gailsimone:

…it’s just a tiny, tiny window into the danger level that lgbtq people are always facing.

Walking down the street just being a human being, never knowing which person they meet is an unbalanced violent homophobe or transphobe.

I don’t know how they find the strength. It’s awful to contemplate.

Representation matters, decency matters, tolerance matters. I don’t know what else we  can do to try to make things better aside from listen and speak up to the best of our ability. 

I remember my father saying something similar when I was talking to him about my partner, he said something like, “You must really be in love if you’re willing to walk down the street with this person because of the idiots out there.”  And that’s when I kind of realized that all those years ago when I came out to him, and he got upset, that maybe he was more concerned then angry.  Maybe he was concerned because of the world we live in.  On top of both of us being women, I’m black and she’s white, so maybe he was just worried because he knows of the stupidity out there.

But honestly I think we get strength from each other.  I feel like someone will always have issue with me over something, whether it’s race, or my gender, or my size, or my sexuality, so I might as well be happy in this life I’m living instead of being concerned over what might happen out there. We’ve been together for 13 years and are having a blast, that’s what I’ll focus on :)

frank-e-fighting-words:

therothwoman:

queerhairyvag:

iwasnineteenonce:

my wish for not only my parent’s, but for all homosexual people.

oh hey look, an LGBTQ campaign that doesn’t show white people as the face of LGBTQ issues for once. 

win

Spread this everywhere.

never seen a flyer with queer black folks on it that wasn’t about std/i

fandom-forecast:

For years there’s been rainstorms obstructing the clarity of Deadpool’s sexuality but last night the skies cleared when current author Gerry Duggan confirmed Deadpool’s pansexuality on twitter.

Welcome to the LGBTQ family, Deadpool  <3

brichibiwritesthings:

Guess what, everyone?  It’s time for the release of my second book! The event is an online event, so you don’t have to go anywhere to attend, you just have to go to the page.  I’ve also decided that one lucky attendee will receive a free ebook copy of the book.  Huzzah!

Here’s a blurb for you:

When something tragic happens, you want nothing more than to close your eyes and make all of the pain go away. For Gable Peterson it’s a little more complicated than that. When detective Maurice Ashford shows up at his door with news that his boyfriend, Avery Blair, has been found dead, Gable is left devastated. Seeking some sort of comfort, Gable closes his eyes and imagines a world where none of this happened. 

Only, Gable wakes up, he’s surprised to see that Avery is actually still alive.

It’s book time  <3

xander6981:

dragonista:

Reblog this if you would buy a book with an LGBTQ main character, whose sexuality was not the primary focus of the novel

If you would not, reblog this.

I’m pretty sure I’m writing a book like that…

Uh… my book has a pretty important gay character and his sexuality isn’t the focus  :)  I mean it’s there yeah but the story isn’t about his love life ^^  

Check it out here (yes I did just advertise my book):  Treat Me Kindly

HOMG they’re voting on the Marriage Bill in Minnesota on Thursday guys what if i can actually get my big fat geek wedding after all like YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND I never thought this would be a thing!

thetrevorproject:

Re-blog to support Jason Collins, who has become the first openly gay male athlete playing in a major American team sport!

Jason says he wears jersey #98 to honor Matthew Shepard and The Trevor Project (we were founded in 1998).

Read the full story

Dear girlfriend,

At this point you are more than just a girlfriend, no matter what society says about us being married.  Sometimes I wake up and wonder how the hell we’re still making this work.  Or rather, I’m wondering how you’re still putting up with me.  Lately I’ve been really scattered and emotional, I think, with the book and getting ready for more and more conventions.  I’m really happy that you’re here with me as, literally, all of my dreams are coming true.

I apologize in advance for the worrysome moments that are bound to come.  I know I’ll be fretting over the book and conventions and commissions and everything until everything is done.  I know I’ll be really emotional when the book is released, and terribly worried about it being well received.  I know I keep talking about wanting to take random trips “when the book makes it,” but I honestly mean it.  I want to spoil you so badly you have no idea.  I want to be able to.  I want to not have to worry about money so we can just up and leave somewhere.  I want our business to take off.  I want so much for us and it’s this weird, terrifying feeling, because… all of this stuff might actually work out.  I’ve spent so much time getting rejection letters, working a shitty job, and being miserable that I can’t believe that things are actually working.  

So if I look a bit lost, that’s why.

