gaysun:

in light of this tumblr “safe” mode, i want to talk about my own experience with this website. im almost 19 now and i joined tumblr when i was 14. here are some details of how tumblr was a part of my journey as a lesbian:

i literally discovered that im gay from tumblr. it’s a kinda cheesy story but i was 14 and on tumblr on a sideblog of someone i followed that was dedicated to pictures for her future wife. i was 50 pages into looking at lesbian wedding photos when i realized that straight people don’t Do That

the first person i came out to was via tumblr. i told my best friend at the time who i met on here through the “fan mail” we had then and i was sobbing typing out the message. receiving her support and having someone outside of my town to talk to about it (who was also struggling with her sexuality) meant the world to me

i first learned about lgbt history and activism through tumblr. it’s the reason i became interested and invested in social justice and obviously this education continued way beyond tumblr but it gave me my start coming from a school that, like many other high schools, erased the existence of gay people in its curriculum.

it introduced me to almost ALL of the gay content that i consumed. the tv shows, movies, books, singers, webcomics, etc that’s had gay representation that’s helped me come to terms with my sexuality over the years, I almost solely found through tumblr.

most importantly, it gave me gay friends. im from a conservative town in florida and before my first year at college this year, i had no means of making gay friends or really any friends at all (because i was hated as an out lesbian in my town) in person. I’ve made so many gay friends on here who were INSTRUMENTAL in me accepting myself and still are so important to me to this day

im 18 now but all of the things listed above happened when i was ages 14-17. i know that this website is awful at times but for gay youth who are completely isolated from any sort of lgbt community, it can be really REALLY important. @staff you’re not protecting anybody, you’re literally harming gay youth and you need to fix this shit now.

bisexualbertmccracken:

b0ttl3bl0nd3:

lavendrrmenace:

old lesbian messaging was super vague and ominous i Love It

xoxoxo

@magicalmrmistoffelees

mabel-loves-aces:

Sapphic aces are not watered down wlw, and we should respect that they can be both sapphic and ace.

lancesgun:

dont miss me with that gay shit. hit me. kill me with that gay shit

galpalsincorporated:

Also
Lesbians deserve friends who will support them no matter what pronouns they use or how they choose to present

dorkbending:

Ace Lesbians aren’t watered down Lesbians.

Aro Lesbians aren’t watered down Lesbians.

Ace and Aro Lesbians are beautiful and amazing and deserve love and respect.

you know who’s beautiful?

sapphic-happiness:

asexual sapphic girls.
🌹asexual lesbians🌹
🌺asexual panromantic people🌺
🌸asexual biromantics🌸
🌷asexual poly wlw🌷
all ace women are valid and i love you all

secretlesbians:

brudesworld:

The Call of the Sirens by Burrel, c.1915

do it, go into the gay ocean and be free

Source: brudesworld

wlw-aes:

seasons wlw: spring

“as we walked through fields of green, was the fairest sun i’d ever seen”

katsgf:

something that incredibly depresses me about how far both radfem and libfem separatists have sunk their claws into lesbian and bi circles respectively is that they’ve forced this notion that lesbians and bi women are these two separate entities with divergent histories with no common points whatsoever. in reality, our histories and our lives have always been intertwined. it was separatism that began the schism between us, but the notion that we’re two groups of people who began separately and now have to work to come back together is, i think, the root of a lot of the problems between us. and it makes me so genuinely upset.