soft grunge Gandalf

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.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

WSPTOTC Pride Flag

Pride Flag but for people who think Pride should be a respectable SFW event free of sexual debauchery and provocative clothing. Differs from the Gilbert Baker Design in that its colors are sampled from this image of Reverand Lovejoy's Wife screaming "Won't someone please think of the children"

there is something truly wild about how, in every single public conversation about trans rights or trans issues, cis men will leap six feet into the air in their haste to say WELL I KNOW WOMEN, AND WOMEN DON'T WANT MEN IN THEIR SPACES INVALIDATING THEM AND TALKING OVER THEM

would you be able to share this link that is asking people to write to their MPs about the EHRC code of practice changes affecting trans people?

https://writetheletter.bimini.workers.dev/

there's instructions and a template letter people can use, and a link the petition. there's only 30 days left before it comes into effect.