jennysighs:

twilightisgay:

happy pride month! a couple of reminders for everyone before we get started:

-there is no A

-there is no Q

-there is no I

-the full acronym is lgbt and applies only to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals (this includes pansexual and nonbinary/gnc individuals)

-the slur queer is available to be reclaimed by the above identities and no one else. if you’re not lgbt and you’re using the word queer, stop right now!

-cishet aces and aros are not lgbt

-the gay rights movement was started by trans women of color, so any rhetoric that excludes them does not speak for our community

-he/him lesbians and nonbinary lesbians are not men, they are lesbians

-bi and pan mean the same thing, and if you’re pan and think that trans men and trans women are somehow different genders than cis men and cis women you are transphobic and do not belong in lgbt spaces

-gay love is beautiful and should always be celebrated!!! we’ve all made it here and remember the suffering of those who came before us every day, and especially during pride month. if you’re lgbt this month is about celebrating you and all you bring to the community, so enjoy it!💗💞

To add to this and counter some of the nonsense in the notes, I isn’t in there because intersex people typically don’t want and don’t find it useful to conflate their oppression with that of LGBT people.

A isn’t in there for basically the same reason. Their struggles and the things that would be helpful to them are different, so there’s no real point in sharing community when our communities could simply overlap and be allied to one another.

Not everyone who uses he/him pronouns is a man, some of them are women, get over it. If you can understand gender nonconfirmity in every other area, pronouns shouldn’t be that difficult, either.

Even if bi and pan aren’t exactly the same, the ways they’re defined are loose and have enormous overlap and which label someone uses is up to them.