Welsh Brightonian, London librarian. Gay, queer, cis, woke w. pronouns (he/him) AND beard. I lock/block regularly so pls take that as a win.
#WritingCommunity
In love with this evocative photo of outside the Atlantic House Bar in Provincetown, 1993.
You can hear the excited chatter, smell and feel the heat of a warm summer's night, and you know the little guy in the black vest has the cutest porn star tache 💕
Credit: David Jarrett
Saw this lovely sign on a pub near my Dr's this morning 💕
I won't say where it is, cos you know, Terfs like to boycott and harrass any ounce of humanity, but it's nice that people make this effort to be welcoming 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@SangitaMyska
@Sistah_Space
@ManduReid
@SuzanneEJacob
This seemed weird:
"All members of the household are being reminded of the diversity and inclusivity policies which they are required to uphold at all times."
Could they just try not to be rude?
@ICanSeeForever1
Why would they make that public? 😱
Tbf any disco footage is gonna be cringe but with the added vocal (is it some kind of affirmative rap?!)…. 😱😱😱
@LozzaFox
Interesting.... so we have no need for vaccinations against:
Rabies
Measles
Mumps
Rubella
Yellow Fever
HPV
Whooping Cough
PPV
Hep A & B
Tetanus
Typhoid
Diphtheria
Meningitis
TB
Influenza
...because we have an immune system 🤔
Welcome back to the 18th Century kids!
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
When I saw the use of the word 'lefty', I assumed this was a parody account as no serious elected official would engage in such puerile pejoratives 🙄
Tbh though Jakey, it's more lounging that sitting with you huh?
It's not where you are, it's how productive you are.
@MichelleDewbs
Maybe… I mean regular guest of GBNews Looza Fox was boycotting Sainsburys last year over a Christmas ad and the other week he was encouraging a boycott of Costa Coffee (in Ireland weirdly).
We’re all free to our opinions and with where we spend our disposable income 🤷♂️
So because a certain someone is in hospital on the day she was meant to start giving evidence in the case she brought against them, Stonewall are meant to halt all communicatons and contributions to Lesbian Visibility Week?
No.
The comments... 🤦
Yeh, cos Madonna hasn't speaking out for the LGBTQ+ community for 40 yrs. And she didn't put safe sex advice in her Like a Prayer album and stand with us as we fought the AIDS epidemic while everyone else watched and let it happen.
These people are deluded.
@EmmaKennedy
Watching the warmth going both ways between the crowds and Harry & Meghan is lovely. It’s reassuring that what the likes of Wooton try and stoke doesn’t have as much a toxic effect as it sometimes feels like.
I don’t watch or listen to any of these services. So I should not have to pay for them in order to watch any television.
If you think these services are so great then I’m sure folk will want to subscribe to them.
@BramhamAlex
@ThomasWillett9
Just when you think a person can't sink any lower, along they come to prove you spectacularly wrong.
This is a monstrous, inhumane take.
Brianna was 16, she had her whole life ahead of her and she was murdered.
And you use her to make a cheap point.
Get help!
Shame on you.
I'm not sure how profiling a school for supporting the LGBTQ+ community and forcing it to lockdown comments from abuse would ever be regarded as safeguarding.
We can all see where the 'indoctrination' comes from, it stands right alongside the rampant homophobia of the GC cult.
@Simonablake
That guy is under the impression that you have to write something overtly racist to be a racist. The racism lies in his continued denials that racial inequality exists in the UK, and his attempts to mock & shame those that want to do something about it
I see the trick of using ratios within groups to demonise trans women is doing the rounds. When set against the whole pop. the real figures tell a different story:
Women: 1 in 581,600
Men: 1 in 5,137
Trans women: 1 in 651,139
But that doesn't fit their narrative.
I see the 'respect my views', 'worthy of respect', 'free speech', 'anti-cancel culture' GC mob have begun their campaign of petty vandalism and bothering people at work fuelled by bigotry disguised as 'concerns'.
They're citing decades old tweets from one person as proof (1/5)
@sophielouisecc
Is this a parody?
They’re proresting against the state! Why would there be mass protests against a criminal who’s been arrested?
That doesn’t make a lot of sense Sophie.
So many people here for the vigil in Brighton for
#BriannaGhey
this evening. Overwhelmingly emotional and powerful. So many people from all backgrounds spoke of their devastion, anger, resiliance and defiance.
