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stormblessed95 · 3 years

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You don't think HOBI is straight? Can we have that conversation please if that's the direction you wanna take the blog discussion today? Cause I said to my sister who is a casual watcher and listener that I don't think he's straight either but she didn't believe me.

What did you see to make you think he isn't?

Hello! Yes, let's finally do a rainbow moments post for Hobi! Our sunshine!

Personally, no I don't think he is straight. But this isn't a post to prove his sexuality one way or another. This is just like all my other posts, a collection of moments that hint that he might be part of the LGBTQ+ community. Doesn't mean that he actually is, regardless all of this DOES make him an amazing ally if nothing else.

Hobi Rainbow Moments, Let's go!

To start, the way some people call him the "straightest" member baffles me sometimes. Lol there is nothing wrong with it either way, but like.... how much more rainbow do you want our boy to be?! Man literally went rainbow from my head to my toes during this fansign:

The amount of pride clothing or merch he wears, or simply just clothes worn in the bi flag colors order. Rainbow belt worn on the first day of pride month at a concert. Bi pride colors sweatshirt. Chanel pride necklace. All love necklace. This isn't even all of it, you can Google and see even more. Lol including the sweater from above from the DNA MV.

While we are on the topic of Bisexuality Pride Flag colors.... let's take a moment to talk about the flag colors behind him in his solo music video, Bi pride with a man sleeping in his bed. Yes I know that it's technically not what the MV is about and it's not *really* saying he has a man in his bed, but that's what it looks like. He also has bi flag colors in the smoke during Boy Meets Evil that he dances in. During his solo stage performance, he had the lights underneath him on the stage in the Bi flag colors.... I mean... come on... this HAS to be intentional at this point with how often he uses these colors in this order too! Lol

And talking about Boy Meets Evil, his wings solo song ALSO feels very queer coded, don't know if that was intentional or not, but it is and many in the community related to the lyrics

Back to the clothes, he has purchased and worn clothes that support LGBT causes and fashion. Hobi and Jin here are wearing items from designer Ashish Gupta who designs LGBT pro fashion. Look up his work if you haven't seen it

Hobi and Namjoon were openly supportive and showed a lot of love to a transgender ARMY during a fansign, making them feel supported and loved and accepted. Their account over that interaction here:

Last time ill talk about clothes here, but we know his family is very openly supportive of the community. His sister Jiwoo has this shirt she designed for her brand and wears herself.

We have this interview on Mnet where Hobi accidently slipped up and almost said boyfriend instead of girlfriend by mistake, but quickly corrected himself. I believe the original interview ended up deleted, but the internet is forever lol

And there are many many accounts of ARMY who talk about how hobi has noticed, pointed out, smiled huge and given thumbs up to their pride flags during concerts. He has done this quite a few times, always making sure he acknowledged them if he saw them. (Note: he is NOT holding the flag, the fan is. The angle is off I know lol. You can search for videos of these reactions online if you want want see them)

I also want to add during his MAMA speech in 2018 when he says he learned about all the various types of love in the world and talked about appreciating that during the hard year they had. Etc. It was a moment, but a minor one overall through that whole speech, I'll link it here but if you haven't seen it yet, be prepared to cry your eyes out. They are very emotionally vulnerable through all these speeches

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Ending this with the way that Hobi moans in the background during Cypher 3 during Yoongi's iconic line about sending men and women to climax with his tongue. And he does it during that line live too. Lmfao I mean, he is just illustrating the point for us....

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No this isn't everything, I'm sure. I know it not including all the moments he has play acted out gay scenes with the members, play acted an almost kiss scene with V or with Jimin. Or talking about how he would get flustered by the members showing skin. Lol He again, obviously doesn't mind "looking gay" or having people have that impression of him.

Again this doesn't prove anything in either direction. There is a wide range on the sexuality spectrum that he could fall on. I'm just saying that the vibes he gives off aren't necessarily straight. Lol doesn't mean that he couldn't be. But there are also plenty of moments and times where it hints that he might not be too. In the end, no matter who he loves or when, I just hope he is happy and well loved. He deserves the best and to be surrounded by constant affection. 💜

#hobi rainbow moments #jhope rainbow moments #bts rainbow moments

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whatiwillsay · 3 years

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Cammy I swear to God I'm not trolling but I really wanna know why is using rainbows or colors of LGBTQ flags queer baiting? And I'm just asking but the LGBTQ community is a minority compared to the hetties so how is taylor supposedly queer baiting gonna make her more money? Targeting a small demographic in comparison to the general public isn't the best business strategy imo, can you explain this or link me?

