TeslatheDog’s Blog

Instead of calling it “Pride Month” or events “Pride Events”, I suggest calling it “Judy Garland Month” or “Judy Garland events!” Why her you may ask? This is an important piece of LGBTQ+ history! (and her birthday is also in June too)

Judy Garland is best known for her starring role as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, aka one of the most famous and beloved films of all time, but she also has had a massive presence in the queer community way long back before it was legal to have gay marriage in the first place. We could talk all day on how many queer people in the closet identified with so much of Dorothy and the very story itself, like the song “Over the Rainbow” as well as showing kindness to characters who felt as out of place with themselves in different ways. And Judy Garland’s overall life is one queer men have felt a lot of sympathy for her around. She was considered “The Elvis of Homosexuals” during her later concert years where Hollywood threw her away so she had to rely on her legacy and her dedicated and nostalgic fanbase and still amazing singing voice to survive while still not recovering from drug addiction. (That drug addiction later took her life in 1969 at age 47)

I could go on and on about phrase “Friend of Dorothy” and all the many queer lives she’s positively impacted all before the events of Stonewall, but I know someone might ask “Why do all that when we could just start a riot? The first Pride was a riot after all!”

And to that question, I have one of my own:

“Who says we can’t riot during the festivities?”

Think about it, if anyone from the dear MAGA police tries to bust down any of these events, go nuts! Anyone dressed as the Tin Man could have their costumes double as baton armor! Be resourceful and creative with what you have in situations like those! Imagine a pride month where something like that would happen! It would be beautiful!

You're based in Europe, right? Could you help out signal-boosting this European citizens initiative to ban conversion therapy in the EU?

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

I don't think I have to explain the horrors of conversion therapy to you, so let me explain how this initiative works.

For it to get taken seriously by the EU, we need two things:

7 countries need to reach the minimum threshold of signatures for their country. We're currently at 6 out of 7! Slovenia only needs 300 more signatures to become country number 7!

We need a total of 1 million signatures. This might look daunting, but there days ago we were still at 200.000. Yesterday we were at 450.00. We are at 535.000 right now. So we have a long way to go, but we are moving fast!

The deadline is in a few days, on May 17.

Anybody with a European citizenship can add their name to the pile! If we reach the right amount, the official citizen initiative will be put before the EU Commission.

With lgbtq+ rights getting rolled back across the world, including Europe, there is no time to lose to demand stronger protections.

I heard about the tornadoes in St. Louis on the news tonight. I hope you and your cats are okay :(

I’m honestly feeling kinda angsty lately and want to also try out new brushes I got and I love drawing Max lol

Cuphead - "Era consistency"

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I couldn’t help myself to do this because I saw the image below ⬇️