read the rainbow

The people at Stonewall were gay, bi, trans, bipoc, and usually poor or homeless. They were worried about where they were going to sleep that night, not that some wealthy white woman that their parents grew up with died. That's like saying a bunch of Gen Z kids would riot if Bernadette Peters died. It just doesn't make sense.

The association with her and the riots came to be because newspapers knew nothing about gay culture besides Judy being beloved by a specific demographic of gay men. The specks of gay representation at the time featured nearly exclusively that demographic. They made the assumption that, because her funeral was two days before, the riots had something to do with her. The narrative newspapers went with was a bunch of gay men were being overdramatic and cops had to stop them. T

cw: I talk about sex in terms of media and briefly mention kink

I'm ace and have become sex repulsed when it comes to irl sex. No part of me wants to ever have sex again. Which is strange because I used to really enjoy it mentally and physically. It was a slow shift where I thought maybe I was demi or gray ace, but realized in the past year or so that I'm ace.

I enjoy sex in media sometimes, but never in a sexual way. It can be fun and interesting. A lot of it is boring though. It does nothing for the plot and I hate it. It's the same kind of sex (cishet, white, missionary or unrealistic positions) and has the same issues with the male gaze. That's not what I think is interesting. There are times when it's beautiful. Like on Wynonna Earp with the staircase. Or in the book Eight Kinky Nights by Xan West.

What is it about media sex that I'm not repulsed by? No idea. Maybe I'm used to it? It's expected? What I liked about Succession was the lack of sex (and the joy in hating every character lol) It was discussed and implied, but not as in-your-face as it is in other shows. I'm an older person and that's the kind of stuff I want more of. Less sex, more interesting dialogue, but that's unrealistic.

Everyone I know is either full-on sex repulsed and can't even watch fade to black scenes, allosexual, or they don't have any strong feelings about it. It feels kind of lonely sometimes not having people who relate to this.

I am going to be sharing books with LGBTQ+ representation all month long. Yesterday and today I made posts on my blog about books with aromantic and asexual representation. It's not every single book with those representations that exists, but thing me and my friends like and felt represented by :)

Welcome to day one of "Read the Rainbow”

Each day, I’m going to be sharing books focusing on an identity in the LGBTQ+ community.

Today’s focus is on “aromantic”

Check this out to find out what aromantic means and find some cool books with aromantic main characters :)

I quit after the 5th chapter. The first 20 minutes were very "Look at me! I'm an activist" and "What about the cis straight women?" Self-proclaiming on her website that her book is "the first book to honor the ways women changed the course of the epidemic" is incorrect. There have been dozens of books about lesbians and bi women's contributions to the AIDS epidemic since around mid-AIDS-pandemic. Does the author not consider lesbian and bi women to be women then? Does she view only straight women as real women?

For most of what I read she didn't say anything positive about gay men. It has only been complaining about how they 'mistreated' her for being straight or that she wanted gay men without AIDS to help her do the literal heavy lifting at work. It felt like any second she was going to say "Breeder is heterophobic!" She spent a few minutes complaining about the lack of representation in AIDS media centering on straight women's contributions. Because nothing says you're an ally like whining about millions of deaths not being centered around you... It would be different if she was talking about the need for women's representation as a whole in AIDS storytelling because THAT is actually looked over. But AIDS-free straight women? Sit the fuck down.