I hope you have a nice day and I'm sorry you had to read some nasty comments or asks, you are sweet and I love your blog, all the love my dear ❤️.

there is a lot of discourse about what is queer baiting vs idk rainbow capitalism vs gay cultural appropriation and i am not the expert opinion nor do i really care about the semantics of the argument - it all bundles up to me as “straight people or businesses run by straight people abusing gay stuff to make money/profit/drum up press without doing proper allyship or anything to help gay people (and it’s case by case some people may do allyship well and still cross a line)”

imo (that stands for in my opinion meaning this is my opinion and not something i’m stating as a fact for anyone who is confused about that - i do say it quite a lot) she’s queer herself so she isn’t REALLY doing any of it.

however it’s VERY profitable to woke and gay friendly (in the right way) in the states and taylor didnt just wear pride colors. taylor spent the entire lover era using gay imagery to promote the album. imo (see above) that’s fine because she’s some brand of gay. however if she were straight it would be a fine line she’d need to walk.

straight people waving a pride flag, taking part in pride, or even leaning on gay culture to express themselves is FINE of course. but if they’re going to enter queer spaces and make themselves the center of queer imagery and conversation they need to do it respectfully and carefully. they need to walk a fine line and be ready to put their asses on the line for us, speak up for us, and leverage their power and privilege into support for us.

yntcd is clumsy at best and offensive at worst. taylor compares hate she gets on twitter to actual violent homophobia, claims that shade never made anybody less gay - if she’s straight how would she know? “shade” (homophobia) literally can make gay people hide away, closet themselves for their entire lives, kill themselves or leads them to be killed so yeah it does make people less gay… now if she’s gay and that’s her personal experience great. if she’s straight that line is… not something i personally want to hear from someone with straight privilege - likens being poor and country to being homophobic when many gay people most harmed by institutionalized and systematic homophobia are poor and from rural areas, and aligns herself with queer people being picketed by homophobes. all of that, if she is straight is just… ew. straight people do not get to insert themselves into the conversation like that, at least not without some criticism. however since it is my opinion that yntcd is taylor’s personal experience and musing about dealing with hate and homophobia as a fellow queer person then i say “ok. fair enough. i can’t deny your personal experiences.” so it’s not really that she wore a pride flag on her head or had some queer people in her music video it’s the whole package.

and ofc that’s just a single music video! the entire lover era is chock full of gay winks, nudges, and moments and every time she did that she would get a press bump as journalists all rushed to write articles (all ofc mentioning lover - out this summer!) talking about taylor and what she’s up to with her gay little winks. and she sold records from it. and merch. and promo’d her line with stella. and sold concert tickets. and prompted spotify streams. she probably made millions off each “me! out now!” on lesbian visibility day and bi pride bracelet ig post that happened. and since i believe (believe but don’t know for sure) that she is queer i’m fine with that. queer people should be able to leverage their queerness and queer experiences and queer imagery and culture for profit. but imo straight people should not. they should be able to proudly show their support but they should not profit off of our imagery.

now let me add a disclaimer that i’m not a queer studies professor or a sociologist. these are just my opinions. i’m not saying taylor ever queerbaited or that any one individual can. i don’t mean that word when i say “profit off us” since i know that queerbaiting is a different thing. i’m just trying to respond to anon with my thoughts on taylor’s use of queer imagery during the lover era - not divulge into a semantics based argument.

#anonymous #swiftgron #gaylor swift #kaylor #of interest #lover era

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palukoo · 5 years

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OKAY so... some of y’all may remember me from my wicked days back when I was youknewmyelphie, and I still post about it some but. there’s something I talk about A LOT in the tags whenever I see it so we gonna finally make a post about it because I am Heated.

so we all know that theater n musicals n shit are stereotypically gay (at least for men but that’s a whole different conversation) so it makes sense that wicked would make like pride posts and stuff, and they do

which is all well and good. please support us. but. but they get a disproportionate amount of praise for it, praise that they do not deserve. part of it is the whole “corporations make pride products for sales without really supporting us” thing, but to me at least, with wicked (the musical) it’s particularly egregious

