thelanternlight: argumate: intrigue-posthaste-please: I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting. The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is … Continue reading
Author: queeranarchism
queeranarchism: “I’m not a brave person, I’m just even more scared of what will happen if we don’t do anything” — Anonymous climate activist I talked to This articulates what I’ve been trying to put into words when people respond with all sorts of ‘but it’s dangerous’ to activism. Allowing the world to rush forward … Continue reading
To understand the Stonewall Riots, you need to know who rioted.
queeranarchism: Recognizing that the Stonewall riots were started by bisexual trans women and street queens of colour who did sex work (and not just the ones in this source, lots of trans and gendernonconforming queer sex workers of colour) is about more than preventing whitewashing and celebrating the real heroes (even though that is very important) You … Continue reading To understand the Stonewall Riots, you need to know who rioted.
politicalsci:
enoughtohold: i mean the idea that the older generations are Bad while our generation is Good is pretty convenient for us isn’t it. we don’t have to do anything, just continue to exist and all the problems of the world will slowly melt away as the bad people grow old and die and we take … Continue reading
spiroandthelacktones: If one member of a marginalized group says something shitty and you take it as a reason to shit on that entire group, you were probably already looking for a reason
As if pride season wasn’t already terrible, we now have to deal with puritan gay-conservative shits who don’t want queers to wear their leather and kink outfits to pride anymore, because “that’s not about sexual orientation, it’s about sex and doesn’t belong in public”. What the fuck. LGBT and queer struggle has always been deeply intertwined with … Continue reading
The debate in the Netherlands is between three groups: the fascists, the anti-facists and the Reasonable Center. Regular readers will already know which I think is the most dangerous of those groups: the Reasonable Center. The Reasonable Center doesn’t really care that fascists dehumanize whole groups, and will gladly provide a platform for that. [..] The … Continue reading
Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off
karrius: What a headline. Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off
whitherburo: phoenix-ace: I don’t like how every racist act in the US is being attributed to “fascism” as if the whole last 400 plus years didn’t happen here and people didn’t use “democracy” to keep that racism in place on their own volition. Reflexive antifascism is definitely something that “radicals” do to avoid actually coming … Continue reading

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