i liked the page for my school’s lgbt* center on facebook and my mom just sent me a message that said
“now all of china knows you’re queer”
please deliver this reply to your mother:
“perfect”
she laughed so hard i think she exploded
i wonder if fred phelps has planned to picket the conneticut memorials yet??
i feel insulted, facebook keeps asking me if im “living with HIV”
is it because im black? it’s probably because im black.
why do straight men talk to me about their sex life, or how awesome vagina is …. why?
always remember…
today is the 43rd Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
43 years ago tonight, some very strong willed and brave gay men and women, in particular some drag queens, and one butch dyke, turned around and said enough was enough… that they’ve had enough of being stepped on, that law was unjust in their country. they fought for 4 days and nights, they taunted the police that abused them, and they showed that we weren’t going anywhere. but it wasn’t until a year later, until the first gay pride parade (the Christopher Street Parade) was held in rememberence of that night, did the gay community really come together.
on this day id like to remember those brave men and women who made what we have today possible. we’ve got a long way to go ofcourse, but if it weren’t for those people, who suffered abuse, hardship, unjust arrest, medical experimentation, job insecurity and so much more, and finally said enough was enough, the gay community would not be what we are. from that one night in New York City so many decades ago, did all the gay community around the world start to come together and start to become what we are today.
Id like to remember everyone, all the gay men and women, transexuals, bisexuals, blacks, whites, supporters, everyone before us that help shape what our lives are today, they are our pillars, they are the foundation upon which we built. and i like to say thank you…
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You SHOULD know this, because it is INCREDIBLY important and something that wasn’t acknowledged until very, VERY recently.
(I did a history project on this in Y9. We got to do something from the 20th century; everyone else did, like, Marilyn Monroe, and I read a translation of Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel and then did my project on that. Cheerful, no, but important to know about, yes.)
whaaaaat, seriously?!
In 1950, East Germany abolished Nazi amendments to Paragraph 175, whereas West Germany kept them and even had them confirmed by its Constitutional Court.
Well, that’s horrifying.
Oh my god
Homosexual concentration camp prisoners were not acknowledged as victims of Nazi persecution.[7] Reparations and state pensions available to other groups were refused to gay men, who were still classified as criminals — the Nazi anti-gay law was not repealed until 1994, although both East and West Germany liberalized their criminallaws against adult homosexuality in the late 1960s.
“Gay Holocaust” survivors could be re-imprisoned for “repeat offences”, and were kept on the modern lists of “sex offenders”. Under the Allied Military Government of Germany, some homosexuals were forced to serve out their terms of imprisonment, regardless of the time spent in concentration camps. (X)
Also worth mentioning that homosexuals are still largely unacknowledged as victims of the Holocaust even within circles where they should know better. For example, in the Holocaust Museum in DC and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, gay deaths are acknowledged only in passing and there is not a single picture of a “man of the pink triangle” - only of an empty ballroom that had once held a gay dance club. When Yad Vashem was completely redone in 2005, gay groups pressed for inclusion alongside other non-Jewish groups such as the disabled, Roma, etc., and numerous senior-level officials and the Rabbinate condemned such requests for inclusion, with some going so far as to suggest that the homosexuals were German criminals and therefore did not belong in the same category as the Jews who had done nothing wrong. When the memorial to gays in the Holocaust was unveiled in Berlin four years ago, senior members of Yad Vashem condemned it and, in particular, its proximity to the memorial for Jewish victims of the Shoah.
this planet shouldn’t be allowed to exist any longer
This is important. Of all the WWII history I learned in school, this was never once mentioned.
Oh my GOD.
And now my soul is bleeding.
Re-blogging again because when I was being taught the history of Nazi Germany, THIS WAS NEVER EVER EVER MENTIONED. NOT ONCE.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly5qfpM4lo1qkvbwso1_250.png)
