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Jun 23

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Anonymous asked: Cishet aces aren't LGBT don't listen to that account you sent an ask to

moomuffns-blog:
Fucker. I don’t give a DAMN about cis het or not. Ace is ace. And ace belongs in lgbtA THATS WHY ITS FUCKING THERE!!!
Say it with me now! The A in lgbta+ stands for ACE. The A in lbgta+ stands for ACE.
THE A IN LBGTA STANDS FOR FUCKING ACEEEEE
Miss me with that gatekeeping bullshit ho. The only ones who DON’T belong are cis, heterosexual, heteromantic, perfectly straight men and women. Ace is not heterosexual nor heteromantic. Ace is the lack of sexual attract or romantic attraction.
But seriously, fuck off with your “not gay enough” ideology. There are plenty of strait trans men and women. There are plenty of cis bi, lesbian, and gay men and women. They are all valid members of the lbgt+ community, so tell me the absolute frickty frackity God damned bullshit reason a cis het person who happens to fit SOMEWHERE on the ace spectrum can’t also be welcomed into this community??
Unless you were talking about ace lesbians, cause then you done fucked up that ask from the very beginning and I won’t even go into that mess.
OR BETTER YET!!!!!
LET PEOPLE IDENTIFY THEMSELVES IN WHATEVER WEIRD ASS FUCKING WAY THEY PLEASE BECAUSE YOU DON’T HAVE A FUCKING CLUE HOW THEY FEEL!! YOU DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE OR AREN’T ATTRACTED TO!
Sexuality is a complex, messy thing. It can change. It can be completely absent. You don’t NEED to label your sexuality at all. And most fucking importantly, YOU don’t get to say who can or cannot feel a certain way or be welcomed into a community that is literally about being anything EXCEPT straight. Ace is not heterosexual. Ace is not heteromantic. Ace is the lack of any sexual/ romantic interest.
If it were literally anyone other than a cis person you’d have been fine. There are cis lesbians. There are cis homosexual men. There are cis bisexual men and women. So WHY can’t there be cis ace people as well?
And the only reason I’m not including trans, gender fluid, non binary and androgynous people is because your ask said specifically CIS people.
So again, cis heterosexual but aceromantic people are valid and exist. Cis asexual but heteromantic people are valid and exist. You can not gatekeep and say who is allowed in or not. You. Do. Not. Have. That. Power. Over. Other. Fucking. People. And. Their. Sexuality. And you never will. It is not your choice. It is theirs. It is those people who while attracted in a very hetero way, do not find any form of sex or sexual acts appealing. It is those who find hetero sex appealing, are not romantically inclined to anyone.
You don’t get to say “no, you don’t exist.” Or “no, you’re too straight.” The only people who shouldn’t be allowed to proclaim themselves part of the lbgt+ community AS ANYTHING OTHER THAN ALLIES are cis heterosexual AND heteromantic people you need both. You can be cis het asexual. You can be cis het aceromantic. Both fall on the ace spectrum.
Basically, everyone has a place in this community (or allianced with as allies) except transphobes, homophobes, pedos ( though they don’t belong anywhere except prison or at the bad end of a lethal injection imo, but let’s stay focused) or otherwise antilbgt+ groups. And unless they fall into the ^^^^ (above) categories, you don’t get to decide who can be a part of it.
Originally posted by meanwhileongiphy

cythereancutie:

Hey y’all, so I’ve had sensitive mode on for a few days. It’s not just lgbt content that gets blocked. Most of what I’ve seen blocked is:
Pagan content, ref posts and altar pics
Black/PoC content, both humor and serious posts
Moodboards of all kinds
The moon. A lot

However if ur over 18, please have it turned on!! If u click on a post (the view post button)
Then go to the bottom
You can help improve the algorithm!!
Generally I say yes to nudity of any kind, violence, gore, slurs (like f slur or t slur, blocking queer will only make things worse). Make sure to think about why you vote - is this the kind of content you wouldnt want your boss or a 12 yr old seeing?
Good luck!

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saintalia:

straight friend: is she cute?
me: well first of all, all girls are cute, so jot that down

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a bunch of specific-body-part-fetish porn artists come together and draw a single character in their respective styles, each doing a single body part, creating the most terrifying image ever made by humans

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Scientists Just Proved That “Patient Zero” Did Not Bring HIV To The US -

tpfnews:

