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David Futato

@dfutato.bsky.social

🧙🐻🪐🤓🏳️‍🌈✊ (he/him)

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David Futato@dfutato.bsky.social · 2w ago

@electerika.bsky.social and @benforward3.bsky.social, put pressure on @massago.bsky.social to hold providers like @fenwayhealth.bsky.social accountable and if necessary find state funds to cover federal funds lost. Massachusetts values demand no less than protecting and caring for our trans youth. 🏳️‍⚧️

As Massachusetts Hospitals Bow to Trump, These Organizers Are Fighting to Protect Trans Futures — them

Major hospitals systems across Massachusetts have stopped providing gender-affirming care for trans youth. Protect Trans Futures wants the legal action taken to address the gaps in care.

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David Futato@dfutato.bsky.social · 2w ago

I had the serendipity of being able to see a massive exhibition of his work at the @museoreinasofia.es in 2019. It was beautiful and devastating and righteously rage-inducing.

“One day this kid will get larger. One day this kid will come to know something that causes a sensation equivalent to the separation of the earth from its axis. One day this kid will reach a point where he senses a division that isn't mathematical. One day this kid will feel something stir in his heart and throat and mouth. One day this kid will find something in his mind and body and soul that makes him hungry. One day this kid will do something that causes men who wear the uniforms of priests and rabbis, men who inhabit certain stone buildings, to call for his death. One day politicians will enact legislation against this kid. One day families will give false information to their children and each child will pass that information down generationally to their families and that information will be designed to make existence intolerable for this kid. One day this kid will begin to experience all this activity in his environment and that activity and information will compell him to commit suicide or submit to danger in hopes of being murdered or submit to silence and invisibility. Or one day this kid will talk. When he begins to talk, men who develop a fear of this kid will attempt to silence him with strangling, fists, prison, suffocation, rape, intimidation, drugging, ropes, guns, laws, menace, roving gangs, bottles, knives, religion, decapitation, and immolation by fire. Doctors will pronounce this kid curable as if his brain were a virus. This kid will lose his constitutional rights against the government's invasion of his privacy. This kid will be faced with electro-shock, drugs, and conditioning therapies in laboratories tended by psychologists and research scientists. He will be subject to loss of home, civil rights, jobs, and all conceivable freedoms. All this will begin to happen in one or two years when he discovers he desires to place his naked body on the naked body of another boy.”
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)

A black-and-white photograph of artist & writer David Wojnarowicz, with added elements including red and yellow flames along the right side of his body, and maps over his face and neck
David Futato@dfutato.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am very much looking forward to seeing this documentary on the making of #EdwardII — #DerekJarman was a huge influence on me in the 90s.

'Queer Edward II' Review: A Terrific Doc Portal to the Early '90s that Captures — and Liberates — Derek Jarman's Trailblazing Spirit — Variety

Consider, for a moment, the cupboard -- maybe in the spirit of irreverence we should term it a closet -- in which, for 30-odd years, lay undisturbed the footage that future star cinematographer Seamus...

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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@ianlekus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

LGBTQI+ folks -- anywhere, but especially in the Global South / East / Majority -- please fill this out! Takes 2-5 minutes & helps my colleagues assess the lived experiences of LGBTQI+ folks in as many countries as possible.

Franklin & Marshall Global Barometers@fmglobalbarometers.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The 2026 F&M Global Barometers LGBTQI+ Perception Index is officially live! Every response matters. Take the survey and share the link in our bio! #LGBT #LGBTQIA #LGBTQPride #gayrights #transrights #gay #lesbian #bisexual #trans #transgender #intersex #queer #nonbinary #lgbtqresearch #humanrights

David Futato@dfutato.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m so sick of respectability politics. (Which, by the way, won’t save you.) Unsurprisingly, both pieces were written by cis white men (we need to do better!), and Ben Appel is a “drop the T” gay traitor — when your book is praised by Julie Bindel, the company you keep is clear.

Why are America's largest newspapers stigmatizing queer people? — Advocate

Opinion: Both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal recently ran opinion pieces essentially preaching "gay is respectable, queer is the problem." It's not helpful, writes Josh Ackley.

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Boston Gaymers@bostongaymers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Diversity Lounge / The Intersection at @officialpax.bsky.social is what made Boston Gaymers what it is today. The outreach and visibility it gave us were game-changing. Inclusive spaces in gaming are essential, and we need PAX to continue supporting them now more than ever.

Cassie aka Lamia@intersectionscch.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

With the nightmares for QTBIPOC in the United States right now, it is so so telling that @officialpax.bsky.social has decided that 2026 is the year to cut support and funding for The PAX Intersection & its PTI programs that made a PAX safer & life changing event for devs & attendees of color alike.