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Can someone remind me where this mural is/was in Brighton?
ETA: apparently it’s on the side of this Tesco Express in Kemptown.
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Bought these at pride. Obviously the intention is sapphic, but I think they’re also really cool as a feminist statement.
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i’m not usually someone who hankers after tropical paradises but these @Kahuku pictures from @BigIslandPride in Hawaii are so gorgeous and happy and sunny. Look at that dog with his little mustache! Click here to see the full set.
EDIT II: It’s closed now so I’ve got rid of the stonewall pic and we can all go about our lives as normal.
EDIT: ”The consultation is live and open for responses until midnight 14 June 2012.”
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This is your last chance to fill in the Government Constultation on Equal Marriage in England and Wales.
You don’t have to register or give your name or anything like that and you can, if you give simple answers, do it in 5 minutes.
After the jump are the answers I gave. Feel free to cut and paste any/all of them if you agree.
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Incident: LGBT blog Queerty use the slurs “LUG”, “hasbian” and “lezzie”
Because I’m a huge dork :D I’ve sent an incident report to @glaad about Queerty’s recent biohobia.
I’ve reproduced it below so that if you have two minutes spare :D you can copy it and file a report about it yourself HERE.
If you do, perhaps put in a line about how you read about it on a friend’s blog so they know we’re not spam? Idk.
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In reporting on an interview in which the actress Gillian Anderson disclosed that she’s had relationships with women, Queerty referred to her as a “lesbian until graduation” (in their headline), a “hasbian” and a “lezzie”.
“Lesbian until graduation” and “hasbian” are both slurs used to belittle women who are or have been in the past, attracted to women.
In Queerty’s Terms of Service, it requires that its users agree not to post, submit, or otherwise make available content which “degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender [or] sexual orientation.” The post’s comment section contains a number of posts that don’t keep to this rule.
When faced with criticism over the article on twitter, Queerty responded with a series of unfriendly, unprofessional, and transphobic tweets. They refused to acknowledge what they had published was inappropriate and accused critics of being “haters” (https://twitter.com/#!/Queerty/status/180007144303771648).
While their official account asserted that they “cover bisexual issues very thoughtfully”, staffer D. Evan Mulvihill (@EMulvz) mocked critics of the blog in a series of tweets including: “Apparently if bi person tells me Lamp is a bi slur I don’t get to correct them. Who’s having their cake and eating it, too, in so many ways?” (https://twitter.com/#!/EMulvz/status/180034445783470080)
Please take a stand against the biphobic and lesbophobic language Queerty is using & defending.
Please note: Anderson has not, as far as I’m aware, disclosed how she identifies her orientation.
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Emma Watson is not at all adorable - she is horrid and all the ways she’s worn her hair since she got it cut have been ever so slightly wrong which pisses me off for a few reasons.
However, check out the link for what she has to say about people’s reactions to her getting such a short cut, including:
“I had journalists asking me if this meant I was coming out, if I was a lesbian now.”