LGBT BRAZILIANS TAKE CARE WITH DATING APPS AND GRINDR, THEY WILL BE USED TO TARGET VICTIMS PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST
ALSO!!!!!!!!!!!!
In Whatsapp (the most used messaging app in Brazil), if you receive a contact from a “juridical support group for LGBT+ people who are being harassed” called “REAJA”, DO NOT INTERACT!!!!!!! Apparently, this is not a real support group but it’s a trap that are targeting LGBT+ people to physically harm them. They people behind “REAJA” have very malicious intentions.
Be careful and stay safe!!!!!!!
I received the contact of Reaja on sunday night. My friends and I thought it seemed pretty weird so we blocked it… We were right.
‘In the center of Bebelplatz, a glass window showing rows and rows of empty bookshelves. The memorial commemorates the night in 1933 when 20,000 “anti-German” books were burned here under the instigation of Goebbels. There’s a plaque nearby that says something like “Where they burn books, they will also burn humans in the end.” ’
Interesting but rarely mentioned: most of the content burned that night came from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (institute for the science of sex) headed by Magnus Hirschfeld. The institute and Hirshfeld himself were some of the first to openly campaign for the right to have sex with someone of the same gender, the right to transition if you did not identify with your birth sex and for the general acceptance of queer people. The team had already performed the first SRS operations in Germany and in addition, the institute advocated sex education, contraception, the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and women’s emancipation. Photographs of the night of the book burning are plastered across history books world wide, but the queer movement that was destroyed that night often goes unmentioned.
To all of my trans sisters, you are unbelievably strong.
I’m trans ftm. I could always experiment with masculine things with no repercussions. I was a tomboy growing up, and no one had a problem with it. I cut my hair short and only wore flannels and jeans, and no one batted an eye.
Meanwhile, a dear friend of mine is a trans woman. The second she grows out her hair and does pretty things with it, or paints her nails, she’s attacked. She’s bullied for these small feminine things that she does.
Trans feminine people, you have my ultimate respect. While I could skate under the radar as “just a tomboy,” anything feminine you do is scrutinized and attacked.
And while I’m at it, all y’all LGBTQ+people and allies need to protect trans people, no matter how they present or act or anything. We’re all in this together. Protect your trans family. We all have it rough.
it’s important for lgbt characters to be the main character and gay relationships to be the main relationship. when all the content lgbt people receive is background characters and barely mentioned side relationships it makes lgbt people seem like background people, like side characters. lgbt people deserve to be the hero of their stories and our media needs to reflect that. in this essay i will
I’ve been seeing a lot of nb people struggling with how to identify lately so I want to clear up a few misconceptions.
“Cis” is just short for “cisgender.” It isn’t an acronym. It’s an abbreviation. It doesn’t mean you’re “comfortable in [your own] skin.” It means that you 100% identify with the binary gender you were assigned at birth.
Being cis isn’t about loving your body or not wanting to change your body. Anyone can love their bodies or feel comfortable in them.
“Trans” is just short for “transgender.” It’s an abbreviation. It doesn’t mean “transitioning.” It means you don’t 100% identify with your assigned binary gender at birth. For many, that means they identify 100% with the other binary gender. But it could also mean identifying outside the binary.
So nonbinary people can call themselves trans, even if they aren’t transitioning from one binary to another. Obviously, no one has to call themselves trans. But nonbinary identities are inherently not cis, and can fall under the trans label if you feel comfortable with it.
The act of transitioning doesn’t have to mean that you get surgery on both the top and bottom of your body and change your name and presentation and all that other stuff. You can transition without getting surgery or by only getting some surgery. You can transition by changing your presentation only a little or a lot or not at all. You can transition by changing your name even if you don’t do it legally. Transition looks different from everyone and so the fact that you aren’t doing it in one very specific way doesn’t mean you aren’t doing it or aren’t capable of doing it. And frankly, you don’t have to transition at all. You could keep the same name and pronouns and presentation and everything if you want. Identifying as nonbinary is enough. You don’t have to do more than that to prove you’re not cis.
Gender =/= presentation. You can present as feminine or as masculine as you want and it has no effect on whether you’re really nonbinary or not.
Your pronouns don’t determine your gender. Use whatever feels comfortable for you. If you are afab and want to go by “she,” that is just as valid as being afab and going by “they” or “ze” or anything else. You aren’t cis just because you don’t feel comfortable using unique, new, or complex pronouns. Using common or gendered pronouns is okay.
Yes, you can be nonbinary even if you’re x orientation. Orientations almost never require you to be binary, and those that do don’t usually need you to be 100% binary, so asking, “can I be nb if I’m also bi/pan/demi/whatever” isn’t necessary. Nb lesbians exist so why can’t you be nb and your orientation?
The only orientation I can’t picture an nb person being is straight, because we don’t have an opposite binary gender to which to be attracted. But I understand if you feel like there isn’t a better word for you.
There are orientations coined just for nb people. It might be worth looking them up if you’re feeling confused. But remember that you don’t have to identify with them. Nb people can be a lot of different orientations. You don’t have to choose one that you don’t feel works for you just because you’re nonbinary. There is no one orientation nonbinary people have to be.
You’re not less nb if you’re not sure what gender you are yet. All you need to know right now is that you’re not 100% binary.
Yes, you can be nb even if you partially identify with your assigned gender at birth.
No, you don’t need to have a hyper specific gender identity. Yes, it’s okay if you have a hyper specific identity. Both vague and specific identities are valid, so use whatever feels right to you.
Yes, it’s okay if you don’t experience dysphoria. No, you don’t need dysphoria to be trans or nb.
You don’t have to be aligned with any binary gender. Yes, it’s okay if you are.
Yes, it’s okay to change your label or explore new labels. Yes, it’s okay if you don’t want to label yourself right now. No, changing your label a bunch doesn’t make you invalid. Yes, it’s okay to question your gender. No, you’re not a bad person if you thought you were x and you’re actually y. Yes, it’s okay if one day you decide you’re not really nonbinary.
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