Well-Adjusted Queer Kids

the song is for anyone

In 1941, Manfred Lewin (left), a young Jewish man living in Nazi Berlin, made a small book of poems and pictures. He gave this book to his boyfriend, Gad Beck (right), as they waited out an air raid together.

This made my day!

A group of the TOP African-American and Latina strippers in New York City have gone ON STRIKE. The dancers are claiming that they will NOT return to work until clubs give them EQUAL TREATMENT with bartenders.

According to the DE FACTO LEADER of the NYC Stripper Strike – a dancer named Gizelle – bartenders get preferential treatment at NYC clubs. And the drink pourers often make MORE money than the dancers – even though they NEVER have to take off their clothes.

#nycstripperstrike #sexwork

This has been true for a long time, but it’s coming at a good time, as Massachusetts and other states try to increase penalties for any positive people who do any sort of sexual activity regardless of odds.

Activist Charlotte Haley created the first ribbon for breast cancer in 1990, and when the Estee Lauder corporation approached her for a marketing partnership, she refused to help them profit from this disease.  Despite her refusal, Estee Lauder altered the color and used her idea as a marketing campaign, generating millions in profit for a corporation that sells carcinogenic products. 

My submission for Vol. 3 of the Lilies Anthology: Not Her Biggest Fan! 🌸 A short story about a celebrity and her makeup artist. Hope you like :^)c

The Lilies Anthology is a women’s romance magazine that features original art and comics focusing on lesbian romance!! This volume’s theme was silence! (Meaning no text/written language)

DO NOT GIVE MONEY TO THE RED CROSS.

www.mariafund.org goes directly to the front lines in Puerto Rico,

“Asian Lesbians in San Francisco: Struggles to Create a Safe Space, 1970s-1980s,” Trinity A. Ordona, in Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology, 2003 [starts on p. 319]

“Tomboy, Dyke, Lezzie, and Bi: Filipina Lesbian and Bisexual Women Speak Out,” Christine T. Lipat, Trinity A. Ordona, Cianna Pamintuan Steward, and Mary Ann Ubaldo, in Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory (2005)

“Slicing Silence: Asian Progressives Come Out,” Daniel C. Tsang, in Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment, 2001

“Sexuality, Identity, and the Uses of History,” Nayan Shah, in Q & A: Queer in Asian American, 1998 [starts on p. 141]

“Subverting Seductions,” Gupta, Unruly Immigrants, 2007 [starts on p. 159]

“Queer Asian American Historiography,” Amy Sueyoshi, in The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History, 2016 [contains discussion of csa]

“Miss Morning Glory: Orientalism and Misogyny in the Queer Writings of Yone Noguchi,” Amy Sueyoshi, in Amerasia Journal, 2011

“Breathing Fire: Remembering Asian Pacific American Activism in Queer History,” Amy Sueyoshi, in LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, 2016

“Looking for Jiro Onuma: A Queer Meditation on the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II,“ Tina Takemoto, in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2014