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Photo reblogged from LGBTQ* givesmehope
This is my youngest daughter, Ava. I felt that I needed to share the conversation she and I had after a school field trip today.
Ava: Mommy, we saw Princesses skating on the ice!!
Me: Wow!! Did you have fun?
Ava: Yeah, but there is a best part!!
Me: What was it?
Ava: We got to meet the Princesses and I asked Snow White if she had a boyfriend.
Me: (Laughing) Did you? What did she say?
Ava: She said she did and then she asked me if I had one!! And I said I had one, but I didn’t like him any more.
Me: Oh. Well, how come you don’t like him anymore?
Ava: Because I like my other friend now and then I got scared and asked her if I could still be a princess and she asked why so I told her that my friend I like is a girl and I want to have a girlfriend.
Me: (a bit surprised) Oh. Ok, well what did she tell you?
Ava: That’s the best part! She said that as long as I have love I already AM a Princess!!
<3
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Photoset reblogged from WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR
Even Beluga whales know what love is…silly Elmo.
If this is from the Vancouver Aquarium, my wife and I have kissed the same Beluga. I love whales the most.
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Link reblogged from GayWrites.
Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin school district is essentially run by evangelicals. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann exercises an extreme influence over the workings of the school district while religious and conservative groups fight to silence LGBT students and teachers - factors that arguably contribute to the district’s absurdly high suicide rate.
Nine students in this school district took their own lives in under two years, many having been bullied for being gay or being perceived as gay. When students and parents complained about bullies, school officials turned the other cheek or told them it wasn’t so bad. Hundreds of students were hospitalized for suicidal ideation or other mental health concerns.
This Rolling Stone article about Anoka-Hennepin’s problem with teen suicide is extremely depressing, but it’s also extremely important. In a couple of pages, the author perfectly captures the ways in which extreme religious influence and administrator indifference can mess with kids. Ignoring bullying is not okay. Pretending homosexuality doesn’t exist is not okay. And these kids have realized it.
The story has far from a happy ending because as you all know, we’re still deep into a crisis of LGBT youth suicides across the country. But more and more students are becoming aware of their administrators’ uselessness and fighting back on their own, with student-run GSAs and other ways of supporting each other.
Reading this article - all the way through - made me cry, made me angry, but most importantly made me want to fight back. It’s stories like this that remind me why we’re in this fight. Each and every one of us is important and deserves to go to school without being harassed, even if each and every school district doesn’t see it.
Side note: if you’re thinking of suicide or just need someone to talk to, please please please call The Trevor Project’s lifeline at 866-488-7386.
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Video reblogged from It's Okay To Be Smart
“There is grandeur in this view of life” - Charles Darwin
It’s important that we take time to learn, love and understand all of the small parts of biology, physics, astronomy and the like that make our living universe possible. But we do that all week on this blog.
So we must also take time to sit back, take a deep breath, smile, and sok in the wonders of what has been built for us by this world. One of the best time-lapses I have ever seen, and I love me some time-lapses.
Full screen, HD … you know the deal.
(via Bad Astronomy)
