🐱 anonnn!!

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

He’s her best friend, and she doesn’t even know it. They’re so close, that in the book, people think they’re sleeping together, and poor Grace is so confused because he thought that was his platonic work wife, wdym people think we’re sleeping together, that’s my person that I crack jokes with and then she glares at me because they’re not funny.

She’s softer with him than anybody else and is only ever vulnerable around him. We see in the movie, he’s the only one who ever gets her to smile, and sometimes even laugh, and then she serenades all of them, but mainly him, and he stares at her with those big, shiny eyes so lovingly, and she points at him when she sings, “everything’s gonna be alright”, and then she gives him those eyes, so loving.

And then she’s trying to stop herself from crying when she’s sending him away because, against her will, he’s become her person, and somewhere along the way, she’s become his, and they will have forever ended this relationship on bad terms, and nothing can fix that.

It’s a platonic tragedy. It’s a platonic love story. This is something we don’t get often, or, like, ever, and it’s deep and it’s tragic and it’s sad.

But even after, Eva’s still taking care of him. Packing clothes she knew would bring him comfort. Programming the ship to know how he likes his coffee. And Grace is still watching out for her, speaking to her directly in his video logs, with that same lopsided smile he used to throw her way.

He uses Rocky’s sign for goodbye, and she uses it back, and how did this book and movie give us such a deep platonic friendship because, guys, this NEVER HAPPENS.

Part One

Part Two

Gets into: A Fight ⚜ ...Another Fight ⚜ ...Yet Another Fight

Hates Someone ⚜ Kisses Someone ⚜ Falls in Love

Calls Someone they Love ⚜ Dies / Cheats Death ⚜ Drowns

is...

A Ballerina ⚜ A Child ⚜ Interacting with a Child ⚜ A Cheerleader

A Cowboy ⚜ A Genius ⚜ A Lawyer ⚜ A Pirate ⚜ A Spy

A Wheelchair User ⚜ A Zombie ⚜ Beautiful ⚜ Dangerous ⚜ Drunk

Funny ⚜ In a Coma ⚜ In a Secret Society ⚜ Injured ⚜ Shy

needs...

A Magical Item ⚜ An Aphrodisiac ⚜ A Fictional Poison

A Coping Strategy ⚜ A Drink ⚜ A Medicinal Herb ⚜ A Mentor

Money ⚜ A Persuasion Tactic ⚜ A Quirk ⚜ To be Killed Off

To Become Likable ⚜ To Clean a Wound ⚜ To Self-Reflect

To Find the Right Word, but Can't ⚜ To Say No ⚜ To Swear

loves...

Astronomy ⚜ Baking ⚜ Cooking ⚜ Cocktails ⚜ Food ⚜ Oils

Dancing ⚜ Fashion ⚜ Gems ⚜ Herbal Remedies ⚜ Honey

Mushrooms ⚜ Mythology ⚜ Numbers ⚜ Perfumes

Roses ⚜ Sweets ⚜ To Argue ⚜ To Insult ⚜ To Kiss

To Make False Claims ⚜ Wine ⚜ Wine-Tasting ⚜ Yoga

has/experiences...

Allergies ⚜ Amnesia ⚜ Bereavement ⚜ Bites & Stings

Bruises ⚜ Caffeine ⚜ CO Poisoning ⚜ Color Blindness

Facial Hair ⚜ Fainting ⚜ Fevers ⚜ Food Allergies

Food Poisoning ⚜ Fractures ⚜ Frostbite ⚜ Hypothermia

Injuries ⚜ Jet Lag ⚜ Kidnapping ⚜ Manipulation ⚜ Mutism

Pain ⚜ Paranoia ⚜ Poisoning ⚜ More Pain & Violence

Scars ⚜ Trauma ⚜ Viruses ⚜ Wounds

[these are just quick references. more research may be needed to write your story...]

blacks - xiu xiu 😱

kicker - alex g 😱

HELLLLHOOOOLE - jeff rosenstock 😱

beach side property - modest mouse 😱

animal collective - bees

grizzly bear - cheerleader

yung lean - kyoto

austra - hate crime

grizzly bear - sun in ur eyes

hmmmm

Fireworks - AnCo

Kids on Holiday - AnCo

Black Mambo - Glass Animals

Intruxx - Glass Animals

It’s All So Incredibly Loud - Glass Animals

.. those are really the only two bands i regularly listen to lol

Hmm- Let's see-

You're Gonna Go Far Kid by The Offspring.

New Money from The Great Gatsby Musical

Piece of My World from Twisted Wonderland

Honeybee by Steam Powered Giraffe

I know Those Eyes/This Man is Dead from The Count of Monte Cristo

I have way too many songs that I listen to on repeat, so it was really hard to pick just five of them.

I think I'm gonna tag @silverishgoldpen, @lunarlover7871 and @fizzydrinkzzzz.

(When You Gonna) Give it Up to Me by Sean Paul and Keyshia Cole

So Easy (To Fall In Love) by Olivia Dean

Catch Catch by YENA

God Games by Jorge Rivera-Herrans

Big Dawgs by Hanumankind and Kalmi

Let me see here……

“Home” by Mario

“Skyscraper” by Demi Lovato

“You Are Good” by Israel Houghton

“Let Me Love You” by Mario

“Run To You” by Whitney Houston

And all other R&B songs I enjoy….. Thanks again for the tag!💙💙

*huggy huggy*

"The Closing Act"-Static Films

"Gurenge"-LISA (aka TOTALLY NOT the DS theme song.....)

"Rescue Me"-Selah

"Chasing the End"-Noxy

"Sick of It"-Skillet (I can apply it to alot of things in our world today.)

OKIE! NOW IMMA TAAAAGGGGG

@sara-the-wizard @lanes-the-art-lover @narfthenoodle @nacho-calamity-reblogs @abbielauren2024 @snazzy-here @katiemaycreate @im-just-gwen @othellovr @opalzennasaphhire @jellyfishsketches @soycaseyjones777 @ninjagirl0913 AAAAAANNNNNDDDDDDDDDDD @ninjaaxolotlperson3

The LORD bless you!!!!

James 1:22

Mask (Gangle’s Song) - Black Gryph0n, Baasik, Marissa Lenti

Siren - Lilith Max

Runaway - AURORA

Puppet - John Michael Howell

Break Through It All - Sonic Frontiers

Danzon no.2 by Arturo Márquez

Box in a Box by Daniel Pemberton

Check the Rhime by A Tribe Called Quest

RUDE! by Hearts2Hearts

Work It Out by ABLAZE

["Risk It All" by Bruno Mars]

["c u next tuesday" by Kesha]

["Two Of Us - Remastered 2009" by The Beatles]

["Red Wine Supernova" by Chappel Roan]

["Pink Pony Club" by Chappel Roan]

However, those places of Texas that are close to Arkansas, do not include “close to Fort Smith, Arkansas.”

The closest Texas gets to Fort Smith is about 185 miles (about 300km), at “a little closer than Texarkana.” (Dallas, fwiw, is about 275 miles/450km from Fort Smith.)

It’s bigger than this.

According to Wikipedia, the poet Mary Karr was born in 1955 and grew up in Groves, Texas and “lived there until she moved to Los Angeles in 1972.” So she would have been there when she was 13 and attempted suicide.

According to Google Maps, the shortest driving distance between Groves, TX and Fort Smith, AR is 439 miles (or 706 km for metric using folks).

That’s almost 8 hours of driving.

Almost 16 hours roundtrip.

(I assume he broke every speed limit he could.)

That’s how much this man loved his daughter.

May we all be worthy of such love.

May we all be capable of giving such love.

It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.