lgbtq_plus

cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/433777...

I tried coming out at 18. It didn’t go so well. I told my best friend… who then never spoke to me again. It was embarrassing, we were doing the same training scheme and would bump into each other. He completely ignored me....

Article by Reuters reporting on the ruling by the US Supreme Court to allow business owners to discriminate against LGBT+ people

Article by HuffPost about Renton Sinclair who had to overcome the zealous bigotry of his mother in order to live the life he chose for himself.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/523219...

Joining the fediverse can be a daunting proposition, and it is understandable that many end up on larger more centralised servers that are easier to find. I have also had some bad experience with smaller servers also. The first one I arrived on was very quiet, almost inactive, and I should have taken that as a warning sign....

Nepal's highest courthas ordered that the Nepalese government must recognize same-sex marriages which have - until now - not been possible due to the government's inaction

Article by LGBTQ Nation: A district judge in Montana has struck down an anti-trans law, but the state government is not complying with his court orders.

TW: RACISM, TRANSFOBIA, RAPE...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/396561...

After many Starbucks stores has removed Pride decor after complaints from right-wingers the Starbucks union is now organizing a strike in solidarity with LGBTQ+ folks and in protest of the removal of Pride decor

The Russian Ministry of Defense has had a branch surrounded by tanks led by the Wagner group (the neonazi mercenary one). Putin announced around midnight PST, that it was being treated as treason. The #RussianCoup is very real. The other term that immediately came to mind is ‘Junta’. The effects of this governance are still...

How did it go? I'm so tempted to when I'm freshly shaven but then the stubble comes back and I feel like I'll look like a fool once it does. 😮‍💨

Except......

For me this is painful....

Mine happened in the mid '80s, when it was called Gay Pride. I was out to my parents, I had my first boyfriend. We wore T shirts with an inverted pink triangle and joined a march around London until it finished in Hyde Park for a free pop concert with various big bands (Erasure, Tom Robinson et al)....

I didn't come out until I was 26, and it went badly....

Me, I'm going to go to a museum with my bf on their pride weekend and then maybe hit up some gay bars later in the night together :^)

I would've expected blahaj to be queer central but it doesn't seem all that active which makes me sad. I want more rainbow in my life. :c

I abandoned Reddit over the weekend in advance of the blackout. As a trans woman, I tended to keep myself to myself in some very subject specific subreddits and avoided anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment for the most part (although certainly not homophobic language). Not ideal but it was manageable....

Noticed there wasn't a space for the guys so I made a community. Feel free to join at https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/ftm!