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💜 BTS is/in Art 💜

Let us shine 🌟

ART USED: Starry Night, Edward Henry Potthast (1918)

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Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927) was an American Impressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of people at leisure in Central Park, and on the beaches of New York and New England.

LEARN MORE: https://www.edwardhenrypotthast.org/biography.html

SEE MORE: https://www.wikiart.org/en/edward-henry-potthast

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ARTIST:

Rylo Rodriguez

TEXT TO BH:

"Rapper, Rylo Rodriguez, is using both Jungkook and Jimin's voices as the intro for his song “Excuse me” ( ft. NoCap) without their prior approval / properly crediting them."

AUDIO LINK:

DO NOT CLICK ON IT TO OPEN ON SPOTIFY, just copy it as i pasted it below

https://open.spotify.com/track/4OvbLVxkWQGOYi8fI72mhv?si=725ea02950a84ad0

ARTIST LINK:

https://open.spotify.com/track/4OvbLVxkWQGOYi8fI72mhv?si=d2c4e38cb2284c9a/

ATTACHMENTS:

images show that they were not credited

Breakdown of what to send BH

SPOTIFY REPORTING:

click on his name to get the reporting prompt

if you report him for copyright, spotify prompts it as YOU reporting your intellectual property, so please follow the steps below

Please share and let's get that song taken down.

I kinda figured this awhile ago, so I'm not really surprised lol

It must have been REALLY bad 😕 at the hotel for him to write that message. Ugh.

HAPPY PRIDE!!!.

Festa & Pride, is my freaking jam. I'm so happy around this time of year. Homophobes, Bigenderphobics and racists can't burst my bubble of joy!.

For Pride month, I send an Email to my friends and family that includes organizations around the world to support this entire month, with the intention that a 1 time donation can hopefully turn into a monthly donation!. But any donation, no matter how small makes a difference!.

Please consider these amazing organizations

1. The Astrea Foundation for Justice

About us & Mission statement from their website.

Astrea is a world wide public foundation dedicated in investing in LGBTQI+ activism and organizations that have limited access to funding but are best positioned to make transformative change.

Over the past four decades, Astraea has devoted more than $40,000,000 to grassroots activists in nearly half the world. From Missoula, Montana to Cape Town, Africa, we’ve supported countless struggles and successes in LGBTQI human rights. To learn more about the passionate activists behind these movements for gender, racial, economic, and social justice, take our interactive globe for a spin!

2. The Sylvia Rivera Law Project

(small note: I made a post about Sylvia and Marsha P. Johnson)

This is an organization that is close to my heart, and it's an organization that I recommend to everyone and anyone.

As stated on their website: SRLP is a collective organization founded on the understanding that gender self-determination is inextricably intertwined with racial, social and economic justice. Therefore, we seek to increase the political voice and visibility of low-income people and people of color who are transgender, intersex, or gender non-conforming. SRLP works to improve access to respectful and affirming social, health, and legal services for our communities. We believe that in order to create meaningful political participation and leadership, we must have access to basic means of survival and safety from violence.

3. Outright International

OI is an organization dedicated on working with partners around the globe to strengthen advocacy of LGBTIQ+ human rights movements, and protect LGBTIQ+ people who have been violated of their human rights. OI advocates for inclusions and equality.

A statement from their website: Ensuring human rights for LGBTIQ people everywhere through three strategic program areas

4. Navajo Nation Pride/Diné Pride

Diné Equality is guided by four visionary pillars: Sovereignty, Community, Family, & Traditional Knowledge. We believe in strengthening the sovereignty of our Nation while working with communities to advance LGBTQ+ equality. Our roles and presence strengthen our families while traditional knowledge reaffirms the sacredness of our identities. 

Long before Stonewall, our Sovereign Nations revered & honored our gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer & two-spirit family members. Diné teachings clearly share this history & affirm the sacred roles many of us continue to hold today. 

We are resilient. Together with our families and through compassion, a greater Navajo Nation will come to be. 

5. SAGE: National Resources Center - LGBTQ+ Aging

In an article released by healthjournalism.com it was reported that a study led by Fredriksen-Goldsen and her team surveyed 2,560 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults aged 50-95 across the United States. They found participants had greater rates of disability, depression and loneliness and increased likeliness to smoke and binge-drink compared with heterosexuals of similar ages

As stated on their website: For 40-plus years, SAGE has worked tirelessly on behalf of LGBTQ+ older people. Building off the momentum of the Stonewall uprising and the emerging LGBTQ+ civil rights movement, a group of activists came together to ensure that LGBTQ+ older people could age with respect and dignity. SAGE formed a network of support for LGBTQ+ elders that’s still going and growing today. SAGE is more than just an organization. It’s a movement of loving, caring activists dedicated to providing advocacy, services, and support to older members of the LGBTQ+ community. LGBTQ+ elders fought— and still fight—for our rights. And we will never stop fighting for theirs.