Researchers have definitively traced how HIV first spread to the US, thanks to an impressive genetic analysis of thousands of blood samples collected in San Francisco and New York in the late 1970s.
The study, published on Wednesday in Nature, focused in particular on decoding the viral strains carried by eight people who were infected with HIV. Because the HIV virus mutates rapidly from one person to the next, it’s possible for scientists to compare genetic markers in each strain to track the history of how it spread.
These eight new genetic sequences, along with a ninth from sub-Saharan Africa that had been done years earlier, are the oldest full copies of the HIV genome.
“Looking at these archival samples allowed us to step back in time,” Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona and lead author of the study, told BuzzFeed News.
Worobey’s analysis shows that after emerging in sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1900s, HIV hit the Caribbean by 1967, and made its way to New York City around 1971. Within about five years, it then spread to San Francisco.
Exactly how the virus traveled from the Caribbean to the US remains unclear.
“There’s many plausible routes that the virus could have taken,” Worobey said. “It could be a person of any nationality moving from one region to the next. It could have been a contaminated blood product, since until the mid-1970s a lot of commercial blood products were imported to the US from Haiti. We simply don’t know.”
The paper is a technical feat, but also has a powerful human side: It definitively clears the name of “Patient Zero,” a gay French-Canadian flight attendant named Gaétan Dugas who for decades has been accused of bringing the virus to North America.
Dugas was hired by Air Canada in 1974, and his job took him to dozens of cities across North America. In 1980, he was diagnosed with skin cancer, just a year before the Centers for Disease Control flagged a mysterious cluster of infectious diseases in five young and previously healthy gay men in Los Angeles.
By 1982, the CDC had identified the mysterious illness as AIDS. Although tens of thousands had been infected by that time, scientists struggled to figure out what was spreading and how it was being spread. The CDC’s study of the initial cluster study grew to include 40 cases in several cities, displayed in CDC papers published in 1984 as a ball-and-stick diagram showing how they were connected by sexual encounters.
Dugas, known simply as Patient “O” (for “Outside of California”) in the CDC papers, was near the center of the cluster. A mistake in CDC communications, however, labeled him as Patient “0.”
Dugas died that same year, but the mistake would plague his name posthumously. In 1987, Randy Shilts published the widely read And The Band Played On, the first popular history of the AIDS epidemic. In it, Shilts named Dugas and delved deep into his life, portraying him as “Patient Zero,” a sexually promiscuous flight attendant who knowingly spread the virus.
The book spurred many sensational takes about the highly feared and poorly understood epidemic. The New York Post ran a front page headline that read, “THE MAN WHO GAVE US AIDS,” claiming that Dugas had triggered a “gay cancer” epidemic in the US. The National Review nicknamed Dugas “the Columbus of AIDS.” People magazine declared Dugas one of “The 25 Most Intriguing People of ‘87,” writing that his “fierce sexual drive gave impetus to an epidemic that claimed his life and thousands more.”
AIDS activists as well as scientists at the CDC tried to make the public aware that the label was untrue.
“We spent a lot of time denying that and refuting that, but some people kept on believing it,” said Jim Curran, an epidemiology professor at Emory University who led the CDC task force on AIDS in 1981. Although “Patient 0” had become the agency’s shorthand for Dugas after the mistake was popularized, he said, they never claimed he was the first case in the US.
While scientists struggled to work out the mechanics of the virus, the accidental phrase “Patient Zero” — never before used to describe the first case of any epidemic — took hold in the public’s imagination.
“There was so much anxiety and fear about HIV and origins of HIV that it led to blame — blame along people’s beliefs, blame along people’s prejudices,” Richard Elion, an HIV researcher at George Washington University, told BuzzFeed News. “People want to believe that bad things in the world happen because of bad people. But biology doesn’t work that way.”
Worobey’s new study goes a long way to address the myth of Patient Zero. In addition to the eight genomes that showed the virus’s movement from the Caribbean to the US, the researchers sequenced Dugas’s viral genome and showed that it was typical of other US strains at the time. In other words, the virus he carried had no markers distinguishing it as an earlier strain.
“People want to believe that bad things in the world happen because of bad people. But biology doesn’t work that way.”
For the activists and scientists who have been trying to clear Patient Zero’s name for decades, the fact that the myth persisted for so long should serve as a warning.
“Patient Zero sort of served as a gay boogie man,” Mark Harrington, executive director of the Treatment Action Group and a longtime activist, told BuzzFeed News. “We still see that — certain people are still portrayed as predators for transmitting AIDS to partners. We need to do a better job of distinguishing diseases from villains.”
There may be scientific value in figuring out the “Patient Zero” of any disease, such as understanding what enables viruses to spread or what gives certain people the ability to fight infections. But Worobey hopes his study will help prevent future cases of finger-pointing.
“I think for any infectious disease — whether it’s Zika or Ebola or SARS or flu or HIV — there is value in trying to understand what it takes to make a successful outbreak,” he said. But, he added, “the idea of blaming people for a pathogen that infected thousands of people before anyone knew about it is absurd.”
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