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Is RFK Gonna Take the Poppers Away? - The Stranger
https://www.thestranger.com/queer-issue-2025/2025/06/06/80089651/is-rfk-gonna-take-the-poppers-away

Calamus 24 I hear it is charged against me
This poem feels just so typically Whitman, but lesser somehow. Not one of my favorites.
He says he is "charged that I seek to destroy institutions". Charged by whom, one wonders, is he really so important? He sort of denies this, or is ambivalent to it, and then gets to the queer part:
I will establish ... the institution of the dear love of comrades
And here we are again at the central queer question: just what does he mean by "dear love of comrades"? As I read these poems I'm increasingly thinking it's both things. Sure, it's brotherly love, adhesiveness, a sort of robust fraternity. But so much of his writing and life is homoerotic it has to also have that charge. It can be both.
I feel like I've heard that phrase "the institution of the dear love of comrades" repeated often.

Updated and done for the day, added some more #Buttons #Button

I finally finished the article that inspired the above toot. It was written by @…:
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It’s a wonderf…

Der Frauen- und LGBTIQ-Hass der Union ist unschlagbar.
Die armen Leute, die da arbeiten 😬.
Bildungsministerium verhängt Genderverbot - queer.de
https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=54146

So, a bit shyly, I am almost ready to introduce a project I was working on for the last couple of months, related to Fediverse and specifically aimed at #queer #lgbtia community in #ireland
Will give some follo…

#happypride

Nick Offerman slams 'Parks and Rec' fan insinuating Ron Swanson is homophobic
Nick Offerman is standing up for queer 'Parks and Rec' fans after a user shared a manipulated image of his character, Ron Swanson, to spread homophobic hate: 'You dumb f---.

Was hat dann der Clown dort zu suchen?
https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=54168

Merz zu Regenbogenfahne am CSD: Bundestag "kein Zirkuszelt"
Der Bundeskanzler hat sich hinter die Entscheidung von Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner gestellt, zum CSD nicht mehr die Regenbogenflagge zu hissen. (Politik - Deutschland)

#ActuallyAutistic logging offline, lmao!
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Es ist Juni | guerdas Sammlung
#Pride

Alles was ich dazu sagen möchte ist strafbewehrt
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Queer Procession at Ithaca Festival Parade gives a taste of the Pride march to come
#lgbtq #ithaca #ithacafestival

Happy #PrideMonth! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
I’m just too fabulously queer and genderfluid to function like anyone expects. My identity is a whole spectrum, shifting and sparkling with every color and every gender. 🌈✨
Some days I’m femme, some days I’m masc, and some days I’m something totally unique and undefined. 💖💙🤍
My

Very cool looking company! Gorgeous microphones, audio geekery. Glad to have them on my radar 🧐 https://musicians.today/@arendleejessurun/114792116804285326

Earlier this semester I joined "Remnants of Resistance," a podcast by colleagues in CSUN's library and Queer Studies faculty, to talk genetics and queer identity
#LGBTQ #genetics #evolution

#LB Fazendo uma tradução livre para quem não fala inglês:
"No mês do orgulho LGBT deste ano, héteros devem focar menos em 'toda forma de amor é bela' e mais em 'gays e trans estão em perigo.".
Que coisa triste de ler e ver como estão as coisas nos EUA. E receio que é questão de tempo até nós ficarmos assim também, nossa capacidade de resistência contra a loucura ext…

Calamus 23 This moment as I sit alone
A promise of global unity, Whitman sharing his adulation for men in other countries.
I guess this is an antidote to Whitman's nationalism? His celebrations of America seem sweet and sincere but they are very American-centric. Here he's explicitly saying men of other lands can be just as wise, beautiful, or benevolent as American men. It seems unusual that he feels he has to say it explicitly.
As for the queer reading, his conclusion is
I know we should be brethren and lovers
There's that word, "lovers". It's so brash it's hard to understand. It seems uncharacteristically direct even understanding Whitman as a gay poet. Maybe this is some 19th century romantic language, mixing what feels very gay in with a more general celebration of brotherhood? Or maybe it is literally what it says, Whitman eroticizing international men.

