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June 2010

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Stonewall Rebellion: How it all began:  → wsm.ie

 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Celebrations have recently been seen all over the world, as a celebration of sexual diversity. It’s worth remembering the history of Pride celebrations, of their origin in a homophobic and repressive culture, and their challenge to a world that refused to recognise sexual freedom. In this article, Paul McAndrew discusses the origins of Pride as a moment when the queer community in New York stood up and fought to be proud of their sexualities.The Stonewall riots were a series of violent conflicts between New York City police officers and groups of lesbian, gay, bi and transgender people that began during the early morning of June 28, 1969, and lasted several days. It was a watershed for the worldwide gay rights movement, because it was the first time queer people had forcibly resisted the police. At the time, gay bars were illegal, the

only queer bars were underground and Mafia-run. Violent police raids were common. People got prosecuted even for cross-dressing.

Jun 30, 2010
FYLGBT's Favorite Sites

fuckyeahlgbt:

  • We Give a Damn 
  • Freedom to Marry
  • Marriage Equality 
  • GLSEN 
  • Think B4 You Speak
  • White Knot
  • Day of Silence
  • Beyond Ex-Gay
  • Slap Upside The Head
  • The Trevor Project
  • Ally Week

I made a paragraph about each one here. Check them out! :]

Jun 30, 201015 notes
people should be able to love whoever the fuck they wanna love and no matter what you believe, you should be allowed to live your life the way you wanna live it. - alex gaskarth

xlovemileycyrus:

(via orgasm4atl)

Jun 30, 2010656 notes
“hes cute from a far, but hes far from cute” —Very gracious friends…..
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Jun 9, 2010
TED: Ideas worth spreading → ted.com

I stumbled across the amazing world of TED 3 years ago, since I have seen the most amazing technoligies and brilliant ideas  being discussed on the platform of the TED conventions, well worth a browse around you’re sure to find something which adheres to your interests.

Jun 9, 2010
Gearge Carlin Quotes ^.^
Top 10 George Carlin Quotes #10 - ARTISTIC DETACHMENT

“I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me an artistic detachment that I find valuable. I think the human race has squandered its gift, and I think this country has squandered its promise, for the sake of cell phones and Jet Skis.”

#09 - BULLSHIT

“Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man … living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of 10 specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.”

#08 - FREAK SHOW

“When you’re born, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front-row seat.”

#07 - OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS

“The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.”

#06 - MOTIVATION

“What’s all this stuff about motivation? I say, if you need motivation, you probably need more than motivation. You probably need chemical intervention or brain surgery. Actually, if you ask me, this country could do with a little less motivation. The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to me.”

#05 - NATIONAL PASTIME

“Consumption. This is the new national pastime. Fuck baseball, it’s consumption, the only true, lasting American value that’s left … buying things … People spending money they don’t have on things they don’t need … So they can max out their credit cards and spend the rest of their lives paying 18 percent interest on something that cost $12.50. And they didn’t like it when they got it home anyway. Not too bright, folks, not too fuckin’ bright.”

#04 - ANOTHER FAILED MUTATION

“We’re so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody’s going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven’t learned how to care for one another. We’re gonna save the fuckin’ planet? … And, by the way, there’s nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin’ great. It’s been here over four billion years … The planet isn’t goin’ anywhere, folks. We are! We’re goin’ away. Pack your shit, we’re goin’ away. And we won’t leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we’ll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.”

#03 - STUFF

“Actually this is just a place for my stuff, ya know? That’s all, a little place for my stuff. That’s all I want, that’s all you need in life, is a little place for your stuff, ya know? I can see it on your table, everybody’s got a little place for their stuff. This is my stuff, that’s your stuff, that’ll be his stuff over there. That’s all you need in life, a little place for your stuff. That’s all your house is: a place to keep your stuff. If you didn’t have so much stuff, you wouldn’t need a house. You could just walk around all the time. A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it. You can see that when you’re taking off in an airplane. You look down, you see everybody’s got a little pile of stuff. All the little piles of stuff. And when you leave your house, you gotta lock it up. Wouldn’t want somebody to come by and take some of your stuff. They always take the good stuff. They never bother with that crap you’re saving. All they want is the shiny stuff. That’s what your house is, a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get … more stuff! Sometimes you gotta move, gotta get a bigger house. Why? No room for your stuff anymore.”

