luminatress:

Get ready for Libra season! ♎ The Sun enters Libra at approximately 9pm on September 22nd and Mercury entered Libra today (September 21st)! If you have been going through a lot or if life has been hectic, you can expect to experience harmony and balance in your thinking, your behavior, and in your daily communications. Virgo ♍ season helped us observe, organize, and plan for the road ahead. Although this energy is great for self-improvement and practical matters, it can cause you to lose balance in other areas of your life; your relationships, your self-worth, and your social life in general.

Now Libra season will guide us to balance out our responsibilities. Libra is ruled by Venus, the planet that deals with both practical and social matters! True harmony! We will feel much more refined and stable. Venus Retrograde is right around the corner, beginning on October 5th. If there were issues already stirring in your life, get ready to face them and move along. If you had no issues before the retrograde period, you have nothing to worry about. This reflection period will benefit everyone regardless of the circumstances we face individually. Embrace the beauty.. the harmony.. and the diplomacy that Libra season brings.

jennyslateswife:

Matthew Shepard was tortured and pistol whipped and then tied to a fence, where he was left by the side of the road to slowly die. After six days in hospital, he passed away from his extensive head injuries.

At his funeral, Westboro Baptist Church as well as other hate groups protested his funeral with signs saying “F*gs go to hell” as well as signs saying “No tears for queers.”

This happened in my life time. I am 25 years old and in my life, a gay funeral was protested by people screaming about queers deserving violent death.

LGBT people saying that the word queer hurts them, triggers them, and traumatizes them is not comparable to the offense meant by cishets using that word to hurt, humiliate, and dehumanize us.

This is like if you walked around with a sword by your side all the time and said it was your “comfort” item. Sure, good for you. I’m glad you found some comfort. But if other people are threatened by it, harmed by it, you gotta leave your sword at home. Which means most of the time you gotta leave it at home when you’re in public because most people see swords as a threat, implicitly. That’s how queer as a slur works–we see it as a threat first.

So, you need to analyze why you’re prioritizing a slur and how shiny you think it is over cries of hurting, victimized LGBT people. Empathy is free and easy once you stop being a selfish piece of shit.