Title: Mental Minefield
Summary: Random fictional people expressing opinions about gender perception and navigating a relationship. Oh, and Shakespeare stuff that might not be true (like a lot of Shakespeare stuff).

( I'm doing drag for you, I hope you appreciate it. )

Originally posted by starwatcher307 at A warning to GLBTQI folks
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Via Ms. Daisy Cutter, there is a person who purports to be "studying" GLBTQI people; she asks for real name, address, birth date, age, and photo to sign up. This is a ploy; once she collects names, she outs them to family and others who may not be aware. If even half of the reports are accurate ( Read more... )

I have no problem with Northstar marrying his boyfriend; they're a cute couple, and comics need to stop trying to keep everyone in this relationship limbo thing.

What I want to know is why the hell are they getting married in New York?! They're both Canadian citizens! Same-sex marriage has been legal in Canada since 2005! Why not get married ( Read more... )

Political leaders in St. Petersburg are about to vote on law that will make it illegal for any person to write a book, publish an article or speak in public about being gay, lesbian or transgender. The ruling party led by President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin could make millions of people invisible with the stroke of a pen ( Read more... )

"My Latin professor told me that the only thing he has against homosexuality is that you’re mixing a Greek prefix with a Latin root."
(I found this here.)

1. Rictor/Shatterstar (comicsverse, now)

( BoomBoom was visiting X-Factor Investigations )

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I can't tell you how happy it makes me to live in a world where flashmob group dance is a legitimate form of protest. :'3

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Authors Say Agents Try to “Straighten” Gay Characters in YA -- includes an account of an agent telling authors to make straight or entirely remove a viewpoint character who is gay. Note that this is an agent, not a publisher. There's a list of What You Can Do, for publishers, agents, writers, readers and reviewers. I would like to see more gay and/ ( Read more... )

Quoting from this interview with Dan Didio:

In addition to Batwoman, Apollo and Midnighter, you’re also introducing a female bisexual African American superhero in Voodoo. Was it a conscious decision to introduce characters from across the LGBT spectrum?Yes. What we really wanted to do was show the diversity of our audience across the line of our ( Read more... )