#Washington's Gay General

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Out this week: Washington’s Gay General (Abrams ComicArts, $24.99):

Josh Trujillo and Levi Hastings tell the story of Baron Wilhelm Von Steuben, one of the United States’ founding fathers who George Washington recruited to lead the Continental Army and is regarded as the father of the U.S. Army. He was also believed to be gay.

See what else is arriving at your local comic shop this week.

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[fantomcomics]

What's Out This Week? 8/16

too hot to write witty sentence

The Approach TP - Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley & Jesus Hervas

When airport employees Mac and Abigail find themselves snowed in after a blizzard, they witness a terrible plane crash-one that's been missing for 27 years! But it's not the sky that deserves dread, but what lies beyond it.

Mac, Abi, and the remaining airport crew feel helpless to stop the rampage of a supernatural predatory stowaway. But with the blizzard continuing to rage and the creature nesting in the airport, how will the stranded people survive?

Billie Blaster & The Robot Army From Outer Space HC - Laini Taylor & Jim Di Bartolo

Don't you hate it when your archenemy launches your latest invention into space, accidentally creating a robot army that falls into the clutches of an evil alien emperor? Well, that's how Billie Blaster's day is going! The genius child of two famous scientists, Billie is an inventor extraordinaire and the star of the annual science fair, much to the disgust of her nemesis, Tiny Hector Glum. But now their rivalry has gone too far, and the fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance. Can Billie prevent an intergalactic war that's kind of totally her fault? With her pet goat, Lucy, a giant robot head, and a toilet weasel from a distant planet, she might just stand a chance. Join them on their perilous adventure, in a spaceship without a bathroom.

Blessed Curse SC - Mario Cesar

Ever since he was a boy growing up in Brazil, all Acacio wanted was to please his parents: get good grades in school, meet a nice girl, stop being so... gay. Mário César's multi-award-winning graphic novel explores the horrific application of Conversion Therapy and what it's like to grow up gay in Brazil. This is not an easy read. But to prevent Conversion Therapy from continuing to be applied, it's a necessary one.

Born Sexy Tomorrow GN Vol 1 - VVBG

Join Blaze Galaxy and J-450n as they pew-pew their way through the galaxy, dancing in cantinas, warring with stars, battling galacticas, and fleeing from Blaze's crippling emotional problems at the speed of light. Blaze Galaxy, a reckless renegade spaceman rogue, lives by his own rules. Fighting, feasting, fostering human-alien relationships from planet to planet, he fears nothing... except commitment. His current mission: to save the human race from certain extinction (again). Just another Wednesday, really. Until he accidentally awakens J-450n, an (adorable) assassin cyborg created by a race of perverted aliens, whose prime objective is to eliminate human life. Only J-450n's been programmed to imprint upon the first living being that he sees...

Buzzing GN - Samuel Sattin & Rye Hickman

Isaac Itkin can't get away from his thoughts. As a lonely twelve-year-old kid with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), everything from studying to looking in the mirror becomes a battle between him and a swarm of unhelpful thoughts. The strict therapy his mother insists on doesn't seem to be working, but when a group of friends invites him to join their after-school role-playing game, the thoughts feel a little less loud, and the world feels a little brighter. But Isaac's therapist says that exposure to games can have negative effects on kids with OCD, and when his grades slip, his helicopter mother won't let him play anymore. Now Isaac needs to find a way to prove to himself, to his mother, and to the world that the way to quiet the noise in his head may have been inside him all along.

Chilling Adventures Presents: Strang Science One-Shot - Magdalene Visaggio & Butch K. Mapa

Danni Malloy is Jinx Holliday's best friend, and where one goes, the other is sure to follow... even if that means through hell and back and forth through the depths of space and time. When Danni receives a mysterious message from former friend Dilton Doiley, Danni is horrified to learn that he's built a time machine and it's gone terribly wrong-and now the three of them have been transported to warped version of Riverdale, where nothing seems quite right. It's up to Danni to set things right and bring them back to the present day, and the hometown they know and love... and she might have to explain a thing or two to Jinx about what's going on, too! Strange Science explores Danni's personal history, time travel, and the importance of being to be true to yourself and what matters most to you.

Disney Villains: Hades #1 - Elliott Kalan, Alessandro Ranaldi & Karen Darboe

FROM THE CLASSIC DISNEY FILM HERCULES - THE LORD OF THE UNDERWORLD FINALLY TAKES CENTER STAGE!

Hades - the lord of darkness! The most deceitful and scheming of the Greek gods!

The one god not invited to the weekly brunch at Mount Olympus!

Obviously, a slight like this calls for the total destruction of the gods of Olympus. To make that happen, the hot-tempered ruler of the underworld needs to acquire the magical Golden Fleece of Colchis. Unfortunately, the Fleece is guarded by a sleepless dragon and soldiers made out of teeth, so Hades assembles a ragtag group of morally questionable adventurers to help him steal the Fleece before some dude named Jason and his Argonaut bros swoop in and ruin his perfectly logical plan.

Dwellings #1 (of 3) - Jay Stephens

SHOCK! TERROR! FUN! SATURDAY MORNING MEETS THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT IN AN ALL-NEW, BI-MONTHLY LIMITED SERIES PRESENTED IN PRESTIGE FORMAT, 72-PAGE CHAPTERS WITH TWO COMPLETE TALES IN EACH ISSUE!

