#lgbtqa history

[blorbobutworse]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could recommend me LGBTQA+ literature, movie or videos, specifically relating to our history, whether that be culturally or politically (obviously those two are intertwined but, yk)

I'm currently trying to learn more about the AIDS crisis and the erasure of lesbianism and transness, but anything will do. Thanks!

#blorboblurbs #eliopinions #queer #queer history #lgbtq #lgbtqa #lesbian #lgbtqa history #videos

[aurumacadicus]

In before I start seeing people bitching about rainbow capitalism MY favorite rainbow capitalism story is about Subaru. Yes the Japanese car company.

In the nineties, they were struggling. They were competing with a dozen other companies targeting the main demographic at the time: white men ages 18-35, especially after a failed luxury car launch with a new ad agency. “What we need is to focus on niche demographics,” they decided, and then focused on people who enjoyed the outdoors. The Subaru was excellent at driving on dirt roads that many other vehicles couldn’t at the time, so it was perfect for all those off-road campers; they started making all-wheel drive standard in all their cars to help with that. And the people who wanted cars to go do outdoor stuff? Lesbians.

Okay. Of course it wasn’t only lesbians buying Subarus. They’re on the list with educators, health-care professionals, and IT people. But the point is, this Japanese car company interviewed this strange demographic (single, female head of household) and realized one important factor: They were lesbians. They liked to be able to use the cars to go do outdoorsy stuff, and they liked that they could use the cars to haul stuff rather than a big truck or van. Subaru had a choice to make then. They had four other demographics they could market to, after all--the educators, the health-care professionals, IT professionals, and straight outdoorsy couples. Their company didn’t hinge on this one “problematic” demographic.

And they decided “fuck it,” and marketed to lesbians anyway. This included offering benefits to American gay and lesbian employees for their domestic partners, so it didn’t look like a cash grab. (This was not a problem. They already offered those in Canada.)

Yes, there was some backlash. They got letters from a grassroots group accusing them of promoting homosexuality, and every letter said they’d no longer be buying from Subaru. “You didn’t buy from us before, either,” Subaru realized, and ignored them. It helped that the team really cared about the plan, and that they had many straight allies to back them up. There was also some initial backlash when Subaru hired women to play a lesbian couple in the commercial, but they quickly found that lesbians preferred more subtlety; “XENA LVR” on a license plate, or bumper stickers with the names of popular LGBTQ+ destinations, or taglines of “Get out. Stay out.” that could be used for the outdoors--or the closet.

Subaru said “We see you. We support you.” They sponsored Pride parades and partnered with Rainbow Card and hired Martina Navratilova as spokeswoman. They put their money where their mouth is and went into it whole hog. In a time where companies did not want to take our money, Subaru said, “Why not? They’re people who drive.” And that was groundbreaking.

#lgbtqa #queer history

[al1ie56]

Bored...hit me up for fun babes🌹

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[crossdreamers]

From the history of transgender women

Ine Harsten writes over at Blusky:

"In light of JKR and my pointing out that we trans women have been on this earth longer than JKR has been, here is a picture that was a frustrating inspiration for us trans girls growing up in the fifties and sixties. The stars at the nightclub La Carrousel in Paris sometime in the mid-fifties, minus perhaps the biggest of them all: Coccinelle, or Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy. Not all of these ladies identified as transgender. Two in the middle definitely did: #4 from the left in the middle row: April Ashley from Liverpool, and the blonde to her right, Bambi, or Marie Pierre Pruvot. Bambi has later described this time in Paris as one where hormones were freely available over the counter at pharmacies, without a prescription. Just to be safe, she used to occasionally consume an entire pack at once, not willing to take any chances. This notion of safe and careful hormone treatment only works until one doesn’t care anymore. Bambi later became a lecturer in the French education system, after completing a thesis at Sorbonne on Marcel Proust. She is eight years older than I am, and lives and is healthy in Paris."

"Since Coccinelle, or Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy, wasn't included in this group photo from La Carrousel, she deserves a picture too. Here's a studio portrait from sometime in the fifties. Or 'a man in a dress,' as JKR has a way of putting it."

This version of the photo session is annotated by Marie-Pierre Pruvot.

#transgender #trans #lgbt #lgbtqa #queer #nonbinary #culture #history #lgbtq

[harleiquina]

Saw this on Instagram and decided that it belongs here.

#labyrinth #jareth #the goblin king #jim henson #if Muppets History is here... I apologize #but yeah everyone should see it #pride month #lgbtqa

[gisellelivesunderabook]

Here are some books by black queer authors!! Happy Black History Month!!!

🖤❤️💛💚

#lgbt pride #lgbt representation #lgbtqa #queer community #lgbt books #queer books #queer writers #queerrep #bookworm #black history month #black queer representation

[kakuma-queer]

Hello world, reaching to everyone as one of the queer refugees from Kenya Kakuma refugees camp. Life has never been good since we came to the camp years ago in 2019 ,2020 and 2021. Although life is hard, LGBTIQA refugees have continuously joined us in the camp in the latest years leading to a larger number of lgbtiqa refugees in Kenya.

The camp has over 200,000 total number of refugees with just about 1300 lgbtiqa+ refugees. Its just a smaller ratio of lgbtiqa regugees facing persevution from the bigger number of other refugees.

Most of us have fled from Uganda where things turned out to be hard on queer people including death and imprisonment of lgbtiqa people. I call upon everyone tk help and support the the fellow queer people surbive through this trauma. You can’t imagine we have lost friends through death due to homophobia. One of us who was killed badly by setting fire on them did noy live for a month later. When we rushed them to hospital, doctors knew was trans and so devided to delay him and later died. We please need everyone to help. Even contacting UNHCR can help.

