#pride patch vest

[fractangle]

Pride month vest project, a patch a day #14: All Pride is Kink to Bigots

#all pride is kink to bigots #pride #gay #lgbtq #queer #pride patch vest #embroidery #battle jacket #diy punk

[dognonsense]

decked out my vest with some free badges at pride yesterday. Im really proud of how this vest is coming along!

#far better than my last vest #punk #diy #folkpunk #folk punk #patches #diy patches #battle vest #battle jacket #pride #lgbt #queer #sapphic #trans

[bloodriver-king]

My new pins arrived and i was so god damn happy to slap them on my battle vest!

#battle vest #punk rock #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #etsyseller #etsyshop #satan #trans pride #pride #fallout new vegas #pitbull #enamel pins #button pins #Punk #Patches

[valkyrierayne]

Punk Ass! I finished sewing my back patch on.

#transisbeautiful #girlslikeus #the hell i can #trans woman #trans t4t #true trans soul rebel #lesbian #i am alone #laura jane grace #against me! #mtf girl #mtf hrt #mtf nsft #mtf trans #trans women #trans pride #transgirl #transgender #battle vest #punk patches #punk rock #punk #punk ass #badass

[radium-boy]

punk patch ideas for aromanticism?

#need some good phrases or imagery #aro pride #aromantic #punk #alt #diy punk #diy or die #patches #patch pants #battle vest #aro punk #alloaro #aro bi #lovequeer #relationship anarchy

[toxic-garbage-island]

Yuh

#going to my first Pride today im so fucking excited !!!!!!! #fishnets + cargo shorts combo gave me such euphoria i didnt expect to like wowowowowow #nonbinary #battle vest #patch vest #diy patches #diy patch #metalhead

[queenqunari]

Ppl have actually used this “insult” for me…when I’m wearing blatant pride gear….like yeah, that’s the idea

#if the diy wolfcut and general androgynous tendencies wasn’t enough #the fact that I wear they/them and he/they pronoun pins #(alternate depending on the day) #and trans and bi pride pins #with a patch that says “queers bash back. anti racist action’ #and my back patch on my battle vest saying ‘brainwashing your children with homosexuality and sin’ #the idea that anyone would think I’m cishet is way funnier #trans #transgender #lgbtq #bisexual #bi #nonbinary #queer #queer stuff #queer fashion

[daddy-ul]

One armed demonstration why this is my new favorite hoodie.

I can make the scary guy do the middle fingers! Just by moving my arms!!!!

#jinn out #it's a bit big bc it was on clearance on the eu site. it was 10euros and there were no shipping fees so i SNATCHED IT SO SO FAST #it should be a crop top but oh well snsksjsj it's comfy and warm so idc #the only con is that i work with preschoolers and teens so i can't use this everyday sob sob #setting an example yadda yadda #anyway i wanted this FOR SO LONGGGGF #this is my pride and joy #on clearance i also got a tallica skull flag patch for my vest + a uber cool struggle within shirt

[hiimcanadia]

I've been openly genderqueer since I was like 12 and yet I still have to look up the trans flag every time to check whether pink or blue is on the outside. I always feel like I'm getting a bad grade in being trans

#on a related note im working on TWO (2) patch vests rn!!! #one denim for pride and one leather for a concert in september #2pm in the morning

[quadruple-a-battery]

Made an ace patch for my denim vest

#asexual #patch #vest #denim vest #punk #punk vest #pride #pride patch #ace #diy

[fractangle]

Pride month vest project, a patch a day #16: We Stay Silly :3

#we stay silly :3 #pride patch vest #embroidery #diy punk #maiabingleart #battle jacket

[dognonsense]

my bestie slater's awesome vest!

#punk #diy #patches #diy patches #Battle vest #patch vest #battle jacket #diy punk #punk diy #queer punk #queer punx #punk posting #up the punx #trans pride #trans punk #trans punx

[violet-fire-cat]

Following up

On the earlier ask

About the subtle pride flags- how would you do? I really hope this makes sneae I’m a bit out of it sorry

I suppose it would depend somewhat! I guess I'd just make the flag less the centre of attention.

So for like a lot of the pride doodles the characters are holding big flags or part of their outfit is pride coloured or whatever. But I could make it more subtle by like, just having them wearing a badge or a patch on their shirt instead of the whole shirt being pride coloured. If that makes sense?