Welcome to Elwich - an oasis of American perfection, where the schools overflow with cheery-eyed children, lovingly adorned homes line the historic boulevards ... and only the crows can see the deep, festering rot that lurks beneath the pristine surface. Murder. Demonology. Possession. Obsession. Elwich has them all on offer-and behind every DWELLING awaits a horrifying new story to be told!

Dying Light GN - Fred Van Lente & Adam Markiewicz

With a lengthy original graphic novel tale serving as a prequel to Dying Light 2 and bonus behind the scenes content from the smash hit video game, Dying Light: Night Generation is an essential companion for fans of the franchise.

Set right before the start of the new game, and 15 years following the events of Dying Light, the story stars orphans Daud and Aisha. They were just children when the Harran Virus outbreak struck the world, and have known nothing other than the plague for their entire lives. Evacuated and found by Berg, they were trained to become Night Runners, to work together and steal for him as his influence grows among the Survivors. Reaching young adulthood, Daud and Aisha are finally sick of living under his thumb, hatching plans to run away together. When the secrets are discovered, Berg sells off Aisha to a rival. Forcing Daud on a harrowing journey to rescue his love, through the deadly Volatiles and utilizing the game's signature parkour.

Eiji and Shiro: From Zeroes to Heroes GN Vol 1 - Kaya Azuma

A collection of fantasy and supernatural shorts with a heavy comedic tone from one of the Boys Love world's most infamous comedic writers. Mobuyama "Eiji" A-Ji and Mobuyama "Shiro" C-ro have lived their entire lives as nothing more than "extras" to other people's stories. It can't end like this, right? There must be a way out! Both sharing a common goal will try anything that allows them to change their destiny. Anything.

The First Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes: A Study In Scarlet HC - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Vincent Mallie

London, 1878. Poor Dr Watson returns from India completely penniless and on the verge of despair when he meets Sherlock Holmes, a whimsical guy who also happens to be looking for a roommate. The pair move into 221 Baker Street when one of Scotland Yard's top sleuths enlists the talented Detective Holmes to help solve a dark murder case. Together, Watson and Holmes will lead the investigation and cement a partnership that will last for years to come.

Flung Out Of Space: Inspired By The Indecent Adventures Of Patricia Highsmith GN - Grace Ellis, Hannah Templer, & Joan Schenkar

Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this story through Highsmith's eyes, reimagining the events that inspired her to write the story that would become a foundational piece of queer literature. Flung Out of Space opens with Pat begrudgingly writing low-brow comics. A drinker, a smoker, and a hater of life, Pat knows she can do better. Her brain churns with images of the great novel she could and should be writing - what will eventually be Strangers on a Train.

The Girl Who Became A Fish GN - Osamu Dazai & Nekosuke

Another spectacular collaboration from the Maiden's Bookshelf series, this dark and intense fable by the great giant of postward literature is brought to vivid life by contemporary master Nekosuke. Suwa, a charcoal burner's daughter, lives together with her father in a small village at a foot of a mountain so remote it doesn't even appear on maps. Slowly she comes to realize the dark futility of her life, leading to a strange and elliptical transformation... Dazai depicts the adolescent awakening to death and the desire to escape through this quiet and ominous tale.

Heart Gear GN Vol 1 - Tsuyoshi Takak

After Roue accidentally activates Chrome without a base program, what's essentially his soul, she and Uncle Zett invite him into their makeshift family and encourage him to choose his own purpose. But when an insane machine attacks their home, will Chrome survive, much less find his purpose?

Land Of The Living Gods TP - Isaac Mogajane & Santtos

It is said that when the world dies, the spirits of the first people will return to witness the last days of humanity. Well, the spirits have arrived, and the end is here. But not everyone has given up hope.

Naledi, a teenage girl living in the deserted city once called Johannesburg, has always believed that there is a land hidden away in time where the gods still live. And where there are gods, there are miracles. Perhaps even miracles that are big enough to save our dying planet. And so, after a lifetime of isolation, Naledi will head out into the unknown with little to hold onto but her faith - and her magical pet plant, Buyo.

Pen & Ink: The Many Deaths Of Laila Starr #1 - V. Ram & Filipe Andrade

BOOM! Studios is proud to present the next installment of PEN & INK: a deluxe art-focused format featuring stunning black and white interior artwork with artist commentary.

Experience the first issue of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ringo Award-nominated The Many Deaths of Laila Starr in a whole new light, with exclusive notes and annotations from artist Filipe Andrade.

Rakuda Laughs GN - Katsuya Terada

New father and troubled yakuza Rakuda gets a call from his colleagues tasking him to dispose of a random body. The job is fishy, but when you are a gangster sometimes you have to just do what you're told. But in this case, who gave him the job is the problem. A young hustler named Amazaki has tasked him to take care of a corpse without any info on who the body is and how to get rid of it. Turns out the body belongs to their gang lord... Now the gang and the cops are after Rakuda. And with danger around every corner, there are now very few moments for jokes in Rakuda's world.

Rare Flavors: Tasting Ashcan #1 - V. Ram & Filipe Andrade

The Eisner, Harvey, and Ringo Award-nominated team of Ram V and Filipe Andrade make their celebrated return, and you can get a first taste in this exclusive ashcan edition!

