"I cannot stand small talk, because I feel like there’s an elephant standing in the room shitting all over everything and nobody is saying anything. I’m just dying to say, “Hey, do you ever feel like jumping off a bridge?” or “Do you feel an emptiness inside your chest at night that is going to swallow you?” But you can’t say that at a cocktail party." - Paul Gilmartin (via sadfag)
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"I asked all of the gay male students in the room to raise their hand if in the past week they touched a woman’s body without her consent. After a moment of hesitation, all of the hands of the gay men in the room went up. I then asked the same gay men to raise their hand if in the past week they offered a woman unsolicited advice about how to “improve” her body or her fashion. Once again, after a moment of hesitation, all of the hands in the room went up.
These questions came after a brief exploration of gay men’s relationship to American fashion and women’s bodies. That dialogue included recognizing that gay men in the United States are often hailed as the experts of women’s fashion and by proxy women’s bodies. In addition to this there is a dominant logic that suggests that because gay men have no conscious desire to be sexually intimate with women, our uninvited touching and groping (physical assault) is benign." - Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies by Yolo Akili (via spring1999)
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These questions came after a brief exploration of gay men’s relationship to American fashion and women’s bodies. That dialogue included recognizing that gay men in the United States are often hailed as the experts of women’s fashion and by proxy women’s bodies. In addition to this there is a dominant logic that suggests that because gay men have no conscious desire to be sexually intimate with women, our uninvited touching and groping (physical assault) is benign." - Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies by Yolo Akili (via spring1999)
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Medusa's Heir: BLACK PEOPLE CREATED
805 notes / 6 days ago / reblogHOUSE MUSIC (born in Chicago’s Black gay scene, originated from soul and disco)
ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC (EDM) (based on disco)
METAL MUSIC (born of blues rock)
THE ROLLING STONES (“inspired” by blues musician Muddy Waters, NAMED THEIR GODDAMN BAND AFTER ONE OF…
