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sitdownfeargalyounerd · 8 days

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or-not-2b---i-dont-know · 1 month

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Sooooooooo I did some ✨Picrews✨ of Back To The 80s characters.... Some were based off of real casts, some were purely vibes but I think they turned out pretty cute! 💗💗

Corey Jnr 💕💕

Corey Snr 💜💜

Kirk 💚🤍💙

Alf 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 (he's also trans in my mind)

Tiffany 💓💓💓

Cyndi 💖💖💖

EILEEN!!!!!! 💖💕💓💖💗💕💕💖💖💓💗💓💖💕

Michael 🩵🩵(I'll defend gay Michael to the grave /hj)

Miss Brannigan 💗💗💜💙💙

Mr Cocker 👎👎 (token straight)

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#this was so fun!!!!! 💓💓💓#i looked through so many different casts to find ✨inspiration✨#i even found some I'd never heard of before!!!#back to the 80s #btt80s #corey palmer #corey palmer jnr #corey palmer snr #kirk keaton #alf bueller #tiffany houston #cyndi gibson #eileen reagan #michael feldman #miss brannigan #ms brannigan #sheena brannigan #mr cocker #stevie cocker

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michaelfeldmanofficial · 4 days

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Eileen: Who’s Michael Feldman?

Debbie: Some say he’s a heartless monster

Laura: In fact, all of us say that

#back to the 80s the musical #back to the 80s #btt80s #incorrect btt80s quotes #laura wilde #debbie fox #eileen reagan #michael feldman #source: futurama

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gay-jewish-bucky · 2 years

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Pride Month 2022, 40 Years of Arnie Roth and Michael Bech - Marvel Comics: The Queer History Behind MCU Bucky's Backstory

Arnold Roth, who is both gay and Jewish, first appears in Captain America #270 (June, 1982), created by J.M. DeMatteis (writer) and Mike Zeck (illustrator).

This was in the early days of the AIDS crisis and during Ronald Reagan's administration, if you know anything about this era you know what a dark time it was for the LGBT+ community, particularly gay men, at every level.

Due to extreme censorship targeting LGBT+ content at the time, the word 'gay' is never used. If you are familiar with how creatives snuck around these restrictions, it is very clear that not only is Arnie gay but he and Michael are in a committed and loving long-term relationship. Since then, DeMatteis' has expressly stated that Arnie is indeed gay and was always written in such.

Arnie’s introduction as Steve Rogers’, (Captain America himself!) childhood best friend, as well as Steve's vocal and unwavering support of him and his relationship with Micheal Bech (a teacher) was an incredibly important show of solidarity and acceptance, not only in unintentionally revolutionizing queer representation in comics, but for a time when very few people wanted to publicly be associated with the LGBT+ community.

Arnold Roth and Steven Rogers met as young boys growing up together on the Lower East side of Manhattan; which at that time was a Jewish enclave.

The two were incredibly close, thus Steve spent a large amount of time around Arnie’s family and developed an understanding of and familiarity with Jewish customs and ritual, we see this pop up often in this era of Captain America comics as Steve's girlfriend at the time is Bernadette "Bernie" Rosenthal, a Jewish artist.

Steve and Arnie were similar in age, but Steve was much smaller due to his health issues. The two were frequent targets of violence from bullies, Steve for his size and Arnie for the fact he is Jewish. Arnie, who was not only bigger and stronger, but had also taken up boxing to learn self-defence, protected Steve.

As they got older, Arnie struggled deeply with his sexuality and forced himself to date girls, never actually settling down and thus developing a bit of a reputation as a player. This was a common experience for gay men at the time, and it is still happening even today, even in progressive areas, despite the strides we have made in pushing for equality.

Arnie's skirt chasing was, along with the death of Steve's mother, strained their friendship and they began to drift apart and the two eventually lost touch, though briefly encountering each other during the war.

Years later, long after the war, they meet up again. Arnie, who always suspected, if not outright knew Steve was Captain America comes to him for help as Michael has been kidnapped.