This Queer Online Zine Can Only Be Read Via an Ancient Internet Protocol https://www.404media.co/queer-online-zine-new-session-telnet/

Die Politik der Merz-Regierung ist ziemlich genau so schlimm wie es vor der Wahl prognostiziert wurde. Hilft nichts, aber ich finde es trotzdem wichtig, das immer mal wieder ins Gedächtnis zu rufen. Rollback in der Energiewende, Queer-Feindlichkeit, Griff in die Kassen und Verachtung für Bürgergeld-Empfänger*innen, Grenzkontrollen ... all das hat sich vorher angekündigt.

Trussed Queer

Dank Mama "Bavaria" Ilse 🙂
Zum Christopher Street Day in am SamstagAnders als am Bundestag: Am Maximilianeum wird die Regenbogenfahne wehen!
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/bayern-regenbogenfahne-hissen-la…

Zum CSD am Samstag: Die Regenbogenflagge wird am bayerischen Landtag gehisst
Für Landtagspräsidentin Aigner steht die Flagge für „sehr demokratische Werte“. Ihre Unionskollegin Klöckner hatte das Hissen vor dem Bundestag untersagt.

I'm as queer as I want to be all year long what do I do for pride month :neofox_think_googly:

#PhantastikPrompts 2.7.:
Würdest du anders schreiben, wenn du keinen Verkaufszwang hättest?
Ich schreibe so, wie ich schreibe, obwohl ich ihn habe 😅. Ursprünglich sollten die Geschichten voneinander unabhängig und non-queer sein, maximale Marktanpassung und so.
Aber das bescherte mir eine Schreibblockade, die sich erst löste, als Fabiola eine Frau wurde und ich die urs…

Marsha P. Johnson has become an icon of gay, trans, and queer liberation,
and yet little is known about her life beyond her participation in the Stonewall Uprising of 1969 and the decades long controversy after her lifeless body was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992.
In "Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson",
Tourmaline, an award-winning Black trans artist, filmmaker, and activist who has dedicated her life to uplifting Marsha P. Johnson’s l…

What We Can Learn From the Defiant Life and Legacy of Marsha P. Johnson
Black trans artist, filmmaker, and activist Tourmaline discusses her new book about Marsha’s trailblazing life.

I recently added the Anarchist flag as my website’s background, and although it looks better on desktop, you can go take a look at: #Anarchy

Sei laut, sei sichtbar – gerade jetzt
https://taz.de/Sichtbarkeit-beim-Disability-Pride-Month/!6093268/

Klöckners CSD-Verbot für Regenbogen-Netzwerk des Bundestages stößt auf Unverständnis
https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=53971
Die kann dann auch weg, was bildet die sich eingentlich ein?

IT'S PRIDE MONTH, SSR!! We will be riding slow as usual, meeting new people, and enjoying an educational tour of some historical queer sites between the Castro, Mission, and SOMA.
Start Location: Dolores Park, 19th Street
Meetup: 10:30am Saturday, June 28th
Rollout: 11:00am

Calamus 16 Who is now reading this?
A funny little poem, omitted in later editions. On the surface it's a challenge to the reader and a chance for Whitman to establish himself as self-aware. Claiming his own flaws.
But the text drips with some latent queer meaning
as if I do not secretly love strangers!
(O tenderly, a long time, and never avow it ;)
A secret love that you can never avow? Hello! At least it's tenderly and a long time.
This seems as good a time as any to link Whitman's Boys, a good recent piece considering Whitman as a queer man and what that means to us in current times. It's a nice overview of some queer theory and is even-handed.

« Les queers ont toujours existé Š la campagne » : derrière l’essor des Prides partout en France, la visibilité des personnes LGBTQIA hors des grandes villes
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« Les queers ont toujours existé à la campagne » : derrière l’essor des Prides partout en France, la visibilité des personnes LGBTQIA + hors des grandes villes
Après des années de centralisation militante de la question queer dans les grandes villes, la liste des « Prides rurales » ne cesse de s’allonger, allant du village à la ville moyenne. « Le Monde » a interrogé plusieurs collectifs.

