KNOWhomo

LGBTQ* Tumblrs You Should KNOW

Adventures In Gay follows at mid-twenty something as he comes out, while living in NYC and working towards a career in animation.

*Please note:

Some of the comics are NSFW

LGBTQ* Videos You May Have Missed

(following from the Advocate)

The video, filmed and posted to YouTube by Jacob’s father, Jonathan Rudolph, shows the younger Rudolph taking the stage to accept the Class Actor award during the school’s senior class awards. Rudolph notes that while he’s acted in several plays over his academic tenure, he’s been acting every day as something he’s not: a straight person. 

“Most of you see me every day, you see me acting the part of straight Jacob,” says Rudolph, as the crowd quiets. “When I am, in fact, an LGBT teen.”

Note from Ruth Elizabeth:

Coming out takes courage and strength in every arena but to do so in a public forum is quite the statement. Each of the moderators have struggled (and we continue to struggle) with knowing when and how to come out to our family, peers, coworkers, and the rest of the world. We must weigh our safety and desire to be treated like everyone else with our need to be who we are and advocate for the rights of others like us. Props and support from the KNOWhomo family, Jacob—you are an incredibly brave young man.

LGBTQ* Comedy, Performance and Randomness

“Coming Out At Christmas” — London’s Gay Men’s Chorus 2006

A Christmas Carol To Start Your Holiday Season.

To the tune of “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”

Coming Out on Christmas Day
I intend to drop a bomb,
On my dear old dad and mom.
For this year, without a doubt,
Is the Christmas I come out.

First I’ll get their full attention.
Then I’ll drop a subtle mention
“Lovely tree, and by the way,
Some of my closest friends are gay.”

That should do the job OK,
When I come out on Christmas Day.

Oh say can you see it now?
Watch my parents have a cow.
Or perhaps, if fate is kind,
They’ll insist that they don’t mind.

Then they’ll say “We always guessed,
After all, look how you’re dressed.
Seven earrings in each ear?
We’re not quite that dense, my dear.”

They’ll be talking, anyway,
When I come out on Christmas Day.

Coming out to everyone
Makes the winter doldrums fun.
It’s a noble thing to do.
Why don’t you come on out too?

Make a choice, damn consequence.
Lift your voice, get off the fence.
Shout it from the highest roof
Gay is great, and you’re the proof.

Make this Christmas bright and gay.
Come on out on Christmas Day.

LGBTQ* Projects to Make You Feel Warm and Fuzzy

Looking for an inspiring holiday message from a mom who cares? As you navigate the holidays at home, in or out of the closet, these moms want to let you know that you are loved and important not in spite of your place under the umbrella, but because of it. I’m tearing up already in gratitude.

<3 Ruth Elizabeth

(following from Your Holiday Mom)

This season, supportive moms have gathered to send a holiday message to all LGBTQ children, teens and young adults who are without family support and who would like a “stand-in Holiday Mom”–or 40! Knowing that not every mother is ready to accept her own LGBTQ child exactly as-is (as hard as this is for us to imagine), we moms have written to extend our love beyond that of our own family…From US Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2012 through January 1, 2013, you’ll find letters, audio posts, and videos created by moms who are lovingly supportive of ALL children who identify as LGBTQ. This is the kick-off video which comes from the 2011 audio recording that was the spark of inspiration for this site. 

LGBTQ* Stories of High School Sweethearts You May Have Missed

Following from DailyMail (& additonal video link):

(trigger warning: language, definitions, confusion of sex and gender terms in article)

How a pageant princess and colonel’s son fell in love…

By SUZANNAH HILLS

PUBLISHED: 19:09 EST, 9 November 2012 | UPDATED: 09:39 EST, 10 November 2012

To the casual observer, this young couple look just like any other teenagers in love.

But pretty Katie Hill and her boyfriend Arin Andrews share a unique bond - they were both born as the opposite sex.

Katie, 18, spent the first 15 years of her life as Luke, son of a Marine colonel, while Arin, 16, was born a girl called Emerald who excelled at ballet dancing and won beauty contests.

Both struggled with their sexuality all through their childhoods and were teased and bullied but their lives were changed when they both began hormone therapy and later met at a trans support group in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and instantly fell in love.

Katie said: ‘All I saw was a handsome guy. We’re perfect for each other because we both had the same troubles growing up.

‘We’re both size five, so we even swap our old clothes our mum’s bought us but we hated.

‘We look so convincing as a boy and a girl, nobody even notices now. We secretly feel so good about it because it’s the way we’ve always wanted to be seen.’

Read More HERE 

LGBTQ* Television, Talk Shows, and Coming Out

Rosie O’Donnell discusses Ellen Degeneres on her show (following Ellen’s coming out)

*note the Lebanese joke years BEFORE Glee*

LGBTQ* YouTube Videos You May Have Missed

Stephen Answers 7 Questions

Stephen Ira (mattachinereview.tumblr.com)

By the way, he is a fellow Nerdfighter!

Quintessential Movies from the Gay (male) Film Canon You Should Know

1. The Broken Hearts Club — West Hollywood gay softball team learns how to love, the power of friendship and coping with loss (actors include Zach Braff, Andrew Keegan and Dean Cain)
2. Get Real — gay teen comes out (and being a gay teen means drama will follow)
3. A Single Man — based on the Isherwood novel, this film follows what it means to be gay in the 1960s and what we do to keep on after tragedy
4. Latter Days — A promiscuous gay man from California meets a private Mormon and their encounters rearrange both of their lives
5. Looking for Langston — split film crossing back and forth between 1920s Harlem and 1980s England, this film invites you to explore the ways people express themselves and the places they find comfort
6. Brokeback Mountain — the life story of two men who meet while sheep ranching 
7. Milk — biopic about the life of Harvey Milk, S.F. first openly gay elected city official
8. Shelter — a young man returns home to care for his family, finding companionship in a place least expected
9. Brother to Brother — taking place during days of the Harlem Renaissance, this film follows a young artist and aging poet 
10.  Walk on Water —  following the suicide of his wife, an Israeli intelligence agent is assigned to befriend the grandchildren of a Nazi war criminal