Various Queer Things

no more gendered dress codes. no more gender markers on passports, driver's licenses, ids. i'm not talking about "adding x" or "adding a third category" i'm talking about no more categories, period. why does the government need to know what my genital situation is? why does the government feel the need to assign me a sex on the basis of genitals? why does the cop who pulled me over need to see an m, or an f, or an x?

no more "gender is a social construct, sex is the thing that's binary." sex is not binary. abolish the idea that it is. normalize conversations about intersex traits. being intersex is natural. the sex binary is a thing imposed by the state.

no more gendered sports. if you really care about equity, sort people into categories based on skill level and athleticism, not gender or sex. the concept that there are only two sexes and that one is inherently weaker than the other is pseudoscience. the male/female hunter/gatherer dichotomy is not based in fact, and is a product of modern sexist cultural biases. one gender is not inherently subservient to the other. people are not inherently different on the basis of sex or gender. it is just more complicated than that.

the concept of multiple genders and sexes beyond the man/woman male/female dichotomy has existed as long as humans have existed. the sex binary only serves to benefit the patriarchy. the gender binary only serves to benefit the patriarchy. continuing to impose it just controls (and harms) the people it forcibly categorizes.

The Other by omnishambles - word count: 30006

Then it clicks: she means the other one. Ray Kowalski’s back. Ray Vecchio's trying to scrape his life together post-Vegas, and then Kowalski turns up - quiet, unsettled, with a badge that still has Vecchio's name on it and nowhere to go. Why not work together for a while? Both of them are down a partner, after all. A post-canon AU.

Wisely and Slowly by brynnmck - word count: 3799

The first time it happens is a complete fluke.

Reasons that need exploring at this juncture by belmanoir - word count: 10247

After the Quest, Kowalski tries to figure out why he's remained in Chicago, and whether he really belongs there. Also, he and Fraser are roommates and he has the world's biggest crush on Vecchio.

We could be a whole parade by belmanoir - word count: 7910

Kowalski runs into Frannie at ballroom dancing at the Y.

We'll Sweep Out the Ashes in the Morning by ignaz - word count: 19350

Something had happened up there in Canada -- that much Ray knew. Something big, something serious, something that was still aching and raw. He had no idea how Kowalski had managed to stay alive in undercover gigs for so long; the son of a bitch wore his pain like a hairshirt, like a new tattoo so fresh it was still oozing blood.

By His Bootlaces by prudence_dearly word count: 15794

Time Travelling Rays!

In a Little While by brooklinegirl - word count: 9420

I lie awake at night and wait 'til you come in. You stay a little while and then you're gone again. Every question that I ask, I get a lie, lie, lie. - "Cry, Cry Cry" See, that was the thing: Vecchio always had to go.

Trample Down Barbed Wire by catwalksalone - word count: 2364

Ray's never been a fan of confined spaces.

Take Another Road by brooklinegirl - word count: 31927

Ray stared out the front windshield, wishing he had never heard of road trips, or Ray Kowalski, or Benton Fraser, for that matter.

Thursdays by spuffyduds - word count: 5140

AU where the Rays meet between s2 and s3

All These Stupid Things  by sdwolfpup - word count: 1468

Every time he turned around or moved at all it seemed, Kowalski would be there pressed tight up against him or have an arm draped casually near Ray’s thigh and the invitation so obvious in his eyes that Ray was surprised no one else said anything.

Secret Agent Man by aerye - word count: 3562

Secret agents, double agents, guns, microfilm and a gay bartender.

Opportune by seascribble word count: 2699

Kowalski has blown Ray seven (and a half) times total, and Ray's gotten the chance to return the favour exactly never.

dressing bad is like loving you by snoopypez - word count: 1708

Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French author of graphic novel 'Persepolis', dies aged 56 - https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/marjane-satrapi-iranian-french-author-graphic-novel-persepolis-dies-aged-56-2026-06-04/

2026 - 2025 - 2024 - 2023

in spite of it all, happy 2026 pride.

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you can also snag shirts here which go to various orgs: https://mxmorgan.threadless.com/collections/pride

these get reposted a whole lot from here to reddit to twitter to tiktok and on and on, and i don't personally care whether or not i'm credited. i made these for everyone to use, enjoy, and find meaning in them. i appreciate folks who do credit me, but if able, please at least link to the threadless shop in the previous post - folks can get an official shirt where 90% of earnings go to trans led orgs focused on mental health (which is an important matter in general, but very personal to me) and not from a scam bot site selling AI-churned maga garbage where you probably won't get one anyway. i also suggest downloading the files from my ko-fi - they are free/PWYW and you can use them to make your own shirt, patch, embroidery project, whatever. tips are always nice, cuz i do like a pizza now and then, but never required for download.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

similarities: bi4bi Queens, gender as Performance/Movement/Social Role, gender as Costume, shared language of appreciation of said Performance and Costume, Gender as whatever works for the Bit (but taking the gender itself deadly seriously), whip-sharp bitchy rebukes against overt/covert bigotry, comedic exaggeration of queerness as a defence against bigotry and because it’s fun, pronoun hoarders, open queerness as a lens through which their relationships to others are largely defined, queerness as a lens through which large portions of their idealism, hard work, and kindness is defined, emotionally splayed open and therefore easy targets, but that’s also one of their strengths – resisting becoming hardened by the beat downs, both of them have been hurt substantially by people they opened their hearts to, both of them deserve to be treated like princesses, both of them seem to come from close-knit communities in which their queerness was more accepted than it would be immediately outside of those bubbles, Drag of any kind turns them both on, I feel like they’ve both played “the girl’s role” in a school play at some point and made out with someone of any gender while in that costume/role, non-religious? Judaism/Islam as another kind of Camp, overall the Knowing Queer/Gender Play of them both – including around/playing off of each other

differences: loose-limbed middle-class (previously naïve and maybe still a bit) dandy (Hawkeye) vs working class wiry pragmatic about how the world works queer (Klinger), Klinger as a lesbian/mainly attracted to women and gender non-conformity (have yet to land on where I think their tastes in men stand), Hawkeye as attracted to masculinity, butchness, gender non-conformity, and simply Capable People, “I’m just a silly boy who doesn’t know when to stop talking in order to avoid violence against my person” Hawkeye vs “I’ll fist-fight you right now in the parking-lot for mocking my lace and/or Toledo” Klinger