mysharona1987:

Jesus Christ. Or, well, “Allah!” in his case, I suppose. (Hey, it’s all the same God…)

You had to shake hands with a man you know murdered your beloved father in the worst and most painful way possible.

Just so you and your and your family can perhaps get out of the country safely. And you know your dad would want you to do this, so you all don’t meet his fate.

This is hideous.

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

centaurianthropology:

No, but seriously, do you know how amazing Vincent Price is?

Not just as an actor, although he was a blast to watch in everything he did. He’s one of those actors who’s just clearly having a whale of a time, no matter how bad the film is. He’s just genuinely happy to be there (it makes his villains a particular delight, and he played a LOT of them).

But did you know that he was also on the PFLAG board after his daughter came out to him? And that he was one of the earliest celebrities to speak out against the silence surrounding the AIDS epidemic?

Did you know that when his daughter came out to him, he admitted to her that it had been difficult for him during his first two marriages, because his wives had not been pleased to find out that their husband was just as interested in men as they were?

That’s right, kids, Vincent Price was BISEXUAL AS FUCK, and it was one of those open Hollywood secrets. And his wife Coral Browne? The one he grew old with and wrote cookbooks with and was basically ridiculously sweet with?

Also bisexual as fuck. They were the queer power couple of Hollywood in the 70s. His daughter, Victoria, grew up around Rock Hudson and members of the LGBT community. When she came out, Vincent Price became a board member of PFLAG and was just about the most accepting and awesome dad.

Did you know that Vincent Price played Oscar Wilde in a one-man play, and when it was denounced by anti-gay activist Anita Bryant, he dismissed her right back, saying that Oscar Wilde had already come up with a term for her: a Woman of No Importance? Because Vincent Price was deliciously witty and an awesome person.

Let me conclude with a quote from his daughter (from this article, where I got a lot of this information):

‘“In a funny way, and I think I’m going to cry, he understood me at 22 better than I understood myself then,” Price concluded. “Of course, he was in his 70s and lived a hell of a lot longer than I had, and he understood that at the end of the day it’s about who and what and how we love. And I have not been a person who has been very successful at conventional relationships, but loving well and loving deeply has been the most important thing to me.”’

Happy birthday, Vincent Price. You were a gem of an actor, and an even greater human being.

October is an excellent month to pay homage by enjoying some of the spooky & suspenseful creative work Price performed in. My favorites include some of his radio work, such as the famous Escape episode Three Skeleton Keys

plenty of Vincent Price radio works are free online, including

multiple episodes of Suspense

The Price of Fear (IT’S A DAMN PUN)

The Saint

and a TON of assorted works here

there are lots more, feel free to add

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

just-artist-thoughts:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

in the movies people desperately trying to get rid of cursed and possessed objects, as if that crap isn’t EXTREMELY MARKETABLE

Excuse me would *you* buy a cursed doll that’s always looking at you

reblog if you would absolutely buy a loyal cursed doll to keep as a pet

butch-dwarf:

the-defiant-pupil:

I don’t agree with some of the more blatantly transphobic comments here, but I do agree – trans women shouldn’t compete with biological women and neither should trans men either. Trans people obviously have advantages over biological women that can’t be matched by said biological women. It’s not fair. It’s certainly not helping anything when the trans woman in question doesn’t even pass because that’s just going to fuel more transphobia. Sigh.

^^^^

madamesecretaryxxx:

mysharona1987:

So, he’s basically a criminal and a threat to American democracy, right? If he was caught on tape saying this.

Thus, he should be immediately arrested, per the laws of the land.

Lock him up !

Lock him up

mysharona1987:

So, he’s basically a criminal and a threat to American democracy, right? If he was caught on tape saying this.

Thus, he should be immediately arrested, per the laws of the land.

Trans people in Uruguay can now self-identify their gender, without surgery

profeminist:

“Transgender people in Uruguay are celebrating after the country’s Congress passed a comprehensive trans law yesterday (18 October).

The law brings in a host of new rights for transgender people.

Most notably, trans people can now self-identify their gender and update their legal name, without approval from a judge.

The new law also creates scholarships for trans people to access education, as well as sets up affirmative action. It also now acknowledges the self-identification of non-binary people.

The comprehensive law also creates a monthly pension for transgender people born before 1975. This is a way of making reparations for trans people who were targeted by the government during the country’s dictatorship from 1973 to 1985.

The reparations are effective of 1 January this year and affect anyone born before 31 December 1975.

The new law also requires government services to employ a minimum of 1% of the transgender population.

62 of 88 senators voted in favor of the new law.”

Read the full piece here

WOW!!! Go Uruguay Go!!!

U.S. readers, register to vote here – in some states you can still register for the November election! This week shows how much we have to gain or lose depending on who gets in office.