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LGBTQ* Flags You Should Know

Sexual Orientation Subculture Flags

1. Lipstick Lesbian Flag
2. Leather Pride Flag
3. Bear Pride Flag (previous post on Bear Pride)

LGBTQ* Celebrities We’re Kind of Digging at the Moment

Ezra Miller

(via OUT Magazine)

“I just want kids in all situations to hold on. A lot of [adolescence] left me wanting to end my own life, just give up. It feels like the whole world — because it is. It’s your whole world. But, man — life is a really, really cool ride. It’s really amazing the type of shit you can get up to if you endure. Like, you can do anything you want if you can survive.”

LGBTQ* Pop Culture You May Have Missed

(following from Instinct Magazine)

The Amazing Race

Team Beekman is the second same-sex couple to win the competition over its 21 seasons. (You remember when Reichen–pre-Lance Bass–won, right?)

Showing that times are-a-changin’, CBS actually chose to air Brent and Josh’s celebratory kiss!

LGBTQ* Photos You May Have Missed

More Joyful Declarations of Love from Newlyweds in Seattle

(Each sign was handwritten to share their absolute favorite thing about their partner as they waited in line to get hitched. Beautiful!)

(via Buzzfeed)

LGBTQ* Films to Keep(!) On Your Radar

Any Day Now

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Winner of 10 Audience Awards at film festivals around the country and starring the amazing Alan Cumming, ANY DAY NOW is a powerful tale of love, acceptance and family. When a teenager with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) takes him in and becomes the loving family he’s never had. But when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the life of the child they have come to love as their own. Inspired by a true story from the late 1970s, ANY DAY NOW touches on legal and social issues that are as relevant today as they were 35 years ago.

LGBTQ* Photos You May Have Missed

Washington State’s Newest Married Couples

As of Thursday, December 6, 2012, Washington state now issues equal gender identity and gender pairing marriage licenses. 

Sources:

#1. Source The Randy Report

#2. Source KVAL, Amanda and Kelly 

#3. Source The Blaze, Brendon and Jesse

#4. Source Indecison Forever, Jane and Pete-e

#5. Source The Olympian

#6.  Source Fox 13 Seattle 

#7. Source Freedom to Marry , Cori and Keith

#8. Source TowleRoad, Dan Savage and husband, Terry

KNOWhomo’s Moderator (personal posts) You May Have Missed

Ruth Elizabeth’s Femme Flagging Post

(KNOWhomo post about Gay/Butch Flagging can be found HERE)

un-birthdayparties:

Stuff We’re Curious About: ‘Femme’ Flagging with Nail Polish

For more on the hanky code, see HERE or HERE.

(following from the fabulous Queer Fat Femme)

Identities like Femme are deeply personal and there’s no one way to be Femme. There are certainly overlapping characteristics and generalizations that exist–which is how we find each other and create community. Tenderly paw in paw we find ourselves a niche (or several) in queerdom. But it is essentialist to say “This is a trait common amongst Femmes,” because as soon as you think you’ve isolated one commonality about Femmes you’ll find a whole pile of Femmes who belie that trait. This is simultaneously awesome and complicated when you’re trying to spot a Femme in the wild.

There is a whole Tumblr dedicated to Femme Flagging, with a forum for fleshing out new additions to the hanky code. Lots of folks have been doing one finger on one hand for the flag, but others have been doing two (or three) “(-) fingers” as the flag.

(photo sources: Bossy Femme, kushandlouboutins, FUSEmag)

*LGBTQ Comics To Watch For

(following from Buzzfeed LGBT)

Archie comics wrote an awesome George Takei biography and disguised it as Kevin Keller #6. Buzzfeed got an exclusive advanced sneak peek of the issue. More celebrities should write their life story in comic book form!

After a long tease, Sulu is finally making his Riverdale debut. Kevin and Jughead go to the local convention to help Kevin meet his idol, unaware Mr. Takei is in Riverdale just to meet the blonde teen. What follows is a comedy of errors.

And, if you happen to live in New York, Mr. Takei is going to be at Midtown Comics on December 5th [today!] to sign copies! 

Dialogue about consent should be happening in every community. What are you doing to spread the word that CONSENT IS SEXY?

un-birthdayparties:

**Victoria’s Secret may not love CONSENT, but we do.**

Nobody likes to feel like they’ve been duped—least of all a Virgo. And I was. I ain’t even mad, though. In this case, I’d say I did exactly what I was supposed to.

I’ve noticed a lot of rude bear comments floating through the blogosphere aimed towards people who weren’t immediately skeptical of the Pink loves Consent campaign, and I get it, I really do. Victoria’s Secret has been perpetuating negative body image and cultural insensitivity for ages and it was a far stretch from their usual routine to release a body-positive, sex-positive panty-line that promotes *gasp* CONSENT. 

HOWEVER. Notice how many of us were aching to believe that it was true. I would have gone out and dropped the money on consent-is-sexy underwear in a heartbeat. The fact that so many people DID believe the hoax and DID reblog information about the panty line isn’t going to go unnoticed by VS executives. The optimist in me wants desperately to believe that the fact that we all got a tricked by some clever little feminists on a mission (FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture is currently taking credit) means that VS is going to have to take note of the demographics they’ve been alienating. Are you listening, Victoria’s Secret?  

The crafty hoax had a lot of things going for it that I personally would love to see in a panty line (or, you know, in life): gender neutral language regarding both the panty-wearing folk and their sexual partners, plus-sized models, womyn of color as models, sex-positivity, and most importantly, promotion of CONSENT. 

Who wouldn’t want any of that to be trendy? Those who fell for the hoax are the reason the hoax was a good idea in the first place: it got people talking about the importance of consent, it got Victoria’s Secret an email inbox full of demands for the faux-line, and it reminded retailers everywhere to pay attention to the kind of goods their consumers want. Activism like this wouldn’t work if we didn’t show our support, so personally? I’m okay with admitting I wanted those damn panties.

<3 Ruth Elizabeth

(photo/info source)

**Last post about panties for now, I promise. But the KNOWhomo family encourages all of our panty-wearing folks and anyone who loves panty-wearing folks to keep speaking up and demanding retailers start promoting consent.