u/Difficult_Shift_3771

I told her it’s the flag of a fictional country and she actually believed me 😭

Yep the country’s name is Gayland.

Guess what happened thirty five years ago? Homosexuality was removed from the WHO's classification of diseases!!!

You might say, ONLY THIRTYFIVE YEARS AGO?? and you're right, i was deeply shocked and troubled by this fact. literally less time ago than the birth of pretty much everyone's parents here. i bet they could all remember 1990 very well.

Luckily, since then, tolerance for LGBTQIA+ people has grown tremendously, but still, it's not safe to be out as queer in lots of places, and hate and phobia is still rampant.

Today makes IDAHOBIT: the international day against homophobia, biphobia and transphobia, and when the world is continuing to attack the rights of queer people everywhere, it's a day when everyone can demonstrate just how gay a place our planet still is!!!

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I think I'd be a deserter because I'm a pacifist. I don't want to fight for my government.

I keep hearing that young men are shifting further to the right. I think one of the reasons for this, besides right-wing propaganda itself, is the misandry within the left. I say this as a leftist myself: if the left wants to win young men back, it needs to stop pushing stuff like “men are trash” or “not all men, but always men”, and start taking the real issues men and boys face in modern society seriously.

Here are some examples：

Male-only conscription is still the norm in Western Countries.

infant genital mutilation, illegal against women in the US, but some 70% of mothers choose to do it to their sons based on aesthetic preference.

the bias in the educational system.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01425692.2022.2122942

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/04/boys-school-challenges-recommendations#:~:text=Research%20shows%20that%20boys%20tend,for%20American%20Progress%2C%202017).

Boys are graded more harshly for identical work, and punished more harshly for identical misbehavior. It's very easily proven, too.

the bias in the legal system

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/gender-differences-sentencing-felony-offenders

society's unwillingness to call it rape when women do it to men, despite the CDC finding that this is as common as the reverse.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353570309_On_the_Sexual_Assault_of_Men

Background information: In 1922, under Lenin, the Soviet Union decriminalized homosexuality as part of a broader legal reform. However, in 1934, Stalin reversed this policy, re-criminalizing it with harsh penalties, including up to five years in the gulag, labeling it “bourgeois degeneracy” and “fascist counter-revolutionary conspiracy”.

In contrast, after the 1959 revolution in Cuba, Castro’s government began suppressing homosexuality. In 1965, the state established the Military Units to Aid Production, where gay men were sent for forced labor re-education to enforce “revolutionary masculinity”. Decades later, Castro publicly acknowledged this persecution as a grave injustice. In recent years, Cuba has made significant progress in LGBT rights: in 2022, the Family Code was approved, legalizing same-sex marriage and adoption.