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This Brand Is Making Swimwear For The Trans Community

A lot of transguys or masculine people aren’t comfortable with wearing a bikini top, so they get stuck wearing shirts in the summertime, or settling for something that doesn’t make them feel confident.

The Rhodes siblings are currently fundraising for the Bareskin Top, which comes in four skin-tone options, on Kickstarter

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Can I say all of it? 

No that would be cheating, but I may bend the question a bit and say a huge focus for me is showing queer history outside of the United States and UK. 

If I was forced to pick a particular moment that I wish people knew more about I would say the Hays Code, just because it would make it so much easier to discuss queer media in a nuanced way with more context. 

Articles focusing on that:

The Future of Queer Media

Queen Christina, Queer Codes and Queer Coding (Part 2)

Queen Christina, Queer Codes and Queer Coding(Part 1)

Different from the Others, the Beginning

I am sure there is some hypocrisy in saying history outside of the US and then listing off something that happened in the US, I will make it worse and quote the American poet Walt Whitman:

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.

[Image Description: Ita Rosenzweig and her cousin Frieda Belinfante walk down a street in Warsaw/Poland.]

Frieda Belinfante

In a world like ours, women like Frieda Belinfante are dearly needed. The first woman in Europe to be artistic director, conductor of an ongoing professional orchestral ensemble, and cellist, she was a woman who put her passions to the side when it became evident that the world around her needed something more. Let us look together at Frieda Belinfante, a queer woman who shaped the world and protected those around her. (Read Full Article)

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THE WESTERN IDEA OF TWO GENDERS IS EXACTLY THAT

WESTERN

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Y’all wanna help out a trans content maker? I make a comic called Eerie Crests.

set in a quiet little town in Oregon, the main character is a mentally ill transboy named Dallas Margolin who is in love, and searching for his missing, declared dead best friend, Malek Solh

It’s spooky, filled with creepy crawly forest critters and sad gay kids who hunt for aliens

 currently ongoing and updates every month sporadically

Did someone say… Twentygayteen? 

Even if you don’t listen to the show, we’d really appreciate if you could reblog this or tell your friends about it! We’re working on a fortnightly schedule, the next episode will be posted 28th April, but we won’t be able to create more episodes without people to ask questions so it’s important that we get the word out there.

Even if you don’t listen to the show, we’d really appreciate if you could reblog this or tell your friends about it! We’re working on a fortnightly schedule, the next episode will be posted 28th April, but we won’t be able to create more episodes without people to ask questions so it’s important that we get the word out there.