I live in the Bible Belt and we used to have a ton of proselytizers come to our door (we finally put up a “no sales or witnessing” sign which has helped a lot). I was always annoyed at the disturbance, but I never got mad at the people who just came to my door, handed me a brochure and invited me to attend their…

Someone definitely partakes in respectability politics...

You also are erasing how nonbinary and trans people have been a huge part in the LGBT community since word go, especially in the drag scene. (And for citation just... Marsha P. Johnson. Sylvia Rivera. Nearly half the drag queens on drag race if you google it).

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The American Taliban of the right wing evangelical cult is a threat to humanity.

I went to a church in high school (and for about half a semester of my first year of undergrad) that explicitly forebade premarital sex, and openly condemned homosexuality—or, really, anything that wasn’t heteronormative.

Outside of the fact that they really fucked me up in terms of my openness to sex for a few years (l…

When we can no longer laugh, that is when hope is dead. All hope.

If you want to be dead serious all the time, and give yourself an ulcer over things that you cannot possibly control that is your prerogative, I on the other hand am planning on mocking the deranged orange shithead until the day he finally chokes to…