(Icon is my art) Rose, she/her, 20 and a lesbian. If you use the g slur don't interact. I post Music, Lotr/o, Star Wars/The Old Republic, Guild Wars 2, Yandere Simulator ironically, Harry Potter, Town of Salem , Stardew Valley, Pokemon, Dynasty Warriors, cats, etc. Art tag is rosey arts. Commissions/patreon/ko-fi open! Sorry I care about genocide
someone: haha you just want to know when you’re off the hook
me: hah
me: (actually i just need to allocate the right expectations and backlog of energy and make sure the rest of my day falls in good accordance with it so that i don’t feel time-crunched and propel myself into a hysteria because if i don’t know how long this thing lasts or when it ends i can’t possibly know when literally anything else starts and my entire life becomes an unraveled realm of anarchy with no rhyme or reason and how is that not terrifying to you)
me: hey how long will this take
someone: oh like twenty minutes
me: ok
*an hour later*
me: *clinging to every learned social skill i can think of with the desperate hope my distress and exhaustion doesn’t show*
someone: hey we’re almost done don’t be so crabby
me: *smiling* *internally screaming at this SENSELESS CHAOS*
someone: hey do you want to do [involving time-consuming thing]
me: hey that sounds fun! when were you thinking?
someone: oh we’re doing it right now
me: oh. like. now-now? like right now. like you want me to stop what i’m doing and get up and do this thing with you, suddenly, with thirty seconds of warning. now. like this second. immediately. now?
Robert Irwin is the 14-year-old son of Steve Irwin. He has taken up his father’s passion for animals and it has manifested as wildlife photography. I feel like I am qualified enough to say he is remarkably good. And not just “for a 14-year-old.” His pictures often stand up to seasoned professionals in the field.
He has a mastery of both the technical and artistic aspects of photography. He has great instincts for composition. While he does have amazing access to professional equipment and exotic animals, he does not waste those opportunities. He works hard to get consistently amazing images.
Beyond that, he often uses his photography to help bring awareness to his family’s conservation efforts.
I think his father would be enormously proud of “Baby Bob.”
This is incredibly difficult to look at. I fear this will continue and he will commit even worse crimes against humanity. I believe the UN is sitting on June 27 to discuss the humanitarian aspects of Trumps decisions here.
People who have escaped communist hellholes: It’s fucked up, I don’t even know where my family is.
19 year old woke tumblr white boy: yeah but :/
People who live in socialist countries: it’s pretty good here
People who don’t: that’s just because they don’t know any better & they’re brainwashed
People who live in capitalist hellholes: it’s fucked up. I don’t even know where my family is they might be in a detention center they might have been deported they might be dead
People who also live in capitalist hellholes but aren’t as affected by it so they’re able to overlook the suffering of others: yeah but :/
I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.
The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”
1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.
Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! Hewrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.
