Homophobic Mom.. Turned Supportive?

OH MY GOD Y’ALL

okay backstory: for those of you who don’t know, my parents are super religious and homophobic. They have told me I’m going to Hell and threatened me… bad stuff. It has been truly an awful experience. now YESTERDAY: my mom just starts pouring her heart out to me about how she wants me to be happy and trust her. She said she wants me to be around when she’s old and not to push me away. My mom has never really cared about me. This was all weird. Then she hits me with the: I don’t care if you’re gay, straight, bi… whatever you are. (Because she knew I was gay but thought I “fixed” it.) It took me a lot of talking to her to believe she changed. But I came out to her. And she accepts me. It gets better. I promise. If you’re struggling with your parents not accepting you, remember there is hope. I know. You don’t think there is. I thought she’d never accept my sexuality. She literally wanted to send me to military school because I’m gay. But she changed. Never give up.

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6 years ago

New York City passes law allowing gender-neutral birth certificates

“New Yorkers should be free to tell their government who they are, not the other way around,” said Mayor DeBlasio.

Last week, New York City became the first U.S. city to pass a law allowing birth certificates to be marked with a gender-neutral “X” rather than the traditional gender markers “M” or “F.” The policy will go into effect January 1.

The new law also mandates that people be allowed to choose their gender marker when applying for amended birth certificates, replacing a previous requirement that applicants provide letters from medical and mental health practitioners confirming their gender identity. […]

New York City is unusual in that it issues birth certificates to those born in the city through a vital records department separate from New York state. Typically, birth certificates are issued statewide. New York state does not currently offer gender-neutral identity documents — but a bill proposing nonbinary driver’s licenses was introduced in June 2017, and is still making its way through the state legislature voting process. A NYC municipal ID that gives applicants the option to forgo a gender marker entirely has been available to city residents since 2014, making it one of the first genderless ID cards in the country.

While New York is the first city to pass a gender-neutral birth certificate law, it joins a handful of states that have recently passed legislation to make gender-neutral birth certificates available: Oregon, Washington, California, and New Jersey. Last month, Colorado issued an intersex birth certificate to a single person in response to extensive documentation supplied in their application, but did not announce plans to make gender-neutral birth certificates widely available.

Stories like these make me proud to be a New Yorker!

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diangelo-cat

3 months ago

Lost In Your Eyes!

Remember when I asked for sketch ideas and said I'd do THIS one (below) digitally, after I rewatch this longform? Well it's finally done, an odd balance between messy and thought-out, but I like this play quite a bit so I had fun 💕 tysm for the suggestion!!

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diangelo-cat

3 months ago

only the shoot from the hip fandom would have me saying shit like "i think meth wife goes final 4 but gets beat out by old lady margery"

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diangelo-cat

3 months ago

I will NEVER stop posting gifs of them hugging they're the softest, sweetest lil beans and I love them

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diangelo-cat

6 years ago

My town is gone.

If you’ve been watching the noise and paying attention to California, you’ve heard about the Camp Fire.

In a matter of hours, the fire jumped to 20,000 acres. This morning it reached 70,000. My town of Paradise, where I’ve lived my entire life, was consumed entirely. Very little containment has been reached and the situation is absolute hell.

My house was one of the first to go.

My mom and my sisters and I barely got out, in separate cars, and we got separated for 10 hours. My mom and little sister were stuck in Paradise with all my pets in the flames until my stepdad was able to get gas to them so they could get out. My cat was lost, and I personally was only able to grab an extremely small amount of my own belongings because I was helping my mom to grab important documents and photos and to get the pets situated.

We are now homeless, with no clue where to go from here, and desperately in need of help to get food, clothes, supplies, anything. My mom has been disabled for 3 years and we survive on a single income from my stepdad, who is a firefighter. His friends have been hurt trying to fight this. We have a dog with us, and two guinea pigs, and a bearded dragon.

My mom set up a fundraiser, even though we are not at all the type to ask for so much help.