When asking for help Arnie is hesitant to outright state the nature of his relationship with Michael or directly come out to him, leaving it instead to implication. Steve, though, instantly offers his support as Captain America.

This encounter along with the rescue of Michael marks the rekindling of Steve and Arnie's childhood friendship, which would continue until Arnie's death from terminal cancer in Captain America Vol 1 #443 (September, 1995).

Due to the fact Arnie is gay and Jewish as well as a close friend of Captain America, throughout his time in the comics he becomes a frequent target for the likes of Zola and Zemo.

It is an arc that would explore loss of a long-term partner, grief, guilt, homophobia, antisemitism and the lengths we will go to protect those we love. In these comics we can find many parallels that directly mirror aspects of Bucky's arc in ways that his comic counterpart's story does.

As Eileen Gonzalez (BookRiot) says of Arnie and Michael's love story:

...for what little time we see them together, they are presented as a down-to-earth, devoted couple without even a whiff of the stereotypes that still dictated how gay men were portrayed. They may not run around in colorful costumes or have super serum running through their veins, but they are exactly who they need to be: ordinary, loving and lovable. Considering they were created in 1982, that’s pretty darn super.

Some additional reading:

LGBT History In Mainstream Comics: A History Part 2 | The Mary Sue

Remembering Captain America's Forgotten Gay Best Friend (uproxx.com)

Captain America #270 (June 1982) – THE VIRTUES OF CAPTAIN AMERICA

Arnie Roth – GAY LEAGUE

You’re My Best Friend – GAY LEAGUE

Arnold Roth (Captain America character) (marvunapp.com)

Marvel's First Gay Couple, Arnie and Michael: A Love Story (bookriot.com)

image ID provided by the wonderful @magnetothemagnificent in alt text and this reblog

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alittlegayhistoria · 4 months

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Zoe Leonard - 'I Want a President' (1992)

“I want a dyke for president…” form the opening lines for the battalion of critical incisiveness and queer radical spirit that is Zoe Leonard’s 1992 piece ‘I Want a President’. Surging forth into the American public realm following the fatal negligence of Reagan’s administration during the AIDS epidemic and the next presidential election run-up, ‘I Want A President’ dared to interrogate the fundamental denial of marginalised bodies, minds and experiences in the political arena. Constituting a poignant position in the broader visual languages of AIDS activism and queer resistance, ‘I Want A President’ broke ground in inspiring and furthering a critical modality of hope. Its impassioned sentences at once demand empathy and humanity from authoritative figures. Leonard’s statements queer the metrics of power that vehemently deny those outside of cis-heteropatriarchal society by providing currency in promoting otherwise silenced voices, and reestablishing their lived experiences as ethically fundamental in the articulation and implementation of policies that account for real citizens.

Functioning as a key catalyst for ‘I Want A President’, Leonard was inspired by the dynamism of fellow lesbian poet and artist Eileen Myles’ presidential bid in the 1991-1992 presidential election, alongside Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Ross Perot. Myles herself charged up by Bush’s lamentations of “the politically correct” (which implied an intended diminution of the voices of women, people of colour and LGBTQ+ critiquing hegemonic political assertions) in his commencement address galvanised an intellectual juncture that scrutinised the supposed impossibility of an openly female, openly queer president in the mainstream American consciousness. Acting in symbiosis to Myles’ work and presidential candidacy, Leonard was (and remains) a prominent and active member of queer activist collectives like Fierce Pussy, and her political praxis and astute artistic sensibilities informed the dissemination and distribution of ‘I Want A President’. Formerly intended to be a statement for an underground LGBTQ+ publication, the piece was printed as a Xerox document and circulated amongst Leonard’s friends, wider queer social circles and activist cohorts. It rapidly rumbled outwards into the wider public space, levying a challenge to the unfeeling political elite through progressive prose that illuminated the standpoints of those most denigrated in American ideology and dogma.