(note: im not saying fuck anyone who makes wicked pride stuff or like the actors doing it, and honestly some of it is just timing and the show has already been written and they can’t super just rewrite it now [they could but i get why they aren’t] i just have problems with it)

because wicked, the musical, for as much as i talk about it being gay, is like, canonically straight pretty much. which, you know, i guess wouldn’t be that big of a deal if it wasn’t based on the books it’s based on.

so if we’re talking about glinda and elphaba here, they are not technically canon in the books. they say i love you and kiss (elphaba kisses glinda’s face is basically what it says i think) and it is heavily implied that they were each other’s most important relationship but it’s not canon (and beleaf me the way greg did it bugs me too but anyways) even though it’s hinted at (see interview with gregory macguire below, sorry i dont have the link i screenshotted this literal years ago)

so yeah, this isn’t like,,,, great canon wlw rep, BUT the musical (and yes, it is shorter but still) takes out A LOT of the subtext between glinda and elphaba (in part because of how it completely changes their characterizations but i digress) which... already really doesn’t sit right with me

but let’s just forget gelphie for a moment, let us instead talk about crope and tibbett. which, again, their book characterization and means of representation is.... flawed, but. okay, its been a long time since i read the books so i went to my good friend wiki which says this:

“Crope and Tibbett are two characters exclusive to the novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of The Wicked Witch of The West. Both are friends of Boq, who he meets while working a summer job at the Three Queens Library. It is implied that they are both gay and may be a couple. They are both from the Emerald City, are flamboyant, and enjoy wearing costumes.”

I feel like it’s pretty explicit that they are gay because it talks about them swooning over men and there’s other stuff but anyways. Look, Winnie, Stephen, i’m not saying you should have made them main fucking characters but in the book they are there about as much as like pfanee (sp?) and co so you coulda just had them being there, being gay, which also isn’t like great queer rep, but YOU KNOW, at least it’s fucking something

but no. you know what the wicked musical really does for the community? the representation it really gives us? fucking nothing.

and that, on it’s own, is enough to piss me off, because this is fucking musical theater, i would argue they should ADD gays, there’s practically no risk to the show (theater’s gay history [okay with women it’s different because there are like 4 musicals that even mention wlw BUT], the general liberal-ness of theater compared to other media (in some ways, at least), the gay history of wizard of oz via judy garland, etc) AND IT WAS ALREADY THERE, WRITTEN FOR YOU

i still wouldn’t like it, but i’d get not making gelphie explicitly canon, but you really went the fucking extra mile and took away the majority of the existing subtext

so fine. that’s fine. that’s fan fucking tastic live your lives write your shows like fuck you for it but i can’t stop you

BUT THE NERVE, THE GODDAMN AUDACITY

of after screwing us as a community over so spectacularly in terms of representation and then acting like you fucking support us? acting like you’re fucking allies? acting like you’ve done a damn thing for us? i’m sorry that’s too fucking far.

i understand it, i do. you look at the fans, a lot of us are queer. you look at the fic, at least on ao3 for book and musical it’s mostly gelphie. you want to appeal to your base, so you market pride stuff and make pride posts and all that. it works. we go crazy for it.

but you don’t get that right, okay? because the way you wrote this show, it doesn’t feel like you’re fucking proud of us, okay? i don’t feel like you’re defying any fucking homophobia or hate or whatever, and i’m not even gonna start on the irony of making elphaba a racism metaphor while whitewashing fiyero. it feels like you don’t wanna deal with the consequences of actually defying anything, you want to get and know keep you’re cushy long running show status and you throw us these meaningless marketing bones that the average person won’t see and so it won’t impact their experience with the show and you act like you’re helping us when you really really aren’t, you’re not even giving us fucking scraps you’re taking them away

get off your meaningless rainbow high horse wicked and admit that you fucked up and then we can talk. you can get my fucking respect for your “ally” ship and pride posts when you’ve earned it. until then, fuck you

#wicked #long post #sorry yall the mood for june is gay rage #gelphie #(i guess)#this is probably incoherent im just so. tired

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surveys-at-your-service · 3 years

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Survey #476

“yeah, i am the brain, some say insane”

