On this day in queer history: Oct 14, 1977

During a live TV appearance in Iowa, anti-gay activist Anita Bryant was hit with a pie in protest of her “Save Our Children” campaign. A sweet moment of queer resistance.

#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #AnitaBryant

there's already a market!

The "Fred Astaire tape hidden in a vault" is my personal Ocean's 11 heist

I hope they live to regret getting him fired.

(also, never has a sentence required more than the first 4 words)

There were only 900 people in my home town so you only had to dial 5 digits for a lot of my childhood, and it was a huge thing when that changed to 7, which is the rural equivalent.

(I also remember my grandmother's phone number

* wasn't left alone

when the cat in your house starts freaking out you come home after being gone for 3 days even though he was left alone so it means he really missed you >>>>>>>

Giorgio Moroder

Finally! I’ve broken through the glass ceiling for old, white men hoping to work in animation.
Be sure to tune in. As I tell all my lovers, this might just be the best 20 seconds of your life.

Good morning

Listen for the loud whistles. Carry them and use them. 3 short blows for sightings, 3 longs blows if you see someone being kidnapped.
Fuck these fucks

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

Today is National Coming Out Day!

It's also Freedom to Read Day, aka the last day of Banned Books Week.

This feels right — because the main reason they try to ban books is to keep people from dreaming they could ever come out.

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Getting to watch a Cubs playoff game with my 78 year old dad who has been in poor health this year together in person (even though they lost and we are in Florida when I live much closer to either team): very valuable

Hearing his opinion about this asshole for the first time in person: priceless

Abner Uribe is the most pynchon character name baseball has seen in recent memory

He has teenagers so I bet they’re thinking “she WOULD date dad 🙄”

And here I am on a weekend vacation with my family which means I'm much closer than ever to an ocean to walk into

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

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Because of all the ongoing Argentina related bullshit, I keep having Buenos Aires from Evita stuck in my head which would not be bad but then I remember why it is stuck in my head and I get mad.

I don’t believe in the good or bad immigrant framework but thinking of older women in detention is gut wrenching. No one deserves to be in those conditions but it feels so demeaning to think of elders in those places.

people who think this will not have an effect on employer-provided health care rates and premiums are walking into a buzzsaw

The paid-protestor myth is big among conservative honks because none of them can fathom the idea that people would want better things for their communities and neighbors out of the goodness of their hearts.

My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.