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Feb 17 '12
divergingkatake: I don’t mind if you’re straight. Just don’t flaunt it in public. When are you going to tell your parents that you’re straight? So, when exactly did you decide to be straight?

divergingkatake:

I don’t mind if you’re straight. Just don’t flaunt it in public. When are you going to tell your parents that you’re straight? So, when exactly did you decide to be straight?

(Source: imnotmorrissey)

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Jan 2 '12

wellingtonyoungfeminists:

*TRIGGER WARNING FOR TRANSPHOBIA*

This is a disgusting transphobic “Tampons Drag It” commercial for Libra. As put by one of our members “At first you hear the phrase “Libra gets girls” and you’re all “um, not all “girls” menstruate, not everyone who menstruates is a “girl”, damn this patriarchy” but then you realise they already thought of that. And, you know, ran with it. Into a big wall of ARE YOU SERIOUS BRO?”

Please complain on their website, their Facebook or Tweet them at @LoveLibraX with the #transphobictampons hashtag.

If their product was any good, they wouldn’t need transphobia and transmisogyny to sell it. 

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Dec 25 '11

(Source: gaywrites)

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Dec 10 '11

likeasthehart:

Irish advertisement against homophobic bullying.

Beautiful. 

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Dec 9 '11

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Dec 7 '11
“Some have suggested that gay rights and human rights are separate and distinct; but, in fact, they are one and the same. Now, of course, 60 years ago, the governments that drafted and passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were not thinking about how it applied to the LGBT community. They also weren’t thinking about how it applied to indigenous people or children or people with disabilities or other marginalized groups. Yet in the past 60 years, we have come to recognize that members of these groups are entitled to the full measure of dignity and rights, because, like all people, they share a common humanity.

This recognition did not occur all at once. It evolved over time. And as it did, we understood that we were honoring rights that people always had, rather than creating new or special rights for them. Like being a woman, like being a racial, religious, tribal, or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.”
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, addressing the United Nations in Geneva (via itsinthetrees

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(Source: The Huffington Post)

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Nov 13 '11
blowfins: pwopercydonian: kindlemyheart: If you guys haven’t already heard (my followers already have, and I’m tagging to spread awareness) - there are some 200 clinics in Ecuador right now that are using torture and rape as a ways of rehabilitating lesbian women. They may be possibly doing it to gay men too. If you could just take literally twenty seconds out of your day to sign the All Out campaign, it would be so, so helpful. The goal right now is 50,000 online signatures and we are currently at 36,977. The people of Ecuador are going to deliver the letter with the signatures directly to the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa’s, office. That being said, if you could just take another twenty seconds to sign this one too, that would be beyond fantastic. Thanks so much, guys. 

blowfins:

pwopercydonian:

kindlemyheart:

If you guys haven’t already heard (my followers already have, and I’m tagging to spread awareness) - there are some 200 clinics in Ecuador right now that are using torture and rape as a ways of rehabilitating lesbian women. They may be possibly doing it to gay men too. If you could just take literally twenty seconds out of your day to sign the All Out campaign, it would be so, so helpful.

The goal right now is 50,000 online signatures and we are currently at 36,977. The people of Ecuador are going to deliver the letter with the signatures directly to the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa’s, office.

That being said, if you could just take another twenty seconds to sign this one too, that would be beyond fantastic.

Thanks so much, guys. 

(Source: tinypenny)

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Nov 1 '11

Rick Mercer speaks out about Jamie Hubley, a gay teen who committed suicide.

“300 kids is 300 too many.”

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Nov 1 '11

livelaughawesome:

I’m the co-chair, and organizer for a local outreach program that was just started in my town to help queer kids and allies.

I put together some “info handouts” and we’re all really excited about them.

Please let me know if you have ideas for more, or how we should change them to be even more inclusive.

Thanks everybody!

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Oct 22 '11

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