#I hope that's the sort of thing you meant Anon #and that this answers your question! #but yeah I'd make it less flashy so just them wearing something smaller instead of big flags or rainbow coloured shirts #like with Etho I'd put the flag on his shirt sleeve where the maple leaf patch usually is #less obvious than him holding a big flag or his vest being pride coloured like in the other doodles I've done of him #stuff like that I guess! #violetanswers

[vaspider]

Last year I wrote about what happened at Pride when a couple of kids didn't understand why us older folx were so bitter about Reagan.

This year, I have something a little softer.

Someone who looked a little older than me came up to the booth wearing a pink t-shirt proclaiming him one of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco chapter. As I was ringing him up, I asked if he'd been involved for a while.

"Yes," he said, "for a bit," in that way us middle-aged people do when we're sort of wincing and feeling old.

"Okay, well," I said, sitting at my register in my queer booth full of queer clothes and patches and pins, topless in public for the first time. (I had pasties on for my own comfort bc I was working, but I live in the city of the Naked Bike Ride, and I took full advantage). My baby brother and both of my partners ran around behind me, my brother wearing a loose tank top that makes his scars visible.

"I need to tell you that you all helped keep me alive."

He blinked at me as I continued, "I was a kid in high school in the early 90s. I lived in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania, and what you all were doing was so loud and so out there that even I heard about your work. It was one of the things that kept me alive. So thank you, and please thank the rest of the Sisters."

I heard about them through people in my parents' church complaining about them, and then I sought more information through the beginning of the internet, through newspapers, through anything I could find. I found the cover of Newsweek that one of the Sisters was on. I read about their "exorcism" of fundamentalist preachers whose books sat on the shelf in my parents' basement and probably still do. I saw how loud and colorful and unapologetically queer they were.

The knowledge that someone was out there, so full of defiant joy, refusing the shame that people kept trying to put on them? Oh, that kept me alive. I saw them, and I knew I could make it through. I wrapped my hands around that knowledge, and I held on so tight.

It took me a long time - a long, long time - to unwind most of it for myself and get to the point where my fat butch ass was sitting bare-chested in the July breeze, looking up at him as he held out his arms and said "you're actually giving me chills." I answered, "I mean every word. You helped keep me alive. So thank you."

I never know what to say when people come up to me in public and tell me that I helped them or changed their life in some way. I appreciate it, and I genuinely love the people who apologized for "fanpersoning" at me last weekend, I just never know what to say. I'm incredibly grateful that the Sister I spoke to was incredibly gracious, saying "usually we give blessings, but I feel like you blessed me." Another member of the party let me pet their tiny dog, who was not very interested in me, and that's okay. It was an overwhelming day. Then, they moved on.

Me? I'm still sitting with the fact that I looked last weekend into the faces of people who didn't know they were holding my head above water, and that I got to tell them the work they do matters. It's a rare thing to get to tell someone, "You saved me," and I'm treasuring it.

Last weekend, I wore my new battle vest with nothing underneath it, unless it was too hot, and then I just sat in my chair, chatting and ringing ppl out with my skin free to the air. I decided last year that top surgery isn't for me, but that also I'm going to love this body unapologetically, and it's no less a transmasculine body because the soft new dark hair on my belly isn't accompanied by pink scars along my ribs.

I didn't get here on my own. I got here because someone else cut through the undergrowth ahead of me so I could take another step forward. Here I am, decades later, still taking step after step, one at a time, and trying to lay paving stones behind me.

Last weekend was another step along that way, another step through unwinding the fear and shame and sadness that my parents and their church built into me. Another step out of hating myself for hiding parts of myself for so long, for acting out in other ways to distract people from my queerness, for feeling so much guilt when other people tell me I'm brave, because I know how much of myself I hid for how long because I was a coward, because I was afraid.

Another step into expiating stigmatic guilt.

#sisters of perpetual indulgence

[toxic-garbage-island]

Happy Pride everyone here's my favorite patch on my vest

#pride #pride month #patch vest #battle vest #i always get compliments on this patch at concerts loolll

[caustic-light]

Today at pride there was a surprising amount of teens wearing pup hoods and pup flags, most notably a group who also blasted Die Ärtzte on their boombox while waiting for the parade to start and that made me realize that at least locally here, pup play has transcended the purely bdsm realm and become a form of queer punk attitude. Like it's obviously still just as much a kinky thing as always, but also it's a mohawk and a battle vest with spikes and patches, only dog shaped.

The kids are okay. They do what they want and listen to music they're too young to know without older siblings and nobody gave them shit about it because what, are dave mc leather daddy, or the dykes on bikes gonna lecture them about kink at pride? That discourse doesn't exist there at all and it's goddamn beautiful.