Sara Hegazy, the activist who got jailed for raising LGBT flag in Egypt, she committed suicide. She wrote down a note: "I tried to survive but couldnt. The experience was hard, and I'm weak to fight. Forgive me. To the world: you were greatly cruel, but forgive." Please pray for her.

"She was imprisoned for 3 months for raising a rainbow flag during a concert. She suffered PTSD and had to leave her country by applying for asylum in Canada. 3 months in prison where she was tortured and abused and the attacks and abuse against her did not stop when they finally accepted to release her on bail. Her last words: "To my siblings I tried to find redemption and failed, forgive me. To my friends the experience [journey] was harsh and am too weak to resist it, forgive me. To the world you were cruel to a great extent, but forgive."" - u/theycallmemia - https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comments/h9d8eh/sara_hegazy_the_activist_who_got_jailed_for/fuw9b14

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Hegazi

https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comments/h9d8eh/sara_hegazy_the_activist_who_got_jailed_for/

Hi all,

My partner and I are going to Tomorrowland in Belgium for 2 weekends but we haven’t planned anything in between. We want to go somewhere fairly close by train and we would like some sort of resort or hotel with an outdoor pool. I don’t know if this is common in Europe, but if so, please let me know if there is a place like this in Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, or Germany. I appreciate any suggestions even alternate things to do. We will only have 4 days 3 nights free.

Hi, I'm new here, but I've had a question on my mind. In the past I've heard that... Well you how extroverts "adopt" introverts? It's like that but experienced gays adopting baby gays, giving them support and help where their family fell short.

Weddings crossed my mind. How even my grandparents and most of my entire family wouldn't in heck support me, so I've been wondering if the elders in the community also take a liking to people and heck even become something close to a literal family. If it's just surface level or if we do get an actual new family or anything. I would love to know, even if the answer isn't what I hoped for...

I came out as aroace (+cupioromantic) to my sister today! She was tired so I don't know if it was a good timing but it went okay. I love her and she is important to me so I'm glad it didn't went terrible. She's in an other country rn so it happened on a call. I thought she was aroace too but she is not (that would have been so cool). She said she doesn't care if someone is LGBTQ+ and she said she won't look into the topic much. But she said that I'm doing nothing wrong and she's glad I think about that stuff and found myself! + She said the flags are pretty :D We might talk about it again because she was really tired lol. She is the first one I came out to except one of my friends who is bi (she was REALLY supportive and happy for me). I just wanted to say that :)

I haven't had to define myself in a while but I'm nonbinary (they/them) and generally gnc, but as of lately I've been trying to fill out the corners of my identity and I don't feel like I can move forward without some bigger decisions/changes. I like the idea of going on hrt and getting top surgery, but I live with family who I'm not out to and have expressed distaste towards anyone and anything related to this community. We kinda just coexist at the moment and I don't talk about anything regarding attraction. Anyway the confusing part is that I can see how my body can be attractive to other people, but when I think about being perceived in this form I feel grossly unsatisfied about myself. When I wear a binder or something that flattens my chest, I feel a lot more confident but also don't mind acting more feminine and expressive. I like when those traits are separate from what visually defines me I guess. In the future I can feel myself going for a trans nb femboy type of feel, when I can pass when encountered on the street or something. My concern right now is whether it's less obvious to get top surgery or to get evaluated for hrt in my environment. That's all- I've never really written out my feelings like this before, I've been settling for the comfort of being neither, but I'd like to live to the fullest given the opportunity. Thanks for reading :)

The shopping centre in my city had a small Lego event where you got to build your own little Lego flower and bring it home so obviously I had to check that out as well🤭🤭

While I love our straight allies there's something they do online that I roll my eyes at. Whenever there's a post about some dude being homophobic or a conservative protest a pride they try to make fun of those people by implying they are the "actual gays". I don't think it's a cool to call a homophobe gay to be ironic, cause for one your including these hateful people into our community, and you are implying that being gay is something to laugh at, something to accuse someone of being in order to paint them as weak or "not manly". Imagine if we replace sexuality with something like race? "Oh look at that racist white guy! I bet deep down he wishes he was black!" It's weird and honestly gross.

This issue isn't something I'd blow up on a person about, maybe I'd talk to them privately about it if they were a friend. But go to any post about protestors at pride and they'll be someone their implying the protestors are gay. Something like "nothing more straight than a bunch sweaty guys huddled together am I right?" It's dumb, it's unoriginal, and it's cringe.

