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notyourdaddy:

Gideon Mendel’s The Ward

Memories from the heart of the Aids crisis shows true love in a time of terrible tragedy.

These heartbreaking and incredibly moving images show the affection and love shown during the height of the Aids crisis. Photographer Gideon Mendel’s project The Ward began in 1993 when he spent a number of weeks on the Charles Bell wards in London’s Middlesex Hospital. All the patients on the ward were dying with the knowledge that there was no cure for the disease. During this time antiretroviral medications were not available and patients on the ward faced the prospect of an early death.

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ranger-truth:

brolokhov:

what is art? is it something gay people do to get back at their fathers? maybe

This is a painting I did to get back at my homophobic dad (who always held his art degree over me when I did book illustrations for his book design work, and refused to take my suggestions). It was meant to be a goodbye present after I came out as bi, because I honestly never thought he’d try to reach out again, so my ‘fuck you’ was to make a small, insanely detailed painting with gold leaf that can’t be ignored so that he puts it up but is constantly forced to look at it and remember how much he fucked up in telling me that gay people should be left for dead on a deserted island…

So… yeah, you could say OP is correct.

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tamizhnadu:

i know ive talked about this before but we literally have no reason not to bring the original gay flag made in the 70s by gilbert baker back to regular use!

the pink stripe was simply taken away because pink fabric was too expensive to mass reproduce at the time, and the turquoise stripe was taken away for a really odd reason: for the harvey milk remembrance parade in 1979, they wanted three stripes on each side of the street and didn’t want it to be asymmetrical, so they did away with the turquoise stripe. like, they could have fixed it in some other way without removing a whole stripe, but eh whatever history’s history.

the pink originally symbolized sex and the turquoise was for magic/art and it would just be really cool if we could bring both the stripes back into regular use again since there wasn’t any significance behind the removal of the stripes and we’re perfectly capable of mass producing flags with all the stripes again!