KNOWhomo

That Time Again

Wrapping up on some projects and moving on to new ones.

What would you like to see next?

Who would you like to know more about?

More political cartoons? More quotes?

Would you like less book recommendations?

Should the briefly lived vlogs return?

Would you like more queer* monuments to visit when traveling?

Queer* content and history in the gaming world?

More information on lgbtq* laws in other countries?

What would you like to see more or less of?

Posted 1 year ago

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im not trying to criticize or hate, but how does ur url relate to ur blog? or did u just think it was a neat url?

Anonymous

My url? As in “KNOW homo”?

“No Homo” began to circulate when I was an undergraduate as a phrase to justify compliments and statements made by others. It always bothered me.

I believe language has as much power as you grant it. In my own way, I decided to manipulate it.

I believe in the power of knowledge and the desire for people to know their history. The LGBTQ* community is unique it its history. I cannot ask my mother what it meant to be a queer woman in the 70s/80s when she was a teenager and young adult. My grandfather didn’t know what it meant to be gay in the US Navy/Army in WWII. I belong to a community with a huge history but not one I can receive through oral tradition.

Thus this blog. I started KNOWhomo when I was going through a bit of a rough patch in my life. Knowing one’s self gives you purpose; knowing one’s self can help ease the mind. I have been lucky enough to encounter others via Tumblr who are also interested.

I never thought it was a neat url. I did think it was fun word play and it is a name I stand by.

I yearn to KNOW more.

—Rebecca

Posted 1 year ago

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LGBTQ* Perspective and Insight

Homo History- Eli Sanders (following text)

“The problem is as follows: Gay people, since forever, have mostly been born into straight families.

Heterosexual procreation is great and all—thanks, mom and dad—but heterosexuals tend to be better at making gay babies than raising them. Even if a hetero couple is thrilled to have made a gay, they’re not likely to regale their son or daughter with tales of Stonewall, or what the baths in San Francisco used to be like before they were closed, or why the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival is so important, or why Brandon Teena should be remembered.

Every queer person has to figure all of this out on his or her own. Some do, but a lot don’t, especially now, when being gay seems to require less and less explanation—to oneself and to the culture at large.

But really, homos. Even if the bad old days are receding, there’s no excuse for gay cultural illiteracy. “

Posted 1 year ago

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