Spanning experiences of targeted violence, poverty, and disenfranchisement, the rhythmic structure of ‘I Want A President’ is arresting in its unflinching engagement with state-enabled trauma interwoven with empathic sentences expressing solidarity with those who continue to survive despite the odds. Grappling with legacies of lethal indifference in institutional engagement with the AIDS crisis, environmental damage bolstered by social inequalities, and sustained acts of gender-motivated attacks, Leonard’s calls and aspirations for a feeling, loving and reflexive leader remain tantamount in the contemporary era. The concluding lines “Always a boss and never a worker, always a liar, always a thief and never caught” is deeply evocative as a searing indictment against acts of blatant corruption and incitement of destructive community tensions by political elites able to evade culpability through immense social privileges. ‘I Want A President’ and its power lies in its calibration of empathy as a lightning rod for action, to make the yearning for difference not a mawkish instinct, but a place of generative resistance against political systems that seek to elicit apathy from sustained deprecation of those who fall outside of the power lines on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, class, ability and beyond.

‘I Want A President’ continues to have vibrant reverberations in contemporary political and queer counterculture. In 2016, it was erected under Manhattan’s High Line, a New York park built upon a disused elevated railway, proclaiming its moving and robust prose to a new public audience in the run-up to the 2016 election which devastatingly saw in the presidency of Donald Trump, reminding us all too much of what ‘I Want A President’ advocates against. Leonard’s powerful work continues to garner creative inspiration amongst queer artists, notably being read by queer rapper and artist Mykki Blanco, directed as part of a film by Adinah Dancyger in 2016, providing a reading that was passionate, imbued with immense political frustration that made its words all the more visceral in the face of Trump’s eventual inauguration. In 2018, the piece was reprinted with 100 copies and distributed in aid of the Treatment Action Group, a community-based think tank producing bold, advancing research into AIDS/HIV and other conditions in the pursuit of LGBTQ+, gender and racial liberation. The timelessness and transience of ‘I Want A President’ is made clear in its sustained relevance in the fluctuations in the national political milieu, demonstrating its significance as a queer cultural artefact that inspires fights for justice across multiple social intersections.

Leonard continues to enjoy a lustrous artistic career, and is now represented by the Hauser & Wirth gallery, where ‘I Want A President’ was celebrated and honoured for its cultural impact and staying power. Translating the piece’s deep insights and challenges against discriminatory political dominance in the British context, one can foster ‘I Want A President’ in expressing their disavowal of political acts devoid of empathy and basic human respect. Namely the state hatred of trans and genderqueer people in the name of political point-scoring, the loathsome class stigmatisation of current prime minister Rishi Sunak in his boasting of defunding what he deemed ‘deprived’ urban areas and the skyrocketing levels of financial precarity and homelessness under a fractious economic system. Leonard’s ruminations and desires in ‘I Want A President’ remain emblematic of the potency of queer activism and eternally vital, in demanding better representation, for politicians that care, that feel, that emote, that dare to think holistically beyond the sinister motivator of unbridled capitalistic power.

#lgbt #lgbt history #lgbt art #zoe leonard #eileen myles

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frank-olivier · 2 months

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Jeffrey Mishlove (New Thinking Allowed)

Heidi Jurka is author of 'The Making of a Psychic'. During the period from 1976 to 1979 she worked closely with parapsychologist Andrija Puharich on his "space kids" project. She was living in Puharich's house in August 1978 when the place was set on fire by an arsonist.

Here she provides many details concerning her work with Puharich, the "space kids" and "mindlink" projects, and the arson fire that put an end to this chapter in her life.

Heidi Jurka: Andrea Puharich and His Space Kids (February 2024)

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Andy Puharich

Dr Andrija Puharich, medical and parapsychological researcher, medical inventor, physician and author.

Exerpts taken from interviews with his offspring for the 2023 documentary 'Mind Traveler'.

Puharich Personal (May 2023)

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Psi Clips

Andrija Puharich, M.D. surveys his career researching psi, including studying the gifted subjects Eileen Garrett, Peter Hurkos, Uri Geller and others. Recorded at the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio, Texas, USA on 21 February 1989. Dr. Puharich was Research Director there in the early '60s.

