Happy Pride Month Eleanor Roosevelt was queer, the Little Mermaid is a gay love story, James Dean liked men, Emily Dickinson was a lesbian, Nikola Tesla was asexual, Freddie Mercury was bisexual & British Indian, and black trans women pioneered the gay rights movement.
Florence Nightingale was a lesbian, Leonardo da Vinci was gay, Michelangelo too, Jane Austen liked women, Hatshepsut was not cisgender, and Alexander the Great was a power bottom
Freddie Mercury is well known for his attraction to men but was also linked to several women, including Barbara Valentin whom he lived with shortly before he died. Friends have talked about being invited into their bed and walking in on them having sex (documentary Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender)
Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are two of the best-known activists who fought in the Stonewall riots
Suicide as political protest has a long and fascinating history, honestly, and has been used to argue with a lot of causes and draw attention to a lot of suffering.
My only issue with it is that it has never once fucking worked.
The kyriarchy isn’t going to budge because one person’s body made headlines for a blip in the news cycle. They don’t care. Look at the hundreds dead of AIDS in the ‘80s. Look at the kids in school shootings. Look at how many deaths it took to get warning labels on tobacco. Shit, look at the suicide rate among the mentally ill and how it hasn’t motivated advancements in affordable, compassionate care. Why would anyone be vain enough to think their single death would even budge the needle?
Fuck off. Live. If for no other reason, live out of spite. You can die in one protest or march in hundreds. Which do you think is gonna be more effective?
I understand despair. I understand helplessness. I understand feeling like nothing matters and you have nothing left to lose. Believe me, I understand.
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