Steam Powered Giraffe, Against Me, Tegan And Sara, Hayley Kiyoko, Jen Foster and Mary Lambert are the ones that come to mind for me. There's also Metric, but I don't know if Emily Haines is actually queer? Some of her lyrics are about women in a romantic sense, at the very least.

Probably throw in David Bowie, The Smiths, Frank Ocean, and Car Seat Headrest.

Except keep The Smiths out because Morrissey is the literal personification of the word "twat".

edited 30th Jan '18 8:55:46 PM by AdricDePsycho

"The Smiths aren't a real band."

How dare I read that with my own two eyes.

I'll throw in The B-52s, courtesy of having 2 (previously 3) gay band members and 1 bi one.

REM as well. Sufjan Stevens too but personally I can't stand his music.

Speaking of music, I'm going to my first drag-themed party at a gay club tomorrow. First time I'd be going to a gay club too. Wish me luck

Good luck! And be safe!

Good luck!

Break a leg!

Good luck.

Good luck!

@Revolver Zen: Good luck! On a related note, night clubs as a place to meet people/find a date just isn't for me personally. I can't help but think I wouldn't actually get to know anyone for who they are there.

Thank you, everyone! Saw a bunch of friends and their friends, hung out for a while. I was the first one there cos when something says it starts at 8 I turn up 20 minutes early just to be polite so had some drinks while I was waiting. Ended up getting a kiss and the phone number of an older man, so that is something. Very productive.

https://www.them.us/story/rose-mcgowan-broke-down-in-a-transphobic-rage-last-night

So, an incident recently happened at a Barnes & Nobles where actress Rose McGowan was giving a book reading. Trans activist Andi Dier challenged her on some comments she'd made on RuPaul's podcast that implied the issues of transgender women were not as important as the issues of cisgender women, and McGowan responded by breaking down into a fit of anger, attacking Dier by saying "What have you done for women?" and having her removed from the premises (and apparently the security there misgendered her).

This article I've just linked to is an interview with Dier after the incident occurred, and reinforces that many cisgender feminists have a nasty habit of excluding trans women and acting as if their issues do not fall under women's issues. It's this kind of TERF-y bullshit that really pisses me off. When we treat these issues as separate and unrelated, we separate trans women from cis women and act as if they're, in Dier's words, "a third gender". Yes, the experiences of being a trans woman are different than being a cis woman, but they're still women. They still deserve to have their voices heard when it comes to women's issues in society, and cis women silencing and excluding them is only going to further this kind of bigotry and persecution.

Some livestreaming featuring me doing World of Warcraft PVP with the hosts and audience of the Wow podcast The Darkmoon Herald

So uh, I'd been doing some thinking about my gender identity. I'm fine with being addressed by female pronouns in addition to gender neutral pronouns.

OK I'll keep that in mind

@ #26: I think the reason why that kind of bigotry exists is because cis women have enough problems to deal with and they really don't have choice with the gender they were born with; while transwomen have more issues, they've put themselves in that situation.

No, no we haven't. Trans women deal with every single issue that cis women deal with, as well as dysphoria, transphobic violence, people denying us work and housing, and people assuming that we chose this. It's not a choice.

Nobody chooses their gender or sexuality.

Unless you count the choice of being out or closeted, and even that isn't much of a choice.

First off, the reasoning here is transphobic as fuck. Second off, this is victim blaming.

To be honest, I always assumed that gender-reassignment therapy was voluntary; your sexuality is an mix of being hard-wired into your, an learned behavior, and you acting on it; and that you really don't have an choice on which gender you're born with and how society reacts to it.

I guess that I'm one of the many ill-informed Americans, then. They don't teach this stuff in public schools.

Silence! I think you should just leave. No more baiting and starting some fights.

Idk, that sounded like an honest mistake to me. I didn't used to understand that it wasn't a choice, either, before I started trying to learn about this stuff.