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demonic-omens:

Marvel Comics makes history with a gay X-Men marriage.

Marvel Comics’ Astonishing X-Men is set to experience a new sound effect on top of its booms, whams, and sknits: the bong of wedding bells. Specifically, it’s the wedding bells of Marvel’s first gay marriage between longtime X-Man Northstar and his civilian boyfriend, Kyle. After pairing up the couple in 2009, Marvel is officially tying their knot in June’s Astonishing X-Men #51.

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YAY!!!

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seoulmama:

thebaptizedagnostic:

innerchrist:

Today is the International Day Against Homophobia. Let’s use it to fight against heterosexism, transphobia, cissexism, and all other forms of oppression. 

:D GUYS. GUYYYYS. ASEXUALLLLSSS. OUR FLAG WAS INCLUDED! 

Reblogging a day late, but anyway. ^^

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vita-inferno:

fuckyeah-beautifulwomen:

kaffrun:

OH MY GOD YES.

ACCURATE

Heh

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lostrocker:

smileyty:

legen-wait-for-it:

Came across this.. I think it’s absolutely beautiful. 

love it :)

♥ this is beautiful.

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pixolith:

lintufriikki:

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wonla:

vikasintti:

To all my foreign followers out there: We have a Green Party candidate, openly gay man going through to the final round of two in the Finnish presidental election! I’m experiencing a HUGE surge of national pride!

I am so happy and proud about this!

I’m so proud all of those other people, who have voted Haavisto for president. ^^ Maybe we have future.

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aligningplanets:

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genderbentunicorn:

im-being-sarcastic-of-course:

waltdisneyconfessions:

“I think the people hoping for a lesbian princess need to be reminded that Disney movies are aimed at kids. I don’t think there is anything wrong with being gay, but to push the idea at kids before they understand what that means will only confuse them. Also as a parent, I would be pissed at Disney for addressing such controversial topics in a movie intended for children”.

There is so much wrong with this, oh my goodness.

Firstly, what is ‘before kids understand’, children understand things at different ages and they need to be taught these things, the earlier the better. 

You say that it will only confuse them but many of them will be confused already, what if they’re lesbian, perhaps Sally is a ten-year-old who thinks Mary is cute but she doesn’t understand it, a disney movie is a perfect medium to show her it is ok to fall in love with people of the same sex

Also, you say Disney should not show controversial topics, but then would you say an film showing a mixed-race couple is controversial and unsuitable for kids? No, of course not because it is perfectly normal, it happens and the only people who have an issue with it are bigots. Children should not be kept from seeing loving same-sex couples.

I only hope that we do some day get an LGBTQ Prince or Princess (we’ve already had the ambiguous bisexuality of Shang of course but a more obvious one is easier for children to pick up)

If a child can understand a heterosexual relationship, they can understand a homosexual one. It’s best if they understand it’s perfectly fine when they’re younger, in my opinion.

And to be honest, it shouldn’t even be controversial, it’s just two (Or more in some cases) people in love, jeez.

Agreed. 

I’m thankful that I had Mulan in my childhood, but an actual trans* character would have been awesome, as would pretty much any character on the LGBT spectrum. 

I think maybe OP needs to be reminded that kids can be LGBT too. And it’s far more confusing not to know what’s going on than to be shown a myriad of characters and taught that all of them - no matter what gender, sexuality, race, religion, whatever - all of them are okay. 

I didn’t know I was gay when I was a kid. I didn’t know the term for it. I didn’t know it was a thing. I didn’t know I was trans*, either, and I certainly didn’t know I was grey-a. Had I known the terms, I probably would have identified as trans* at around age 5, gay at age 7, and grey-a at 13. 

You cannot use the argument of not wanting to explain gay sex to kids. You cannot. Because there are opposite-sex pairings in every media that kids consume, and by the age at which kids start associating romance with marriage with sex, chances are you need to sit them down and have a talk anyway, and you might as well talk gay sex while you’re at it. 

Having gay characters (or lesbian, or bisexual, or pansexual, or whatever) is not going to make kids suddenly start asking questions that they wouldn’t already ask the heterosexual equivalent of. My eight year old cousin isn’t any more likely to ask me about sex because she saw Dan and Roger kissing onscreen than if she saw Dan and Cassie kissing onscreen. 

So the real issue here is addressing why gay relationships seem to be something that people think children should be shielded from. Like anything that subverts the cisheteronormative lifestyle might damage them in some way because they aren’t ‘ready’ to learn about it. Except they’re totally ready to see cisgendered, heterosexual characters doing the exact same thing. 

Can we please stop treating LGBT issues as something that needs to be hidden from children like it might hurt them? Yes, they’re controversial topics. Know why we need that representation? So that we can stop it being a controversial topic. So it can be that people are people who love people, move along.

Can we please stop treating LGBT issues as something that needs to be hidden from children like it might hurt them?

I wish I could be this eloquent but, needless to say, I couldn’t agree more. People act like children are incredibly stupid and unable of grasping simple ideas. Children can understand any concept that’s put in front of them, so long as it’s explained clearly.

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