Look we have a youtube channel for more information and links like petitions and fundraiser are attached to our youtube channel

Our fundraising campaign, help and donate if you can, if you can't please share, we are currently looking forward to constructing an iron sheet fence as it will improve our safety.

As the leadership team for our group, we estimated it to take $1200. We also love to install a solar system that will cost us $700, will include solar panel, battery, inverter, lights and extensions. Where we shall be able to charge our phones from our premises and also have security lights to avoid attacks at night. and avoid unnecessary movements that also put us at risk of attacks. Please help and support us so that we can improve our safety. With the iron sheet fence we shall reduce on the risks of attacking us by homophobes especially when we are sleeping. I please call upon your support as we shall account for all the money donated to us. Thanks

It takes a good and kind heart to help, you will always stick on our hearts yiu people that make us feel we sre loved and cared about. Sustaining ourselves has failed us. We would prefer having jobs however no one can give a job to a demon like how the call us to be.

Hospital treatment in the government and UNHCR hospitals is hard because of homophobia and delays on LGBT people. For the love and support of one another, we love you.

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[ryan-vs-the-ghosts]

i’m missing pride month so here’s some ghoul boys X pride flags

feel free to use these if u want i get silly little passion projects

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[aclaywrites]

This question is hilarious to me for several reasons.

In 1985 when I was a confused 16 year old in Midwest City, Oklahoma, I wanted to look for information about homosexuality. Me being me and it being 1985, I did the natural thing: went to the public library and looked up HOMOSEXUAL in the card catalogue. They had two books, the Kinsey Report (which I’d read) and another book whose name I wish I could recall. It was a blue canvas cover, clearly the dust jacket had been removed in case someone saw the word Lesbian, I assume.

I opened the book and leafed through it, looking for some sort of help and found a sentence I can still see when I close my eyes: “If you think you are a Lesbian, the first thing you have to do is decide if you’re butch or you’re femme. Otherwise no one will date you.” Slamming the book shut, I went home to think about it for a few more years.

Then when I was 21– in 1990, the year this book came out— I was ready for the dating scene. I put on my vintage dress, got my movie star face on, curled my long red hair and set out, only to meet a unified wall of dykes in cargo shorts who told me that I wasn’t really gay because only straight girls dress like that.

Butch/femme wasn’t just out of style, it was heteropatriachal regression and bad news. Not an option.

There was one moment— the first bar I ever went to, a lesbian bar called Partners. It no longer exists, alas, but I remember the smoky dark and the jukebox. My friends in their cargo shorts had bottles of Corona and I’m having white wine in a plastic cup. A country song comes on, and a woman appears at my elbow. Older than me. In her 40s at least, with a cowboy shirt, string tie, hair cut high and tight. “Would you like to dance?” I took her hand and we went to the floor. “I don’t know how to two-step,” I said, and she replied “I got you baby, just hold on.”

So to answer the question, I’m a lot femme and have a lot of love for butches.

#lesbian queries #lesbian query of the day #lesbian #lesbian history #herstory #butch/femme #gay #history #dykes #dykes to watch out for #dykes of tumblr #lgbt #lgbtqa #butch

[slayzkianav]

I’m sooo horny babe, can you come over run?? 😋🤤🍆

Mirror selfi at my parent’s House 🤫🍑📷

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[blorbobutworse]

Does anyone know about being queer in Mexico? In my personal experience, from the few people I know, at the very least being gay isn't really a huge problem. OBVOUSLY it's not totally sage, but at least where my family comes from it's not a huge deal that will get you kicked out of the family

#mexico #eliopinions #queer #lgbtqa history #gay #mexican lgbt

[makingqueerhistory]

Shahnur Islam also noted other recent achievements by trans people in Bangladesh, including the election last January of Nazrul Islam, a transgender woman, as the chairman of Trilochanpur Union of Kaliganj in Jhenaidah district.

If they are allowed to compete on a level playing field, transgender women can lead and can play an important role in the development of Bangladesh, he said.

#queer history #queer #lgbt #lgbt history #lgbtqa #lgbtq #making queer history

[al1ie56]

Sexy trans girl❤️

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[crossdreamers]

Where do nonbinary and transgender people come from?

Over at tiktok Emma and Herster of Safe Space talks about the history of nonbinary (and trans people). They go all the way back to Mesopotamia. 

If you think being nonbinary is a new thing created by Chinese Communist funded  GenZers on tiktok (or something to that effect), this is the video for you!

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtqa #nonbinary #enby #non-binary #queer #trans history #history

[finnslay]

Be gay do crime

Be gay is crime

In 66 counties...

Punishable by death in 12

#according to the article #lgbt pride #lgbtq rights #lgbtq #lgbt history #lgbt memes #lgbt representation #lgbtedit #lgbtqia #lgbtqplus #lgbtpeople #lgbtpride #lgbtqa #lgbtqiia+ #lgbtlove #lgbtq community #lgbt #queer rights #queer pride #queer community #queer #gay #lesbian #bisexual #pansexaul #omnisexual #polysexual #asexual #aromanitc #https://www.humandignitytrust.org./lgbt-the-law/map-of-criminalisation/

[amouranthsstuff]

Redhead in the Street

Reblog if you can date a trans girl

#transisbeautiful #lgbtq #lgbtq history #lgbtq nsft #lgbtq memes #lgbtq representation #trans #lgbtqa #lgbtq pride #trans man #trans artist