Thank you to the organisers. RIP Brianna 💕
So we’ve reached the point in society where a charity campaigning for equality is being routinely attacked, vilified and purposefully misrepresented in the main stream media
@grantshapps
@JustStop_Oil
Ugh, just when you think politics in this country can't get any lower. Every single thing they do is solely to take pot shots at the opposition to win the next election and sod the people of this country. Utterly depressing.
We're on our own folks.
@MForstater
And you can't see why people might think that?
I'm old enough to remember the fuss made over the Teletubbies and the horror that one of them may have been gay, it's just that, recreated for today. What gender were the Teletubbies anyway and where were the parents?
@thecoastguy
Literally shouting at clouds now... I think it's a good thing for us to be informed of potential hazards so we can act accordingly. You do what you like fella 👍
@LozzaFox
Oh, and smallpox.
And a vaccination against HIV is currently being developed using the same technology used to develop the Covid vaccine. Imagine if the work that went into the Covid vaccine also went on to help prevent millions dying from HIV-related illnesses?
@PaulEmbery
Lol rainbow livery showing support to a marginalised community = political lecture. Poor you, seeing aggro wherever you go 😭
It’s put there to ward you off Paul.
Kemi Badeonch 'standing up for young gay people' writes Helen Joyce in the Daily Mail, someone else in The Telegraph, someone else in Spiked and as reported on GBN.
Let's not kid ourselves, or let these horrors pull the wool over our eyes, this isn't pro gay, it's anti-trans.
@LGBTglitterati
Feels like we're going backwards where all professions will only open to people based on their biology rather than their skills and knowledge.
Interesting what people will do to demonise Stonewall:
They conflate non-binary with gay; claim Stonewall said 'queer' when they didn't; dont mention that John Curry was outed towards the end of his competitive career.
And they can't even get his name right.
@SholaMos1
That's one of the most disturbing, shocking things I've ever read. I despair at this country.
I hope these people get caught; and we need to do something as country to collectively to stop this hate becoming normalised.
@JamesCleverly
How on earth can you turn this situation into an anti-Labour tweet? That's a bizarre stretch even for you James 🤣
I don't know whether to congratulate you or do some industrial scale eye-rolling.
@legaltweetz
@jk_rowling
@SlugBanana60798
Sorry this happened to you.
Slug is an especially toxic account and they're running several similar accounts. I'd suggest blocking the lot.
Sorry to platform this, but 'this' needs to stop.
This is a 64 year old woman, one of the most successful artists of all time, role model to women and girls, staunch ally to the LGBTQ+ community and to those living with HIV.
Show some damn respect!
We stand with and support any bank or organisation that joins us in taking this positive step forward for equality and inclusion. It's vital that everyone can be themselves in the workplace. ❤️
@mrjamesob
MPs blocking journalists? That’s not great is it
@andreajenkyns
? Respectfully, you are accountable to the voting public and the free press.
@jk_rowling
@alexmassie
So you’d advocate for a minority group to be collectively punished because of the criminality of an even tinier minority within them? Try that with other minority groups, see how it fits 🤔
@BetteMidler
Half the people applauding you today were calling the overturning of Roe vs. Wade 'collateral damage' yesterday...
We can be fully behind the rights of women (who aren't trans) without throwing the trans community under the bus.
You absolutely are women, and we love you 💕
@danwootton
Lol I knew you guys couldn’t let this go without getting the usual nasty digs in.
How about saying ‘Congratulations’? Might be really hard for you but you may feel a glint of humanity?! 👍🏻
Though there’s no likes or £££’s in that so maybe not huh 🤷♂️
@miffythegamer
Anytime Tatchell says anything on anything, they dredge up something dumb he said eons ago and pretty much accuse him of the worst crimes.
Yet, Greer, more explicit here, is ignored.
@piersmorgan
@HolgateJenny
@GMB
@BBCBreakfast
I'm sure if the BBC had built up an obsessive anchor over a period of years, staged an on-screen walkout then a 'dramatic' exit, they might have 'won' for one day too. This isn't good quality television, it's popcorn - tastes good for a moment then quickly makes you feel empty
Posie Parker wants you to think that she pulls in hundreds and thousands to her rally, and that the Gender Critical movement have popular influence
When looking through the George Square webcam, it's apparent that it's a few dozen (and that includes photographers!!)
