Tag: queer history

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Lyric Rivera, taking a selfie on a grassy riverbank. They (a nonbinary person with tan skin and long black hair) are smiling at the camera. Lyric is wearing a black tank top with a rainbow infinity sign that reads “Refusing Assimilation into NeuroTypical Society,” and a small tan puppy is visible over their left shoulder.

Welcome to Pride Month 2026: They Want Us to Hide. Here’s Why I’m Being Loud – Also, 8 Ignorant Things People Say to Queer People (And How to Flip Them)

Lyric Holmans

Today is June 1, 2026. It is the first day of Pride Month, in a year where being openly and unapologetically open about being Queer in many ways feels more dangerous for many of us (especially within the United States) than it has in a long time. Continue reading Welcome to Pride Month 2026: They Want Us to Hide. Here’s Why I’m Being Loud – Also, 8 Ignorant Things People Say to Queer People (And How to Flip Them)

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Lyric appears smiling, against a rainbow pride background, holding a cartoon brick. Beside them are four floating hearts representing the nonbinary flag, trans flag, pansexual flag, genderfluid flag, and polyamorous flag; beside them, it reads “Lyric - they/them.”

Pride Month 2026: Visibility Is Becoming Dangerous Again – If lists are being made, I’m fairly certain I’m already on them.

Lyric Holmans

Pride Month Is Next Week. I’m Not Sure How Visible I Want to Be Anymore. – The leaders of our movement are still the ones with nothing left to lose. Continue reading Pride Month 2026: Visibility Is Becoming Dangerous Again – If lists are being made, I’m fairly certain I’m already on them.

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Human Binaries: NeuroDivergent and Queer – Coloring Outside the Lines Will Be Punished – Intro to my latest book, Neurodivergent Rebel’s, The Weight of Normal

Lyric Holmans

Human minds crave simplicity and easy, quick categorizations; that’s why many stereotypes and false assumptions about those in marginalized groups run wild in our dominant culture (because it’s easier for people to oversimplify by thinking in black and white while ignoring nuance). This creates a failure to appreciate people as individual humans, and pressure on everyone to fit within narrow, unnatural, binary norms and categorizations. Continue reading Human Binaries: NeuroDivergent and Queer – Coloring Outside the Lines Will Be Punished – Intro to my latest book, Neurodivergent Rebel’s, The Weight of Normal

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LGBTQIA+ & Autism Medicalization Timeline – A NeuroQueer Conversion Therapy History Lesson

Lyric Holmans

Up until 1973, psychologists and psychiatrists will still consider homosexuality to be a form of illness. It will be 1987, the year I’m born, before homosexuality will be completely removed from the DSM. Continue reading LGBTQIA+ & Autism Medicalization Timeline – A NeuroQueer Conversion Therapy History Lesson