"WE REFUSE TO BE INVISIBLE".

Change in the world and safe spaces for queer people don't just happen, it takes a community; every single person is important and can contribute in our fight for basic human rights!.

If we want to make the world a safe place for people we love and admire, so that they feel like they can live authentically and freely, then we must fight for it.

Every week I'll posting 5 new organizations + advocacy groups that go beyond mainstream so that we can all learn and support the queer community.

Fuck bigotry, fuck prejudice, fuck homophobia

this isn't about a ship, this is about actual queer people, and queer lives. Lets us be the change we want to see in the world.

LOVE WILL ALWAYS WIN!

This is the first post in an upcoming series meant to highlight the BIPOC queer activists who have shaped the world into what it is today. Without BIPOC queer people, the queer movement wouldn't be what it is today. BIPOC have always been at the forefront of the fight for queer liberation, and it's about time that we highlight the heroes and push back on the erasure of their contributions from mainstream media.

Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera

Marsha (17) and Sylvia (11) met each other in 1963.

Marsha herself identified as a drag queen (the term "transgender" was not common in her lifetime) and became an important figure in the New York LGBTQ+ community. She was known to be caring, motherly, and vibrant in her self-expression. 

Sylvia lived on the streets and worked as a sex worker; she also identified as a drag queen. Even from an early age, she, like Marsha, was considered not only a prominent member of the queer community but also someone who nurtured others in the transgender community. 

After mainstream organizations like GAA (at the time) continuously rejected the importance of the roles the trans community played in Stonewall, Johnson & Rivera organized STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries). The entire purpose of STAR was to become a space where trans people could come come together to discuss issues they faced in New York City.

MARSHA P. (PAY IT NO MIND) JOHNSON.. "History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities."- Marsha P. Johnson

Marsha P. Johnson was not only a prominent figure in the Stonewall riots but also a key figure in the gay liberation movement and an important figure in the fight for gender equality. And as I mentioned above, although Johnson didn't officially identify as trans, her pronouns were she/her, and to this day she is still considered a transgender pioneer. With her vibrant and creative personality, she enjoyed making intricate outfits and enjoyed performing in the Drag Community.

Marsha once again gained popularity after the stonewall riots in 1975, when Andy Warhol photographed her for one of his art series. Once the images had been screen-printed, she went with her friends to see the photographs, only to be thrown out by the store owners. The reason why we must acknowledge this is because of the juxtaposition of her situation and the situations that trans people still experience today. While she was a prominent figure in the queer community, her image was being celebrated, and her image was purchased and sold in the art community, Marsha did not receive any valid compensation that would have significantly improve her living conditions.

Marsha lived a life of poverty and did what she could to survive. In the 90's she became a prominent AIDS activist after she contracted AIDS. Her life was cut short in 1992, after she was murdered, her death was wrongfully ruled and after decades, in 2012, the NYPD agreed to re-open her case.

Her murder remains unsolved.

Her legacy continues to inspire trans activism and the resistance movement. It is because of her that many organizations are dedicated to protecting and defending the human rights of Black Trans people; a testament to her spirit and influence that serves as a beautiful reminder that the fight for inclusion continues on

Making Gay Podcast - Marsha P. Johnson

SYLVIA RIVERA. "We have to do it because we can no longer stay invisible. We should not be ashamed of who we are. We have to show the world that we are numerous. There are many of us out there" - Sylvia Rivera.

Sylvia was an overall badass, a take no shit, trailblazing transgender queer Latina who was a prominent figure during the Stonewall Riots/Uprising. Prior to Stonewall, Sylvia was an activist who fought for social justice and was a leader in the Gay Liberation movement.

During her time at STAR, not only did she co-create an environment and home for those in the trans community who needed it the most, but she also continued to tirelessly fight to highlight the struggles that trans POC experienced, especially those living in poverty. She tirelessly fought for the inclusion of transgender people, and in 2022, a New York bill, the "Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act," passed. 

Although she passed away in 2022 at the age of 50, her legacy has endured. Organizations like " The Sylvia Rivera Law Project" that focus on ensuring that all people should be free to self-determine their own gender identity, regardless of income or race

Making Gay History Podcast - Sylvia Rivera

bcs

happy pride y'all

they're gay af

"they're just sitting" well, they're gay sitting, what do you want me to do?

HAPPY PRIDE Y'ALL

bcs

happy pride y'all

they're gay af

"they're just sitting" well, they're gay sitting, what do you want me to do?

If you get mentioned under ANY blog that says they're Tumblr staff. DON'T FALL FOR IT!!!!!!

I barely slept bcs I was thinking about the family members outside of the WC who were pleading for the mx gov to look into the disappearance of their loved ones

130,000 people have been reported missing since 2006 and the gov hasn't done anything to help and are currently trying to silence the protests that are geared towards bringing awareness to this humanitarian crisis

Let’s fucking go

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