as a queer person #FellowTravelers already means a lot, but THIS episode8-finale ep-ending scene? this scene means absolutely the world, it's everything, for all of us.🌈

can't watch it without sobbing. (the scene in great quality here yt:https://youtu.be/idAVsSuDCFY)

(please do check the WHOLE post, and watch How to Survive a Plague 2012, it's a MUST watch (+everything you spot in this post)

+important reading about AIDS/HIV: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=about-aids-hiv

(reply with a scene that has made you cry. yes. ALWAYS)https://x.com/TheCinesthetic/status/1983224241139982825

+ a special episode where we hear(literally) from listeners of the show who were lovers, nurses, relatives, students, and friends of people who died from AIDS. (have tissues nearby):https://open.spotify.com/episode/4rTjExVqMVoEtCVPISSW5t?si=Dx09EVStQAiNHoTYvwZvFw & https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-a-bit-fruity-with-matt-ber-117844074/episode/stories-from-the-aids-crisis-191687576/ +ofc THIS ep w Peter Staley :https://open.spotify.com/episode/1bpmgbS56oqjpLdhFqPhFQ?si=PKVw0V_MRx-ajGmVF-GM4Q (this ep of the podcast vid on ytube link below in the post(also ep on iheart link below as well!)

Pride history posts on here seem almost exclusively to revolve around Stonewall which can leave the impression that America is the only place where anything important ever happened and obviously is not true so I have compiled a few links where you can learn about LGBTQ history in other countries! Feel free to add-notes and reblogs here-PLEASE READ IT ALL AND EDUCATE YOURSELF!!:https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/803104552673017856?source=share &https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/803104552673017856/god-forbid-that-i-romanticise-this?source=share

“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night”-Dan Savage/https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/777008124502671360?source=share

!https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/782001747900104705/im-watching-that-documentary-before-stonewall?source=share

.https://yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere.tumblr.com/post/774106565074731008 &https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/774106565074731008?source=share &https://www.tumblr.com/our-queer-experience/774047280444702720/source &https://www.tumblr.com/our-queer-experience/774047280444702720/source?source=share +https://www.tumblr.com/avesseloflanguage/774266385160355840 &https://www.tumblr.com/teaboot/774248223494848512/they-turned-it-inyo-a-different-fucking-piece-like &https://www.tumblr.com/avesseloflanguage/774266385160355840?source=share +https://www.tumblr.com/deuterosapiens/774258045319528448/if-this-doesnt-piss-you-off-this-should-piss-you &https://www.tumblr.com/deuterosapiens/774258045319528448/if-this-doesnt-piss-you-off-this-should-piss-you?source=share +https://www.tumblr.com/our-queer-experience/774337057815511040/boykeats-queerembraces-i-cried-the-first-time-i & https://yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere.tumblr.com/post/757306028817809408 ,https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/757306028817809408?source=share &https://yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere.tumblr.com/post/757306086676168704/nobrashfestivity-david-wojnarowicz1988 ,https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/757306086676168704/nobrashfestivity-david-wojnarowicz1988?source=share &https://yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere.tumblr.com/post/757305994597580800 ,https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/757305994597580800?source=share &https://yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere.tumblr.com/post/757305744641212416 ,https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/757305744641212416?source=share

(+IMPORTANT) (Nov,2023)-A Bit Fruity Podcast (created by Matt Bernstein (gay American Jewish man) Ep with Moe Dabbagh, a gay Palestinian American with family currently in Gaza. ‘Queers for Palestine & The Power of Pinkwashing’. Palestine has been occupied for more than 76 years now, since 1948 year. This ep gives you a LOT of information, especially if you are one of the people who can’t see right through the propaganda; or the ones who go ‘well if you’re gay then go to Gaza and see how that goes for you’. Queer Liberation is a liberation of Palestinian people. We can’t have one without the other. Free Palestine. Free all the people that are not yet free. This is where we start!! Ep on youtube :https://youtu.be/Xsgdk-DDSXc on spotify :https://open.spotify.com/episode/62WOjKJYih6lhuisP8tmZH?si=soRArGs1QeWqEzEaiSVlUg on iheartcom:https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-a-bit-fruity-with-matt-ber-117844074/episode/queer-palestinians-the-power-of-129612460/(keep learning & keep showing up!)

!!.http://alqaws.org/siteEn/index & https://queersinpalestine.noblogs.org/ + https://www.instagram.com/queersinpalestine/

-sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they were all alone who imagined a world where they could live openly as themselves who met in secret spoke in code defied everything and everyone just to exist and i’m like..i gotta sit down. whew i gotta sit down....THIS POST:https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/764660637347561472/katherinebarlow-phantom-tail-mortuarybees?source=share

+ also queer history/facts from RWRB(Alex engaging with queer history)(thank you SO. MUCH. CASEY MCQUISTON!!)-GREAT POST here on tumblr!!-many links here, lots of information! (Waterloo Vase, Stonewall, SCOTUS decision 2015, Walt Whitman, Laws of Illinois 1961, The White Nights Riots, Paris Is Burning, THAT David Wojnarowicz photo 'If I Die Of AIDS-Forget Burial-Just Drop My Body On The Steps Of The F.D.A' https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/757305651356729344?source=share (I encourage you to research more about David!!) , Thisbe & Pyramus, The V & A, James I & George Villiers and MORE!!) https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/757308307835895808?source=share (Learning about things referenced in Red, White & Royal Blue, thank you @ elipheleh)

+ https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/743725164968214528?source=share

.https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/823013644331794432/billie-joe-armstrong-literally-wrote-a-song-about?source=share-(I could add so MANY people to this list. and yet ppl from within our lgbtqia+ community will argue with us bisexuals and tell us that bisexual erasure or biphobia are not a real issue.)