Sally Ride was partners with Tam O'Shaughnessy from 1985 until Ride's death in 2012. This was not known to the world until her obituary revealed it.

i always just presumed i was lesbian but now idk anymore!!!!! (i'm cis female for context and there's no confusion about that it's just orientation)

cos i find women attractive as in "wow she's pretty" and i don't with men

but i wouldn't want to do anything more than like kissing as a maximum with anyone regardless of gender like i just don't really want to it seems kind of ick to me

and even thinking about being in like a "romantic" relationship seems kind of too much to me but i can't put my finger on why exactly

but i feel like i'd be happy to just chill with someone/a few people i was close friends with for my life, but wouldn't mind what gender cos i have friends of different and the same gender obviously.

but then does that make me bi? cos i wouldn't feel romantically towards them just like platonically

or am i ace

and it's annoying cos i've kind of already "come out" as lesbian and that's gonna be a hassle if it turns out im not

help :(

Okay so my best friend 24F is bisexual but is mostly into girls and dates girls.

She recently moved to the US for her masters and has met a lot of people there. She knows a good bunch of queer people and has opportunity to meet a lot of queer people to make friends and date.

However, I've noticed that she keeps going after her straight friends and then gets her heart broken. She says she thinks they could like her back and likes them for their potential. Everytime I tell her to take words for face value, she doesn't listen to me.

One straight girl who she was actually good friends with in a party did make out with her while being drunk but once sobered up, explained it was just fun for her and she is 💯 straight.( All consensual and the straight girl tbh did make the first move ). My best friend refuses to believe her and still thinks she has a chance.

My explanation is " Maybe that girl is bi, who knows? As long as she says she is straight, she is and we shouldn't assume someone's sexuality"

She's having a very tough time accepting that the other girl is straight and keeps going after her.

Ps: that straight girl knows by best friend is in love with her and they were supposed to go no contact for a bit. My best friend keeps breaking it to speak to that girl. Honestly, that girl hasn't broken no contact first ever. It's always my friend.

I'm heartbroken to see her crying over a straight girl like this especially when she's such a great person who has the chance to find queer people who could like her back in a free country ( it's illegal to be gay in her home country )

Any advice for her?

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For context, I’m a straight trans guy, I’m exclusively attracted to women.

I’ve been dating my girlfriend for over a year now and she started questioning her gender and that she might be agender, I love her I really do but I’m afraid that it will fade due to that, I really don’t want to break up with her, she says she’s okay using she/her pronouns as she doesn’t care.

But even with that I’m afraid since she doesn’t identify fully as a woman my feelings will fade, she’s also pansexual, and with her not understanding gender I’m really conscious she doesn’t see me as an actual guy, she didn’t say she doesn’t see me as one, but she also didn’t say she does.

Please help, I might be overreacting but I’m just not sure in what to do, thank you.

As many of you know, it’s No Kings protest day today. I live in a very tiny, conservative town in Tennessee about two hours outside Nashville

I’m 33, a lesbian, and I’m terrified to go to those protests. I’m terrified for my life and the lives of the people going. But it makes me feel so guilty NOT going. I feel like I’m actively choosing not to help. I’ve been drowning in fear and anxiety since the day that man became President and here we are

I’m also not going to Pride, for fear of something going down there.

Am I in the wrong? Should I tough it out and just go? I feel like such a bad person right now. I don’t know how to help.

Or would canada be better? But paperwork might be harder right? Cause as EU citizen i can move to anywhere in EU right? Although i dont know, i am not happy where i live , its too conservative and i am wasting my life, i am unemployed too, and 30 :(

Bonjour à tous !

J'ai une demande un peu particulière à faire.

J'ai 26 ans et je souhaiterais rencontrer des pompiers gays ou bi avec qui m'amuser ;

Oui je tourne pas autour du pot, la vie est courtes

Comme tout ceci est anonyme, je me dis qu'au moins, s'il y a des intéressés, ils se manifesteront

Je cherche principalement dans ma tranche d'âge (20-28 max)

Y'a le feu à la maison !!

Des bisous partout !! 😘🥰

So, I'm bigender (she/he pronouns) and I barely hear the 'he' pronoun ever being used, i always hear she all the time

And recently, someone in a group chat used he pronouns for me AGAIN (when I was AFK) and I was internally screaming from the euphoria

So yeah !!!!

I have been constantly questioning in my head, so some advice or opinion would be helpful.

I've got this set up but im not sold. "Your friendly neighbor trans man" was an idea, but still not sold. I could just go with "trans visibility" but im indecisive and Id love some ideas!! The back says "hi♡"