Interestingly, respondents who did not believe homosexuality was a sin increased by a mere two percent, while a greater number of those surveyed said they were now unsure of what they believe.
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Attention all LGBTQ+ writers: submissions are now being accepted for an upcoming anthology of poems, short stories, and essays written about the queer/trans experience. The anthology will be published in e-book form and will be an exhaustive collection of modern creative writing representing the lives of LGBTQ people. We like to think of it as a written time capsule. Each submission should be less than 3,000 words, and each individual may submit up to 5 pieces of original writing. Questions and submissions can be emailed to LGBTQwriting@gmail.com and submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis. The earlier you submit your piece, the more likely it is for it to be published. All proceeds from the published e-book will benefit gender confirming surgeries for transgender individuals.
A survey for nonbinary/genderqueer folk
It says: “I’m running a bit of an informal data-gathering thing to see how people express their nonbinary gender. I’ll publish the results in July 2013 if I get more than 100 respondents.”
It’s pretty short!
It’s only like four questions, about preferred pronouns and titles and stuff.
If you’re one of us, do the survey, maybe?
RbR: Why “I Like Men, Women, and Trans* People” Is Not Okay
In your last post you mentioned that third gendering is wrong. Can you please explain that? Thanks!
Anonymous
If you make trans* people a separate group from men and women, you’re saying that trans men aren’t men and trans women aren’t women, which is wrong. There are certainly trans* people who are non-binary, but a lot of them aren’t, and so making them their own special category from the “normal” men and women is wrong.
—BB
Neutrois Nonsense: retibutionpaladin: Asexual myths I’m tired of hearing: Sexual abuse...
Asexual myths I’m tired of hearing:
- Sexual abuse causes asexuality
- Asexuals don’t masturbate
- If you’re heteromantic asexual, it’s the same as being heterosexual
- Demisexuals and grey asexuals are just “special snowflakes” who are celibate but want a special title
- Asexuals can’t enjoy writing/reading/watching erotica
- If you’re asexual, you can’t think anyone is good looking
- If you’re asexual, you can’t enjoy nude art or appreciate the human form
- Asexuality is caused by low hormone levels and can be fixed
- Asexuals just haven’t had good sex yet, having good sex will cure them
- Asexuality is a mental illness
- Asexuality is a phase
- Asexuals are also all aromantic
- Asexuals just need to meet the right person, they’ll become normal if they do
- Asexuals are all fat and unattractive
- Eventually, everyone becomes asexual due to old age
- Asexuals are all autistic losers who couldn’t get laid anyhow
- Everyone loves sex, asexuals are just in denial
- Asexuality is an excuse women use to not have to “put out”
- There are no asexual men
- Asexuals don’t/can’t have a gender preference
- You can’t be born asexual
- If you have sex, you aren’t asexual
The funniest thing in the world is straight guys who hit on random women they don’t know but have this indignant fear that a gay man is going to hit on them.
Like, they’re aware of how uncomfortable unwanted advances from strangers are, but are somehow too stupid to see the irony that they do to women what they’re afraid gay men will do to them.
Bunch of A+ dudes.
“Homophobia: the fear that gay men will treat you the way you treat women.”
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if you accidentally misgender someone, or say the wrong name, just correct yourself in the same manner as if you called a cis person by the wrong name or pronouns, which is not unknown because we are all capable of verbal slips.
sometimes i accidentally call people my dog’s name, or i call them “mom”
the right way to do this is “[wrong name], excuse me, [correct name]” or “[wrong pronoun], I’m sorry [correct pronoun]”
if you accidentally mess up someone’s pronouns, do not call attention to it by falling over yourself to apologize.
conversely, do not just move on and hope they didn’t notice. they definitely noticed. not correcting yourself is offensive, and pretending that you didn’t mess up is a form of gaslighting.
if you feel like going the extra mile, apologize the next time you’re alone with them, without excuses. say “I’m sorry that I misgendered you” or “I’m sorry called you the wrong name.”
do not say “it’s so hard, and i keep forgetting! I’m so bad!” trans people hear this over and over, and the message is that they should apologize for being who they are.
if someone close to you has changed their name and/or pronouns, and you’re having a difficult time with it, maybe you should practice at home.
like… the very fact that this woman is arguing that queerplatonic is marginalized by saying that people misinterpreted her queerplatonic relationship with another woman as them being “lesbians”, and marginalizing them based on that
does that not already speak clearly enough that it’s not marginalization based on queerplatonicity, but marginalization based on perceived homosexuality
heterosexism NOT ONLY marginalizes homosexual relationships, BUT ALSO devalues close, same-gender friendships by marking degrees of closeness between people of the same gender as being “too gay”/”too lesbian”/”too queer” and thus a basis for attack
misogyny ALSO marginalizes these kinds of close relationships because misogyny devalues relationships between women, PERIOD, as one crux of misogyny is pitting women against each other, rather than emphasizing love and friendship and camaraderie between women—thus, close camaraderie is inconceivable under misogyny and is then interpreted through heterosexist lenses
like…
as I said
I have no doubt that queerplatonic relationships are erased and shamed
but the ROOT of that is not anti-queerplatonic in nature
it is anti-queer and/or anti-woman
It also assumes that people all around the world has the same views towards people of the same gender who are friends but it’s not
yep, this; lizzie also mentioned this in a message to me
in east asia it’s not weird for girls to hold hands in public at all and no one assumes they’re lesbians—the default assumption is actually just that they’re BFFs
and I know there are societies where this idea of “queerplatonic” is really just that of BFFs
so yeah
really white
HuffingtonPost: Americans Who Believe Homosexuality Is A Sin Decreases Significantly: LifeWay Research Poll
Bad news for the Westboro Baptist Church and other right-wing groups: the percentage of Americans who sincerely believe that homosexuality is a sin has decreased significantly, a new poll has found. The Nashville-based LifeWay Research organization revealed that just 37 percent of Americans surveyed in November said they believed homosexual behavior was a sin, a seven point drop from the previous year’s survey.