Much discussion also on ELF, psychotronics, government-sponsored psychic warfare and remote viewing of sub-atomic particles and fields (through Sharron Jacobson).

Dr. Puharich asserts that Peter Hurkos served as the top psychic for President Ronald Reagan. This was confirmed by Lee Sannella, M.D.

Andrea Puharich: Psi Explorations From Garrett to Geller And Beyond (February 1989)

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Michael Salla

One of the most intriguing aspects of Gene Roddenberry’s creation of the Star Trek franchise was his relationship with a mysterious extraterrestrial group calling itself the Council of Nine that were being channeled by the psychic Phyllis Schlemmer in the 1970s. Roddenberry sat in on channeling sessions from 1974 to 1975, and participated in Q & A’s that were recorded in Schlemmer’s 1993 book, the Only Planet of Choice.

What lent credibility to the Council of Nine was that their existence was confirmed in the famous Law of One channeling sessions held from 1981 to 1984, which are widely regarded as the most authoritative channelings ever conducted due to the strict scientific protocols used by a retired applied physics professor, Don Elkins.

These historical events provide important context for Elena Danaan’s most recent contact experiences where she claims to have been taken to Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede, where she met with the Council of Nine, and was told why Rodenberry was chosen to prepare humanity for a Star Trek future.

This is an audio version of an article published on November 4, 2021, and narrated by the author Dr. Michael Salla.

Michael Salla: Contact with the Council of Nine & Roddenberry's Star Trek Future (November 2021)

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Uri Geller

A book popped through my letterbox recently entitled Memories of a Maverick by H.G.M. Hermans. The maverick in question was Andrija Puharich (1918-1995) and the author, ‘Bep’ Hermans was his second wife. Her book has prompted this tribute to a great and much misunderstood scientist of great vision, versatility and courage and a wonderful human being. But for him, nobody outside Israel would probably ever have heard of me, and it is no exaggeration to say that I owe my career and my success to him.

H.G.M. Hermans: Memories Of A Maverick (1998)

L/L Research

Don and Carla were interviewed on WKQQ for their "UFO Awareness Week" in 1977, sharing information about their work in UFO investigation and communication.

Jim McCarty heard this interview on the radio, prompting him to seek out and join Don and Carla for their public meditations. Eventually, Don and Carla invited Jim to join efforts and form a trio, leading to the receiving of the Ra contact.

Interview with Don Elkins and Carla Rueckert (WKQQ, May 1977)

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Monday, February 26, 2024

#parapsychology #interviews #Youtube #article #book

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disabled-characters-showdown · 10 months

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Disabled Characters Showdown Round 2

Notes:

1.) Propaganda can still be added to characters if they continue onto Round 3, see more about that here.

2.) Round 2 will be released in two waves of 16, on the 10th and 11th.

3.) Check out some general notes here.

4.) Characters that finished with less than 1% difference between them are both continued on.

5.) Both waves of Round 2 will be under the cut, but will also be in the reblogs when the polls go up.

Wave 1:

Melanie King vs. Teo vs. Eda Clawthorne

Joseph ‘Joey’ Wilson/ Jericho vs. Victor Stone/ Cyborg

Bucky Barnes vs. Luke Skywalker

Barbara Gordon vs. Anakin Skywalker

Kaz Brekker vs. Might Guy

Jewelstar vs. Amaya

Darth Maul vs. Katniss Everdeen

Entrapta vs. Wu Zetian

Shiro vs. Kanan Jarrus

Neopolitan vs. Hermann Gottlieb

Genya Safin vs. Ming-Hua

Nunnally vi Britannia vs. Linh Cinder

Imperator Furiosa vs. Eileen Leahy

Janice Palmer vs. Maedhros

Massimo Marcovaldo vs. Hiccup

Saw Gerrera vs. Sara Eriksson

Wave 2:

