I'm becoming entirely fatigued by the online (both social media and mass media) fights over the definitions of "sex" and "gender" and related words like pronouns and other related concepts. I'm glad the people I know in real life don't fight about this stuff ( Read more... )

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/growing-up-trans/Read more... )

that the butt play is compensation for stress

the problem with therapeutic insights after you have them is that they seem so obvious to everybody else,

like all the people who already knew I was gay,

and all y'all know my coping mechanisms better than I do

all my childhood years in schools, school rooms, so much of my life,

getting separated from my best friend/crush, in Biology, I was distracting him,

seated across the classroom now,

I think I was openly gay before I was openly gay, every other person knew I was gay,

I was distracted,

This memoir is so detailed, would I be able to write about my childhood with such detail? But it provokes so many memories of my own childhood now ( Read more... )

Periodically, people argue on the poly subreddit over whether poly is an identity or a choice. This reminds me of arguments over whether homosexuality is Born This Way or a choice. I've also seen people arguing over whether nonbinary is a choice ( Read more... )

I think we all inspired each other as we each came out in our own way, but we need an oral history of Coming Out during the pre-Internet age,

we weren't building upon an NYC queer riot, we were each facing our own lives and saying, fuck no, I'm not straight,

all by ourselves,

I was so alone

Nowadays LGBT folks ritualistically credit the Stonewall riots of June 1969 as the all-important kickoff for the LGBT liberation movement, as though the notion of gay rights hadn't existed before those two nights ( Read more... )

and if you ain't watched:

Torch Song Trilogy

then, you ain't gay

gotta rewatch this,

(yeah, because it's Matthew Broderick night, I guess)

Matthew Broderick playing Galaga yes I was so in love with him because he looked so much like KOC, my first (unrequited) crush, realizing I'm gay as I watch this film, crushing on you (film version) and crushing on YOU (high school version aka my best friend) and why aren't you crushing back on meGoddess, but the sexism, the gaslighting, the ( Read more... )