I’m torn, because on one hand I love anywhere I see the Pride flag, because more exposure and the normalization of celebrating, not denigrating, our community is great. On the other hand, McDonalds really is crap. There is a ton of sexual harassment and it is often worse for the LGBTQ community. This just feels like a money grab for our community. As a franchise, though, I think things like this may vary by location?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/coralewis/this-transgender-worker-is-suing-mcdonalds-for?utm_term=.copA6Z753#.ydzLpE39W

http://www.revelist.com/us-news/mcdonalds-sexual-harassment/5135

http://www.phillyvoice.com/report-transgender-woman-says-she-was-harassed-nj-mcdonalds-manager/

http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/gay-employees-at-miramar-mcdonalds-claim-harassment-pay-discrimination-8165569

courtneywirthit:

“Confessions of a Demisexual”

I have come to realize I identify as a demisexual. After trying to figure out a way to explain to my friends and family, I wanted a visual to help me explain it and what it means to me. I searched the internet and I couldn’t really find a comic that could help visualize my personal feelings on the topic so I decided to put this together.

I had a lot more information I wanted to include, but I didn’t want it to be overwhelming as I felt this was already a pretty informative piece. I feel like if there is more to share, including my personal experiences, or to help clarify misconceptions, etc. I will consider it!

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

www.demisexuality.org
www.asexuality.org
www.demisexuality.freeforums.net
www.asexualityarchive.com
www.reddit.com/r/demisexuality/

and there’s so much more!

hotlatinospacerebel:

I work at a kindergarten and this is a collection of cute Wonder Woman related things that happened within a week of the movie being released. 

  • On Monday, a boy who was obsessed with Iron Man, told me he had asked his parents for a new Wonder Woman lunchbox. 
  • A little girl said “When I grow up I want to speak hundreds of languages like Diana”
  • This girl had her parents revamp her Beauty and the Beast birthday party in THREE DAYS because she simply had to have a Wonder Woman party. 
  • Seven girls playing together during recess on Tuesday, saying that since they all wanted to be Wonder Woman they had agreed to be Amazons and not fight but work together to defeat evil. 
  • There is this one girl that refuses to listen to you unless you address her as Wonder Woman. 
  • Another girl very seriously asked the teacher if she could ditch her uniform for the Wonder Woman armor bc she “wanted to be ready if she needed to save the world”. The teacher laughed and said it was okay, and the next day the girl came dressed as Wonder Woman and not a single kid batted an eye.
  • They are making a wrap-up dance show, and they asked the teacher if they could come as superheroes, they are going to sing a song about bunnies. 
  • This kid got angry and threw a plastic car over his head and a girl gasped “LIKE IN THE MOVIE”
  • A boy threw his candy wrapping in the floor and a 5-year-old girl screamed “DON’T POLLUTE YOU IDIOT, THAT IS WHY THERE ARE NO MEN IN TEMYSCIRA”
  • On Wednesday, a girl came with a printed list of every single female superhero and her powers, to avoid any trouble when deciding roles at recess. 
  • I was talking to one of the girls that hadn’t seen the movie, and the next day she came and very seriously told me “you were right, Wonder Woman was way better than Frozen.”

Consider this your friendly reminder that if this movie completely changed the way these girls and boys thought about themselves and the world in a week, imagine what the next generation will achieve if we give them more movies like Wonder Woman.  

kinklock:

The model for Raffles was George Ives, a Cambridge-educated criminologist and talented cricketer according to Lycett. Ives was privately homosexual, and although Hornung “may not have understood this sexual side of Ives’ character”, Raffles “enjoys a remarkably intimate relationship with his sidekick Bunny Manders.”

I both can and cannot believe that the first ever Sherlock Holmes fanfiction drew additional inspiration for the character from another gay man 

Indeed! Raffles and Bunny were also inspired by Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas. Sooooo gay.

geeky-galpal:

Dear white women feminists who loved Wonder Woman–

Listen, I also loved Wonder Woman. But I also think that Diana would be the first to note that we are not free until we are all free. So if you posted a thousand times about how important WW was for little girls to see, then I hope you are also prepared to post a thousand times about how important the new Black Panther movie is for black kids- girls and boys- to see.

I saw Wonder Woman, and I teared up the first time she stormed the battlefield in her full regalia. But, as a black woman, I couldn’t not notice that the women who looked like me played supporting, and largely non-speaking, background parts. Black Panther is the chance for women who look like me to see ourselves as the heroes in our own story. To see ourselves as warriors, as epic royalty, as fully actualized superheroes. In a major studio blockbuster, no less. Never- not ever- has that happened before.

We are looking forward to your support.

LGBTQ LINKS FOR RELIGIOUS FOLKS

transgenderadvice:

CHRISTIANITY

ISLAM

JUDAISM

Help Tiger Get A New Art Tablet

tiger-in-the-flightdeck:

Hi everyone, I’m opening up writing commissions so I can save up to get a new art tablet. My digital pen is cracked all through the battery casing, and the tablet itself only recognises that it’s plugged in about half the time.

My current collections of fics can be found here http://archiveofourown.org/users/tiger_in_the_flightdeck/works

My commission rates are a standard Penny A Word, meaning a thousand word ficlet would cost $10.00, and so on.

I
will write for any fandom I am familiar with, but have most experience
with Sherlock Holmes adaptations, and can write any subject that
wouldn’t be triggering for me. All you need to do is ask! 

Payment method would be in USD, through PayPal, but I won’t ask for payment until the piece is finished.

If you want to help out, but don’t want a story written, I also have a Ko Fi account here http://ko-fi.com/A4027SH and of course, reblogging this will help a lot.