This is why I get annoyed when when people criticize her for not doing enough in some way for LGBTQ rights, or for being too bland on the subject.

I think what Ellen did was enormously impactful. She helped normalize gay and lesbian people as regular, likeable people, as opposed to being sexual deviants. It was as if society finally realized that someone can be as nice and likeable as Ellen, but also be gay. Note that at that point she didn’t even use the word…

I watched it with my parents because we normally watched that show. My mom was horrified by it but my dad was like, “so, you don’t think you know gay people now? What’s your issue with this?” It took YEARS for me and my sister to get my mom to understand that SHE doesn’t have to be gay or even understand why others…

Even if they just wanted lower taxes they also voted for a vice president who truly believes and advocates for gay conversion therapy. You can’t separate one thing from the other. If I were for lower taxes (I’m not) knowing my vote would put a guy like that close to the presidency would give me pause.

I specifically remember a lady on the Oprah episode standing up and saying something like, “Why make such a big deal about it? I’m not on the cover of Time announcing, “I’m straight!”...” Ellen, not missing a beat, replied something like, “Actually, the people at Time are trying to get in touch with you...” and…

As a young newly out queer woman this had such a profound effect on myself and my friends. We had viewing parties for both the puppy episode and her Diane Saywer interview. My parents were havuing a very hard time with my sexuality and seeing Betty stand up for Ellen was soawesome.

Younger people may not realize, this was a HUGE deal at the time. Like, the world stopped and watched this happen.

I saw this as a twenty-something and I remember thinking how monumentally courageous this was. I had been watching the show when it was still called “These Friends of Mine”.

I remember the episode airing, and what a big deal it was for my [very closeted] high school friends. I remember fellow classmates being absolutely awful about the show, about Ellen, about having “gayness” forced on them or whatever.

I am so sorry for what you are going through. Whenever I see South Korea (or Japan) on a map, it seems so vulnerable next to North Korea backed by the colossus that is China. Though maybe in this case, China will help ensure stability on the peninsula. It feels so odd and wrong to even write that, just as it did to…

Be angry for the fuckwads that put him and his ilk into power, fuck them.

As someone with family in South Korea, what the everloving fuck, is this?!

I find that I can’t even read complete transcripts of his interviews, it’s just incoherent babble throughout the whole thing.

As someone with a pre-existing condition who depends on a daily medication to literally stay alive, this scares the shit out of me.

Can I just say, I looooved the huge mesh panties they gave me at the hospital? I actually had a nurse bring me extras to take home and wore them for like 6 weeks. IT’S LIKE WEARING AIR! Mine weren’t really ‘mesh’, more like a super thin stretchy kinda gauze? Whatever they were, I would totally wear them again if they…