Got the iPod Classic ready for @defcon and I think it’s appropriate for Pride month as well. This pretty much fits with the theme I think #DEFCON is trying to do this year.
"Does kink belong at #Pride " is trending again, no big surprise there.
I invite those seriously discussing this question to ask themselves whether there is any level of respectability to which we could possibly aspire, which the cishet conservative folks would possibly accept as publicly acceptable, and then consider why you're letting them define the limits.
These are, after all, people who would consider a "Let Trans Kids Grow Up" shirt as morally indefensible, who believe that a book about two male penguins raising a chick is a vile and outrageous piece of media.
To the amoral conservative guardians, throwing homeless people in jail and burning their belongings is perfectly defensible, but we, the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, are in our very existence a kink, a moral aberration.
I'm not saying genitalia should be on full public display. I am saying that if we let the busybody crowd set the rules, before long there won't be any Pride celebrations anymore.
Kicked off Pride Month with the Petaluma Pride team at Sonoma County Pride over the weekend! It was a glorious day and we look forward to seeing folks at Petaluma Pride in October which is LGBT History Month ✨
The idea that seeing or talking about LGBTQ+ themes in books poses a threat to children or society goes back to medieval times.
Records of queer people and their lives from the Middle Ages are more plentiful than many people realize, but writings about the history were censored by religious leaders.
This is not the America where we have fought for and bragged about #equality. This is a very #rightwing approach that's telling a significant portion of our country that they don’t have rights.
También os comparto este nuevo #Bundle de juegos Stories of #Pride, donde podréis pillar los juegos: Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly, Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp + Camp Forever DLC, Lakeburg Legacies, Wylde Flowers...
In 1945, a woman named Lucy Hicks Anderson was arrested for the crime of marrying her husband, Reuben Anderson, a soldier in the US Army.
Lucy Lawson seemingly always knew exactly who she was. In 1886, a beautiful black baby was born to Bill and Nancy Lawson of Waddy, KY. While this child was identified as male, she insisted that she was a girl. She chose the name Lucy and informed her parents that she would be wearing dresses to school.
At this point in history, the term 'transgender' had not yet been coined, and public knowledge about trans people was sadly lacking. Confounded, her mother and father took her to see the local doctor who advised them to raise her as they would any other little girl. Bill and Nancy did just that. And by all accounts, Lucy's childhood and school years were uneventful and happy.
At age 15, Lucy left home, taking domestic work to support herself, then moved west, first to Texas then to New Mexico where she married her first husband, a man named Clarence Hicks, in Silver City, NM. The couple settled in Oxnard, CA, a wealthy community about an hour up the coast from Los Angeles. There, Lucy's culinary skills opened doors for her, and she began to cater elaborate parties for Oxnard's rich and elite. Her rolls and fruitcakes reportedly won many local contests and awards. Lucy worked diligently and tirelessly, and saved nearly every penny she earned from her employment as a domestic worker, a nanny, and a cook. And in 1920, at the age of 34, Lucy managed to save enough to purchase business property — a local brothel.
Lucy's brothel operated between 1920 and 1933, a period in American history known as Prohibition. During this time, selling alcohol was illegal. But as a brothel madam, Lucy had already skipped merrily over the lines of propriety, so she served her customers alcohol anyway.
In 1929, Lucy divorced Clarence Hicks. Not much is known about her marriage or divorce to Clarence, so we can infer that the separation was mutual and uncontested by either party. Lucy kept her business, and kept bootlegging alcohol.
She was busted a few times, but her numerous social connections with wealthy socialites allowed her to avoid any aggressive prosecution. Rumor has it that one wealthy banker even posted her bail so that she could cater his party that evening.
In 1944, Lucy fell in love a second time. At 58 years old, she met and married the love of her life, Reuben Anderson. Reuben was a soldier stationed in Long Island, NY. But their happiness was not to last.
Just one year after their marriage, a sailor claimed he had caught a venereal disease from one of the women at Lucy's brothel. At that time, the law required all sex workers to undergo a medical examination, and the Ventura County examiner insisted on including Lucy. It was at this time that her trans identity was revealed, and subsequently made public. He chose to put her on trial for perjury, arguing that she lied on her marriage licence, impersonated a woman, and stole VA benefits to which military spouses were entitled. After the story ran in a small Pacific coast newspaper, Time Magazine ran an article on Lucy, exposing her as a trans woman to the entire nation.
During her trial, Lucy stated in her defense, "I defy any doctor in the world to prove that I am not a woman. I have lived, dressed, acted just what I am, a woman". However, the court convicted both her and Reuben of perjury, and they were both sentenced to incarceration in a male prison. Lucy in particular was court ordered not to wear women's clothes.
Reuben and Lucy's relationship survived these indignities, somehow. After serving ten long years in a male penitentiary, Lucy and her beloved Reuben retired to Los Angeles, where they quietly lived out the remainder of their lives together. At age 68, Lucy Hicks Anderson died and was mourned by all who knew her.
Lucy Hicks Anderson was not an activist. She was not even known as a trans woman for the vast majority of her life. She simply wanted to live her life, love her loves, and pursue the projects and interests that made her happy. Lucy wanted only one thing out of life, and that was to be the woman she knew herself to be. And it turns out she was willing to fight for that.
It is three days into Pride and the only girls i've kissed are my wife and my puppy. How am i supposed to be celebrating lesbianism under thess conditions?!
Are there any girls in SoCal looking dor sapphic smooches? 😁😘
#OTD 3 June 1906 Josephine Baker was born in St. Louis Missouri. She became involved in the Harlem Renaissance before moving to France where she became a world-famous supermodel. She served as a top-level spy in the Resistance, then a Civil Rights leader in the 1960s. #pride