Send a virtual letter to a new queer friend this Pride Month. For 10k IDR/5$ USD, we'll match you with a random queer pen pal. Open internationally.
Some proceeds goes to WCC Yogyakarta, an organization that houses & supports elderly trans women in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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Punya cerita tentang QUEER JOY?
Jadi queer di Indonesia gak mudah, tapi pasti ada cerita penerimaan diri, perayaan & resilience yang bisa dibagi!
Kami lagi open submission bagi yang mau ceritakan kisah queer joy mereka di Pride Month ini. Lengkapnya๐๐ฝ https://t.co/ugXagEANb5
[Calling Queer Medan ๐]
Be part of the movement. Organize, learn, and create impact with Cangkang Queer.
Apply as volunteer โ https://t.co/COH9pJVQqs Deadline: March 30, 2026.
In 1948, James Peterson was lobotomized for being gay. His parents committed him after discovering his love for another man. The asylum labeled it "sexual perversion" and "treated" him with a transorbital lobotomy-ice picks hammered above his eye sockets into his frontal lobe. It took just 15 minutes, but it erased his vibrant, artistic spirit forever. The doctor assured his parents: "Your son's perversion is corrected." What returned was an empty shell. no desires, no passions, not even for life. Entry wounds above his eyes, a vacant stare where intelligence once shone.
The doctor notes: "Patient calm, no deviant interests. Success." But that "calm" was brain damage; the "success" was personality murder. James never painted, laughed, or loved again. He lived 46 more years in a group home, a hollow routine without preferences or joy, dying in 1994 at 74. His parents visited once, saw the void they'd created, and never came back. To them, a son who was nothing beat one who was gay. This event wasn't isolated. Churches offered their own brutal
"treatments" to "fix" homosexuality. In the 1970's, Brigham Young University (BYU), tied to the Mormon Church, subjected gay students to electroshock aversion therapyโzapping them while showing same-sex images, conditioning pain with desire.
Other faiths pushed exorcisms to cast out "demons," or intense prayer sessions claiming to pray away the gay, often leading to self-harm or suicide. These weren't cures; they were trauma disguised as salvation.
We've come far-conversion therapy is banned in many places, and love is increasingly celebrated. But remember James and countless others: their stories fuel our fight for dignity. No one should be "treated" for being themselves.
Selamat Hari Solidaritas LGBTQ+ Nasional!! Semoga kita bisa saling jaga, rawat, dan bersolidaritas dengan temen2 queer & trans dgn kerentanan berlapis, baik krn identitas gender, posisi kelas, dsb, khususnya ketika tiap hari kita menghadapi cรญsheteropatriarki yg makin menguat.
@sapphicsfess "Sesuai" sama definisinya siapa? ๐
Label itu sifatnya nggak restrictive. Justru label itu menurutku gunanya untuk belajar lebih banyak tentang diri sendiri dan menemukan komunitas with a shared culture.
Tugas kita bukan jadi Polisi Label yang maksa orang harus pilih label apa.
jika kalian masih nganggep homoseksual bisa "sembuh", bisa "taubat", hak-haknya bisa disetuju-gasetujuin, kalian masih berada di kesesatan dan menyumbang ke pelanggengan homofobia.
sesopan apapun, selunak apapun, homofobia tetap homofobia, tetap menyengsarakan dan harus dilawan.
btw LESBIANS, weโre currently doing an open call for poetry and other short writings!! (other queer identities are also welcomed) deadline is 1st March!!!
https://t.co/xRP9Oci5lQ
Ini ide bagus banget. Kalau di antara yang baca ini ada yang bekerja sebagai/kenal self-defense instructor yang queer, boleh pertimbangkan bikin kelas self-defense yang khusus queer sebagai ruang aman kita belajar self-defense.