Tantalize your senses with this amuse bouche introducing this creative duo's next masterpiece marrying the supernatural, Indian cuisine, and the cutthroat world of chef-driven celebrity in what will be the most talked about new comic of 2023!

This ashcan will be strictly limited to its first printing, never to be printed again!

Red Zone TP - Cullen Bunn, Mike Deodato & Lee Loughridge

Called in by the U.S. government for a secret international mission to Russia, unassuming American professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU Randall Crane finds his history in the Soviet Union begin to thaw and reveal itself. When the team of commandos sent to protect him end up dead, Randall finds himself forced to fight his way out of the former U.S.S.R. using skills he thought he'd left dead and buried in the cold, hard streets of the Mother Russia a lifetime ago.

The Sea In You GN - Jessi Sheron

A whimsical dark fantasy retelling of "The Little Mermaid," The Sea In You upends everything you thought you knew about magical creatures of the deep, on a whirlwind journey to a whole new world you've only dreamed of before! 15-year-old Corinth was just trying to clean up the beach; she never expected to meet a mermaid, let alone be nearly drowned by one. It was the start of a very strange friendship! After Skylla, the deadly fanged mermaid, mysteriously lets Corinth live, they grow closer through a cautious exchange of stories, gifts, jokes, and sign language. Mermaids, it turns out, eat people, but however terrifying Skylla may look, she's a little younger, a little smaller, and perhaps a little too soft for all that. Bewitched by Corinth and their growing bond, she learns about all the best things in life on land: books, burgers, donuts, and this strange chattering human sound called laughter. But a storm is brewing-both at sea and in Corinth's increasingly dangerous relationship with her obsessively jealous boyfriend-and a magical bargain may be the only thing that can save her, at a tremendous cost.

Sparks & The Fallen Star GN - Lyndon White

The stars are going out. Night never ends and while others only wonder, Sparks, the bravest little robot, sets out to discover the reason why. Enjoy this beautiful tale about friendship and overcoming adversity.

Specs TP - David M. Booher & Chris Shehan

Small town. Ohio, 1986. All Kenny and Ted want is to not feel like outcasts. What happens when a pair of X-ray glasses mysteriously appear? The magic specs open a world of possibilities for these misfit teens through the granting of literal wishes! Things start out innocent, but when they wish that their bully would disappear, things take a cursed turn, with far darker consequences than they thought possible...

Tabegirl: Art Of Jun SC - JUN

Powerfully cute! Jun's TabeGirls are the embodiment of what makes Japanese character designs so beloved, as they capture young ladies at their purest... while chowing down on scrumptious eats! Collecting nearly one-hundred full-color portraits from Jun's growing collection of web-illustrations, comics and promotional art, fans of the artist will have plenty tasty images to sink their teeth into.

The Cull #1 (of 5) - Kelly Thompson& Mattia De Iulis

Something is Killing the Children horror vibes mix with The Goonies-style adventure as five friends set off to shoot a short film on a forbidden rock near their home the summer before they all go their separate ways. But that's not really why they're there. One of them has lied. And that lie will change their lives forever.

Those Who Helped Us GN - Ken Mochizuki & Kiku Hughes

Basketball-loving Sumiko Tanaka, then 11, narrates this graphic novel about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Through her eyes, we watch as her family is forced from their home and subjected to indiscriminate racism as they are shipped off to the concentration camp called Minidoka in Idaho. But Sumiko and her 17-year-old sister Yuri also see acts of charity and solidarity from their non-Japanese neighbors and friends in the Seattle area that make them hopeful for the future. As the young girls struggle with the horrors of being imprisoned in the dusty desert, they also find solace in the fact that some people chose to help.

Ultralazer TP - Pauline Giraud, Maxence Henry & Yvan Duque

The people of the planet Topoy live in peace, surrounded by lush nature and magical, infinite resources. But the King of Beasts, who maintains balance on this world, is in danger. His protectors, Horb and Booko, will need to set off on a long journey if they want to save their planet...

On planet Topoy, everything has been peaceful for a long long time. People and magical creatures have been living in peace for generations. But danger came from space! The buzzards attacked and changed Topoy forever. Do they want the planet's natural resources? Yes. But they also want the King of Beasts, the supreme being that ties everything on this world.

Enter Horb and Booko, two protectors and servants of the King. They can't let their planet plundered! Their only hope? An ancient legend: the Ultralazer! Forgotten by many, this power could unleash the power they need to save the planet.

Washington's Gay General: The Legends & Loves Of Baron Von Steuben HC - Josh Trujillo & Levi Hastings

This graphic novel biography tells the true story of one of the most important, but largely forgotten, military leaders of the American Revolution, Baron Wilhelm Von Steuben, who brought much-needed knowledge to the inexperienced and ill-prepared Continental Army. As its first Inspector General, Von Steuben created an organizational framework for the US military, which included writing the Blue Book guide that became the standard for training American soldiers for more than a century. Beginning with Von Steuben's career in the Prussian Army, Trujillo explores his recruitment by Benjamin Franklin, his work alongside General George Washington at the Battle of Valley Forge, and his eventual decline into obscurity. In Washington's Gay General, Trujillo and Hastings impart both the intricacies of queer history and the importance of telling stories that highlight queer experiences.

Whatcha scooping up this week, Fantom Fam?

