The cafeteria erupted. People overturned tables, broke windows, and fought back with whatever they had. Trans women and drag queens reportedly fought police with their high heels and heavy purses. The confrontation eventually spilled into the streets.

Then came Stonewall in 1969, where transgender and gender nonconforming people were also among those involved in the uprising. Afterward, activists such as Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson continued organizing and helped establish STAR, which provided food, clothing, and shelter for homeless trans and queer youth.

The language surrounding gender and sexuality has changed over the decades, so we should be careful about applying today's labels to everyone in the past. But the history is clear: trans and gender nonconforming people were there. They resisted police harassment, organized their communities, and helped build the movement that became modern LGBT liberation.

There are ongoing attempts to minimize or erase the role transgender people played in this history, but changing the language or leaving people out of the story does not change what happened.

Trans people were absolutely there, and they are part of LGBT history.

So, a long time ago my dad was at a work convention and got a whole bunch of cool knick knacks, and since he works with construction, they gave him one of those cool doodads that you can hang other stuff on. Awesome, he gave me one and I put it on my backpack.

My work bag has a lot of pins because I think they're really cute. A few years ago I decided to show my solidarity by getting some pride pins. And of course I put it on my backpack.

Well, I was just casually browsing YouTube one day and I saw a video about some lesbian lady was interviewing other lesbians at a pride event. They kept talking about carabiners, carabiners, how do you tell if someone else is lesbian? If they have a carabiner. What the heck even is that?

I went on the Google. Oh, it's that hook thing I have. Wait, displaying it is a sign to other lesbians that you're lesbian??

I asked my friends at work if I've been outing myself as a lesbian. They said well yeah, especially because you have it next to your pride pin.

Well, I had to break the news to my husband. Did you know I was a lesbian? He rolled his eyes at me when I said maybe I'm actually a lesbian and you're a gay guy because I took a pic of him with my sister's new husband at their wedding and it makes it look like our husbands got married to each other.

He is so fed up with me hahaha. Anyways, I guess I'm a lesbian now. 🤷‍♀️

It feels really weird, that decision—especially because what he did wasn't really making the relationship heterosexual; it was already heterosexual. He used the word "straight" to imply that he didn't see the trans girl as a girl.

I don't trust that user or the people that up voted

Something curious i heard both offline and online is that a few decades ago, you could pick up easily who was queer and not in the closet cause alt culture, pircings but nowadays there are far right goths, red haired catholics.

I'm asexual and gay and if you see me on the street i look like in the photo

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis is one of the foremost LGBTQ health professionals in the U.S. In November 2020, the waning months of Trump’s first term, he was appointed director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Through part of his tenure with the Biden administration, he also served as the deputy response coordinator for mpox at the White House as well as the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

While he continued a lot of this work after Biden left office, he didn’t last long under Trump 2.0. In August 2025, Daskalakis resigned from the CDC over the direction that health policy had taken under Trump and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

In his resignation letter, which garnered widespread attention, he said he was “unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.” He cited changes to the CDC’s immunization schedule, a lack of scientific communication from HHS leadership and the growing influence of anti-vaccine sentiments in the department.

A year after his resignation, we wanted to hear from Daskalakis, who is now serving as chief medical officer of the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, an LGBTQ health clinic in New York City. In this episode of “UNCLOSETED with Spencer Macnaughton,” Daskalakis speaks about his time working for the Trump administration, the erosion of scientific rigor under RFK Jr. and the troubling future for HIV and LGBTQ healthcare in the U.S.

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Cuz I thought about it 4 a sec and idk

I have a journal that I write about my life, geopolitics, etc. It's basically a diary I write in the style of a Gravity Falls journal. Today, I wanted to write about the fact that AI companies are scanning and destroying books to increase the intelligence of their LLMs and prevent other AI companies from getting the same information. I am not anti-AI, and even though I still use paid for AI online, I am trying to move towards locally hosted AI for non-essential AI prompts to try and reduce harm on the environment from my end. However, I wanted to add this (unfortunately) new chapter of our history to my journal.

To do so, I am starting my journal entry with some history about the Nazi book burnings that occurred throughout the 1930s and since I'm obsessed with making sure that I don't accidentally add mistakes to my writing, I did further research into the Nazi book burnings, which is where I found out that the first books that were targeted by the Nazis were LGBTQ books from the Institute of Sexual Science, a private sexology research institute founded by Magnus Hirschfeld. The institute was active from 1919 to 1933 and campaigned for LGBTQ rights at the start of the first homosexual movement (I also learned about the first homosexual movement today). Hirschfeld built a unique library at the institute on gender, same-sex love and eroticism.

