Being queer doesn't stop when the parade does.
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Like clockwork at the end of every June, you can watch all the major companies and corporations change all their logos away from rainbows after they got their yearly “pat on the back” for celebrating pride (and that’s assuming they don’t last the whole month of June). Many small businesses, like myself, don’t have the luxury of shelving our queerness - neatly packing it away until next year. We are queer in our businesses & jobs, in our art & words, in our families & lives.
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I’ve been searching for a while for a way to bring these ideas to life in a way that was both aesthetic and authentic to Tiny Werewolves - but also meaningful in the message. I’ve played with some of these retro characters before in past subscription boxes, but the inspiration came from the song in the old movie intermission advert “Let’s all go to the lobby” where it features anthropomorphic snacks dancing and singing their way to the lobby during intermission.
I’ve had a list of phases going for a while now, and one day I started singing “let’s all start a riot” to the tune of the advert and it sort of stuck. I knew I had landed on something. What I didn’t have a year ago was really leaning into the retro vibe & style that I am now.
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Let’s All Start A Riot To Get Ourselves Some Rights
Stonewall was never a riot, but rather an uprising that lasted over the course of 6 days starting on June 28th, 1969 and was a series of events between police and LGBTQ+ protesters. Police used the word "riots" to justify the acts of violence against protestors (because of course they f*cking did). The events around Stonewall gathered a lot of media coverage and shifted the activism and subsequent US annual pride celebrations in June. It was not the first time nor would it be the last time such acts of rebellion are displayed as people of the LGBTQ+ community continue in present day in the ongoing fight for equal rights.
Remember to Pie Your Local Homophobe & Transphobe
During an October 14, 1977 press conference located in Des Moines, Iowa, while reporters were questioning Anita Bryant, an actress known for her infamous anti-LGBTQ+ crusade, gay rights activist Tom Higgins throws a pie in Bryant's face. In many parts of the United States, her rhetoric "save the children" (which was in reference to homosexuals) is still being used as justification to ban drag performers and taking away healthcare and rights from Trans people and children.
So get out there and share a little pie with your favorite local homophobe and/or transphobe. <3
After an initial stumble, the Dodgers did the right thing, conservative snowflakes had their little cry and that whole Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence thing has died off. In contrast, Bud Light fired its marketing executives, tried to placate the transphobic bigots and continues to have issues. I submit that had they come out with a forceful statement right at the beginning and said we’re not budging, that we market to all consumers and that it was bigoted, detestable and stupid to try and cancel a product just because of who might appear in an ad, that would be over too. All A-H Busch did was give the transphobes oxygen who then became emboldened thinking they could claim a scalp. M&Ms trolled the right wing snowflakes and that died after the transphobes were laughed at. Lesson in that.