🚨🏳️‍⚧️ Good news! TikTok has fixed the trans flag emoji bug! "TikTok’s swift action fixing this problem, and being attentive to the needs of countless LGBTQ people and allies, is a best practice that other tech and social media companies should follow." - @glaad.bsky.social www.out.com/media/tiktok...

"It is more important than ever right now that companies are loud and clear in their values and that they practice inclusiveness and safety for transgender people on their platforms," the [@glaad.bsky.social] statement concluded. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Seriously, WTF WSJ?! @wsj.com Would you take this kind of approach to covering any other historically marginalized community? Absolute garbage clickbait (and 100% manufactured fear-mongering) shit.

The official USDA site is blaming trans people for SNAP benefits expiring.

apparently “bari weiss doesn’t actually know what journalism is” extends to getting basic facts like the name of a subject right

Ah sweet to stumble across this in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum! Vintage pic of me as the 2 of spades in @csopie.bsky.social's legendary 1990s Dyke Deck! Yes, I'm reading Dennis Cooper's Frisk. #LGBTQHistory collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O176694...

👍 "Debate me bro” culture: "creates a false equivalence between good-faith expertise and bad-faith trolling. When you agree to debate someone pushing long-debunked conspiracy theories or openly hateful ideologies, you’re implicitly suggesting that their position deserves equal consideration."

Current mood

"I can’t stand the idea of working for a company that doesn’t live up to having basic values around L.G.B.T.Q. rights and equality. What should I do?"

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This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want. It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.

"Welcome to the future, where your tax dollars fund AI founding fathers spouting catchphrases from guys who weren't even born yet. Facts might not care about your feelings, but apparently nobody cares about facts anymore either."

This movie is so fantastic. My favorite film this year at @framelinefestival.bsky.social. Coming to US theaters from @cineverse-ent.bsky.social on Halloween!

Happy International Butch Appreciation Day! Appreciate all the butches in your life every day. "I wanted to thank you. If it wasn't for you, I'd never have known I had a right to be me." — Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues (art by @miriamkleinstahl.bsky.social) www.facebook.com/butchappday/

Meta is such an immoral company. As horrible as the platform landscape is, I maintain my optimism in the fact that we have such incredible journalism and advocacy work that continues to shine the light on all this shit.

Grateful to journalists, activists, tech accountability folks, and platform workers who continue to illuminate how very very bad this is (all the more concerning after Meta and YouTube’s similar moves in January). Shout-out to @mmasnick.bsky.social and @taylorlorenz.bsky.social!

Journalists and Those Who Love Them, Take Note! Google is launching a new feature in Search that lets you customize your preferred news providers within Top Stories. blog.google/products/sea...

A one-minute queer cinematic masterpiece — the hilarious, joyful 1998 @framelinefestival.bsky.social trailer. Must-watch and must-share (with every straight person you know). ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDmn...

"The cruelty on display should be reason enough to care — but if you need another: The same playbook that uses the guise of 'protecting' the public to dismantle health care for transgender kids could be applied in other areas of medicine."

Check out this must-read piece from @mmasnick.bsky.social at TechDirt on how LinkedIn is following in the anti-trans footsteps of Meta, YouTube, and others: "LinkedIn Joins The Parade Of Cowards: Quietly Strips Anti-Trans Protections To Appease MAGA Mob" www.techdirt.com/2025/08/01/l...

I wish a very happy “fuck you” to everyone who thought throwing trans people under the bus was going to stop these lunatics Their goal has *always* been the eradication of the entire LGBTQ+ community, and they’re not gonna stop at Obergefell either This is why we fight for *everyone*

Wow. The new major motion picture dramatic thriller about... content moderators! This looks... seriously kind of cathartic? ❤️‍🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhOU...

“Hate speech policies are a reflection of a company’s values,” the @glaad.bsky.social spokesperson told The Advocate. “If LinkedIn believes that transgender and nonbinary people should be protected from hate and harassment, they should clearly state this without resorting to confusing doublespeak.”

Please share widely: “LinkedIn’s quiet decision to retract longstanding, best-practice hate speech protections for transgender and nonbinary people is an overt anti-LGBTQ move — and one that should alarm everyone," a spokesperson for @glaad.bsky.social said in a statement.

Please share our new @glaad.bsky.social #FactCheck with journalists! “As the White House and others continue to generate malicious mischaracterizations of transgender people, it's vitally important to understand how such rhetoric deliberately perpetuates inaccurate and dehumanizing perceptions.”

The 90+ organizations supporting a People's AI Action Plan all have concrete, actionable ideas for an AI agenda that furthers the interests of everyday people and challenges the tech billionaire agenda we’ll see from the White House. Learn more about them: peoplesaiaction.com

AWWW, thanks Brian!! Really grateful for this encouragement and championing of my work right now as I'm in production on my new film (Tell Me Everything Will Be Okay). And if anyone else wants to nominate The Joy of Life, here's the link: www.loc.gov/programs/nat...

