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she-is-ovarit · 11 months

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One of the first pride founders, Fred Sargeant.

#LGB #LGBT #LGBTQ #fred sargeant #pride #gay pride #pride2023 #transgender #LGB history #stonewall #trans #lgb drop the t #lgb pride #tehm

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chlorinatedpopsicle · 5 months

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A video of "human calculator" Shakuntala Devi solving complex mathematical equations within seconds.

In 1982, she was awarded the Guinness World Record for fastest human computation. She was assigned a multiplication problem with two random numbers of 13 digits each (7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779) and gave the correct answer (18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730) in 28 seconds.

She travelled to several countries for the purpose of having her talents studied. In 1988, her abilities were tested by Arthur Jenson, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Problems given to her included calculating the cube root of 61,629,875 and the seventh root of 170,859,375. Jensen reported that Devi came up with the solutions (395 and 15) before he could write them down in his notebook.

Before all that, in 1977, at Southern Methodist University, she gave the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in 50 seconds. Her answer (546,372,891) was confirmed by calculations done by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation. The computer took longer to solve the problem than Devi did.

Oh, also, in 1979, she wrote the earliest book about homosexuality in India.

(info stolen from Wikipedia)

#women and girls in STEM #incredible women and girls #women in history #herstory #neat stuff #LGB history #feminist history

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woman-for-women · 11 months

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Happy Pride Month! To kick off pride I'm busting some myths about the Stonewall Riots, Marsha P. Johnson, and giving some love and recognition to Stormé DeLarverie!

This was sitting unfinished for months but I got it together and completed it in time for pride.

Edit (6/12/23): I believe only the first Joseph Ambrosini photo was confirmed to be taken the first night of the Stonewall riots; I couldn't find sources that indicated if the other photos were taken on that same night or not.

#gender abolition #w4w post #w4w infographic #feminism #feminist #lgb #lgbt #pride #stonewall #marsha p johnson #storme delarverie #lgb history #lgbt history #gay rights #gay history #lesbian #w4w lgb

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butch-reidentified · 2 years

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yall, I reached out in support of Fred Sargeant after he was attacked, and apparently it meant so much to him he asked me if he could share my email, and he posted it 😭 I am so honored!!!! I know this is just /another/ thing I shouldn't post bc anyone could easily identify me from this with very little effort, but irdc. I'm too happy and love yall too much to not share this meaningful moment

#mine #radblr #radfems do touch #radfem safe #lgb #lgb history #fred sargeant #gender critical #lgb pride #Pulse survivor

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radykalny-feminizm · 2 months

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On the left: Maria Konopnicka (1842 – 1910) who was a Polish poet, novelist, children's writer, translator, journalist, critic, and activist for women's rights and for Polish independence.

On the right: Maria Dulębianka (1861 – 1919) who was a Polish artist and activist, notable for promoting women’s suffrage and higher education.

These women spent over 20 years together. They lived together and were buried together according to Dulębianka's last wish. Unfortunately their bodies were separated after 8 years.

Dulębianka could be called "a butch" according to today's terminology. Konopnicka was more stereotypically feminine.

They were a lesbian couple.

It's a fact that has been denied for a long time (a classic "they were very close friends" case). Konopnicka was considered a great patriot and conservatives claimed that suggesting that she was in a relationship with a woman is "disrespectful". Some people still think so to this day, but her relationship with Dulębianka is confirmed and recognized by most historians.

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miniar · 5 months

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This video is detailed, well researched, and important queer history.

It's important.

Please.

#queer history #lgbt history #lgbtq+ history #lgb history #queer liberation #Youtube

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hard--headed--woman · 11 months

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3rd day of Pride Month - 2nd LGB history 🏳️‍🌈

Today is the second day of my "post about one lgb icon/story everyday" thing for Pride Month, and I am gonna talk about the first lesbian wedding in Spain !

It's a quite famous story, but I wanted to talk about it anyway.

Here's the story of Elisa and Marcela !

Marcela Gracia Ibeas and Elisa Sánchez Loriga got married on June 8, 1901, in A Coruña, at Galicia, in Spain. Their marriage was the first homosexual marriage in Spain since the Roman imperial era (though some documents were found, proving that two men got married in Spain in 1061, I'll talk about it in another post !) and happened more than 100 years before the country legalized homosexual marriages !

To achieve this, Elisa disguised herself as a man, and adopted a male identity, Mario Sánchez, which is the name on their marriage certificate. Their lie was later discovered, but their marriage was never annulled, and they remained married for the rest of their lives.

Here's a picture of them after their wedding :

There is a very good movie on Netflix, called Elisa y Marcela, that tells their story. I watched it and liked it a lot, though there are some little criticisms to be made, and if you're interested, you should watch it too! I really enjoyed it and will probably watch it a lot of other times.