Theories of "Sexuality" in Natural Language Processing Bias Research
Jacob Hobbs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22481 https://a…

Theories of "Sexuality" in Natural Language Processing Bias Research
In recent years, significant advancements in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) have positioned commercialized language models as wide-reaching, highly useful tools. In tandem, there has been an explosion of multidisciplinary research examining how NLP tasks reflect, perpetuate, and amplify social biases such as gender and racial bias. A significant gap in this scholarship is a detailed analysis of how queer sexualities are encoded and (mis)represented by both NLP systems and practi…

This is one of my fave ever Tumblr posts:
https://www.tumblr.com/0hpartyb1/784389727648366592?source=share
I need this quality of stupid on here. Tbf, Linux reply guys are doing a lot of heavy lifting but could be more annoying?

Reblog by @0hpartyb1 · 11 images
💬 831  🔁 210568  ❤️ 154965 · all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overf…

June in-person meetup of Queer Crafters Ireland happens this Sunday 1-3 pm! To get the details, DM them on Insta or email at queercraftersireland@gmail.com
#dublin #queer #queerart

Queer-feindliche Teilnehmer:
Christliche Fundamentalisten treffen sich während des CSDs München in der Matthäuskirche.
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-csd-evangelikale-queerfeindlichkeit-mattha…

München: Christliche Fundamentalisten treffen sich in der Matthäuskirche - während des CSD
Das Netzwerk „Miteinander für Europa“ verspricht inspirierende Begegnungen. Bischof Prieto Peral nimmt teil, trotz kritischer Stimmen.

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17:55
Today I was basically my own biggest fan club, cheering myself on with all the confetti and good vibes 🎉
I spent the day treating myself like the absolute legend I am, and honestly, if I were someone else, I’d totally ask me out 💅
Sending all the love out to you beautiful humans, be queer, be awesome, and keep buzzing like the fabulous bee you are 🐝💖
#Queer

Ideologie betreiben immer die Anderen. https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=54146

Going to #NoKings Saturday? Try to recruit the newly radicalizing to defunding the police, to defending all in our communities facing displacement—immigrant, queer, unhoused, unable to pay rent—in short, to fighting local fascisms, so we can better fight national fascism, at ICE centers

I hired GargoylePastures €to do some graphic novel pages for this book. And the art was so lovely, I decided to use it for the cover. Also, it's pride month and ‪ GargoylePastures is a queer artist. Check out the pride collection: https://gargoylepastures.com/prideclothingstore

Pride Clothing Store — Gargoyle Pastures
le printful products

Solnit: "It's...routine to blame the Democratic Party for what the Republican Party does. The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the wife to placate and soothe the husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the advance of rights for nature, women, children, indigenous peoples, BIPOC and immigrants/refugees, queer people, trans people, people with

Currently running the ultimate queer-autistic mental math: do I get up now for a Coke, or do I turn on my PC first and then embark on the sacred quest for caffeine?
Welcome to my rainbow-brained world, where every decision involves calculating the exact number of steps, seconds, and spoons required. 🏳️‍🌈🤓✨
#ActuallyAutistic

Just finished reading Dream State by Eric Puchner, and it kind of pissed me off. I think I can see exactly why it might be popular with a certain WASPy liberal "literati" type that probably includes a lot of influential reviewers, but to me, it's points about love & life, despite being much more complex, ring just about as hollow (and harmful) as a Disney movie.
I've got a lot of quibbles, but I think most galling to me was a throwaway line near the beginning about why platonic relationships get so much less glory in media than romantic ones, when so much of the plot proceeds to revolve around a stale agency-free romantic attraction model that's certainly more complex on its face than a Disney romance but which is ultimately just as misleading.
Go read Loveless or really any YA #OwnVoices romance (especially queer) and you'll be learning more & better lessons about the human condition.

