Today (June 26, 2023) is the 20th anniversary of Lawrence v. Texas, the most important Supreme Court case in gay history. It finally ruled that consensual sodomy cannot be a crime and all state laws criminalizing it are invalid.
People don’t realize how recent it was that cops could arrest you solely for having gay sex, in the privacy of your own bedroom. It was slowly decriminalized state by state, but like 1/3 of all states still had those laws in place until 2003.
It didn’t get nearly as much fanfare and recognition at the time as the 2015 decision that legalized gay marriage. But I think it established a far more crucial right.
tbh the best way that i explain to other people what it feels like to live with an anxiety disorder is the one time when i had to get a fingerprint and background check done for a job and i, someone who has never received so much as a speeding ticket my whole life, spent thirty minutes panicking that i would fail because i might secretly be a criminal and have no idea
[ID: tiktok captioned: The moment they realized it was the real Janelle Monae on the ACLUE pride float. Janelle stands on a small float and speaks into a microphone decorated with the trans flag. They say, “We are here, we are queer! We are trans! We are the LGBTQIA+ community and we celebrate us right now! The video turns to the crowd and shows shots of people half paying attention to the float, then doing double takes as they see Janelle Monae singing. /]
Delighted watching this video! Wanted to describe it to the bf but then I realized I didn’t actually know Janelle Monáe’s pronouns (knew they were nb though), so I decided to look it up. My delight went up 20 fold learning.
Actor/Singer/Performer Janelle Monáe uses
‘free-ass motherfucker’
but in a pinch finds they/them/she/her acceptable.
