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demisexual

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hopeless romantics

cis-men

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the whole spectrum etc…

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rb this to give the person you reblogged from a tattoo and in the tags say what you're giving them

It is our duty as feminists to protect and respect women in Hijabs

idk who needs to hear this but accusing someone (non fictional) of queerbating is NOT cool.

i really don't know at what point in time we, as a community, thought we were entitled to comment on anyone's private life and/or feelings, because we're definitely not. those people are real human beings with real emotions and real conflicts, who have every right to feel confused and figure themselves out without a bunch of judgemental pricks breathing down their neck. as a community it's in our power to create a safe space for anyone who, were they to discover something about themselves, can find shelter without being terrified out of their mind (because we made them feel like that!!!)

accusing someone of queerbating is harmful to that person's mental health. we should know better than anyone else that sexualities/gender identities are confusing and take a long time to figure out. that there's no time limit to it. that sometimes it takes longer, sometimes it changes ten times until you find yourself. and we should know better than this.

we've been pressured and forced to come out every day of our lives. we can do better than this. don't make another person go through the same shit. c'mon now.

so since i'm not seeing anything about this on my dash:

A law passed in Hungary that basically makes being LGBTQ+ illegal in public. And that in the context of an anti-pedophilia law. You're not allowed to talk to children and teens up to the age of 18 about LGBTQ+ things "in order to protect the children".

So basically wherever a child can hear you or see you, or read things, it's illegal to show signs of LGBTQ+ related things. And let's be fucking honest cause that's basically everywhere.

You're not even allowed to hold hands with your same sex partner in public, because children could see it. You're not allowed to dress like your preferred gender, you're not even allowed to basically be transgender.

you're not allowed to exist as the person you are.

How can you help, you ask?

here's a link to Háttér (the largest Hungarian LGBTQ+ organisation) where you can donate to help LGBTQ+ people in Hungary

What happened in Hungary?? Is there any way we could support you guys?

you can donate to budapestpride, háttér society and labrisz lesbian association! ill add more organizations if i can think of any

if there is an article in english about the situation i cant find it right now so i'll attempt to sum it up

basically our pseudo fascist government granted themselves emergency powers at the beginning of the pandemic and among other things they have been using it to slowly take away thw lgbt community's rights and freedom. trans people can no longer change their name and gender marker and gay couples can no longer adopt children

and most recently (last night actually) a law that is supposed to protect against child predators was changed so that "sex education in schools cannot promote the changing of one's sex or homosexuality" on top of that sex education programs can only be done by the school or a database of organizations maintained by the government. the breaking of these rules (aka telling kids its okay to be trans) would get both the organizer AND the principal of the school into major trouble (think jail)

additionally children under 18 cannot be shown advertisements or educational content containing homosexuality or transgender "propaganda" these materials MUST be marked 18+

40% of all hungarian lgbt individuals have admitted to suicidal ideation, with 30% percent admitting to attempting it. our government is framing this as the protection of the children but what it will actually do is kill even more lgbt kids.

im incredibly angry so i'm sorry if this is not well phrased but this needs to stop because the path we're heading down is gonna end really fucking bad for the hungarian lgbt+ community