@KateBMwriting
Just this selection of replies to your tweet is proof of the discrimination asexual people receive 🤷♂️
And there’ll be many more such nasty comments made off the back of it.
@Matthew_Hodson
'Whatever the rules are... adhere to them'.
He's talking like it's a holiday village you can choose not to visit if you don't like it. Some people have no option but to stay, some LGBTQ+ people live there and live in fear of imprisonment! 😡
@fairplaywomen
@Wickes
Why? Because they paid for a float at a pride event is why. They were there to promote themselves and show support to our community. And them trending ever since is making their efforts even more lucrative so well done you 😂
They got such a huge cheer btw 💕
@jk_rowling
I’ve missed that bit where Norton or Cleese or Bragg have done any of those things… in fact, Norton has expressly said he has no opinion 👀
Are you ok?
I’m a cis gay man and the trans community are in no way a
#HugeProblemToASaneWorld
.
The huge problem we face is bigotry, fix that and we’ll be on the way to making life better for all of us 🏳️🌈💕🏳️⚧️
@BramhamAlex
@ThomasWillett9
No one says 'be kind' Alex, that's a lie pushed by people like you to portray others as hypocrites.
And thank God that some of us have sentiment! I'm relieved to find myself with empathy and humanity. The world would be a bleak place without it.
@AidanCTweets
@bindelj
Just last week, we had GCs hurrying to accuse people of ‘weaponising’ the murder of a trans teenager.
And today, we have this poor woman’s abuse at the hands of a predatory cis man being used to push an anti-trans agenda.
Off the scale hypocrisy.
@JuliaHB1
How can you tell from a tightly cropped photo of a section of a blazer?
Why does it matter?
Can you 'always tell'?
Personal comments about someone's physical appearance now is it? 👀
@spikedonline
I reckon you could find some way to blame climate change and the death or Princess Di on transexuals too 🤡
Spiked is basically Viz for toddlers.
@bmay
@AdamBienkov
This is the first image that slouched into my mind when I read the words 'Jacob Rees-Mogg' and 'utterly disrespectful to this House' 🤣🤣🤣
This article that JK has approved for consumption is a long form way of telling the world that the writer hasn't the first idea what Pride is.
Noticeably, she refers to ‘an average person’ and ‘a normal person’ 🙄 (1/3)
@MarinaPurkiss
Basically, Johnson's Honours List is to remove the word 'Honour'. Rather than recognising the talented or the good, they're taking the entire system back to its Medieval origins of rewarding the corrupt and the cronies.
Not a group most decent people would want to join.
@PaulEmbery
Representation isn’t about percentages, it’s about minority groups being able to see themselves.
Straight white cis males are gonna be ok mate, don’t you worry 👍🏻
@CHIMPSINSOCKS
If that's a door to a disabled loo (note the big handle) and there's another door not pictured that says just 'Ladies' on it, that'd be ok though surely?
@markjenkinsonmp
Mark, if you have the time to write detailed, lengthy letters to the police about some stickers on a car, then I would suggest you're doing MPing wrong 🙄
You will, of course, be equally horrified to learn of the poppy stickers put on police cars as well?
@JamesEsses
Terrified by a form? I remember when David Paisley was mocked for allegedly being scared of ribbons 🙄
Regardless of whether you 'believe' in this 'ideology', you do have preferred pronouns, you prefer to be referred to as he/him (I assume) that's really all it is James🤷
@Colly_wobbles
@SkyNews
He’s free to say it, he’s free to make someone feel crap about themselves, he’s free to not care…
And she’s free to call out his embarrassing, bullying behaviour 🤷♂️
@toadmeister
@JuliaHB1
So this is like the difference between someone writing an autobiography or some hack rifling through their bin to find some dirt on them. Or the difference between someone giving a tenner to charity or them being mugged for it.
It's called consent.
@BBCr4today
@bbcnickrobinson
No, she didn't do it for money, she and her boyfriend have more than enough. She did it for the notoriety - this is the lifeblood of these commentators, the attention is the goal, and sod every principle.
@RosieDuffield1
@itvnews
You don't have to jump on every single thing featuring a trans person. Just leave them alone. All you're doing is stoking up hatred, whether you mean to or not, you must realise the consequences for trans people given the state of things atm.