LA Friends: I'm presenting a screening of The Royal Road on Mon Aug 4th at 7:30pm at the queer Black Cat Cinema series at Look Cinemas in Glendale. Click to get your tix. Fun fact: This production still is my shot of Barbara Stanwyck's house in Double Indemnity. www.lookcinemas.com/movie/1001/6...

🥹 Happy 35th anniversary to one of the most important and impactful LGBTQ orgs in the world! As a card-carrying member of Outright, I urge you to join me in supporting their mission (or at least watch and share this beautiful video!) 🏳️‍🌈

Thrilled to be featured in the new issue of Film Quarterly talking about the 10th anniversary of The Royal Road (2015)! With my continuing mission as a filmmaker: “I’m engaged in a completely impossible and yet partially successful effort to stop time.” online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...

In the wake of SCOTUS upholding Skrmetti—TN's ban on healthcare for transgender youth—and amid relentless, coordinated efforts to deny trans people essential health care, it’s crucial to recognize and understand the hate-fueled rhetoric driving these political attacks 🧵 glaad.org/intentional-...

Once again, @autostraddle.bsky.social going above and beyond in their queer cinema coverage — here is: Every Queer @criterion.bsky.social Closet Video (including mine). 🤠 Thank you, @drewburnettgregory.bsky.social! www.autostraddle.com/every-queer-...

Hi Bluesky! 🦋👋 We're Foglifter Press & Journal, a San Francisco based small press and literary journal by and for queer writers. We accept #poetry, #nonfiction, #fiction, and hybrid works during our biannual submission periods starting in May and September—and visual #art & media all year round. 🌈

As a film critic myself... having other critics and film thinkers write about my work (or in this case make work about my work!) is so wonderful. Love this piece.

Love the concept of my 2015 film The Royal Road being enlisted as a burning it all down film ("Olson’s solemn profundity and deadpan delivery make for mournful yet delightful companionship along the way.") 🔥

Do you work for an LGBTQ-primary organizations in the #SanFranciscoBayArea with an annual budget over $1 million? Our LGBTQ Donor Engagement Program provides funding for annual fundraising events happening this August - December. Learn more ➡️ www.horizonsfoundation.org/funding-prog...

So many great LGBTQ films on Kanopy. My top 10 tips: Tongues Untied, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Watermelon Woman, Maurice, Henry Gamble's Birthday Party, Stonewall Uprising, To Be Takei, The Times of Harvey Milk, Paris is Burning, and Queens at Heart. They also have my films. :-)

Not me being picked by the @theguardian.com as having made the third best LGBTQ film of the 21st century! Thx @ryangilbey.bsky.social! The Royal Road is available to watch for free via @kanopy.com, Tubi, or the Wolfe Video Movies channel on YouTube. Happy Pride! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

An absolute must-read: "We can stop pretending that anti-trans campaigns represent good-faith scientific concerns and start recognizing them for what they actually are: political movements designed to eliminate transgender people from society."

Solidarity without borders! Solidaridad sin fronteras! !تضامن بلا حدود Solidarité sans frontières! Solidariedade sem fronteiras! Солидарность без границ! All year long, we know we are #StrongerTogether.

Thank you @gwensmith.com 🏳️‍⚧️

❤️‍🔥 Justin Vivian Bond ❤️‍🔥

"I ask for the movement to continue, for the movement to grow... It's not about personal gain, it's not about power. It's about giving those young people out there... hope. You gotta give 'em hope." — Harvey Milk in my 2009 short film, 575 Castro St. #HarveyMilkDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=klcA...

This powerful new report offers many thoughtful insights, including this excellent observation echoing the GLAAD Social Media Safety Index: "Too much abusive and harmful content may drive both users and advertisers away from the platform, therefore undercutting companies’ growth and profit goals."

Wow, this is wild. This is the building at 6th & Market where the old PlanetOut.com office was — like, um, 25 years ago!? do.ithistory.org/db/companies...

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🚨 Attention Queer Movie Lovers! Give a warm Bluesky welcome to Frameline: The San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival! Get your tix asap — including the SF premiere of @heightenedscrutiny.bsky.social with @chasestrangio.bsky.social and a wonderful new doc about @peppermint247.bsky.social

👹 "These policy shifts are part of an overall cultural shift as the pathetic creeps who run these tech companies and our world grovel at the feet of Donald Trump and his colleagues." — @drewburnettgregory.bsky.social on my new @glaad.bsky.social SMSI report! www.autostraddle.com/glaads-2025-...

FREE SCREENING IN SF: Wednesday May 14 at @ataconnect.bsky.social — "Dedication: A Salon with Millennium Film Journal" starts at 7:30pm, but come at 7! Opens with a rare screening of a 16mm print of my 1997 short Blue Diary. FYI @screenslatesf.bsky.social millenniumfilmjournal.com/events/mfj-8...

Thank you @maya4rights.bsky.social & @civilrightsorg.bsky.social for today's kick-ass open letter to Meta demanding that Mark Zuckerberg must "take accountability for your role in sowing the seeds of hate, falsehoods, and lies." civilrights.org/resource/lea...