#wotw #what's out this week? #comic books #comics #comic book #comic #manga #Washington's Gay General #Ultralazer #Those Who Helped Us #The Cull #Tabegirl #Specs #Sparks And The Fallen Star #The Sea In You #Red Zone #Rare Flavors #Rakuda Laughs #The Many Deaths Of Laila Starr #Land Of The Living Gods #Heart Gear #The Girl Who Became A Fish #Flung Out Of Space #The First Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes: A Study In Scarlet #Eiji and Shiro: From Zeroes to Heroes #Dying Light #Dwellings #Disney Villains: Hades #Chilling Adventures Presents #Buzzing

[decoolz]

Another amazing panel from Washington’s Gay General: the legends and loves of Barron von Steuben.

Please AmRev crew, read this book. You will enjoy it.

#AmRev #graphic novel #american history #american revolution #Barron Von Steuben #Washington’s gay general

[victorvondoom]

hay…. whats up…….

#i love gay people with mental issues #vaguely related i think sometimes wash feels unworthy of tucker or love in general #sorry obsessed with them #tuckington #my art #art #fanart #red vs blue #rvb #agent washington #lavernius tucker

[feypact]

@librarycards tagged me to post about Books!

cav's list had eir top 9 books of the quarter but i'm a slow reader and often get distracted in the middle, so i only finished 15 books this year (while also having 8 books listed as "currently reading" in storygraph. not counting the 5 i just checked out from the library. this is not a smart or sustainable practice.) so i'm choosing my own adventure and listing my faves from a few different categories

my top 3 Books That Are Just Words of the year:

the spirit bares its teeth (read this in 3hrs on a plane it's KILLER. if you read one book on this list and don't mind its trigger warnings, make it this one)

idlewild (going in my personal canon of non-embarrassing books about fanfiction writers along with dead collections and y/n)

the anthropocene reviewed (i have 2 stay true to myself. and i liked these essays a lot more than any other Book That's Just Words i read this year)

my top 3 comics/graphic novels:

the many deaths of laila starr (finally got around to finishing this miniseries, i loved the ending!)

the essential dykes to watch out for (if you think this book will fix you, you're right. read it slowly though.)

flung out of space: the indecent adventures of patricia highsmith (VERY different from cosmoknights webcomic by the same artist, in a good way!)

3 books-in-progress i'm excited to finish in the coming year:

y/n (this girl has so many problems)

the myth of mars and venus (this was recommended on if books could kill as an alt to You Know What. and it's very insightful about how gender-essentialist stereotypes get perpetuated)

real queer america: lgbt stories from red states (as a Red State Gay. oftentimes i feel like people do too much to defend red states like. If It Sucks, Hit The Bricks. and so this book annoys me sometimes. and focuses too much on urban areas in red states. and is just SO 2017 politically. but maybe i'm being contrary. i want to give it a fair shake and i did think the opening story about that gay guy at her college who fought for trans healthcare coverage for students was very sweet and supported the thesis.)

i never know who to tag. if you want to post about books post about books.

#emmybody talks #8 comics and 7 book-books. normal world. #washingtons gay general: bad gays but with more vibes than facts #frugal wizard: clever time travel mechanics but annoying stupid boy. kind of says acab? if you squint #you will find your people: too much memoir not enough actionable advice. autism moment on my end for real. #boys weekend: mixed feelings the more i look back on it! worth a shot if you subscribed to the nib. #joan of arc in her own words: mostly interesting as a novelty (autobio pieced together from her court hearings)

[yippeecheapdvds]

This month I read “Washington’s Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron Von Steuben” by Josh Trujillo and Levi Hastings. Hystory/Queer/Graphic novel. Published August 15th 2023.

I found this prominently displayed in the history section of my local barns and noble. It immediately stuck out to me. It’s basically what it says in the title, and it’s pretty good. I liked the art, and the story was compelling. It was a quick read, I finished it in a day.

Also, they snuck in this classic meme.

If your interested in queer history I highly recommend. 9/10

#book #George Washington’s gay general #hystory #graphic novel #revolutionary war #queer

[the-taxidermist]

He wants to be gentle he really does but the sight of you crying of pleasure really gets them going yk , to be fair he loves to give you an orgasm and especially on your peroid and you feel horny. But that is the best part for the both of you

t.jeff , n.greene , a.burr

Gentle giant <3 ( but only with you ) and a big tease . He will not hurt your pussy but my dear please forgive them if he milks you hard because he just thinks your breasts look even more perfect when they ooze out that fresh milk of yours , they get red and sore but you love it as they circle their long nimble fingers and interwine them with your soft nipples and after that suck on them . He loves to coo at you and say you're just like a mother that gives her child milk everytime she can

j.hancock , a.hamilton , f.hopkinson a.middleton and j.monroe

submissive top , because your pleasure comes first and he also loooves to cum inside of you , but not only that he loves the fact that you are shorter than him

t.jeffs( again ) , j.jay , g.wash , j.laurens , h.mulligan , g.augustus( king george the iii )

#george washington #john hancock #hercules mulligan #james monroe #arthur middleton #john laurens #king george the iii #king george the third #thomas jefferson #thomas jeffershit #nathaniel greene #general greene #general washington #aaron burr #alexander hamilton #usa founding fathers #founding fathers #founding gay fathers #guys im going on vacation in odisha in india #and i came out as bisexual #i also had a heavenly dream about the founders of america

[genreawareness]

“the three of us have a very important job.” “>:) to find out which us presidents were secretly gay” “No.” “ok fine, bi”

