The Supreme Court declared Friday that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States.
Watch reaction LIVE from the steps here.
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The Supreme Court declared Friday that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States.
Watch reaction LIVE from the steps here.
So this is cute and all but the woman on the left is Edie Windsor, the plaintiff in the the SCOTUS case Windsor v. US that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 and paved the way for marriage equality. Her partner, Thea (here on the left) died of ALS some time after they’d been married in Canada and Edie was denied inheritance and survivors benefits so she sued and won. Also fun and adorable fact: you see in those pics how her hair is flipped up on the ends? She wore it like that because Thea loved it. In later pictures from after Thea died you’ll see her with it curled under
Trump wants trickle down economics, a reinstatement of stop and frisk, and conservative SCOTUS nominations to reverse our progress. He will not “evolve” for us no matter how much we lobby.
I know we all want and deserve more progress. Many young voters want to sit out unless a candidate has it all. Voter silence is a mistake that will hurt us. Staying home won’t “revolutionize the system.” The system is used to youth voter apathy. They ignore us because we won’t pressure them.
We have to use our voices, vote for the person most likely to listen, & shout & lobby till we achieve our goals. Please. It works. Apathy doesn’t. #Hillary2016 to protect our progress from Trump. #Hillary2016 so the person we lobby for the next 4 years might actually listen. It does seem like she’s starting to, or we wouldn’t have seen this:
The difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is that she can be persuaded with facts. Another difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is that she can admit when she is wrong.
I know this is not something I usually post on this blog. But I do got quite some followers and chances are that some of you are American. So I just wanted to remind you to go vote.
Go vote!
And vote for Hillary. She’s the only one who can keep Trump out!
asexuals being included in lgbtq+ posts

asexuals being replaced with ‘allies’ in lgbtq+ posts

This bill would allow the Federal Trade Commission to classify conversion therapy and its practitioners as fraudulent.
<3 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET THIS PASS <3
And (according to this article anyway) it explicitly covers conversion therapy for gender identity!
SPREAD IT MY DUDES
SPREAD IT FAR AND WIDE
:)
Or maybe she alienated herself when she fetishized being a woman + said that gay marriage is wrong. Just a thought 🤔
caitlyn: i support trump and don’t understand gay marriage
lgbt people: :/
caitlyn: i cannot believe what ellen degeneres has done to me
this just in: queer people can be awful to other queer people
secondary just in: CONSEQUENCES HAPPEN, Caitlyn, YOU MASSIVE ENTITLED WOMBLE
ps: in case u guys didn’t know, this is Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in the case that just made gay marriage LEGAL for EVERYBODY IN AMERICA. His husband and partner of 21 years, John Arthur, died of complications from ALS while they were fighting for their home state of Ohio to recognize the validity of their marriage (which took place in Maryland). The Obergefell case centers on Jim’s right to be recognized on his terminally-ill husband’s death certificate. That’s John in the photo. Jim is still carrying it on CNN right now.
I love it when I click on a recipe link because it sounds yummy and instead of a recipe I get a several page dissertation on a food blogger’s boredom with her marriage and lies she was told in childhood
this ending in a recipe literally changed my fucking life i thought i was being spread some fucking truisms abt the ugliness of marriage but it was literally a preamble to creme brulee brownies. writing is fake
God……
Ever since gay marriage became legal in Spain in 2005, thousands of lesbian couples have tied the knot. But this law has an interesting precedent; Marcela and Elisa were married in 1901. In a church wedding!

Wedding photo of Marcela (left) and Elisa, dressed as a man.
Of course, same-sex marriage was not legal in Spain at the time, so the
two school teachers had to come up with a delicate scheme. One day,
Elisa and Marcela simulated a fight in the house they shared in the tiny
village of Dumbría, and Elisa moved to A Coruña.
While there, Elisa cut her hair, started wearing men’s clothes, and took
up smoking. She found a priest desperate to gain parishioners, and he
baptized her as a man. She adopted the name ‘Mario’ and returned to
Dumbría. Marcela then introduced Elisa to her family and neighbors as
‘Mario’, Elisa’s cousin, and said they were going to get married.
Indeed, people were amazed at how much this ‘Mario’ looked like Elisa;
same height, same voice, same mannerisms and temper.
The wedding was held on the 8th of June, 1901, in the Church of St. Jorge in A Coruña.
After the ceremony, the happy couple was photographed at José Sellier’s
studio. The next day, the newlyweds returned to Dumbría in a horse
carriage.

Eventually, Marcela and ‘Mario’ were outed by their
suspecting neighbors to local authorities. A huge scandal broke out, with both national and international newspapers writing about the ‘disgraceful’ marriage which did not include a man. Both women were fired from their jobs,
excommunicated, and an arrest warrant was issued for both of them. The couple fled to many Spanish cities, until finally boarding a ship to the
Americas, presumably to Argentina.
It should be noted that
Marcela and Elisa’s wedding is still valid to this day, since it was
never annulled by neither The Catholic Church nor the Civil Registry. Therefore,
Marcela and Elisa’s union is the first officially registered same-sex marriage in Spain, 104 years before it became legal for Spanish lesbian couples to marry.
why else would a man want to tackle other men
Anonymous asked:
Is the STEM world trans friendly ? Got accepted to CalTech.
In my experience, about 90% of the STEM folk I worked with were lgbtq+ people themselves, and were obviously very supportive of their trans coworkers/students.
However, oldass professors were a bit hard to deal with. But they will die soon anyways <3