What is your favorite Pixar film? Finding Nemo. Who was the last person to send you any sort of message on social media? My sister Misty. Would you rather build a snowman or a snow fort? Why? Snowman. I think you can personalize them better. At what age do you believe children should begin having screen time? I don't know. I guess it would depend on the kid. Have you ever failed an important test? Which subject? Yes; I failed my last Algebra final and the course. Who taught you how to ride a bike? How old were you? My dad. Idr how old I was. Do you know what your ring size is? What is it? Nope. When you picture dinosaurs in your head, what color are they? Like a darkish red or green. Last candy you tried that you did not enjoy? Or one that you did enjoy? No clue. Were you a chubby or thin baby? I was your average size. What is the most outrageous thing you’ve considered doing lately? Trying to get a cubicle job. Like seriously, NOBODY wants those. I don't either, but I just don't know what other options I have that don't require a degree and I'm not flocked by other people. I'd probably have some duties on the phone, but like... I'm not going to find a job I qualify for that is perfectly reclusive. Have you ever known somebody who ran away? Not personally, no. Rollercoasters that go upside-down… yes please or no thank you? NO FUCKING THANK YOU. Can you have kids? I would assume so, but honestly I wish I physically couldn't with how intensely I fear being raped. Are you a fan of Elton John? I've never really listened to his music and know very little about him as an individual. What does your town’s name begin with? "R." Are you a seafood fan? Nooooo. The one and only seafood I enjoy is shrimp. Give me a random word in another language. Tell me what it means. "Himmel" is "Heaven" in German. Odd how that was the first one to come to me, ha ha. Which city would you like to visit- Rome, Tunis, London, Madrid or Paris? Rome. New tats in your near future? Sadly no. :/ I have to focus on more important things. Did you ever participate in beauty pageants as a child? No. I don't support those. Have you ever ridden in a limousine before? No, but I've always wanted to. :( What's the most amount of money you'd pay for a house or a vehicle? Idk, considering I'm not familiar enough with what is considered reasonable and average for either. What's the longest wait time you'll wait at a restaurant to be seated? If it was actually up to me, shit, maybe only 15 minutes. I am way too impatient, and I'd rather just go to another place than wait for a while. Have you ever been given a responsibility that you couldn't handle? Did you mean: my past three jobs? Did you ever try to start a club as a child? For what? I feel like my friends and I did before... but I remember nothing of it. Who was your favorite babysitter as a child? My sister had this friend in our neighborhood as a kid whose grandparents used to watch us. The grandpa we knew as "Uncle Donny," and he was bar none our favorite. He was such a sweet man. Have you ever cared for a stray animal before? Cats, on many occasions in the past. [TW: SUICIDE/OVERDOSE] Have you ever contacted a suicide or crisis services hotline? For whom? Yeah, for me. I tried first to reach them online in one of those private chatrooms, but I want to say I waited around 30 minutes with nobody available. I was so desperate that I tried calling too, but again, it was too busy. That's when I ODed. Is there anyone from your family that you no longer associate with? I have an uncle by marriage that's an abusive, manipulative fuck that NOBODY associates with, except his brainwashed daughters. Do you have any illnesses that reoccur frequently? I mean, I have mental illnesses that flare up now and again, but no traditional illnesses. What is your sexual orientation? Queer or pansexual, idk man. Have you ever done any drugs harder than marijuana? I've never even done weed. What is one job you would never want to have? I would, no exaggeration, rather die than be a butcher. I could never in five trillion years. Do you bite or peel your string cheese? I don't like string cheese. Who crosses your mind the most? Girt, nowadays. I know, a fucking shocker who wasn't the answer. Have you ever been on a scavenger hunt? In school, yeah. Ever been to an auction? No. Are there two colors that you just simply despise? Puke green and yellow. If you were a fish, what colour would you like to be? I wanna be the Rainbow Fish. :') Did your first real significant other change you at all? You have literally no idea. Are you waiting to have sex until you’re married? No. What’s your favorite football team? I don't like football. Or even understand it. Do you have anything autographed by a celebrity? No. What’s your favorite way to eat peanut butter? Gimme a Reese's and I'm a happy bitch. :^) What’s your favorite kind of sandwich? I'm basic, just hand me a pb&j. How are you today? Worried about my mother since she has Covid now. I'm not feeling too hot, either. Was any of your home decor inspired by Pinterest? No. What is this month’s calendar picture? I don't own a current calendar. What is your last ex-boyfriend’s