Reddit users wondered how blind people (especially those blind from birth) would understand their sexuality or identify as LGBTQ – how could they be attracted to individuals whom they cannot see?
Users who were blind came across the question and supplied the answer:
“When I meet someone, what I go by is their voice, their smell, their kindness, and their willingness to help me when needed,” said one.
They largely agreed on voice being a key attribute.
It’s about the feeling, they described, the butterflies they’d feel in their stomach when touching someone of their preferred gender – or even just being close to them, to that tangible sort of energy – eliciting involuntary reactions not experienced when with the other gender.
Our connections to each other are so complex and multifaceted and ingrained that of course it extends beyond one specific human sense. And understanding this depth is an important step in recognizing that the LGBTQ experience is one that’s full, rewarding, and, truly, love.
This is going to sound very harsh but listen- this comes off as sighted people having a monumentally difficult time comprehending that blind people are able to form meaningful romantic relationships just like them.
Like I get it this piece’s intentions are good and it’s touching and heartwarming but blind people are not zoo animals that behave so strangely and mysteriously that y’all have to act like everything we do is somehow profound and amazing, especially LGBT blind people who are already othered. We’re human too, not an op-ed showpiece to teach sighted folk that ~~~love is real it extends beyond physical appearance uwuuu~~~. Y’all should be able to figure that out (and to appreciate LGBT love!) on your own WITHOUT having to use disabled people’s experiences as inspiration porn. This is an important article that should exist!! But please, be careful with how you word things.
This brings me to a more important point: I have a theory that the majority of small flowers are purple. Then white. Then pink. But mostly just purple. Take a look around!
When @boutet sent this to me I legitimately gasped with a hand to my heart
According to the Associated Press, the Word of Faith Fellowship recruits young members from two affiliated churches in Brazil to come to the U.S. on tourist and student visas where they are put to work on the church’s 35-acre compound in Spindale for no pay.
One man, identified as Andre Oliveira, told the AP that he was forced to work 15 hours a day, usually for no pay, cleaning offices and warehouses owned by the evangelical church. He well also forced to work at private businesses owned by some of the church’s ministers. Olivera stated that failure to comply resulted in beatings and shaming from the pulpit.
“They kept us as slaves,” Oliveira explained. “We were expendable. We meant nothing to them. Nothing. How can you do that to people — claim you love them and then beat them in the name of God?
The bisexual pride flag was designed by Michael Page in 1998 in order to give the bisexual community its own symbol comparable to the gay pride flag of the larger LGBT community. His aim was to increase the visibility of bisexuals, both among society as a whole and within the LGBT community. The first bisexual pride flag was unveiled at the BiCafe’s first anniversary party on December 5, 1998 after Page was inspired by his work with BiNet USA.
Page describes the meaning of the pink, lavender, and blue (ratio 2:1:2) flag as this:“The pink color represents sexual attraction to the same sex only (gay and lesbian), The blue represents sexual attraction to the opposite sex only (straight) and the resultant overlap color purple represents sexual attraction to both sexes (bi).”
Page describes the flags meaning in deeper terms, stating“The key to understanding the symbolism of the bi pride flag is to know that the purple pixels of color blend unnoticeably into both the pink and blue, just as in the ‘real world,’ where bi people blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.”
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