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You’ve honoured me this evening to a degree I feel I don’t yet deserve. When I read about the work of my fellow honourees, I felt humbled and certain that among us, I am the one with much to prove. I believe I’ve received this award not so much because of what I’ve done, but because of the way I was born and raised. I was born the younger sister of a gay man, my older brother Mike, and the daughter of parents who were both empathetic to and loving of the LGBT community. In my household, being gay was and is - no big deal. When my brother came out we hugged him, said we loved him, and that was that. When he brought home his first boyfriend …when he brought his first boyfriend, now husband home for a couple of weeks one Christmas, my father’s only comment to my mother was: “Please, try not to mix up our underwear.” We had no idea that I would become recognizable because of my work and that we would become publicly labeled as having an “alternative family lifestyle”. Just for the record, we don’t feel that there is actually anything alternative about our family values. So for semantic reasons only, it’s with some hesitation that I accept the HRCLI award. I don’t consider myself just an ally to the LGBT community, I consider myself your family; and so, I’m doing, what we should all do, with our families. I’m loving you, I support you, I completely accept you as you are as I hope you do me, and if anyone, ever, tries to hurt you - I’m gonna give them hell! …There are people who’ve said that I’m being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption ..basically of gay rights, but with all due respect, I humbly dissent. I’m not being brave, I’m being a decent human being, and I don’t think I should receive an award for that, or for merely stating what I believe to be true; that love, is a human experience, not a political statement, however, I acknowledge that sadly we live in a world where not everybody feels the same. My family and I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives. When our rights are equal, and when the political limits on love have been smashed. This award does not represent in anyway the pinnacle of my relationship with the LGBT community, rather, it is a triumphant roar to announce that we are just beginning our fight together. In closing, to paraphrase Enis Del Mar, who was unforgettably embodied by the late, the great, Heath Ledger: I swear HRC, I swear. I have not yet done enough to deserve this award, but don’t worry, the best is yet to come.I loved her before, but this totally enhances that by a billion. This woman is amazing!! Sitting here crying right now after sitting through this speech to write it down for all of you guys. Incredible!
Listen to Anne’s speech here (or here if the first link stops working), and please be sure to reblog and place a white ribbon (for marriage equality) on your blogs, please. :-) Let’s spread this around!
Because everyone should have the right to tie the knot!
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alive in the sound: That awkward moment when Santana's coming out episode is all about undeserved redemption for Finn →
Can Glee please stop fapping over its male characters long enough to remember that women are people? Imagine how much that would help with its characterization issues! And yeah, I’m still pissed about Kurt stealing Brittany’s campaign idea and the writers pretending it was his.
And at this point,…
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who says it can't be real?: Glee is really desperate to get us to like Finn. →
They are trying so hard to make him the hero that it’s offensive. Is it because he’s the straight white male lead? Pretty sure that’s the only reasoning I can think of. If you wanted us to like him maybe he shouldn’t do douchey things. Not just be given gratuitous inappropriate apology scenes…
The problem is that they’re not REALLY trying to make us like him. If they wanted us to like him they’d probably try making him, oh I don’t know … not be an asshole anymore.
Yet it seems to be their strategy EVERY SEASON to have him do really stupid stuff and then win us over anyway. “Oh, I call you a f*g? That was wrong of me and I am not a bigger person and have learned. I am awesome.”
The most offensive part of tonight’s episode is that they skipped the middle. They skipped the part where the lesson is learned, where he realizes the error of his ways.
Where it usually goes:
Finn does dumb shit -> Finn has to be taught why it is dumb and his heart grows three sizes -> Everybody loves Finn
It instead went:
Finn does dumb shit -> Finn continues to do dumb shit unabated -> Everyone inexplicably loves Finn BECAUSE of the dumb shit which is somehow not dumb shit but noble and good.
???
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So Glee just jumped the shark.
Oh, who am I kidding? It jumped the shark 2 seasons ago. What it did tonight was taking a running leap over the shark and swan dive into a plastic cup filled with misogyny and homophobia and ugly sweaters.
It’s time we wake up and see the truth. It’s not straight people who are holding LGBT progress back. We’re doing it to ourselves. If we can’t trust one of our own like Ryan Murphy to tell our stories and get us out there with honesty and sensitivity and RESPECT, then who CAN we trust?
Because I can think of quite a few gay storylines on TV in recent years that were handled with much more honesty and grace than anything Glee has ever pushed out of its writers’ room, and every one of them was penned by a heterosexual.
I’m done letting Glee get away with this shit. It was cute for awhile. “Oh look, the show that doesn’t know what it is. Am I a black comedy or an after school special?” It’s not cute anymore. It’s not cute when a gay man has a hit show on Fox and uses the platform to reinforce every stereotype there is about us.
And I say that as a gay man. I can’t even imagine how (rightfully) INFURIATED my lesbian sisters has to be right now. At least Kurt’s coming out and bullying was handled relatively well by Glee standards. What happened tonight was as misogynistic as it was homophobic. It was pure negativity.
The message straight youth will walk away from this episode with is that it is alright to out people against their will because secretly they want to be outed, that lesbians are just there for straight men to drool over and that sexuality is a choice.
It’s not alright.
It’s far from alright.
Boycott time, baby.
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This is how I feel about American Horror Story.
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Power Packed.
The Art of Sami Basri: Power Girl #26: 2011.
Comic-Con Weekend. San Diego. 2011.
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“Hands Tutorials for Those Who Hates Drawing Them”
Original can be found on Pixiv, I just translated it. I figured it can be helpful to some.
Here’s a combined version for those who prefer one giant tutorial.
May have already posted this before jesus but it’s soo goood.
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