Note that there are some differences between the movie and the real story, and if you watch if, I think you should also read their true story, like reading their Wikipedia page. But the biggest part of the movie (except 1-2 details and the end) is pretty accurate, so if you want to watch it and to discover their whole story like that, don't read the end of this post ! I'll tell their story in details here. Keep reading only if you don't want to watch the movie/don't care about already knowing the entire story before watching it.

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The two young women meet at the Teacher Training College in A Coruña, where future primary school teachers are trained. Eighteen-year-old Marcela is studying there, while twenty-three-year-old Elisa is working there after completing the same course. They become friends, and then lovers. Marcela's parents, fearing scandal, send their daughter to continue her studies in Madrid, but it's not enough to end their love story. Marcela is appointed teacher in Vimianzo, in the village of Calo, while nearby Elisa works as a temporary replacement in Couso, a small parish in Coristanco in the province of A Coruña. They decide to live together in Calo, until 1889, the year in which Marcela leaves to teach in Dumbría while Elisa stays in Calo. The two keep in touch, writing to each other, until Elisa joins Marcela.

They live their love for years, hiding their relationship, until they have had enough, and decide to hatch a plan to get married.

In 1901, Elisa adoptes a masculine appearance and applies to the College of Education under the name of Mario. She creates a past for herself based on a cousin who died in a shipwreck, claims to have spent her childhood in London with an atheist father. She gets baptized as Mario on May 26, 1901 and gets her First Communion under the same idendity.

The couple gets married on June 8, 1901, after publication of the banns. A short wedding ceremony is performed before witnesses, and the couple spends their wedding night in the Corcubión guesthouse on Calle de San Andrés - Elisa and Marcela are officially the first spanish homosexual couple to get married since the Roman imperial era, their plan was a success.

Unfortunately, the villagers begin to have doubts, and realize that this marriage is what they call "a marriage without a man".

The Galician and Madrid press reports the case, the two women lose their jobs, are excommunicated and placed under arrest.

Here's a picture of them after their arrest :

Elisa tries to pass herself off as intersex (using the term hermaphrodite at the time) when a doctor checks whether she's male or female, to no avail. Despite this, and the Civil Guard's attempts to prosecute them, their marriage was never annulled, and the two lovers manages to escape. Their story becomes famous in Spain and many other European countries.

(Un matrimonio sin hombre = a marriage without a man)

After that, we don't know what happened to them. The last thing we know fore sure about them is that they embarked on a ship bound for South America - perhaps Argentina, like so many other Spaniards of the time, where they spent their honeymoon and settled.

But in 2008, a book, Elisa e Marcela – Alén dos homes (Elisa and Marcela – Beyond men), by Narciso de Gabriel, was published in A Coruña, and tells their story from 1901 to 1904. It narrates the events in Porto, Portugal, where they were imprisoned, tried, and later released. They fled to Argentina after the Spanish government demanded their extradition from Portugal. The book tells that before leaving Porto for the Americas, Marcela gave birth to a girl - I couldn't find any other information about that. It also tells that after they landed in Buenos Aires, Elisa (under the alias of Maria) married Christian Jensen, a wealthy immigrant from Denmark 24 years her senior, in 1903 and that Marcela, under the alias of Carmen, pretended to be her sister and stayed there with her daughter.

Elisa refused to consummate the marriage with Jensen. He grew suspicious and tried to have the marriage annulled on the grounds that Elisa wasn't, in fact, a woman. This claim was never substantiated: Three medical examinations confirmed that Elisa was a woman.[11] Since the marriage was between a man and a woman, and therefore valid, no charges were brought against Elisa. After this time, there is no further record of Marcela and Elisa. Still according to this book, Elisa refused have sex with Jensen, who grew suspicious and tried to have the marriage annulled on the grounds that Elisa wasn't, in fact, a woman. It didn't work : three medical examinations confirmed that Elisa was a woman, and since the marriage was between a man and a woman, and therefore valid, no charges were brought against Elisa. After this time, there is no further record of Marcela and Elisa - though some sources claim that Elisa killed herself in 1909.

I'm sorry if some things aren't very clear - sometimes the sources I've found contradict each other, and there are differences in information between French (I'm French), Spanish and English sources. Sometimes even the same source says two different things. I've done my best, and I hope what I've written isn't too far from the truth.

This is a very interesting sorry, that is very, very important in LGB history, and I encourage you all to do your own research, read the book and watch the film! Personally, I'm very happy to have discovered this story, which I like very much.

See you tomorrow for another story/lgb icon :)

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researchgate · 11 months

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I think it's extremely sinister yet strategic how the gender movement ideologues started spewing trans nonsense about stonewall only in the recent decade, when slowly the people who were there die out and when they have the power to fully silence them like now. So sinister and cruel.

#lgb history #gay pride

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jorindasfate · 7 days

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it's so insane to hear young "lgbtqiapd+" people tell each other to learn their "queer" history and reference the stonewall riots and the first pride marches and mourn bc they think everyone from that time is dead,

and meanwhile actual old gay people are like. uh 1) we're right here 2) you're ideologically rewriting history 3) that person never did that 4) don't call me queer.

