Pride season is practically upon us and while there will be celebrations around the world, our Russian gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender brother and sisters will not have the chance to join in the festivities in their home land.

AnthroGirl:

Please tell me this is a Village People reference. Otherwise, this old man will be offended by the ignorance of our youth.

According to college footballer Nick Kasa, NFL teams are asking potential draft picks about their sexuality. This is not OK

Excellent article w/GREATquestions on creating safe space. http://sucharov.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/glbtq-safe-spaces-in-jewish-life-2/
“Are we ensuring that our youth groups are spaces where our community’s teens can engage in open and healthy discussions of sexuality? Are…

AnthroGirl: Keshet is great and local! ( for me) They have a great mix of social and politcal programming. And Keshet means rainbow in Hebrew :)

theatlantic:

The Worst Cities For College-Educated Women Trying to Find a Decent Date

Are you a young, college-educated woman? Are you looking to settle down one day with a young, college-educated man? A word of advice: Stay away from Sarasota, Florida.

AnthroGirl: This is of course if you only date men. If you happen to date women, this is much less of an issue especially in Boston/Cambridge for example.

pflagmom:

This is about the most Awesome 3 minutes of video ever. My thanks to Monica D. for finding it and sharing it with me.

ibleedmerlot:

I just found out that Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict were not only best friends, but LOVERS too. And I am totally reading the book “The Kinship of Women” because I must know all of the details now and I need to see if this is a legitimate thing. Not that it really matters, it’s just cool to find out that two women that I look up to were lovers. I mean, damn. 

anthropologica:

A. R. Radcliffe-Brown & C. Daryll Forde, editores 
African Systems of Kinship and Marriage

Joan Bestard Camps 
Tras la biología: La moralidad del parentesco y las nuevas tecnologías de reproducción

Joan Bestard Camps, Gemma Orobitg Canal, Júlia Ribot Ballabriga, Carles Salazar Carrasco 
Parentesco y reproducción asistida: Cuerpo, persona y relaciones

Paul Bohannan & John Middleton, editores 
Marriage, Family, and Residence

Jeannette Edwards, Sarah Franklin, Eric Hirsch, Frances Price, Marilyn Strathern 
Technologies of procreation: Kinship in the age of assisted conception

Carme Fitó 
Identidad, cuerpo y parentesco: Etnografía sobre la experiencia de la infertilidad y la reproducción asistida en Cataluña

Jack Goody 
La evolución de la familia y del matrimonio en Europa

Martine Segalen
Antropología histórica de la familia

Marilyn Strathern 
Reproducing the future: Anthropology, kinship and the new reproductive technologies

Kath Weston 
Las familias que elegimos: Lesbianas, gays y parentesco

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lgbtlaughs:

freakingdork:

bluemagicrose:

theshitpeopletweet:

fluffysharkie:

carmakiin:

homurathetimelesbian:

theshitpeopletweet:

Please someone kill me.

and then they get offended when you say you dislike the sherlock fandom

Oh my fucking god this makes me so fucking sick.

#actual gay and lesbian couples who have been waiting for so long to get married in the UK now finally have a chance to do so and all these Sherlockians are like OMFG I KNOW WHAT SEASON THREE IS GONNA BE ABOUT TEEHEE #fuck you #fuck all of you dumb horny little fangirl shits

This sums up my feelings pretty well.

this is disgusting.

#omfg #and people wonder why the queer community despises straight slasher fangirls #but noooooo they’re such supportive allies! #and seriously have never encountered a fandom as bad as this fandom #not to mention these are all a bunch of Americans who are completely clueless about how parlament works

for anyone who wants an overview of what is going on in regards to marriage equality in the uk, STFUstraightpeople has two primer posts on the process of uk lawmaking:

• this post outlines the process
• here it is in a bit more detail

AnthroGirl: As a Queer Chick, I don’t find this particularly problematic. Sure, straight people can be annoying when they want to take credit for this that they didn’t do, or for being decent human beings, etc; however, shipping slash fanfiction is not that big a deal in my opinion. For fuck sake, I ship slash fanfiction. Also it is a running gag on the show that people think John and Sherlock are together. So my friends, I think this is just a little healthy fantasy. Sure let’s keep talking about the real progress first, but a little fun is okay. Also it is a bit presumptious to blame this on straight people. Clearly they like men, but straight? There are more than two sides to this coin.

Went on a date with a nice young man, and I informed my mother that I would not be available to talk to her on the phone that evening because I had a date. My mother said to me ” with a girl, or a guy?” I informed her that I was going out on a date with a guy. ” Oh, really. Okay, have fun.” I swear, I think my mother is genuinely convinced that I am a lesbian. It is kind of adorable. Well, I guess she is half right.