snoopervizion #LGBTQ affirming blog
This is a queer affirming blog. Its purpose is to promote a positive image of people who identify as LGBT, promote LGBT activism, present methods to combat bullying and harassment, and provide resources and supporting information for the same.
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Andrew and Kevin
Tucson, Arizona
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hey guys here’s me with my amazing fiancée (very soon to be wife) just being silly.
I’m lance 20yo 21 may 6th. court date for my name change is set...
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Love is All You Need? full length movie.mp4 (by Lexi DiBenedetto)
Being Gay In America: The Worst States For Children of Gay Parents
Justice Anthony Kennedy invoked the children of gay parents this week during the Supreme Court hearing on Proposition 8, California’s gay marriage ban.
“They want their parents to have full recognition and legal status,” he said. “The voice of those children is considerable in this case, don’t you think?”
There are millions of children in the U.S. being raised by same-sex couples, and many of them live in states that don’t recognize their parents’ relationship or make it difficult for both parents to claim legal ties to the child. Discriminatory laws cause these children “immediate legal injury,” Kennedy said.
In states where same-sex relationships are not legally recognized, children who are born to or adopted by one parent must be adopted by the other in order to have two legal parents. Only 13 states and Washington, D.C., allow same-sex parents to petition for “second-parent adoption” statewide, while the availability of the practice is uncertain in most states and filled with legal obstacles in others, according to the Family Equality Council. When same-sex couples use donor insemination to have a child, most states do not give the non-biological parent legal ties to the child. All of these barriers can cause children “legal injury” — including but not limited to instances when both parents can’t make medical decisions, provide health benefits, claim custody or be obligated to pay child support.
Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent claim that having gay parents could harm children is not supported by research. It’s hard to argue that having legal ties to both parents would not benefit them.
overlooking than the casual bi erasure a good overview
(via projectqueer)
“Courage” and “inspiration” are words that get thrown around a lot in sports, but Jason Collins has given both ideas a brand new context.
(via upworthy)
support without judgement
(via alllovenoh8)
equalmarriage.org.uk
We stopped freaking out about the “Oh my god, women want to wear pants!” thing a really long time ago. Women wandered into the traditionally masculine realms of self-expression and ambition and now it’s just normal.
Not so with masculinity. It is still as rigid and well defended as ever, despite a few David Bowies or Johnny Depps in the mix. Just look at last year’s total freaking meltdown about a J. Crew catalog that carried a photo of a woman painting her young son’s toenails. Just look at the way the more delicate boys of the world are bullied by their classmates and accused of being gay. Just look at the gender imbalance in the diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder in children, with gender disordered pre-pubescent boys outnumbering girls at a rate of up to 30 to 1. When a girl is boyish, or even claims she’d rather be a boy, it’s cute. She’s a tomboy. When a boy is girlish, wanting to wear dresses or try on some makeup, it’s a mental disorder and needs an immediate medical intervention.
Love the one you’re with.
(via in-love-with-a-girl)
Yesterday I was invited to attend mass at a church out here in Connecticut by my friend’s mom. I woke up yesterday morning feeling anxious and nervous because I don’t believe in mass. Mass can happen in any place you worship and believe in God (or a higher being), not just inside of a…
Telling people not to use the word “fag” or “gay” isn’t going to stop homophobia. You have to get out there and put an end to it. People have ways of discriminating against gays without using the word.
Same can be said with the “n-word.” Telling people not to use certain words is not stopping discrimination. Putting your ass on the line to make a difference is putting an end to discrimination.
Yes, words can be hurtful, but that’s hardly enough to even fix the problem.
Dispell the myths.
(via projectqueer)
Leaning on each other by the water’s edge.
