Abled gays celebrating marriage equality: well we sure do have nowhere to go from here when it comes to marriage rights. Gay rights!
Me, a disabled lesbian trying to get on ssi thinking about how I will not be able to marry my girlfriend if I do because I can’t have more than $2000 to my name at a time and they count a spouse’s income towards that: wow .. gay rights …
Just wanna say if you fought for and support marriage equality for gay people its your responsibility to do the same for disabled people. Abled people can and should rb this
I’m going to guess that this is an Americanissue..?
op mentioned ssi/ssdi, which is american, but this isn’t a strictly american issue. marriage can disqualify you for disability benefits in the uk and most (if not all, i don’t know specifics for every province) canadian provinces. this includes common-law marriage, which means disabled people can’t even live with their partners without risking losing our benefits
marriage & partnership disqualify from disability benefits in new zealand & they’re notorious assholes about enforcement + their interpretation of what a partnership is, its not even safe to date without risking losing your benefit & people have had their benefits cut off for having long term flatmates. meaning numerous disabled ppl in nz are effectively not even permitted a relationship let alone marriage
This is also true in Denmark to a degree, they count a spouse’s income against your disability benefits, even if you’re both disabled. I can’t marry either.
What if silence is in fact a sound, but because its a universal sound we just adapted to it and dont notice it anymore
I actually just wrote a paper on this!!
The short of it is, yes, that’s exactly what happens. There’s no such thing as pure silence outside of a vacuum (and inside a vacuum you’d be dead). So basically your ears are constantly adapting to the noise threshold of your surroundings and slowly ignoring it. If you were in a perfectly silent room (anechoic chambers are cool!) you would actually start to hear the sound of existing!
Let’s make this post even longer because I have even more images saved. Next up, we got:
Tsutsumagushi Disease
Chikungunya Fever!
MERS
Pertussis (whooping cough) with a horrifying (almost body horror) headpiece and flute
Dengue Fever, the image of which literally made me stop breathing for a moment when I first saw it
Japanese Encephalitis (as… idols, maybe?)
And Zika Virus (so pretty! and for what???)
And some higher res images of the ones from the video (Legionnaires’ Disease, Viral Gastroenteritis, and Rubella). Unfortunately, I could not fit Rabies because of the image limit.
i wanna point out that lyme’s mech is actually a tick, which is a really neat detail
Everyone talks about “teeth falling out” and “inappropriate nudity” being almost universally common dreams but no one acknowledges the “attempt at a sex dream that is interrupted by a long series of tedious problems and inconveniences”.
Healthy people who say stuff like “they’re still doing things so they can’t be in THAT much pain” need to understand that after a certain point pain becomes boring. No, you never get used to the pain, but you do gradually become bored. After months or years of mindless suffering in bed eventually you learn how to watch TV, do a light hobby, etc., even while in extreme pain, simply because chronic pain is incredibly dull and humans need entertainment.
Listen, if it’s gonna suck either way, it might as well suck while I’m having fun
tbh the way corporations profit off gay ppl is super shitty and we all know it but also seein like all the pandering must be so fucking wild to the legit LGBT elders. like imagine growin up gay in like the 1940s and now theres like, gay doritos
Okay so during my undergrad I was involved with my university’s Oral History program, and at one point I just checked out of our recorders, went to the Orlando Pride Day event, and got some interviews for our queer history archive.
And if you haven’t been, the Orlando pride event, at least recently, has become very??? Idk companies dominated, like a shit ton of companies having booths and passing out stuff with their logo in rainbow colors (including health insurance companies, which is Wild.)
So something I tried to ask everyone I interviewed was what they thought about how the pride event is so overrun by companies, and something I found super interesting was the generational divide in the answers? Bc a lot of younger queers were basically like “It’s fucking stupid, it’s a bunch of companies that don’t actually care about us and that we know don’t care about us taking a time that’s supposed to be a celebration of the queer community and instead turning it into a glorified advertising fest.” But a lot of the older people I talked to (there was one couple I talked to that was literally a part of Orlando’s very first Pride parade) talked about how like, they grew up in a time where society either pretended they didn’t exist or reviled them, like literally celebrating people dying from AIDs level of hatred. And so obviously, they were more likely to be like “Oh we love seeing all of the big booths and how many companies are here, etc”.
But idk what was cool was that it wasn’t a situation where the older individuals were like “Yeah, we’re so happy that the companies love us!” Like, they were just as aware that for basically the rest of the year, these companies don’t give a fuck about them. But it was more that the presence of the companies was this huge visual sign of how much things have changed in their lifetime. Like for them, the fact that companies felt like they should go to Pride events, and that putting rainbows and “Love is love” on everything would boost sales, was a reminder that they were excepted and even held power in ways that they literally couldn’t have imagined when they were young. And honestly they were happy that younger generations didn’t have this same view, that they were a lot more cynical and unhappy with the companies in their Pride, because it was a sign of how much better things had gotten for newer generations of the queer community? Like they didn’t have to compare everything to an impossibly low standard, they didn’t look at the world as it is today and feel fortunate just to be alive and be able to be with the person they love; they were able to look at the world and say “You know what, fuck this, we deserve better”.
Which is a super long-winded way of saying, OP you right, LGBT elders do indeed find gay doritos and oreos and everything else fucking wild
This isn’t just LGBT elders, either. It’s also LGBT folks who live in countries where we’re still ignored at best, reviled at worst, where the struggle to be seen as people still goes on. I know companies don’t care about us, but I envy the US and Europe for the fact that companies there feel it’s important, not disgusting, to be seen at Pride. I envy you all your widespread queer merchandise. I’d die to walk into a random shopping mall and be able to buy a pride flag or shirt off a shelf, just like that.
Don’t settle for the lip service companies are paying us. We need to push for better and for more. But don’t take what you’ve got for granted, either - and please don’t let things go back to what they once were.
