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It just keeps getting better, this one. :)

Seeing an image post on your dash that appears at first glance simply to be some cute romantic art of a couple of somewhat eccentric-looking OCs, then you pop open the notes and the top comment is something like "is that genderbent lesbian scene girl Bert and Ernie", and you look more closely and it fucking is.

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Another good girl mutiepupper

The LGBTQ community has seen controversy regarding acceptance of different groups (bisexual and transgender individuals have sometimes been marginalized by the larger community), but the term LGBT has been a positive symbol of inclusion and reflects the embrace of different identities and that we’re stronger together and need each other. While there are differences, we all face many of the same challenges from broader society.

In the 1960′s, in wider society the meaning of the word gay transitioned from ‘happy’ or ‘carefree’ to predominantly mean ‘homosexual’ and was an umbrella term that meant anyone who wasn’t cisgender or heterosexual. The community embraced the word ‘gay’ as a mark of pride.

The modern fight for queer rights is considered to have begun with The Stonewall Riots in 1969 and was called the Gay Liberation Movement and the Gay Rights Movement.

The acronym GLB surfaced around this time to also include Lesbian and Bisexual people who felt “gay” wasn’t inclusive of their identities. 

Early in the gay rights movement, gay men were largely the ones running the show and there was a focus on men’s issues. Lesbians were unhappy that gay men dominated the leadership and ignored their needs and the feminist fight. As a result, lesbians tended to focus their attention on the Women’s Rights Movement which was happening at the same time. This dominance by gay men was seen as yet one more example of patriarchy and sexism. 

In the 1970′s, sexism and homophobia existed in more virulent forms and those biases against lesbians also made it hard for them to find their voices within women’s liberation movements. Betty Friedman, the founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), commented that lesbians were a “lavender menace” that threatened the political efficacy of the organization and of feminism and many women felt including lesbians was a detriment.

In the 80s and 90s, a huge portion of gay men were suffering from AIDS while the lesbian community was largely unaffected. Lesbians helped gay men with medical care and were a massive part of the activism surrounding the gay community and AIDS. This willingness to support gay men in their time of need sparked a closer, more supportive relationship between both groups, and the gay community became more receptive to feminist ideals and goals. 

Approaching the 1990′s it was clear that GLB referred to sexual identity and wasn’t inclusive of gender identity and T should be added, especially since trans activist have long been at the forefront of the community’s fight for rights and acceptance, from Stonewall onward. Some argued that T should not be added, but many gay, lesbian and bisexual people pointed out that they also transgress established gender norms and therefore the GLB acronym should include gender identities and they pushed to include T in the acronym. 

GLBT became LGBT as a way to honor the tremendous work the lesbian community did during the AIDS crisis. 

Towards the end of the 1990s and into the 2000s, movements took place to add additional letters to the acronym to recognize Intersex, Asexual, Aromantic, Agender, and others. As the acronym grew to LGBTIQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIAA, many complained this was becoming unwieldy and started using a ‘+’ to show LGBT aren’t the only identities in the community and this became more common, whether as LGBT+ or LGBTQ+. 

In the 2010′s, the process of reclaiming the word “queer” that began in the 1980′s was largely accomplished. In the 2020′s the LGBTQ+ acronym is used less often as Queer is becoming the more common term to represent the community. 

lesbians got their place at the front of the acronym through kindness and I think that’s cool

This is privilege. My partner had an "essential job" all through the pandemic. He was not allowed to work from home either. If he'd pulled this he would've been fired.

Well, yeah. But if people who have enough privilege to take a stand against workplace exploitation do take a stand, that helps slow down the ongoing creep of how much they're allowed to dick you around at work.

Make no mistake, by "not allowed to work from home," this employer meant "you will not be paid for work you do at home," while clearly expecting the employee to do work (such as answering work emails and taking work calls) while at home. (If the employer didn't expect that, then they wouldn't have noticed when the worker stopped doing it.)

If you're expected to respond when the boss summons you outside of work hours, you are on-call. If you're on-call, you should be paid.

Expecting white-collar workers to be on-call for no extra pay is wage theft, no different from if a retail or food service employee is told to, "Clock out before you clean up/close out your station, so you don't go over your hours."

(And yes, this example happens a lot. If it happens to you, in the US, you should report it to the Department of Labor. It's confidential; your employer will never find out it was you who turned them in.)

It’s also worth noting that however much they may hint/imply strongly/outright state that you’ll be fired if you’re not responsive 24/7… you very often won’t be, because

a) they’re in the wrong and they know it; it’s an unenforceable rule and they’re perfectly aware it’s an empty threat — they’re just hoping you won’t call their bluff

and/or

b) they know perfectly well what would happen if the department of labor, or god forbid a labor attorney, found out that they fired someone for refusing to work without compensation

and/or

c) many of your coworkers refused and had no consequences; they’re just taking advantage of the employees who are too shy to stand up for themselves

and/or

d) they need you more than you need them. That’s what ‘essential worker’ means: it means they can’t do without you.

This is, of course, not the case in all jobs and all situations, so don’t call any bluffs you can’t afford to lose. But just be aware that it’s rarely as clear-cut and rigid as bosses like to imply.

And in any case, report it to the department of labor or your local equivalent

The game was always rigged from the start. We all go in the end. Finally was able to do this digitally! Of course this is My Courier Valentin!  He has sarsaparilla Star bottle caps on his eyes, mimicking coins on the eyes for the dead.

You can also find me on my Twitter!

this frame from the fallout tv show is so funny i nearly puked watching it

Hey y'all, bit of a post but I need some help.

We had an incident today with my mother's puppy, she's having to be kept overnight at a vet, theyre flushing out her liver and hoping she doesn't go into liver failure.

We don't have pet insurance. And unfortunately whether a dog makes it or not, vet bills are expensive. And while she's not my dog, it would be nice If my mother didn't need to worry about a vet bill on top of all of this.

If y'all can, please help me out with it on my ko-fi. I don't have an exact number on the vet bill just yet, I will update when I do.

Ko-fi link is below, if y'all want a commission instead of just donating I can do that too, just DM me here.

Let’s open a small business! No way anyone’s gonna die! A lot of folks deserve to die don’t listen to her. Ok, maaaaaybe that first guy had it coming because of what he did to your girl. But don’t feed the razor!

Do you know which book this is from?

Please reblog the polls, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people read the excerpt with an open mind 💖📚 Title and author will be revealed after the poll's conclusion.