ILYSM! 🤣Happy pride! 🫶🏾🌈🥹
[ID: tiktok captioned: The moment they realized it was the real Janelle Monae on the ACLUE pride float.
Janelle stands on a small float and speaks into a microphone decorated with the trans flag. They say, "We are here, we are queer! We are trans! We are the LGBTQIA+ community and we celebrate us right now!
The video turns to the crowd and shows shots of people half paying attention to the float, then doing double takes as they see Janelle Monae singing. /]
I don’t want to find out about world events anymore
fine, we'll do it the hard way
Lego dinosaur. You agree
i literally thought my brain was processing a higher resolution version of this image and just didnt have the available RAM to display it yet so it defaulted to a low-res version
The open secret that’s been obvious to everyone paying attention is that Trump simply does not give a shit about LGBTQ issues or abortion. Every time he talks about them you can just tell, he speaks in platitudes and never goes into more detail than he has to (compare this to, say, trade, which he cares about a lot). They barely showed up in his campaign book IIRC. I think that was part of the logic of picking Pence as his VP, it was a signal to the Christian right that he’d go along with their pet issues.
In retrospect, this probably actually helped him in 2016. The majority of the public was in favor of gay marriage by 2012-13, but mainstream Republicans still had to run against it in 2016 because the religious right still felt very strongly about the issue. Trump's refusal to care put him closer to the true "median voter" on that issue than almost any other GOP candidate. It also probably helped build the (obviously false) idea in the public's mind that Trump was relatively moderate
@sivavakkiyar Exactly right. That comment made it really clear that he's joining the anti-trans brigade in 2024 purely because he knows some of his fans want to hear it
Unpopular Opinion: Characters aren’t supposed to be relatable and shouldn’t have to be. Relatability is subjective, not universal.
What they should be is understandable to the audience in the context of their stories!.
kinda fucked up that equal rights and bodily autonomy and access to education are up for vote at all huh
May his memory be a blessing.
Willem Arondéus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo. Arondéus was caught and executed soon after his arrest. Yad Vashem recognized Arondéus as Righteous Among the Nations.
Their attack, which took place on 27 March 1943, was partially successful, and they managed to destroy 800,000 identity cards, and retrieve 600 blank cards and 50,000 guilders. The building was blown up and no one was caught on the night of the attack. However, due to an unknown betrayer, Arondéus was arrested on 1 April 1943. Arondéus refused to give up the rest of his team.
Arondéus was openly gay before the war and defiantly asserted his sexuality before his execution. His final words were:
"Tell the people that homosexuals are not by definition weak."
From Wikipedia