#02 - AMERICAN DREAM

“Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice … you don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying … lobbying, to get what they want … Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want … they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that … that doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin’ years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers … Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin’ retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it … they’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fuckin’ place. It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in The big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people … white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means … continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you … they don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you at all … at all … at all, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s called the American Dream cause you have to be asleep to believe it …”

#01 - SEVEN DIRTY WORDS

“There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can’t say on television. What a ratio that is! 399,993 … to seven. They must really be baaaad. They must be OUTRAGEOUS to be separated from a group that large. ‘All of you words over here, you seven … baaaad words.’ That’s what they told us, right? ‘That’s a bad word!’ Awwww. No bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords. You know the seven, don’t ya? That you can’t say on TV? Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits. Huh? Those are the heavy seven. Those are the words that’ll infect your soul, curve your spine, and keep the country from winning the war. Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits, wow! And tits doesn’t even belong on the list! It seems like such a friendly word. Sounds like a nickname. ‘Hey Tits, come here man! Tits! Meet my friend Toots. Toots, Tits. Tits, Toots.’ Sounds like a snack … oh yeah, it is. Right. But I don’t mean your sexist snack, I mean new Nabisco Tits. Corn Tits n’ Sesame Tits n’ Cheese Tits … Tater Tits. Bet you can’t eat just one!”

Jun 9, 2010
The Pleasures of Imagination (via The Chronicle of Higher Education) → chronicle.com

What is written below is so true >_<

Why are we not content in the world we live in…… always looking for an escape to the world of the imagination that which is beyond our grasp, should we be comfortable with this evolutionary step of withdrawing from reality for what seems to me as often as possible, there is a place I find most unreal and that is the world of the internet maybe it is my keen appreciation for the material but this world of shared information, blogging and social networking is one which because lacking any true physical properties seems to be a step towards the world of imagination another leap away from the realm of reality……but how does one define “real” in a world where for many social interaction relies on weather chat in facebook is working or not……seems like a sad world but still somehow I will not acknowledge this as true reality…..or maybe I’m wrong….. time and discussion will tell….

psychotherapy:

How do Americans spend their leisure time? The answer might surprise you. The most common voluntary activity is not eating, drinking alcohol, or taking drugs. It is not socializing with friends, participating in sports, or relaxing with the family. While people sometimes describe sex as their most pleasurable act, time-management studies find that the average American adult devotes just four minutes per day to sex.

Our main leisure activity is, by a long shot, participating in experiences that we know are not real. When we are free to do whatever we want, we retreat to the imagination—to worlds created by others, as with books, movies, video games, and television (over four hours a day for the average American), or to worlds we ourselves create, as when daydreaming and fantasizing. While citizens of other countries might watch less television, studies in England and the rest of Europe find a similar obsession with the unreal.

This is a strange way for an animal to spend its days. Surely we would be better off pursuing more adaptive activities—eating and drinking and fornicating, establishing relationships, building shelter, and teaching our children. Instead, 2-year-olds pretend to be lions, graduate students stay up all night playing video games, young parents hide from their offspring to read novels, and many men spend more time viewing Internet pornography than interacting with real women. One psychologist gets the puzzle exactly right when she states on her Web site: “I am interested in when and why individuals might choose to watch the television show Friends rather than spending time with actual friends.”…

Jun 9, 2010429 notes
Blogs I like :P (concerning mostly fashion)
Blaubushka Girls

Blau von T
Eliza J

Blaubushka began as a scrapbook of sorts; a collection of eclectic lusting and whimsical fancies of two stylish ladies. Enter the mistress and the rose; the foreboding tease Blau von T and the last forest pixie Miss Eliza J. These indie darlings seek to lure you with their tales of fashion, with their melancholic musings and their yearnings for all things vintage. They are quirky and mischievous and strive to enchant your day. One taste and you’ll be theirs forever more.

http://blaubushka-blaubushka.blogspot.com/

About Little Black Book
  • Little Black Book is essential for every fashionista and is based in Sydney, Australia. I am a fashion blogger, Magazine Intern, Wiccan, little mons†er, lover of arts, animals, vampires, magick, sparkles and grunge. I love all things black, fur, leopard print, gold jewellery, leather, silk.

http://littleblackbook.typepad.com/little_black_book/

The Drifter and the Gypsy

Founded in November 2008. An inspiration blog that encompasses all aspects of art. Created to inspire others and for people who like pretty things.

http://thedrifterandthegypsy.blogspot.com/

Jun 9, 2010
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Jun 7, 2010
Loving this song at the moment :D Makes me feel Awesome !! → youtube.com

Found this through a friend on fb, can’t stop playing it >_<

I can see myself getting tired of it soon due to being over played :P

Jun 7, 2010
“Of all the things I’ve lost I miss my mind the most ;_;” —This quote was first encountered by me in secondary school, on a handwritten poster besude my english teacher’s blackboard. He was a crazy old coot, having us beliving in Fairies and folklore, I met him for the first time since he retired from teaching recently and he informed my of his wife’s passing a few months ago. I felt a deep sadness for him, and since this quote from his classroom wall comes to the forefront of my mind……
Jun 7, 2010
Jesus and Mo, if your humour is like mine you'l be in pain with laughter :D → jesusandmo.net
Jun 7, 2010
“Religion is to reason what rigor mortis is to dancing.” —
Jun 7, 2010
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