Are we all seeing how we are being manipulated?

20th Century Queer Women of Means
by Cathy Pegau

"Cathy Pegau, author of A Murderous Business: A Mystery, shares with The History Reader how some queer women of means in the United States were able to push boundaries more so than women in poor or middle, working-class families."

https://www.thehistoryreader.com/historical-figures/20th-century-queer-women-of-means/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=20th-century-queer-women-of-means

Brains Of Mastodon, I need more help. Things are going great with my church's LGBTQ+ support and fellowship group. WE DOIN IT

We're now trying to think of how to foster secure and private group communication among our group. I don't think I have it in me to set up a Listserv, if that's even "private". I thought of like a Signal group chat, but I don't know if that can be easily managed.

What are people doing for stuff like this? Thanks in advance.

Harry Potter board game creators to donate all profits to trans charities

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/12/harry-potter-board-game-cge/

Well done and thank you to Tumblr for making a cat on this "participants per hour" graph for me to wake up to today: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vm9hvBZjcUtx-hyAjN3ETPYAIrfWGVBU61dScJp1ADA/edit?gid=298536018#gid=298536018

PS: Over 27,000 participants so far this year! If the gender binary doesn't know what to do with you, please click here: https://survey.gendercensus.com

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please help a starving #transWoman struggling with parental #abuse to stay housed. she needs to pay off her debts to qualify for safe housing. she hasn't met her goal in 4 months.

- https://ko-fi.com/queeroctopuss/goal?g=33
- https://donate.stripe.com/14k6p1bMg32QfEA6os

Mary-Ann Stephenson, a transphobic TERF, has been confirmed as the new chair of the equalities watchdog of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Human rights have been taken over by haters in the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/31/mary-ann-stephenson-confirmed-as-ehrc-chair-despite-mps-objections

Sometimes I wake up feeling out of sync, but then I slip into an outfit that feels right, and realize it wasn’t me that felt off, it was just the version of myself I started with this morning.

Petition for @selea to add some more LGBTQIA+ emojis like the and as custom emojis, so I can use them in my bio!

I’m not sure if these are the exact pages that fediverse admins use, but this is where I found these emojis:

Genderfluid: https://emoji.gg/emoji/6282-genderfluid-flag
Non-binary: https://emoji.gg/emoji/6530_flag_nonbinary

If you live in #Texas and you or your family would be directly harmed by the passage of an anti-trans "bathroom bill," please get in touch with me if you're willing to be interviewed.

Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship. So in other words, keep it up!

https://www.polygon.com/news/616835/visa-mastercard-steam-itchio-campaign-adult-games

Free Bonus on my Patreon (no login required): "No matter where we come from, no matter where we work, where we pee, or who we love, we are in this together."

Since Republicans insist banning #trans people from bathrooms and locker rooms is necessary to protect #women, on Tuesday, a group of mostly cisgender women rallied at the Texas Capitol to oppose the latest iteration of the "bathroom bill."
https://www.patreon.com/posts/tu-lucha-es-mi-134939910

#Texas #LGBTQIA+ #news #USpol #politics

Why hasn't this made more national news? I only see articles in Vermont media?

"A gay Vermont school superintendent says he was detained, separated from his husband, and subjected to hours of abusive questioning in Texas by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers while returning from a trip to Nicaragua "

“They falsely stated that I, a U.S. citizen, have no constitutional rights at a point of entry"

https://www.advocate.com/news/vermont-gay-citizen-detained-cbp

#USpol #lgbtqia tqia

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- https://ko-fi.com/queeroctopuss/goal?g=0
- https://donate.stripe.com/14k6p1bMg32QfEA6os

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The German History Museum wants to preserve #queer and #LGBTQIA* history and is actively looking for pieces to archive for #QueerHistory.

• They are explicitly asking for memorabilia, stories, and (historical) artifacts.

So I guess folks should ping Jessica Price and the entire queer #community to save what they can from the #Trump regime...

• Espechally given #BookBans and #TransErasure this is important!

Contact details to the Museum and the curator for said collection are on their website:
https://www.hdg.de/haus-der-geschichte/sammlung#c27369