#lgb #lgb history

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lollobarcollomanonmollo · 3 months

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"this is not the thing: or, Molly exalted", 1762

This is a satirical print made in 1762 by Thomas Ewart, it features a "molly" (homosexual man in the eighteenth century, referred to the molly houses) in a pillory, surrounded by a crowd of mainly women shouting at him "shave him close", "flogg him" or "cut it off". Followed by the man saying "I'm now in the hole indeed (reference to anal sex) come all in my friends"

It is currently preserved in the British Museum, London

#sorry if there are any wrong information #lgb history #lgb community #lgbt history #radical feminists do touch #radical feminists please interact #ora parlo io 🥶#radical feminism #terfsafe #Idc if this has nothing to do with terfs i still need more terf sisters 🗣️#terfblr #terfism

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woman-for-women · 5 months

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A reminder that same-sex couples, not opposite sex and same-gender couples, are persecuted for being gay.

#w4w speaks #same sex marriage #lgb #lgbt #trans #lgb history #nepal #asia #article

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butch-reidentified · 2 years

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Hey Radblr!

My wife & I just had an amazing idea in the process of planning our home decoration. We want to do an accent wall that's essentially wallpapered with a Lesbian History Collage. We came up with the idea while discussing this post:

Specifically, the idea stems from what I'd said about historical LGB folks, especially lesbians, feeling like my actual ancestors rather than my family. I want to honor them in our home. So, I thought I'd ask you all for your favorite historical newspaper articles, book excerpts, lesbian couple photographs, lesbian activism photographs, etc. Please send me anything and everything you can think of, all your favorite stories and pictures - and make sure they come with a caption providing context as we will be including that of course!

Thanks in advance! We are SO excited to do this project & will definitely post pics when it's done, though it will take a while for sure.

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mr-divabetic · 10 months

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I wish to thank all of the AMAZING ALLIES in my life. Your love, friendship, support, kindness, and respect mean so much to me as I live my truth. You make me feel safe to show every shade of the rainbow in my soul.

Yesterday morning I was overwhelmed with emotion from thinking about the powerful and magical roles my ALLIES have played in my life.

#divabetic #lgbtlove #lgbtqiia+#lgbtqia #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtq positivity #lgb history #diabetic

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leandra-winchester · 11 months

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Watch and learn.

#gay history #lgb history #lgbt history #stonewall #was not as significant as you think #and didn't happen the way you were told

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ace-in-a-very-distressing-hole · 8 months

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Hello, LGB drop the T folks

Ok listen up

If you think the T should be dropped from the LGBTQ acronym, I’d like you to go and do a quick little bit of digging on the history of Pride, the movement you are gatekeeping. Then come back and tell me that trans people, a large majority of the founders of this community, don’t belong here. Just you fucking try. Stop erasing queer history in order to fit it into your exclusive idea of what Pride and queerness is. You are playing right into the hands of those who would seek to ruin us all.

#lgbtq #transgender #lgbtq history #lgb drop the t #lgb without the t #its bullshit istg #one step forwards two steps back #you take what they fought for with tooth and nail and you toss it down the drain like a dirty cotton wad #it’s deplorable

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hard--headed--woman · 11 months

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i saw a tv show some days ago where a young woman in the 60s/70s (don't remember exactly but it was either 60s or 70s, nothing else) was violently harrassed and bullied for being gender non conforming, for "looking like a man" (short hair, masculine clothes, no makeup, etc) and for liking "men things" (she loved cars, and was very good at mechanics, a subject she wanted to study), and her bullies were using the word "queer" against her, writing it on her chair, yelling it at her, etc (we learn later that she wasn't a lesbian, actually, but they thought she had to be one since she was masculine), at the end of the episode the girl is sent to conversion therapy, where they try to force her to become feminine, to act "like a woman", to wear make-up, etc., until they end up lobotomizing her (after several sessions of "electrical tests" supposed to "cure" her) because she resisted and was impossible to "cure". she dies short after that, and the very end of the episode takes place years and years later, decades later, and we see a girl with blue hair sitting on a chair with a big smile, proudly wearing a t-shirt saying "queer planet" with a lgbt flag.

if that doesn't represent very well the current lgbtqia+ community, i don't know what will, lol. this girl faced horrible violence and discrimination for being gender non conforming and because everyone thought she was a lesbian, they used the word queer, a slur, against her, and years later a teenager who doesn't know half of the things people went through decades ago for fighting and just being who they were comes with her blue hair proudly using this slur as if it was just a word.

people suffered decades ago for being same sex attracted and gender non conforming, they went through hell, the word queer was used against them as a slur, and now people who didn't go through any of that (which is a good thing of course) and don't know their history try to reclaim this term, to use it casually, to pretend it isn't a slur and should be used to describe the entire community. that's disgusting.

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