#tgp liveblog #what is this. why did they do this to me. i would like to watch this television show without having to psychoanalyze what the writers room #thinks of bisexuals. like am i being ridiculous or is this weird #she sounds resigned and also why do they keep feeding her these like #nosy straight girl who talks about the phase she had in college type lines #like youll do this and you cant even do ‘uh of course i keyed my ex girlfriends car that bench deserved it 😏’ #she’ll hit on tahani for a whole season go ‘i may be legit into tahani’ and then we just never bring this up again? #like i KNOW she realizes shes in love with chidi in that same scene but like #logically that should go somewhere right? that should have a separate resolution? #im not being ridiculous? i dont think im being ridiculous but schur hasnt said a WORD about it in interviews as far as i can #tell from google #the outlet mags are like ‘yeah they integrated it so naturally <3’ did they??? #this does not feel natural to me?? and it looks worse sitting next to the wuhwuhditz ‘george washington was america’s first gay president.’ #and like laszlo and nadja and nandor in general. #RHRGHRHRHR i do not want to care about this i doooooont #but it just keeps being off kilter like none of it feels like its written earnestly #that chik fil a line still bothers me like its a funnier joke if its clear shes bisexual and just sucks #why not say that

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Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week! 11 #comics to check out. #comicbooks

Wednesdays (and Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look at! Find out what…

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#abrams comicarts #alpha flight #astrobots #barb and the battle for bailiwick #comic books #Comics #dark x-men #disney villains: hades #dynamite entertainment #featured #image comics #mad cave studios #marvel #massive publishing #rooster fighter #the cull #uncanny avengers #under the influence #viz media #washingtons gay general

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“Want some nudes?”: My DMs are always open but I have a very active and fulfilling sex life out in the real world and don’t necessarily have the energy to be horny on here all that often.

“Why aren’t you answering my ask?”: This could be for a variety of reasons, including: you asked personal information or medical advice, the ask was in response to something that was too distant time wise, you were insulting or negging or otherwise being strange, I’ve already answered the question recently, I missed it, or it was really sweet and I’m keeping it in my inbox to hold on to. Feel free to ask again, but certain things don’t get responses.

“I don’t like what you’re posting.”: Cool. No need to announce your departure. I tag clumps of posts that may clog up people’s dash, usually with something like #ask or #tumblrgames. If that solves your issue, great! If not, the unfollow button is right over there.

“Have you ever committed a felony? Do you intend to commit a felony? Are you committing a felony right now?”: Babygirl, we don’t know each other that way. And what are you, a cop?

“What’s your workout routine?”: I rotate through sets of three day splits in a six days on one day off pattern so that different muscle group combos are hit in various arrangements with each group being hit twice a week. It’s overly complicated and not what I’d say other people should do. If you’re asking what I recommend to other people, Push-Pull-Legs is great for beginners and intermediate lifters, alike.

#ask #flex #my face #me #selfie #shitpost #gym #flexing #muscle #queer

[wen-kexing-apologist]

Bengiyo's Queer Cinema Syllabus

I am currently working my way through Unit 4: Heartbreak Alley, the totally light-hearted, definitely not agonizing section of @bengiyo's queer cinema syllabus where I get to watch countless acts of violence be committed against queer people. Thank fuck I have Lesbians waiting for me at the end of this unit. The films in Unit 4 are: Bent (1997), Strange Fruit (2004),Boys Don’t Cry (1999), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Parting Glances (1986), Philadelphia (1993), The Living End (1992), Holding the Man (2015), Jeffery (1995), and Boys on the Side (1995).

Today i will be talking about

Philadelphia (1993) dir. Jonathan Demme 

[Run Time: 2:05, Available on: YouTube for rent, Google Play, Amazon, Lang: English]

Summary: When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.

Cast: * Tom Hanks as Andrew Beckett * Denzel Washington as Joe Miller * Antonio Banderas as Miguel

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To steal a comment from @lurkingshan, it has been awhile since I’ve watched a good legal thriller. Philadelphia is brilliant, and I don’t just mean in the general sense, I mean it is smart. It is smart in how it sets itself up. We start with Andy and Joe on opposites sides of a court room, we can see the rapport between them, but we set them up on opposite sides from the beginning. We move from there to Andy at the hospital, receiving his transfusions, looking across the way to a man whose karposi’s sarcoma has advanced to the end stages a look to where Andy himself will end in this film. And then to Andy’s law office where there is physical touch, after physical touch, after physical touch. Some that happen so quickly, others that linger, that the camera focuses in on, and I only wish that we’d seen Andy the day after that meeting, because I would be curious to see if and how the physical touches changed with people in the office. 

But that’s not what we get, and we don’t really need it because what is truly important is that Andy is sicker than he originally let on. The point is that the law firm set Andy up while he was away. The point is that at so many stages in this film I was mad. And that was how I was supposed to be. I was mad at all the homophobic pieces of shit that were sitting there making excuses, that based a significant portion of their legal argument about not discriminating against Andy because he was gay with HIV, by trying to discredit Andy’s character because he was gay. [and of course the law office used a woman as their representation and had a Black man at their table as well…you know they were really trying to look good]

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You might know by now that I love a complicated relationship, so I was really thrilled that Joe eventually decided to represent Andy. Because Joe was homophobic as fuck, and he very much did not want to take the case. But again this film is smart, we never have to hear from Joe’s mouth or anyone’s for that matter that Joe decided to work with Andy after seeing how he was being treated by the librarian, but we know there’s no way it isn’t informed by experiences of racism in Black communities. The way Joe was stared at by a library worker when he was sitting at his table, the way Andy was stared at by a library worker when he was sitting at his table. The way Andy was being suggestively ushered away to somewhere out of view to other library patrons. 

