[love, laura]
Not every soldier that came home from the war had a lady waiting to kiss him…
will always reblog
Love.
This Is Important, You Should Know About It of the Day: Openly lesbian Syrian blogger Amina Arraf, who fearlessly wrote about her country’s political turmoil at A Gay Girl in Damascus under the nom de plume Amina Abdallah, was abducted last night by armed men while on her way to a meeting in Damascus.
Her cousin Rania wrote about the abduction on Amina’s blog: “Amina was seized by three men in their early 20s. According to the witness (who does not want her identity known), the men were armed.” Rania goes on to report that the men covered Amina’s mouth and hustled her into “a red Dacia Logan with a window sticker of [president Bashar al-Assad’s deceased brother] Basel Assad.”
The Guardian says Amina — who is an American citizen as well — “had become increasingly popular after capturing the imagination of the Syrian opposition as the protest movement struggled in the face of the government crackdown.”
Supporters have taken to Facebook and Twitter to draw attention to Amina’s unlawful seizing, but, according to Rania, it’s unclear who took her or why. “Unfortunately, there are at least 18 different police formations in Syria as well as multiple different party militias and gangs,” she wrote in a recent update. “We do not know who took her so we do not know who to ask to get her back. It is possible that they are forcibly deporting her.”
Updates on Amina’s situation will be posted on her blog.
[guardian / globalvoices.]
Old Navy Debuts Gay Pride T-Shirts For It Gets Better
“Old Navy, taking a cue from…oh wait, NO OTHER MAJOR RETAILER EVER, is launching a line of rainbow-themed Pride shirts next Monday. Four designs will be available, sized for men, women and babies. And Old Navy will donate 10% of the proceeds to the It Gets Better Project (aka the source of all those YouTube videos that make you bawl your eyes out).”
I want one of these so bad. Totally will wear it to Pride.
dutchydoescoke:anotherweasley:destroyedbymadness:lieutenant-lush:ineffabletwaddle:
In the next 72 hours, conservative lawmakers could move a bill that would make being LGBT in Uganda a crime punishable by death.
This hateful bill is part of a pattern of the Ugandan government’s violent repression of pro-democracy forces within the country - and time is running out to stop it.
Can you please sign and share this petition demanding that Ugandan President Museveni stop the human rights violations by publicly vowing to veto the “Kill the Gays” bill?Reblogging all day
Why does this still have fewer than 300 notes? I’m not going to say that you’re heartless if you don’t reblog this, because I hate that, but please, please take a minute or two to put your name on the petition.
PLEASE PASS THIS ON there hasn’t been nearly enough interest and they need signatures NOW.
You know what you have to do, come on.
CAN ALL OF MY FOLLOWERS JUST REBLOG THIS RIGHT NOW?
Reblogging every time it comes on my dash.