or ex-girlfriend’s name? Sara Jane. I prefer to refer to her as just my best friend, though; "ex" usually implies negative feelings in some way or form, and I've none of those. Do you use Snapchat? I never have. Would you rather go out for pancakes or steak? Yum, pancakes. Are you the clubbing type? No. Clubs don't appeal to me at all. Is your ex sexually attractive to you still? I haven't seen him in literally years. I wouldn't know. What is unattractive about them? The fact he apparently can't accept a mentally ill partner. Supposedly, he broke up with the girl he dated after me for the same reason he left me: her having depression. Like bro, good fucking luck finding a girl who doesn't struggle with something. Good luck finding someone who's going to be on Cloud 9 all the time. And also, he never communicated what he was feeling. Do you have a crap load of friends to hang out with? God no. The only person I hang out with is my boyfriend. Honeymoon, where? Alaska, if it's a good time of year to see the Northern Lights. If not, maybe the Bahamas to visit their black and pink beaches. The heat and humidity put me off, though... Lipstick over the actual natural lip line, your thoughts? It's capable of being attractive if done well and it's not too extreme, unless you're only looking from a distance. It can look especially great on drag queens imo. How would your wedding bouquet look like? Depends on the time of year, really. I kind of want to say black regardless, but I think that would blend too much with my dress (which I want to be black). Maybe if it was in the fall, which I want, it'd be orange and black to fit the Halloween vibe I'd love to have as a theme, perhaps a rich red, or light pink and white... idk. That's far in the future. What kind of game would you like to play that doesn’t exist yet? Bro, give me a meerkat simulator. There's the Lead the Meerkats Wii game that I ADORE, but I think the concept could be greatly expanded upon and made more realistic. What is one thing you would never ever eat? Balut came to mind very quickly. That looks like the grossest shit imaginable. I'll never forget seeing it for the first time on GMM and wondering how neither of them literally died where they sat lmao. There are a LOT of other foods, too. I'm incredibly picky. Which character in your favorite movie do you hate the most? Every single character from The Lion King is so lovable. Which non-existing (sci-fi and such) weapon and/or vehicle would you like to own/use? Bro, I want Thori'dal from WoW. A bombin' bow with unlimited, magical arrows? That shit's dope. Could save your life, and plus I love bows. How do you think the world will end? Humanity's end will almost certainly be rooted in human action. The end of the planet itself will probably be a black hole, gamma ray, or something else supremely powerful. If you could take a pill that would cure something in you that isn’t an illness - what would you be cured of? The fact I'm fat. :^) Take it all away pls. Has anyone besides your family seen you naked? If so, who? My ex. Do you remember anyone’s number by heart? Literally nobody's. Not even my own. :x Name something you will never try in your lifetime. Hunting. What’s the best place you have ever eaten at? The Cheesecake Factory, omlllll. Are you at home right now? Yep. What’s worse: Crocs or Uggs? Crocs are so fucking ugly to me. Do you knock before you open doors? Always. Does Fred from YouTube annoy you? Now THIS is a throwback. I liked him as a kid. He'd probably annoy the shit out of me now. Anything exciting taking place today? No. Who have you texted today? My mother and Becky, the receptionist at my psychiatrist's office. I rescheduled my appointment to tomorrow with my mom being sick (she wants to talk to him, and she's in no shape to today) and me not feeling well, either. Do you like grapefruits? No. Have you ever had the Reese’s PB candy bars? Omfg, the ones that are a bar of smaller squares is my FAVORITE candy in the world. Where’s your mother? In bed. She was directed to mostly quarantine in her room away from me. Are there any pets you’re wishing for? Always. :( Do you like oatmeal raisin cookies? I HATE raisins, so guess. Is your belly button pierced? No. Do you watch PewDiePie? Not anymore, no. His content changed a long time ago and doesn't interest me anymore. Do you like "Despacito?" Omg my sister showed it to me once and I hated it. Do you have any subscribers on YouTube? uhhh *checks* I have 71. More than I expected, ha ha. What’s the first word that comes to your mind if I say: "Boop!" Booping a snake on the nose. :'3 Have you ever played Five Nights at Freddy’s? Nah. I enjoy watching YouTubers play it, and I like the franchise, it's just not my kind of game to actually play. Can you twerk? Oh god, never tried, don't want to. Do you like dabbing? It looks stupid to me. It looks like you're smelling your armpit, dude. Can money buy you happiness? You are 110% full of shit if you think it can't to some degree. I would be so, so much happier if I wasn't poor. Have you heard of Blizzard Entertainment? Well, considering they're the company that owns World of Warcraft, obviously.