I loved that Joe was viciously homophobic because it demonstrates so well the boundary between work and personal life. Joe is able to do his job and do it well, and eventually after months of working with Andy, is able to come around, even touching Andy’s face which we know even has a lesion on it, by the end of the film. That is huge from someone that started the film literally running immediately to the doctor to make sure he didn’t have AIDS from shaking Andy’s hand. From a modern lens I can totally see how that would probably feel stereotypical or derivative or something like that but I think it is important to keep in mind that this film was one of the first Hollywood movies to feature HIV/AIDS and also portray gay people in a positive light. I haven’t actually been adding the for/by/about designations to the Heartbreak Alley films because something about doing that didn’t really sit right to me when we’re discussing the violence to and death of queer people. But this film definitely was not made for queer people, and Tom Hanks acknowledges that he was cast in the role for his “non-intimidating screen persona” and that “one of the reasons people weren’t afraid of this movie was because I was playing a gay man.” 

The casting here was strategic to further assist audiences in sympathizing with a gay, HIV positive character. 

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I really love all the little moments of solidarity, the smiles between the Black secretary at the law office and Joe because They Know™ about experiences of discrimination in the workplace. The solidarity between the secretary with AIDS and Andy. I loved that a Black woman was teaching Andy how to apply make up to cover his lesions. I loved that Andy’s entire family knew that he was gay, knew he had AIDS, knew he had a partner and that they all loved and accepted him, and that he had so many people in his life that truly, well, and deeply cared for him. 

And I love how that is used to deliver maximum emotional impact, at least to me, in one single stupid opera line. 

I genuinely enjoyed essentially sitting in a court room for two hours watching Joe strategize, and execute his traps for the jury to win them over. I love how you know that they have won the second that a juror repeats verbatim a line Joe had said repeatedly throughout the trial. I am grateful the film was kind enough to let Andy be awake and alert enough to know that they had won. That his one of his last acts on earth was getting to engage with the part of law he loved most: “that every once in awhile, not often, but occasionally, you get to play a part in justice being done” Justice was done here, Joe and Andy both played a role in what could potentially become another precedented case in the roster to build towards a stronger future for gay people in the workplace. I think that (though likely coupled with how much his body was beginning to fail) is what finally made him ready to go. Because for so much of this film he would hesitate when it came to death. 

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He froze over the line “the actual physical [death]” when quoting the line about AIDS causing a social death. He talked about planning his memorial to try to get a reaction out of Miguel, and when Miguel gave him a response he very much did not want to hear “maybe you should” he took Miguel to a party, he talked about opera instead of practicing his Q&A. 

I am grateful the film ends at his memorial, not just for the memories, though I am especially glad it ends on a video of Andy as a child (to appeal to the ‘he was somebody’s kid type of crowd) but that the memorial was not entirely gloomy. There was life, there was conversation, there were smiles, it made things feel more real. Just like all “see you tomorrow” lies everyone knew they were telling themselves felt real. 

Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington are such powerhouses of actors and I am so so grateful that they did this project together. 

Favorite Scene 

(I am acknowledging that these gifs by @antoniosbanderas have nothing to do with my listed favorite scene, but I just need you all to know that the scene of these two laying in bed was cut from the final edit of the film, so I didn't actually get to watch it, so now you know it exists if you didn't already)

My favorite scene is when the law firm is questioning Melissa Benedict, a secretary that used to work with one of the lawyers in his previous firm. Melissa was diagnosed with AIDS after a blood transfusion, and she was put on the stand to prove one of the lawyers knew what AIDS lesions looked like and therefore was able to identify that Andy had HIV a week before he was fired. 

I was ready to reach through my screen to smack a bitch when the law firm’s representation started trying to make a moral argument, that Melissa’s AIDS was acceptable AIDS to have in an office because she involuntarily contracted the disease through a medical procedure, whereas Andy had had gay sex and therefore voluntarily risked acquiring HIV. And you can just see Melissa looking over at Andy so often when the law firm is trying to make this argument, and trying to get Melissa to answer questions in a way that would make her seem like she is actually of the law firm’s opinion. 

And she doesn’t let them do that to Andy. Instead she looks right at him and she qualifies her response saying: “But I don’t consider myself any different from anyone else with this disease. I’m not guilty, I’m not innocent, I’m just trying to survive” and it is just a beautiful moment for me. Especially because this film is trying to portray queer people in a positive light, having a straight, white woman with a disease she had no way of preventing say that she was just like anyone else with AIDS is hugely important to driving that message home. 

Favorite Quote 

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I am so sorry in advance for how long this quote is, and that 90% of it is technically just Andy translating an opera but: 

“‘Look the place that cradled me is burning.’ Do you hear the heartache in her voice? Can you feel it Joe? Now in come the strings and it changes everything. It’s like the music, it fills with a hope. And that’ll change again. Listen. Listen. “I bring sorrow to those who love me” oh oh that single cello. “It was during this sorrow that love came to me.” (sobbing) “A voice filled with harmony. It said, live still. I am life. Heaven is in your eyes. It’s everything around you. It’s the blood and the mud. I am divine! I am oblivion. I am the god that comes down from the heavens to the earth and makes of the earth a heaven. I am love. I am love.” 

