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Mad this. It literally says he got jailed for ignoring a court order telling him to stay away from the school - yet the headline says it's for not calling a kid they. He broke the court order cos he was being a self righteous stalkery Christian weirdo. I know the sort, they did the same to us at school cos we were scruffy poor unfortunates / desperate people that apparently needed god to save us. Loads of Christians are like this, proper weirdos.

Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

So now that Gwen Poole is out as aroace people are asking if it's still okay to ship Gwen and Quentin Quire since they already root for them because of west coast avengers.

For those of you who doesn't know, yes Gwenpool is now canonically aroace, We discovered it in Marvel Voices: Pride 2023 and in Love unlimited Gwenpool part 5 where she talks more about her identity.

Gwenpool wearing the aroace flag in marvel voices pride^

Gwen in her love unlimited series ^

And I just want to address one thing-

It's okay to ship Gwen with Quentin, as long you understand Gwen was never really interested in him.

From the beginning Gwen Said she picked him as her love interest because she thought she has a better chances of survival if she had a love interest.

If you ship them you need to understand - while Quentin may have actually loved her, it was more of an one sided love.

It's okay to ship them if you understand that Gwen didn't have real feelings for him and just used him.

It's not so crazy, I'm aroace myself and when I was young I faked crushes on boys because I thought that's what I'm supposed to do.

Especially for ADHD people there's a common phenomenon because we can get really excited meeting new people so it's hard for us to separate between romantic and platonic feeling.

Gwen talks about her feelings to Julia the feeling she thought were romantic at first but turned out she just really like her in another and she discovered she didn't really wanted a romantic relationship with her like she thought at first.

I loved Gwen and Quentin myself and I thought they were funny and dynamic, I just want to make things clear that while you can still ship them, she's only faking her feelings and using him as a tool,

If you still want to ship them under this terms it's fine, they can still have funny and interesting dynamic, but don't ship Gwen romantically because that's just an insult to the aroace community.

And happy soon pride month 🎊🏳️‍🌈

and guys, please remember that human rights are not an opinion and should not be up for debate.

transphobia is not just hurt feelings, nor is it a simple difference of opinion. it is a fact that trans people exist, have existed all over the world and all throughout human history, and are entitled to basic decency and respect like everyone else. transphobes hold beliefs that are toxic and dangerous. they think we are an aberration, a sign of mental illness, and a flat out danger to society. even when they seem civilized or simply talk about their "concerns."

a few petitions to sign to help this: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/613556 needs 100,00 signatures https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/613518 needs 10,000 signatures Contact your MP: https://www.banconversiontherapy.com/ https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/ask-your-mp-to-support-a-trans-inclusive-ban-on-conversion-therapy/ if you have any more SHARE THEM!!! Only residents of the British or UK can sign the petitions and MP forms. End date for both petitions are 6 October 2022

There’s something extremely sinister about a government who pretends to drop the policy of banning conversion therapy, watching LGBT organisations panic and protest, and then offering them the policy back but excluding trans people.

It was so obviously planned and designed to split the community.

Hi Stuckies, I need your help with a Florida problem. At the end of this post, I am going to ask you to sign a petition. But first, let me explain why! If you have read my fic Operation: Gros Michel, you may remember a scene where a teacher gets fired for mentioning a same-sex partner, which is a violation of Florida's "Don't Say Gay" laws. The students then organize a protest, and Steve and Bucky show up to help them out.

Something very similar just happened for real, in my home town--and ironically, it happened in the town and at the exact school where the fic takes place. When I wrote that fic, I was thinking a lot about the harm that was likely to come from all of the new homophobic, fascist laws that have been passed to restrict queer identity in Floridian classrooms. I am sad and angry--but also not surprised--that something very, very similar to what I wrote about in that fic has now happened in real life.

(Kind of ironic that it happened at the high school from the fic, of all places, though.)

Last week, a teacher at Satellite High School, my alma mater, was fired for using a student's preferred name and pronouns in the classroom. This is illegal in Florida without permission from parents. The exact details have not been reported, but word on the street is that this student is a young trans kid, whose parents are not supportive. Having a validating and supportive teacher must have felt like such a life raft to that kid, and it hurts my heart to think this student and the teacher are now being punished for it. The teacher was fired after the parents complained, because under Florida law, teachers are not allowed to show that kind of respect or basic decency to their students. The "Don't Say Gay" law from 2023 specifically bars teachers from using anything other than a student's 'birth name', unless they get a permission slip signed by the parents. If you think that through, it's blatantly ridiculous and I would be willing to bet the law is broken in every Floridian classroom, every day. Every time a teacher calls a kid "Mike" instead of "Michael", or "Jess" instead of "Jessica", they are breaking the law. But no one gets punished for that, because, obviously, this was written to target trans students and the teachers who support them. 

Yes, this teacher broke the law. But this is a deeply unjust, targeted, and immoral law--and it should be broken. This teacher looked that unjust law in the face, and she stood up to it--with kindness and respect for her student. She stood up.

So I am asking for your help. 

There is a petition to have her contract reinstated. I believe this petition was started by students at the school. And just like in the fic I wrote? The kids are organizing. This community leans pretty red and there is a lot of homophobia, so for these kids to come out and protest is particularly brave. Lots of people have been speaking at local school board meetings, including a lot of students. There was a community protest in support of this teacher, with students and their parents. And--just like in the fic--the students have planned a school walk-out. But unlike in the fic, they won't have Steve and Bucky to back them up. I am hoping some of you might be willing to send some of that Captain America energy to this cause.

Here is the petition. It would mean so much to me if you would sign it, and share this around. The more people who know about this, the better. And here are a few local news articles if you want to learn more about what's going on.

Found this in a community I’m in, please make sure to spread this around, the deadline ends very soon!

this art and post are dedicated to my mother, who says that i should be someone i will never be and i should do things i am never going to do, and that it's the "right way" in life.