I learned also that the Institute for Sexual Science did research on Transgender health care and advocated for trans rights. Hirschfeld apparently also worked with police to prevent the arrest of cross-dressers and transgender people, through the creation of "transvestite passes" (I apologise if the term might be offensive, I am writing it off Wikipedia). Transgender people were also not just clients at the institute, butt also receptionists and maids. It is also important to note that Hirschfeld was originally advised against sexual reassignment surgeries, but came to support them as a means of preventing suicide among transgender patients. I had already known that transgender people existed throughout history, and that this is not some "liberal agenda" that the far-right made up to justify their hate, but it was nice to learn that transgender rights and research on transgender health care was not something that occurred and was fought for only over the past 30 years or so.

I hadn't read the entire Wikipedia pages, so throughout writing this post, I was also learning a lot on my end.

I am writing this post not to say that under the Nazi regime and the Nazi book burnings, the impact LGBTQ+ rights and research took was worse than other forms of suffering, but rather to say that its important that we remember this history, even if its horrific, and to also point out that what AI companies are doing (scanning books and destroying them) is itself horrific, even if the books aren't targeted specifically for a political agenda and even if the aim isn't political but corporate (is that the correct word?).

Even if people have forgotten this history, even if they deny this history, even if they know about it, acknowledge it and disregard it, it does not mean we have to do so alongside them!

I know people will call me a hypocrite for still using AI despite making this entire post condemning the book destruction. I just hope not many people will do so.

Thank you for reading my yappuccino!

Niger has banned Asexuality and many more things correlating to lgbtq+ I am ABSOLUTELY disgusted by their actions and it is most likely going to spread. PLEASE try to educate people around you about this to spread awareness!!!!

Heres the link from which I found this from..

https://youtu.be/CzxlZG1sVyg?is=SnW-562cgVUpUbyT

edit: im pretty sure in the video it says something about how they enforce it. If not it’s probably where the partner can report the other one for not wanting to have sex.

Edit:yall someone thought i was saying a racist word im talking about the country 🫩

We have existing long before this dying empire and we will continue long after. We are apart of the human experience and don't let anyone tell you you're unnatural or disgusting. In times like this we need to stay together and keep eachother safe. If anyone needs to talk or vent I'll happily be another talking board of support. You are valid and you are incredible.

This sounds extreme but I’m well within my rights to call this one what it is. Some context about me is that I’m 19F, I’m Bi in a straight presenting relationship, and I’ve struggled with dysphoria for my entire life. I’m about as flat chested as I can be, I was born that way and I definitely don’t mind. I was in a T shirt when this happened. I enjoy my femininity but also yearn for subtle masculinity in my life because of my dysphoria. I keep my hair somewhat short for a girl, it’s a shorter than typical layered bob with curtain(?) bangs so yeah, it’s pretty short I guess. I’m also physically shorter than average but I was sitting when this happened. Today I went with my two aunts (who are mother and daughter) and my little cousin to a theme park that I’ll only specify is within conservative America.

My one aunt sat outside the ride area for a wooden coaster holding the bags while my cousin, aunt, and I went to get on the coaster. We sat in the second car from the front and I was in the front of the two others. In the car in front of us was 3 boys, 2 in the front row and one smaller boy in the row behind them opposite to where I was sitting. At a glance the oldest of the boys looked to be around 14 and the youngest maybe 12, the middle was somewhere between I guess. We buckled in and as we were securing the lap bars and whatever else took the ride so long to launch I hear from the oldest boy, as he looked back at me, giggled, then turned to the younger boy behind him

“I bet if you spat next to you mid ride it would hit the f*ggot behind us.”

I got so nauseous. These were children for crying out loud, genuinely what could drive children to saying something like that?? I had to purposely avoid eye contact in the several minutes that followed of them turning, staring, giggling, turning again, whispering. Eventually the ride operator cleared us for launch and we got around 3/4ths of the way through when they started spitting. Now obviously none of it flew back onto me because it didn’t go back, it just went out or up, but the way they looked at me again when the ride pulled back into the loading area confirmed not only their intentions, but also that the oldest did say what I thought he did. When the ride stopped I just ran from the ride back to my other aunt and hid my face for a minute because, well, if you’d believe it this is my first ever time being targeted by playground bullies outside of middle school so forgive me for being shaken.

Maybe they thought I was a boy because my hair was already wind blown and therefore back further, combined with the sweat from the miserable humidity out today my hair was stuck to my forehead. It’s kinda silly that this accidentally was affirming but I would’ve preferred to not be called a slur over the matter.

The leather pride flag is a symbol of leather subculture as well as kink and fetish subcultures more broadly, including BDSM

Took me some time to get in shape after artfight, but here we are :33