The level of emotion, the implication behind each and every line that he translates, the way that those lines spoke to me as a queer person. “Look the place that cradled me is burning” this body, his body is failing; this life, his life is coming to an end. “I bring sorrow to those who love me” we see that with Andy’s mom, with his entire family for that matter, we see how loved he was and know that his death is going to be a devastating blow for a lot of people. “It was during sorrow love came to me” Miguel is there for all of it, through all of it. When he collapses in court, his family is the first to get to him, to try to help him. When he’s in the hospital the entire hallway is flooded with people that love him. Andy breaks at this point in his monologue, choking out the line “A voice filled with harmony. It said, live still. I am life. Heaven is in your eyes. It’s everything around you. It’s the blood and the mud.” I do not think Andy was ready to go until the very end when he finally said he was. Live still. Andy wants to live still. I am life. Heaven is in your eyes. It’s everything around you. It’s the blood and the mud. He will see Heaven soon, he is looking at the world through the lens of a dying man. “I am the god that comes down from the heavens to the earth and makes of the earth a heaven” We have one life to live, we should use it well, Andy has so much love in his life, that’s truly such a heavenly thing to have. He is seeking justice, in such a way that others might be protected the way he wasn’t. “I am love. I am love.” 

I just. 

I don’t know y’all I just really liked this film. 

Score 

9.5/10

I’m salty that Denzel wasn’t nominated for an Oscar, though I am wholly unsurprised, and I am glad Tom Hanks won and that his speech included praise of Denzel. 

““And an actor who put his film image at risk and shown because of his integrity, Mr. Denzel Washington who I very much share this with”

Lovely film, highly recommend.  Now on to The Living End

#bengiyo queer cinema syllabus #queer cinema syllabus #unit 4: heartbreak alley #philadelphia #philadelphia (1993) #denzel washington #tom hanks #antonio banderas #and with this film I am now 60% of the way through Unit 4 #I can see the finish line

[decoolz]

Why is this the most accurate drawing of Alexander Hamilton I’ve ever seen?

#alexander hamilton #Washington’s gay general #graphic novel

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

George W. Bush, the infamously anti-gay and neoconservative former U.S. president who invaded Iraq on a lie, has criticized congressional Republicans for threatening to defund the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a largely successful African HIV-prevention program that he launched back in 2003. “There is no program more pro-life” than PEPFAR, he wrote.

Though PEPFAR is estimated to have saved over 25 million lives, its funding is set to expire on September 30. Congressional Republicans are falsely claiming that the program promotes abortion and using its re-funding as a bargaining chip in budget negotiations. Republicans have threatened to defund the entire federal government at the end of the month unless they’re allowed to slash military diversity programs and military aid to Ukraine and to increase anti-immigration measures at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“We are on the verge of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic. To abandon our commitment now would forfeit two decades of unimaginable progress and raise further questions about the worth of America’s word,” Bush wrote in a Wednesday opinion article in The Washington Post.

Bush said that his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, his White House chief of staff Joshua Bolton, and his senior policy advisor Michael Gerson had advised him to begin PEPFAR. Gerson reportedly told Bush that it would be “a source of national shame” if the U.S. didn’t try to help end the worldwide HIV epidemic.

Bush’s opinion article cited words that Gerson himself had written in defense of PEPFAR in November 2017: “Are Republicans in Congress prepared to squander a legacy of GOP leadership that has won the United States considerable goodwill around the world? Among evangelical Christians, what definition of being ‘pro-life’ does not include saving millions of lives from preventable disease and death?”

Adding his own thoughts, Bush wrote, “There is no program more pro-life than one which has saved more than 25 million lives. I urge Congress to reauthorize PEPFAR for another five years without delay.”

During his presidency, Bush backed a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, and used bans on same-sex marriage to help him win re-election in 2004. While he served, 27 states banned same-sex marriage.

Despite Bush’s anti-gay record, PEPFAR was “a sound investment in U.S. security,” Ben Plumley, the former CEO of the now-defunct international HIV organization Pangea, said in a now-deleted interview with Hornet.com. Plumley said the program “generated very significant goodwill towards the United States” and countered “the spread of radical Islam or radical anti-Western attitudes in sub-Saharan Africa.”

Plumley also noted that most HIV transmissions in sub-Saharan Africa are heterosexual, meaning that conservative Republicans could support PEPFAR without worrying about seeming too overtly supportive of the LGBTQ+ community.

