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Racist Umbrellas by williamvnguyen2 MORE MEMES
Next time someone tells you Bernie is too old, show them this.
Parking lot of the anti vax rally (2018)
This is truly one of the Greatest Political Movements in American History!
This has been quite a week for America!
Donald Trump campaign rally (2016)
Michelle and I send condolences and strength to the people of New Zealand. We grieve with you and with the Muslim community. Every single on...
Make America Smile Again by iSlingShlong MORE MEMES
RIP Eric Garner by rougenoirprintemps MORE MEMES
whyyoustabbedme: What Is Wrong With Yt People?
On Sunday, Pat Sajak, the "Wheel of Fortune" host, went on Twitter to suggest a "quick fix for the Academy Awards show."
![Birthday, Community, and Lesbians: maireddog:
Mark Ashton died on this day, the 11th of February, in 1987.
Mark
was born on the 19th of May, 1960 in Oldham, but grew up in Portrush, Northern Ireland. He moved to London in 1978, where he worked in
a bar in King’s Cross, in drag as a barmaid with a blonde beehive.
In
the 1980s, he volunteered for London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard,
campaigned for CND and joined the Communist Party, becoming the first gay secretary of the Young Communist League. Though Mark transformed the Party’s approach to LGBT rights, he and Mike Jackson, who he’d met through Switchboard, wanted to be active as openly gay people. They formed
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) when they collected donations for miners on strike at 1984 Gay Pride.
In the evening of 1984 Pride, a miner spoke at a rally, and they were struck by the similarities between the two struggle, of LGBT rights and the Miners’ Strike. Having collected about £150, they advertised a meeting in Capital Gay. 11 people turned up and from the meeting they made a leaflet to launch LGSM - the leaflet was accepted except with an amendment to ‘one in ten miners is gay.’
As LGSM, they supported the miners as lesbian and gay people. At the second meeting, they decided to focus on one community, of the Dulais Valley, as one of the members, Hugh Williams, was from there. They then met David (Dai) Donovan, who also had thought through the similarities of their struggles and how LGSM could help. A month later, 27 lesbians and gay men, arrived at Onllwyn village in Dulais Valley.
Other than some hostility (and confusion towards vegetarianism), they experienced warmth, friendship and solidarity. LGSM raised £20,000 for families of miners on strike, and based on The Sun writing that “a group of perverts” were “supporting the pits,” they organised the Pits and Perverts concert in December, 1984, headlined by Bronski Beat. The miners marched with LGSM at Gay Pride in 1985.
Mark was admitted to hospital on 30th January, 1987, and died 12 days later from pneumonia, aged 26. At his memorial, there were banners from the Communist Party, Anti-Apartheid, anti-nuclear, Caribbean and community groups, as well as from LGSM. The Mark Ashton Trust was created to support individuals
diagnosed with Aids; Mark is also remembered on the UK Aids Memorial
Quilt and by Terrence Higgins Trust, with the Mark Ashton Red Ribbon
Fund and a plaque at their London headquarters. In 2017, on what would have been his 57th birthday, he was honoured with a blue
plaque above Gay’s The Word bookshop.
[Images: 1. Mark Ashton at Gay Pride 1981. 2. Mark Ashton at Gay
Pride
1985, wearing a LGSM t-shirt and holding a pink “Communist Party” banner
with the words “pinko commie queers.” 3. Blue plaque reading: “Lesbians
and Gays Support the Miners. Mark Ashton 1960-1987. Political and
Community Activist. LGSM met at Gay’s the Word bookship on this site
1984/5.”]](https://pics.me.me/thumb_maireddog-mark-ashton-died-on-this-day-the-11th-of-42056555.png)
![Crazy, Driving, and Fire: ceasarslegion
Reporter in the Marvel unviverse:
Anthony Stark, well-known as a
generous philanthropist, the CEO of
Stark Industries, and his alter-ego
"Iron Man," under fire today after
a controversial video he posted to
his personal Vine account went
viral. The short footage showed
Stark in the passenger seat of a
car, driving by an anti-homosexual
rally, repeatedly shouting "I love
sucking [expletive for male
genitalia]" out of the open window.
purgatoryandme
A+ Concept, I love it, I'm dying, it's too good.
It becomes the hottest new meme throughout
the US. Every single time there's some
homophobic rally, Hell, every time there's a rally
held by homophobes whether or not the rally
was ABOUT homophobia there's now teens
doing drive-by's being like "Ahem, this one is
for Tony Stark ILOVE SUCKING [expletive for
male genitalia]". The meme keeps escalating
as people find newer and funnier ways to bleep
out what they are saying in real time and on
Vine. The most popular way? The sound of a
repulser charging up
The whole thing drives homophobes crazy.
They hate it so much, it literally has some
people trying to create their own counter meme
("I love sucking UP TO JESUS") that goes very
very badly (exactly how you'd expect). So, out
of options, they try to sue Tony.
Everybody should know better than to sue
Tony.
His lawyers tear them apart. There's an unholy
grin on Tony's face during the entire publicized
case - he's in a rainbow suit. He's in rainbow
shades. He's wearing a harness over his suit
and his shoes literally leave glitter footprints
everywhere he goes. His tie says "I love
sucking [REPULSER NOISE]. Twitter goes nuts.
A still of Tony from the trial, one where he is
sarcastically blowing pink glitter into the face of
a woman trying to hit him with a picket sign,
becomes a reaction image nobody can resist.
You wanna represent how tired you are of
homophobic comments? That's your image. It's
usually coupled by one of Rhodey in the
background, military dress uniform smeared in
glitter and a blatant glittery kiss mark pressed
to his cheek, staring at the ceiling and praying
for death
this is canon now](https://pics.me.me/thumb_ceasarslegion-reporter-in-the-marvel-unviverse-anthony-stark-well-known-as-41990968.png)