Although I don’t have to tell you, you always just seem to know.  You’re always willing to take me away for a moment so I can breathe.  It amazes me that you can deal with me being like this with a smile on your face.  It amazes me that you can just bring home dinner and watch me play Injustice, or take me out randomly driving after an 8 hour day of work.  Then again, everything you’ve done in this relationship amazes me.  We’ve been through a lot.  We’ve been through your parents denying us being together.  We’ve been through my dad not handling it well.  We’ve been through me working one shift a week for months and not having any money.  We’ve been through me loathing my job.  We’ve been through me losing my job last year and, even if I got a better one, it was temporary, and there were some months where I had nothing at all.  We’ve been through losing two cats back to back.  We’ve been through the stress of getting this house.  We’ve been through being robbed in our old apartment.  Just… there’s so much, and you’re always there, and it amazes me.

You amaze me.

And it’s kind of weirding me out that we’re going through so much GOOD after the bad.  Your parents accept us, hell, they even built us a kitchen and helped us pay for this house.  My dad loves you to death.  I have a job that I like and have figured out how to manage money, so when it is over for a month or so at a time, we’re fine.  The book is getting published.  A short story is getting published.  We’re doing really well at cons.  Detour was just… I can’t even begin to go into how amazing it was to feel like so many people WANTED us to be there — including guests.  Just… wow.  And… I feel like we’re finally there, you know?  I feel like we’re riding this wave of good and I can finally start giving you the things you deserve, because I couldn’t before, but I feel like I’ll be able to now.

So, all and all, dear girlfriend, I love you.  Even after saying everything I just said, I feel like that doesn’t even begin to cover how much I love you.

Love always,

Briana 

brichibiwritesthings:

Here it is!  The pre-sale for the anthology I wrote for is now up!  Follow the link for prices on the entire anthology and/or the individual stories.  Yay!

To celebrate, here’s a fun snippet:

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This next game, Lukis realizes, is a rather strange one.  He doesn’t bother trying to play.  Instead, he watches as Aaron fights against someone else.  Lukis wonders, as he watches the intro video, why high school students are even allowed to fight with swords and strange monsters that they summon.  Don’t they have parents?  And since when can bears talk, fight, and smoke cigars?  Was that a robot just now?  With an axe?  

“Told ya it was completely different,” Aaron says, picking some kid that uses a gun and has some sort of fly as a monster friend.  

It’s still exciting to watch, Lukis thinks.  Aaron’s fighting against some tall, buff guy who uses a folding chair as a weapon — that makes no sense, either, who brings a chair to a gun fight?

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Follow the link to see how you can get a hold of this story and others :)

YAY!

brichibiwritesthings:

Hey everyone, check it out!  This is for the short story I wrote in Dreamspinner Press’ upcoming sports anthology.  It’ll go on pre-sale next week, so I’ve been given permission to share the cover image and the story blurb.

Lukis Singleton’s once-popular sports column is fading fast, thanks to the terrible track record of the local football team. In an attempt to save the column, Lukis’s editor, John, decides he needs to go in a different direction. Video games are all the rage these days, so John insists that sending Lukis to a huge video-game tournament in Los Angeles will shake up his current readers and bring in new ones. Lukis isn’t thrilled about reporting on games with impossible powers or gamers who still live in Mom’s basement, but then he meets a tempting flaw in the gaming stereotypes of unwashed man-children. Aaron Sanders is a gorgeous breath of fresh air at the tournament who takes Lukis’s less-than-stellar view of gamers and turns it on its head, leaving Lukis to wonder if it might be worth being Aaron’s player two.

It was a ton of fun writing this.  There are quite a few geeky nods all throughout the story, from Marvel vs. Capcom, to Street Fighter, and even some Persona 4 Arena.  Fighting games are one of my favorite video game genres, so as soon as I saw “sports theme” I thought “fighting game tournament.”  

Lukis is the naysayer, the “games are stupid” character.  But Aaron is all “games are awesome” and breaks all of Lukis’ stereotypes since he’s attractive and social.  The main point of this story is to show that us gamers aren’t just a bunch of anti-social children who can’t function, who still live with mom, and who waste their lives with a controller in their hand.  There’s so much more to video games, especially in this day and age, and on top of the gay romance is the theme of, “Don’t make assumptions about people because of what they do.  Don’t make assumptions about something until you try it yourself.”

I’ll post a link when the pre-sales start.  Until then, enjoy this snippet  :)

On top of my book “Treat Me Kindly,” there’s a short story coming soon! Remember to follow my writing blog for up-to-date information  :)  And yeah, Persona 4 fans you read that write, there’s a nod to the game in the story along with a bunch of other fighting games  ^^  I just couldn’t hep myself!