lgbtq
The letters LGBTQ are just another way of saying that Love is Love.
Over Glorified
Many times, humans over glorify the lives of transgender people. Let it be known that being transgender is nothing to be glorified and is quite traumatic. In fact, 41 percent of teens that are transgender and experience the difficulties of living their true self attempt suicide. Many people do not understand this so... Picture this:
By Nick Jimenez8 years ago in Humans
A Black Gay Experience
It's interesting when sharing my gay experience with white gays. They sometimes feel like they can relate with my experience, which usually ends up in them overshadowing my experience with their experiences. To an extent, I agree that we gays have some common experiences, but just because it says "Gay" on the badge, doesn't mean you and I wear the same coloured badge. So this is like, a memo for white gays everywhere.
By Isoa Tupua8 years ago in Humans
A History of Transgender People, Volume III
The intense West African sun beats down on the Bandiagara Escarpment in central Mali. Against the escarpment’s face, tucked in the shadow of a large outcropping, is a village that; if one saw only a photograph, one could be forgiven for assuming it was an old Hopi or Anasazi village in the American Sonora. However, this village is inhabited by a people called the Dogon. The Hogon, the spiritual elder of the village, tells a story:
By Sophia-Helene Mees de Tricht8 years ago in Humans
The Big Problem with 'the Art of Being Normal' by Lisa Williamson
To start, lets give you the basic context you need. The Art Of Being Normal is a book that centres around two main characters, David and Leo. David is a trans girl coming to grips with his gender identity. At the beginning of the book we find out that he plans to tell his parents very soon. He’s a very stereotypically feminine and weak character. He occasionally gets teased but the worst happens when a kid from school finds his "inspection" book. It’s basically a notebook in which he notes down signs of puberty, like Adam’s apple growth, pubic hair details, height, and more personal things. Leo, the other main character, then steps into and punches the bully, stopping him from reading aloud the details from the book.
By Ben Richards8 years ago in Humans
To the Girl Who I Told She Was Going to Go to Hell
In 2011, my two best friends decided that they were going to take me to a Church Youth Group. I was desperate for somewhere to belong, and I already believed God, I'd read the bible, I was raised Catholic and, I had no reason not to believe in what I had been taught. I skipped merrily along with my friends.
By Bea Jaymes8 years ago in Humans
My First Lesbian Relationship Pt. 5
So I left off in part four with my fiancé landing her Starbucks job. This was literally the greatest thing at that time for her. She wasn't herself with everything that had happened in the past few months. My fiancé finally found the light at the end of the tunnel... BUT it was a struggle.
By Jordan Payne8 years ago in Humans
Can You Be Gay and Straight at the Same Time?
The human experience is incredibly complex, and something that we fail to accurately define no matter how hard we try (and we do truly try to define everything.) As a society, it can sometimes feel as though we have embarked upon an endless pursuit of meaningless, redundant labels to explain every thought and feeling human beings have. However, for some people labels are an incredibly important part of their experience, and that can offer an insight into parts of themselves they previously didn't know how to understand. Labels can serve as the explanation people feel like they ought to have for their behaviour. In such a restrictive society, labels can actually allow for the self-expression a person would otherwise have felt uncomfortable with.
By Ziggy Moth8 years ago in Humans
A History of Transgender People, Volume II
In a time approximately 500-1500 years after the Mesopotamian cultures shared stories about Asu-Shu-Namir rescuing the goddess of love from the underworld, the Ancient Greeks had arisen, formed complex sea-spanning empires, developed a very silly beef with Troy, destroyed Troy, forgotten how to write, relearned how to write, but with a better alphabet this time, and wrote quite extensively about the stories they had told themselves when they forgot how to write.
By Sophia-Helene Mees de Tricht8 years ago in Humans
A History of Transgender People, Volume I
Important note: Historiography is a living science. It evolves with the sensibilities of those who practice it and the cultures that consume it. It's the science of how we do history. Originally, the idea posed by the Greek historians was to pass on a story that was engaging and compelling and they would use that story to tie in a moral. Obviously, modern historians tend to shy away from this model in favor of a more rigorously sourced and researched method that is much harder to read.I'm not a professional historian, and as such, I'm not bound to the state of the science for the sake of my professional reputation, such that it is. So I am free to tell an engaging story at the expense of not having ready access to primary sources, because again, I'm a hack. And because I'm a hack, I'm going to try to make sure that you won't get bored of my writing. So I'll keep it relatively short, tell one story, and break my combined knowledge up into ten sections.
By Sophia-Helene Mees de Tricht8 years ago in Humans