#us politics #news #lgbtq nation #2023 #republicans #conservatives #president george w. bush #U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief #pepfar #hiv/aids #hiv/aids epidemic #africa #world politics #the washington post #Condoleezza Rice #Joshua Bolton #Michael Gerson #Ben Plumley #bush administration #Hornet.com #us congress #congressional Republicans

[corvidaedream]

top 5 facts about non-famous Bostonians from the 1770s? (general facts about the population or facts about specific historical people)

oooh hoo hoo! excellent question!!! ty!!!!!

these will not necessarily be in an order. also my sense of who is famous or not is heavily skewed.

this is me trying to figure out who counts:

as some followers may already be aware, in 1771, owner of a local ropewalk john gray successfully sued lendall pitts for damages incurred when they had a brawl downtown over the fact that pitts discovered that the woman he had been flirting with the night before had, in fact, been gray himself. pitts' defense was essentially a gay panic defense, and the jury sided with gray.

this is technically first recorded in the 1780s, but in the classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue, published in london, "gouging [someone's eyes] out" is noted to be something that tends to happen "at boston, in america". i have no actual stats to back this up, but apparently that's our reputation.

i've read notes from a man working under general washington at camp in cambridge where complaints about the behavior of continental soldiers from boston included spending too much time chatting with the enemy while on guard duty, using too much butter to cook, and bathing too close to the bridge where women could gather to watch them.

there's a young man named henry prentiss (or prentice) involved in the boston tea party who later got in trouble with the law because, as far as i can tell, harvard students kept stealing from his vegetable garden, so he started lacing it with laxatives to deter them.

most people in boston in the 1770s, statistically speaking, were under the age of 16

i have more but theres not so many fun facts in my head as there is just very involved gossip and i have no idea any longer whether something is common knowledge or if it's just something i and 20 other people bring up a lot

#sadies day job #this goes in there #also #cant keep johnny down 1771 edition #please keep asking me about weird bostonians i would love to say more if anyone is like 'hey who the fuck is (person mentioned)' #or whats the deal with elizabeth hunt palmer and why do you think she would have loved being on reality tv?

[purpleshell-x]

Generally Kate Laswell HeadCanons’s

Trigger Warnings— brief mentions of smoking and homophobia but besides that this is sfw and light

Summary—Just a bunch of head canons on Kate, some of them are relationship centric and some are more broad. generally pronouns.

A/N—First post on this blog! Feel free to request anything or even just drop by the say hi!

Definitely is the type to sleep like the dead, she falls asleep and she doesn’t make a sound nor moves a inch. You’d swear you’re sleeping with a corpse.

On the subject of Sleeping she isn’t the bigger on cuddling but she likes it when she’s touching her wife or are close together, their knees touching, face away from each other but your backs are touching, shoulders touching etc. Will also sometimes hold your hand when she sleeps with a vice grip, good luck on trying to pry her hand off when you try to get up.

I don’t know but she gives me dog person vibes, she doesn’t mind cats but I think she’d be the type to have a super big dog and lap dog with you, calls them her baby’s sometimes but if you mention it she sulk about it.

Loves the rain, would much rather be in the foggy mountains of Washington state then on the beach. 

Would love to own a cabin with you that’s far from civilization in the mountains when she finally retires

Has never really had the desire to have kids herself but she has a few nieces and nephew that she adores. Definitely the type to buy the best gifts for them.

She gives of older sibling vibes, idk what it is but I can sense it, she was the oldest out of three, all of them being boys.

She isn’t the most clingy woman but like how she sleeps she is just about always holding your hand when people can’t see, when the two of your are standing close together, under a table, or when the two of you are in a crowded place.

She had figured out that she was gay fairly early but she grew up in the 70s-80s so it wasn’t the easiest for her, her parents weren’t the happiest about it so now her relationship with them is pretty strained.

She starting smoking when she was a teenager, her smoking habits where a lot worst when she was a teen and in her early twenties but as she aged she slowly lighten the habit.

#kate laswell x reader #kate laswell #kate laswell cod #kate laswell call of duty #call of duty #call of duty modern warfare #cod mw2 #kate laswell headcanons #lesbian #trend #writing #cod headcanons #purple shell works #all of shells stuff

[our-transhet-experience]

Why does it seem that online so many transhets are trusucm or even radmeds?

I don't know why it seems that way to you, because I have yet to find any actual evidence that transhets are more likely to be be truscum than any other kind of trans person!

The KFF/Washington Post Trans Survey found that out of 515 trans people, 29% did not consider their sexual orientation to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer. It's possible that asexual/aromantic people who don't consider their orientation to be queer are included in this number, but in my experience most aspec people I know would consider themselves to be queer, so it's a rough estimate of the proportion of straight trans people.

I haven't found any official studies on sexuality demographics for truscum in particular, but I found a few informal polls conducted on r/truscum that we're going to work with for now.

One poll of 976 people had 240 people who identified as either straight men or straight women, which is 24.6%. The poll didn't differentiate between cishet and transhet, but as r/truscum is a majority trans subreddit, this proportion is likely pretty representative of the trans truscum on that subreddit. (If anything, the proportion is possibly lower, since trans people are significantly less likely to be straight than cis people.)

Another poll of 582 people had 165 people who identified as FTM straight or MTF straight, which is 28.4%.

Finally, someone took a demographics survey of r/truscum users that had 352 responses, and reported that 14.5% of users were heterosexual (so about 51 users).

I haven't bothered to test for any sort of statistical significance and I'm not sure reddit polls are reliable enough for that, but the data does seem to indicate that transhets are more likely than the general trans population to be truscum, considering every estimate for the proportion of transhets on r/truscum has been lower than the proportion of transhets in general.

I'm not sure why your preconceived notions of transhets doesn't match up with the data, but it might be worth reconsidering the way you perceive us.

#transhet #god i love numbers. big fan of numbers #by the way i would NOT recommend actually looking at the truscum links they are. not great #just linking for verification of numbers and all