Nick Fury vs. Finn Mertens

Vash the Stampede vs. Reagan Abbott

Jia Andrews vs. Clint Barton vs. Gobber

Ambrosius Goldenloin vs. Destiny of the Endless

Toothless vs. Darth Traya/Kreia

Ali Abdul vs. Toph

Jessica Jones vs. Chirrut Îmwe

Wylan Van Eck vs. Marcy Wu

Lucius Spriggs vs. Jack Zimmerman

Edward Elric vs. Freddy Freeman

Villads vs. Frodo Baggins

Carl vs. Adam Parrish

Matt Murdock vs. John Silver

Roy Harper vs. Lord Blackheart

Professor X vs Principal Bump

Tallstar vs. Geordi La Forge

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wahwealth · 6 months

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Ronald Reagan, Joan Leslie, George Murphy | "This is the Army" (1943) HD...

This Is the Army is a 1943 American wartime musical comedy film produced by Jack L. Warner and Hal B. Wallis and directed by Michael Curtiz,[5] adapted from a wartime stage musical with the same name, designed to boost morale in the U.S. during World War II, directed by Ezra Stone. The screenplay by Casey Robinson and Claude Binyon was based on the 1942 Broadway musical written by James McColl and Irving Berlin, with music and lyrics by Berlin. Berlin composed the film's 19 songs, and sang one of them. The movie stars George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Ronald Reagan and Alan Hale, and features a large ensemble cast including Charles Butterworth, Dolores Costello, Una Merkel, Stanley Ridges, Rosemary de Camp, Ruth Donnelly, Dorothy Peterson, Frances Langford, Gertrude Niesen, Kate Smith, and Joe Louis. The cast of both the film, and the stage play on which it was based, included soldiers of the U.S. Army who were actors and performers in civilian life, including Reagan and Louis. In World War I, song-and-dance man Jerry Jones is drafted into the US Army, where he stages a revue called Yip Yip Yaphank. It is a rousing success, but one night during the show orders are received to leave immediately for France: instead of the finale, the troops march up the aisles through the audience, out the theater's main entrance and into a convoy of waiting trucks. Among the teary, last-minute goodbyes Jones kisses his newlywed bride Ethel farewell. In the trenches of France, several of the soldiers in the production are killed or wounded by shrapnel from a German artillery barrage. Jones is wounded in the leg and must walk with a cane, ending his career as a dancer. Nevertheless, he is resolved to find something useful to do, especially now that he is the father of a son. Sgt. McGee and Pvt. Eddie Dibble, the troop bugler, also survive. Twenty-five years later World War II is raging in Europe. Jerry's son Johnny enlists in the Army shortly after Pearl Harbor. He tells his sweetheart Eileen Dibble that they cannot marry until he returns, since he doesn't want to make her a widow. Johnny reluctantly accepts an order to stage another musical, following in his father's footsteps. The show goes on tour throughout the United States and eventually plays Washington, D.C., in front of President Roosevelt. During the show it is announced that this is the last performance: the soldiers in the production have been ordered back to their combat units. Eileen, who has joined the Red Cross auxiliary, appears backstage. During a break in the show she brings a minister and persuades Johnny that they should marry now – which they do, in the alley behind the theater, with their fathers acting as witnesses. Cast: George Murphy Joan Leslie Ronald Reagan George Tobias Alan Hale Never Miss An Upload, Join the channel. https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

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reportwire · 2 years

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Kristine Gebbie, the First U.S. AIDS Czar, Dies at 78

Kristine Gebbie, a health policy expert who served as the nation’s first AIDS czar in the early 1990s, died on May 17 in Adelaide, Australia. She was 78. The cause was cancer, her daughter Eileen Gebbie said. After serving as the chief health officer for the states of Oregon and Washington and as a member of two national panels, formed by President Ronald Reagan, seeking to cope with the emergent…

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#aids #Czar #Dies #Gebbie #Kristine

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sitdownfeargalyounerd · 3 days

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Here is a list of lgbtq+ headcanons for the BTT80s characters because im bored:

- Corey is aroace

- Alf is a trans man and pan

- Kirk is gay

- Tiffany is queer

- Cyndi is a lesbian

- Mel is a questioning bisexual