+ https://yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere.tumblr.com/post/746941244472786944/so-alright-here-are-the-moviesmedia-that-make

BOOKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BISEXUAL HISTORY & ACTIVISM:https://www.tumblr.com/ruimtetijd/686000390089621504/list-of-books-about-bi-history-and-activism-from &https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=bi-bisexual-characters-done-well &https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q--nIkJu0OS0BgiyZmdKVwOVg1G90SFzWijNDWFTt58/edit#heading=h.wqkaxpi7o5je

.https://anythingthatmovesarchive.carrd.co/ &https://anythingthatmovesarchive.carrd.co/#scans &https://anythingthatmovesarchive.carrd.co/#about

+ https://www.queeringthemap.com/

+ https://www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-aids-quilt

+ https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/752340111366160384/this?source=share

+Thank You Howard Ashman, I love you forever, so many of us are here and sane because of Your legacy and impact.(DISNEY-QUEER SONGS-MUSIC-POST):https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/753605532240216064/howard-ashman-i-love-you-forever-so-many-of-us?source=share &https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/754612616112046080?source=share

about Howard, about AIDS, listen to the song 'Sheridan Square' if you haven't yet, Howard wrote it with Alan Menken. And yes, it makes me sob every single time i hear it: .https://open.spotify.com/track/5p61V1pNfa4qoZIxm6apex?si=a32ca6011ab44782 &https://youtu.be/-4fr8JGkeO4 &https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97-NzeIkkJI&list=OLAK5uy_l7U2qdUmOPfgWwmsCA0cc_-KDxwjMj5zM +Learn more :https://stanforddaily.com/2019/06/05/sheridan-square/ & please research more about Howard, there's a lot of Him in THIS IMPORTANT post because we, queer people, owe him so so much.

♥.https://open.spotify.com/playlist/19uKl8PZixNjsMBBqSP1bf?si=e6186d9a0a824679 &https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0X8DlZ8X0q9Pzvqq857XlV?si=fa85b32666b94e74 &https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6vdBgNpWvIwjCLD2JrJwxj?si=3274258c86f842

.https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/768931499443699712/historium-second-national-march-on-washington?source=share &https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/768929949815128064?source=share &https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/768929469101686784?source=share

+ :

+ https://twitter.com/beames_josh/status/1500938296209199108 + https://twitter.com/beames_josh/status/1500935379154657281

+once you're here check out this important post(s):

bi ig highlight : https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18280848235083086/

also i recommend this podcast ‘A Little Queer Podcast’ by two incredible bisexual people Capri Campeau and Ashley Whitfield. episode linked here, ‘Debunking Bisexual Myths and Stereotypes’ :https://open.spotify.com/episode/3wcP8HBIY0IyVxROjpZPNg?si=TIHDv-eFQi-mdsCS6zKzNA (all covered here for real!) +also check ‘A Bit Fruity Podcast’ by Matt Bernstein (very educating one!!) + Bisexual Brunch Podcast (UK) by 3 bisexual people, 2 men and 1 woman! here:https://open.spotify.com/show/3tH2DAjYrk2cXdYRSqt5nS?si=2ae6bb60b1534366

let’s talk about biphobia/Kit Connor (Max Hovey TikTok) important video:https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/770851818143186944?source=share +Bisexuality has never excluded trans and non-binary people. Please stop spreading this lie. It actively harms trans/n-b bi people and bi people with trans/n-b partners. STOP BI ERASURE :https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/770848612526735360?source=share + WHAT IS BISEXUAL ERASURE:https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/770848534830399488?source=share+ ‘ANYTHING THAT MOVES’ ATM 90s Bisexual Magazine is Shockingly Relevant Today--- Despite the joy of reading this bi-centric work, however, it's telling how little has changed since 1991--The first several stanzas of "This Poem Can Be Put Off No Longer" by Susan Carlton, featured in the first issue of 'Anything That Moves.' Credit: Anything That Moves / The poem continues, but the point is clear from the start: Bisexual people aren't believed for who they are. They're belittled and told to "choose a side," that they're bisexual for attention. It's difficult to think that this poem is over 30 years old. The poem "truly could've been written yesterday... or 50 years ago," said Marshall. "How long do we have to keep screaming the same things to the world over and over until people stop pretending we're speaking another galaxy's language?" --- The solace of Anything That Moves, however, is that even though progress has been slow, fellow bisexual people can relate to the shared experience detailed in its pages.:https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/770848263124500480?source=share

HIV/AIDS Activists stacked more than 200 coffins in front of the State Department Thursday April 17, 2025 to protest the devastation of global HIV-fighting programs by Donald Trump’s administration.

Due to PEPFAR funding cuts 20million people globally will lose access to HIV treatment (220,000 people per day including 7000 children/day). PEPFAR also supports >90% of global PrEP treatments. Some estimates put deaths due to the funding cuts will be at 100,000 or more from AIDS related causes in the first 3months following funding cancellation.

"Peter Staley was a 24-year-old closeted finance guy in New York City when he was diagnosed with HIV. Having been handed a death sentence, he devoted whatever life he had left to fighting against the homophobic Reagan and Bush administrations that were letting him and his friends die. When lifesaving drugs became available (largely thanks to his work), Peter realized he was going to live — which left him with more questions than answers."

I can’t believe my luck! While visiting friends, I stopped by the Best Bookstore in Palm Springs and happened upon HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ+ activist Peter Staley signing copies of his stellar memoir “Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism.”

I was overjoyed and in awe. Peter was gracious and lovely. Turns out, he enjoyed the audiobook of “My Government Means to Kill Me,” narrated by Jelani Alladin! My heart is still aflutter.