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[“Much has been written about Li’s older boyfriend, Magnus Hirschfeld. He was a closeted German doctor and sexologist who became famous in the 1930s as a defender of gay people. In books on Hirschfeld, Li is usually just a footnote.

But as I found in my research, Li was a sexologist and activist in his own right. And in my view, his ideas about sexuality speak to our moment better than his much more well-known boyfriend’s do.

When Li died in Vancouver in 1993, his unpublished manuscript about sexuality was thrown in the trash. Luckily, it was rescued by a curious neighbor and eventually ended up in an archive. Since then, only a handful of people, myself included, have read it.

(…)

Yet Li’s rediscovered manuscript shows he did become a sexologist, even though he never published his findings.

In his manuscript, Li tells how after Hirschfeld died, he spent decades traveling the world, carrying on the research and taking detailed notes while living in Zurich, Hong Kong and then Vancouver.

The data he gathered would have startled Hirschfeld. Forty percent of people were bisexual, he wrote, 20 percent were homosexual and only 30 percent percent were heterosexual. (The last 10 percent were “other.”) Being trans was an important, beneficial part of the human experience, he added.

Hirschfeld thought bisexuals were scarce and that even homosexuals were only a minor slice of the population—a “sexual minority.” To Li, bisexuals plus homosexuals were the majority. It was lifelong heterosexuals who were rare—so rare, he wrote, that they “should be classified as an endangered species.”]

#lgbt history

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Canceled IP therapy for tomorrow. To get there, I'd have to linger just outside the "encampment" of antisemites at Harvard for 15-20 minutes. My loved ones are going through enough, my brother & nephew moments from being shot, may Dad's cancer, my family is scared. And while half of me is too, part of me wants to go there and antagonize them.

You want to hurt Jews? Come get me, go off campus you spineless, gutless, cowardly spoiled children, commit a real crime and stop hiding. Try me. But I know that's the bleeding, the anger, the rage coming out because I've fucking had it. They're "roughing it" in $500 dollar tents, catered hot meals, board games and snacks provided by funds coming from Iran & Qutar. They're lying to uphold their racist, white savior bullshit same as the right. They just get to talk to the NYT and blame everything on Jews with no rebuttal.

Fuck you hateful assholes.

#jumblr #antisemitism #leftist antisemitism

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I can’t get over how the students at Columbia screamed “Go back to Poland” to American Jews. Not even Israelis (though that wouldn’t be okay either). American fucking Jews.

Way to tell me that you don’t want me in your country and think my family and I would be better off dead. You’re such an activist, gleefully screaming for the ethnic cleansing of your country’s own populations.

Get absolutely fucked, you monsters.

#antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #i'm renewing my passport #no idea where i'd go #can't afford to leave #but i'm canceling my ip therapy tomorrow #to get there i have to linger 15-20 minutes at harvard #and i'm terrified

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Does this mean catboys can't loaf during Passover...

holy shit wait

idk why I made this

#kitty #kitty kitty kitty #CACKLING

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#stranger things #x #gif inspiration #nancy wheeler #this is beautiful #brb crying

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As part of my 4k celebration, here is another gift! More textures/gif overlays for use.

Included are 16 textures in GIF format-- each gif has a regular (unedited) version and a version that is edited in B/W or transparent, for 33 files in total.

Please like/reblog if using. No credit necessary! You can make any changes you want and use however/wherever you would like, but Do Not repost or claim as your own!

Download: [MEGA] Also check out my previous gif textures and PNGs.

Textures used on preview gif: Line Border, Purple Shimmer, & Bokeh 03

#photoshop resources

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She's mentally ill but her tits are amazing

#amen #text post #it me

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reblog to bonk prev with yr forehead like a cat

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Using the bathroom in general is a human right and should be enshrined as such and I'm not joking. Too many groups of people are denied bathroom breaks or the use of bathrooms entirely--disabled people, blue-collar workers, children, homeless people, prisoners, students, the elderly. I'm surely missing other groups. Not using the bathroom when needed can cause serious, long-term damage, not to mention death. Free, clean, accessible bathrooms should be available everywhere. It's fucking cruel to deny someone the use of the bathroom, regardless of the reasoning. I'd rather every student in the world goof off and every homeless person make a mess and every worker "steal company time" than let one person suffer because they're denied the right to fucking pee in peace.

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Whoever invented "open in app" links that redirect you to the app store instead of actually opening the app even when you already have the app installed on your phone should be involuntarily turned into a beanbag chair

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lmao apparently the fakes at JVP don't even know that hebrew is written right to left

#shocking lmao #antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #almost as if they're not jews...

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Leverage (2008-2012)

2.12 | The Zanzibar Marketplace Job

#iconic #thank you for tagging me!!! #i love episodes with him #so goo #parker #eliot spencer #alec hardison #jim sterling #nate ford

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𝖿𝗋𝗈𝗆:   𝗌𝗍𝗋𝗂𝖿𝖾𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲    𐄂     𝗌𝗎𝖻𝗃𝖾𝖼𝗍:    font   pack   six

all  of  these  fonts  are  for  personal  use  only  and  are  not  optimized  for  commercial  use  without  a  license.  you  can  download  the  pack  by  joining  my  server  <3

#fonts #typography

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Girls don’t want boys, girls want a facsimile edition of the “Birds’ Head Haggadah” (Southern Germany, c. 1300)

Image from the Israel Museum: https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/199815-0

#jewish history #manuscript #illustrated manuscript #art history #chag sameach #i fucking love this

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the x files + text posts -> 1/?

#CACKLING #fox mulder #the x files #dana scully #my childhood #otp: that's my partner!

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#joseph quinn #What a dweeb

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THE ROAD TO EL DORADO (2000)

#the road to el dorado