Since I can't write any more posts at the moment, I'm publishing this as a page.
Just a friendly reminder that Brenda Howard, the woman who started Pride, was a polyamorous bisexual. And also that Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, who started the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, fought police violence at Stonewall, and were basically the founding mothers of the modern trans rights movement, were both bi trans women of color. Alice Walker, one of the most famous feminist authors in...well...ever...and a living legend of the Second Wave, was a bisexual black woman.
A friendly reminder that lesbians, bisexuals, and gender-nonconforming people all had a long history together and passionately supported and advocated for one another until cis lesbian separatists kicked the bisexuals and gender-nonconforming people out of "their" movement.
A friendly reminder that most of the famous queer cultural icons that we, queer and cishet alike, revere, love, and study were asexual or bisexual. Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, Malcolm X, Emily Dickinson, Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith, La Maupin, Emilie Autumn, Ella Fitzgerald, Alexander Hamilton, Sappho, Anne Frank, Janis Joplin, Dusty Springfield, and Elvis Presley anyone????? Or, for the aces, Dali, Chopin, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Isaac Newton, Alan Rickman, Nikola Tesla, Paul Bowles, Dame Barbara Cartland, Johnny Eck, Ralph Nader, Nietzche, Queen Elizabeth the First, George Bernard Shaw, Sophocles, and Paul Erdos????
Friendly reminder that it's impossible to be "straight passing" or to have "straight passing privilege" unless one actually is straight, because in a heterosexist world, everyone is perceived to be straight until proven otherwise.
Friendly reminder that invisibility, invalidation, sexual harassment, and corrective r*pe aren't privilege.
Friendly reminder that a person's partner's identity does not determine that person's. We are more than extensions of our romantic and sexual partners.
Friendly reminder that, in such a diverse culture as the queer one, there is no singular queer narrative. We are all different. The experiences of a heteroromantic asexual are just as important, relevant, and significant to queer culture and history as those of a gay man or lesbian.
Friendly reminder that bi, ace, and trans people always belong at Pride, in LGBT+ spaces, and in queer history.
Just a friendly reminder that Brenda Howard, the woman who started Pride, was a polyamorous bisexual. And also that Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, who started the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, fought police violence at Stonewall, and were basically the founding mothers of the modern trans rights movement, were both bi trans women of color. Alice Walker, one of the most famous feminist authors in...well...ever...and a living legend of the Second Wave, was a bisexual black woman.
A friendly reminder that lesbians, bisexuals, and gender-nonconforming people all had a long history together and passionately supported and advocated for one another until cis lesbian separatists kicked the bisexuals and gender-nonconforming people out of "their" movement.
A friendly reminder that most of the famous queer cultural icons that we, queer and cishet alike, revere, love, and study were asexual or bisexual. Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, Malcolm X, Emily Dickinson, Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith, La Maupin, Emilie Autumn, Ella Fitzgerald, Alexander Hamilton, Sappho, Anne Frank, Janis Joplin, Dusty Springfield, and Elvis Presley anyone????? Or, for the aces, Dali, Chopin, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Isaac Newton, Alan Rickman, Nikola Tesla, Paul Bowles, Dame Barbara Cartland, Johnny Eck, Ralph Nader, Nietzche, Queen Elizabeth the First, George Bernard Shaw, Sophocles, and Paul Erdos????
Friendly reminder that it's impossible to be "straight passing" or to have "straight passing privilege" unless one actually is straight, because in a heterosexist world, everyone is perceived to be straight until proven otherwise.
Friendly reminder that invisibility, invalidation, sexual harassment, and corrective r*pe aren't privilege.
Friendly reminder that a person's partner's identity does not determine that person's. We are more than extensions of our romantic and sexual partners.
Friendly reminder that, in such a diverse culture as the queer one, there is no singular queer narrative. We are all different. The experiences of a heteroromantic asexual are just as important, relevant, and significant to queer culture and history as those of a gay man or lesbian.
Friendly reminder that bi, ace, and trans people always belong at Pride, in LGBT+ spaces, and in queer history.
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