Tag: lgbt

zakeno:

The Trump Administration is trying to define us trans folk out of existence- but we DO exist, we HAVE existed, and we sure as hell will CONTINUE to exist! Please, make sure you get out and vote, bring attention to trans voices, and support us wherever you can!

Our civil rights are at stake- by their own words, they believe inclusive policies “wrongfully extend civil rights protections to people who should not have them.” Please read this article on the proposed revision of the legal definition of gender!  

enoughtohold:

enoughtohold:

john-marshall:

I wish I had specific information about this pic but I don’t, here’s what the blurb under it said in the encyclopedia I got it from:

Activism by ACT UP and other groups, such as this protest dramatizing the wide-ranging targets of AIDS, helped to raise public consciousness about the breadth of [it], and governmental negect.

This is from ACT UP’s famous Seize Control of the FDA demonstration, October 11, 1988! Specifically, this is a die-in staged by an ACT UP/New York affinity group, the Candelabras. According to his biography, the person lying front and center is David Wojnarowicz, the artist and AIDS activist who is also known for the jacket he wore to this protest reading “IF I DIE OF AIDS — FORGET BURIAL — JUST DROP MY BODY ON THE STEPS OF THE F.D.A.”

Other tombstone placards read: “I GOT THE PLACEBO — R.I.P.”; “AZT WASN’T ENOUGH”; “DEAD FOR LACK OF AEROSOL PENTAMIDINE”; “DEAD FROM LACK OF AL-721”; “DEAD FROM LACK OF DEXTRAN SULFATE”, “BECAUSE WOMEN WITH AIDS DIE TWICE AS FAST.”

According to activist Douglas Crimp, “The success of SEIZE CONTROL OF THE FDA can perhaps best be measured by what ensued in the year following the action. Government agencies dealing with AIDS, particularly the FDA and NIH, began to listen to us, to include us in decision-making, even to ask for our input. […] Following the FDA action, ACT UP continued to lobby for parallel trials, meeting with NIH and FDA officials, negotiating with pharmaceutical companies, and testifying before congressional committees. One year after SEIZE CONTROL OF THE FDA, ACT UP’s idea, now called Parallel Track, was accepted by the NIH and FDA and went into effect for ddI (dideoxyinosine), the first antiviral AIDS drug to become available since AZT.”

More on Seize Control of the FDA:

30 years ago today.

sunshakes:

jewfrogs:

gothmonster:

white gays pipe the fuck down challenge! 

the lack of qpoc movies is astounding. this is a small list but i have searched for these movies from everywhere i could possibly, and watching them is a bigger dilemma. please add onto this list, especially the mlm section. 

[ note that i only exclusively watch wlw movies being a brown nb lesbian so im a bit lacking in the mlm movie recs ]

wlw movies

honorary mentions cause white women :shruggos: : 

thelma [ brown wlw is the love interest ]-itty bitty titty committee [ brown wlw ] – mystère à la tour eiffel [ black wlw ] – a perfect ending [ brown wlw ]

mlm movies

[ note that i haven’t seen half of these movies ]

here are a few more movies!

some (e) asian ones:


note that i’ve only seen our love story so i can’t attest to the quality (or lack thereof) of any of these

magical-flying-moron:

atmospher-ca:

jplachowski:

turquoiseheart:

“the gay community was never racist”

shit y’all still are to this day

:/

I’m glad my post got around.. ppl need to see some history

In 1984, both African American and Asian American groups fought discriminatory door policies at bars across the city. Henry Chappell reported a double-carding incident at theWatering Hole on Folsom. Wearing a dress, heels, and a shawl, Chappell, an African-American self-identified transvestite, was asked for two forms of picture IDs as a means of excluding him from attendance. BWMT hoped that San Francisco would adopt a regulatory model for admittance based on Atlanta’s carding ordinance, which mandated that no bar could demand more than one valid ID per person.3 In part due to pressure from such actions, the City eventually passed a similar ordinance.

Around the same time, the Asian Lesbian and Gay Alliance (ALGA) conducted an informal study of various S.F. gay bars. One of the organizers later recalled, “White guys could sail through with no restrictions, but once color was added to the mix, the barriers went up.” The Midnight Sun and Castro Station were Castro bars particularly notable for their anti-Asian discriminatory practices. When confronted, the owners rationalized their multiple ID policies by claiming that it was difficult to visually discern Asian men’s age.ALGA picketed the Midnight Sun, attracting media coverage with placards such as“Discrimination in the Gay Community Demeans Us All.” During a KPFA radio debate,one participant recalled a bar owner claiming, “Your people don’t drink,” and “It’s a cruise bar; we would lose other clientele because they don’t want to cruise your type.”

-”Racism and Reaction in the Castro: A Brief, Incomplete History”

aryson:

people of colour’s voices in the lgbt community need to be heard! it’s not just an extra footnote, it’s essential!

my experience as a transgender, bisexual chinese guy will not and honestly cannot ever be completely separated from my cultural upbringing and my perspective as the child of immigrants, and my tradition and background and chinese family.

much love and respect to all cultures and races in the lgbt community but please boost people of colour’s experiences, they’re so so important and often very different and varied.