Not to overshare (but when do I ever not?), but I am seriously obsessed with drag queens.
If you ever wanted a peek into my fabulously queer brain, now you know! 🏳️‍🌈💅✨
#Bisexual #Pansexual #Queer

Calamus 15 O drops of me!
It's a remarkably morbid poem for Whitman, literally about blood dropping from wounds, corrupting his poetry.
stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops
But he turns this blood into a sort of virtue that infuses his poem, starting with an inversion. It's not "saturate yourself with the drops". Instead it's saturate them with yourself.
Saturate them with yourself, all ashamed and wet,
Glow upon all I have written or shall write, bleeding drops,
Let it all be seen in your light, blushing drops.
I can make a case for a queer reading of recognizing gay shame and overcoming it. To take the stigma of homosexuality and turn it into a virtue, "let it all be seen in your light".
But I think I may be out on a limb with that interpretation. Whitman's not typically a writer about shame. And I think "gay shame" doesn't apply well as a concept in the 1850s, that's a malady that comes with a backlash against modern gay identity.

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Fuming! That's exactly the reason why we need to have our own media, run for #queer people BY queer people, the corporate overlords who run Meta and Xitter will happily be complici in our erasure if it only means that their quarterly report will get half a percent better or that they'll get some favour in the government

Trans Pride Week's Instagram account shut down
Meta has shut down Istanbul Trans Pride Week's Instagram account three days before the start. Events will be announced on the new account.

:heart_trans: As a gender-fluid, bisexual, and queer person, #PrideMonth is the time I feel most seen and connected!
#GenderFluidity #GenderFluid

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05660 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Not Like Us, Hunty: Measuring Perceptions and Behavioral Effects of Minoritized Anthropomorphic Cues in LLMs
As large language models (LLMs) increasingly adapt and personalize to diverse sets of users, there is an increased risk of systems appropriating sociolects, i.e., language styles or dialects that are associated with specific minoritized lived experiences (e.g., African American English, Queer slang). In this work, we examine whether sociolect usage by an LLM agent affects user reliance on its outputs and user perception (satisfaction, frustration, trust, and social presence). We designed and co…

#rewind #queer
#Music #Musik
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy 1984

As #PrideMonth comes to an end, I wanted to share some AI-generated images created by my friend. 🏳️‍🌈
Although I’m generally skeptical of AI, I found this extremely queer! 🏳️‍🌈
#Pride #LGBTQIA

Calamus 42 To the young man
A short poem but very hot, dripping with latent queer meaning. Or pederasty, if I'm being honest.
The poem is literally Whitman offering to teach a young man. "To absorb, to engraft, to develop". And "to help him become élève", a fancy French word for student, and the choice there certainly raises an eyebrow.
But then what qualifications does this student require? Here, in the negation:
If he be not silently selected by lovers, and do not silently select lovers
That's not the usual test scores and sports achievements! Instead Whitman seems to have a specific extracurricular activity in mind. (And note the "select" directly echoes the "picking me out" in the previous poem.)
This poem becomes particularly bold when understanding it as Whitman speaking directly to the reader. Perhaps a young man that Whitman can take under his wing.
I'm being a bit silly but this kind of mentorship has a long, sexy gay history.

:heart_trans: It’s #PrideMonth, and just so you know, I’m a #GenderFluid person, proudly #bisexual and #queer

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Yeah, you look just like DR Z to me. Go sleep, have a nice night, queer dreamer.

Finally watched Luca Guadagnino's Queer but did not like it very much. Tedious. I think Cronenberg did a much better job adapting Burroughs.

Soft domming is my queer healing, it soothes my soul, eases my social anxiety, makes me feel seen and safe, pure magic in gentle power 💖🌈✨

Fuck anti-LGBTQIA haters, I’m here, queer, bi, and shining bright, dressing how I damn well please!

