Our Matthew Shepard moment was supposed to have been Brandon Teenaâs murder, which happened 5 years earlier than Shepardâs. But yeah, too many people still view us as freaks.
ETA: Jesus fucking Christ, I just read the whole story. After a teacher broke up the âfightâ (it wasnât a fight, it was a brutal assault), no one even called an ambulance. And probably not coincidentally, a couple of years ago, Libs of TikTok (Chaya Raichik) targeted a teacher in Owasso who had spoken out in support of LGBTQ+ students, forcing her to resign after the subsequent deluge of harassment. Time for a lawsuit.
I just read some local coverage and the paper and their mother deadnames them 
Iâm not surprised, sadly. We studied the Brandon Teena civil lawsuit in my Torts class. His mother sued the county for wrongful death. Unfortunately, she misgendered and deadnamed him throughout the trial, as did the court. Also unfortunately, the jury decided she didnât suffer any damages because she was estranged from Brandon at the time he was murdered. So apparently, if you arenât getting along with your family, that means they donât care if you die. It was such a painful case to read. Iâve never been able to bring myself to watch the movie. I did make the mistake, after reading some of the Sheriffâs comments in the case, of Googling to see if the recording of his interview of Brandon Teena after the rape was online. It is. Do yourself a favor and never listen to it. Hearing it is so much worse than reading it.
Condemning a funeral is low.
Itâs not just âcondemningâ.
The cathedral held a Mass of Reparation following the funeral at the direction of Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, Salvo said.
In ascetical theology, reparation is the making of amends for insults given to God through sin, either oneâs own or anotherâs. (Wiki)
The archbishopâs considered judgement was that the funeral wasnât just to be condemned, it was so bad that they need to have a mass specifically to apologise to God for it having happened. They didnât just think it was wrong, they thought it was actively blasphemous.
Assume this post has a bunch of flaggable words in it.
The only other group Iâve known to engage in this level of hate is the Westboro Baptist Church.
Hmmm. Where have I heard that name before?
His suffer the little children is more Stephen King than Jesus Christ.
I wonder if these women genuinely believe that, once the trans folks have been pushed back into the closet or exterminated, the right-wing conservatives wonât turn on them and do the exact same thing to them.
First because theyâre lesbians, then because theyâre women.
âFeed the leopard, thereâs no way it will be hungry tomorrow!â
*24 hours later
âAgh, my face!!â
This bar is doomed to failure, not because of trans people (although we will get the blame), but because of economics.
One of the things that has been noticed over the last decade is that the few lesbian bars that have survived have been accepting of bisexual women and trans people. The exclusionary bars were the first to close.
With London rent, I give it six months to a year, unless it is being funded by far-right groups with deep pockets.
Meanwhile, a place like My Sisterâs Room here in the ATL carries on, because itâs inclusiveâŚ
This is kind of where my uncle and my mother are with me being trans. They donât understand it, and they may never, but they still love me. My dad still loves me, too, but heâs not just unable to understand, heâs unable to accept.
A series that notably starts with a boy living in a literal closet. I always thought that was a bit of an LGBT allegory, at least until she showed who she really is.