#survey #surveys #random questions #lyrics: ''the devil's rejects'' by rob zombie

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debajanfeministuniverse-blog · 6 years

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On The Go - Luci’s Wild Ass Day

So I’m a theatre nerd. Started as actor, became teacher, becoming writer, with aspirations of being a director. And one of the ways I achieve my aspirations is by diving in to opportunities to develop those skills head on. And as of September this year I started directing a young theatre ensemble from Mustardseed in a piece called Duelling Voices. It’s an amazing play written by Trinidadian Zeno Obi Constance about inappropriate romantic relationships between a student and her teacher and the fall out of that, in a Caribbean context.

It’s a fun ass play that has given these young performers aged 15-18 some really meaty roles and some hard questions about society’s role in sexualizing young girls especially and the ways in which w demonify young girls while barely holding the men who exploit them accountable.

Like I said, it’s a good play with a strong, talented group of young people to perform it and this morning we had an amazing rehearsal.

Then I went straight from that rehearsal, home, to don my doc martens, my rainbow eye make up & my placards of ruthless LGBTQ unapologeticness and headed straight (haha) to a counter protest that a few close friends and I organized on Wednesday after reading an article in the newspaper stating that a Christian group was intended “to bring hundred’s of young people to the street” in order to protest our nation’s declining morals and reclaim the rainbow.

First of all, “the rainbow aint yours to reclaim.”

Secondly, “our sexuality should not in anyway affect your morals.”

Thirdly, “stop RH hating”

And we went to it, all ten - fifteen of us, with our rainbows and our signs &our super gay! selves and we walked behind the march, providing solace and solidarity to all the young people who saw and heard the Christian message and knew there was a coded message of intolerance to queerness. To every person who’s face went from upsetment, and pain when they heard the original protestor’s message that then changed to nods of support and smiles of happiness, or thumbs up of appreciation, yuh all, we were there for you. For your smiles.

But the mad thing was they didn’t say anything outwardly homo/transphobic. It was almost as if our presence was enough to police any potential bigotry. It was almost as if seeing that we were real people with faces, and laughs and friends stopped the usual rhetoric of “homosexuals are the cause of our moral decay”. Like literally NO one said that, or of that ilk. The closest we got was protect us from “sexual perversion” but queerness isn’t a perversion so SWERVE!

After that, the organization then confronted us asking why we came.This then transcended into a conversation about how the church and LGBTQ+ groups can start a dialogue rather than a constant conflict and antagonizing discourse. At this point the group reminded the leaders of the church’s responsibility to LGBTQ people (especially young people who may feel marginalized in their congregation) as representatives of a faith that preaches love and compassion.

And you wanna hear something yuh all, these leaders of 4 men listened to us and showed us true care and compassion.

They invited us onto their stage and prayed, not for us to be “healed” - as we warned them that if they tried it, it wouldn’t end well - but for the church’s forgiveness in having a large part to play with the marginalization of queer people in our nation, they prayed for guidance to become more welcome and non-judgemental individuals especially in relation to the LGBTQ community and lastly they thanked us for being in their presence and basically making them check themselves then blessed us as inidividuals that all our endeavours may succeed and that we be protected.

Yo. IT WAS WILD.

Growing up as a queer kid in a Christian Caribbean society aint easy fam. And to stand, alongside my friends and fellow activists and see about 100 people looking back at us, and knowing that your existence is against their literal bible.... ting but yet here they are, with their arms up praying that you have a great career and all the successes in your love and life.

WAS

WILD.

And my friends did that. My bad ass friends with their bad ass selves came out, handed out stickers, made placards, and challenged church leaders to do better by their congregation and do better by their faith by embracing, with open arms the LGBTQ+ community in Barbados and for one night, they did.

And that was one hell of a success.

So I salute you all rockstars, and hope that this little recount of what went down can inspire someone out there that once you make a stand in what you believe in, magical things can happen.

And it’s like that damned adage I heard over and over again just the other day “not everything faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed unless it is faced”.

The very last thing I did after that, was co-host Poetry Lime which is another space for a different kind of bravery and I love the community of people who go and listen and share their art there. They constantly inspire me to do better, to make more platforms for them to express themselves, and navigate their lives together as artists and art lovers.

But more talk bout that another day. So yeah...

It’s been a wild ass day.

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