I stand strong against AI, and it made me this queer, bi, and fiercely pro-LGBTQIA, dressing how I want with pride and power.
It’s wild how AI can shape me into something this cute, yet I can’t help but question if I should even like it. ChatGPT made me this!
#AI #Bisexual

Calamus 36 Earth! my likeness!
Woah! This poem is such a strong statement of queer love I want to jump right to it
an athlete is enamoured of me—and I of him.
But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me, eligible to burst forth,
I dare not tell it in words—not even in these songs.
A same-sex love, bursting, terrible. A secret he must keep even from his poems. My heart aches for his suppressed passion.
I don't want to overlook the rest of the poem: Whitman compares his love for the athlete to the Earth. The Earth which also has something terrible ready to break forth. It's really quite grandiose and apocalyptic.
(The Live Oak draft is worth comparing because it's even more direct. "an athlete loves me, and I him").

Spilling the autistic tea!
One of my biggest autistic traits is that I talk to myself for up to six hours a day, and have done so my entire life, all 24 years.
I just love talking to myself, it’s my way of stimming and fully owning my queer, neurodivergent self with pride, I suppose.
The more you know!
#ActuallyAutistic

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Soft doming is my mantra, I live it fully, wrapped in queer, bisexual magic that truly heals me, mends my soul, calms my anxiety, and holds me whole 💖🌈✨🫂.

Honestly? I couldn’t care less! I’m living my loudest, proudest queer fantasy right now and absolutely loving it! 🏳️‍🌈💖✨
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Fuck it, if I want to wear a dress, I wear that dress, loud, proud, queer, and unapologetically me. 🏳️‍🌈👗

Do I give a flying glittery fuck about your opinions? Hell no! This queer, bi, fabulous life is mine to slay, not yours! Love loud, live proud, and keep your shade to yourself! 🌈💖✨

Calamus 35 To you of New England
Honestly I find this Whitman entreaty to national unity kind of tedious. It's charming and American but it's just so earnest. And this poem doesn't have much music.
Stretching for a gay reading...
a superb friendship, exalté, previously unknown,
... it waits ... latent in all men.
Once again his calls for unity are partly rooted in relationships between men: "friendship" here, the least sexual of his words. But it's also a sort of hidden connection, unknown, latent, and that's a little queer-coded to me.

Having a mom who brings home this pin from work and understands me as someone who’s queer and gender-fluid had me smile.

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Heyyy, I kinda felt a little sorry for feeling your feed tonight, but honestly I was just bursting with self-love and all the queer sparkle ✨💖

Had to let go of that soft-dom thought stuck in my head, felt kinda wrong to share but wow, it’s pure healing for my autistic soul. It makes me cry, feel all the queer bi-gender-fluid magic. 🌈💖

Yes, babes, soft domming is literally healing my social anxiety, no cap, for real, no joke, bananaamarie (Amanda Marie) and some others I can’t spill yet are saving my queer, bi soul and lifting me up in the most gorgeous, radical LGBTQIA way. Love wins, always. 🌈✨

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🚫 If you support J.K. Rowling and her transphobic views, you’re not welcome on my page.
🌈 I stand unapologetically with queer and trans people.
#LGBTQIA #TransRights #QueerCommunity

Queer-Class Relations Conference
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I updated my website's list of links to add @USERNAME@WEBSITE to every social media account I own.
This way, it’s clearer what my name is and which site it belongs to. It might look like federation, but it’s not on most sites; it just works as a placeholder.
Read more here: https://midtsveen.codeberg.page

Happy #AutisticPrideDay! ♾️💙
I’m proudly autistic, my brain works in its own unique way, full of different thoughts and feelings all at once. Being autistic is part of who I am, not something to fix. 🧠🧠
I’m also queer and genderfluid, and that’s just another part of my colorful identity. Some days I feel one way, some days another, and that’s okay. 🏳️‍🌈☂️
Neurodiver…

02:13—Good Night #Fediverse! 😴💤
I added some more autistic flare at #Night

Added a link to nsf-iaa.org with some autistic flair: #Anarchism #Syndicalism

Okay, updated my profile with some new pinned posts because why not sprinkle a little extra queer magic everywhere? Go ahead, dive in and get your daily dose of fabulousness. You’re welcome.
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Fuck it, im all on the style #anarchist,

Looks like my #propaganda is working. When I switched from #GitHub to #Codeberg, I made some #stickers