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Lucia

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Adult. no stunt 1D fan
interest in queerness + closeting in music industry, and how it’s handled by the not-so-truthful press
focuses on 1D, TSwift, and other historic and current musicians + actors

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Lucia

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So until you hold accountability to the leaders you support, you’re not going to be morally safe to be around.

Chappell said to go vote, she encouraged her followers to go vote. But she wasn’t going to give a blank check, ra-ra support to people who harm.

If you READ it, she voted the same as you

"Right now, it's more important than ever to use your vote, and I will do whatever it takes to protect people's civil rights, especially the LGBTQ+ community," she tells me in August.
"My ethics and values will always align with that, and that hasn't changed with a different nominee. I feel lucky to be alive during an incredibly historical time period when a woman of color is a presidential nominee."

February 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM

Lucia

@whenyouknow.bsky.social

As always, going to tertiary and secondary sources, and not the original

Those shorten the context and bake in added controversy/opinion. The recap version of an article training you to dislike what she said.

www.teenvogue.com/story/chappe...

Original of yours:
www.theguardian.com/music/2024/s...

thank God I didn't go because they just made a huge statement about trans kids a couple weeks ago," she says, referring to the Biden administration stating its opposition to gender-affirming surgery for transgender minors in June. (The administration would walk back those comments a month later.)

"I have so many issues with our government in every way," she says. "There are so many things that I would want to change. So I don't feel pressured to endorse someone. There's problems on both sides. I encourage people to use your critical thinking skills, use your vote
- vote small, vote for what's going on in your city." The change she wants to see in the US in this election year, she says instantly, is "trans rights. They cannot have cis people making decisions for trans people, period."

Roan opted to turn down the invite, though there were some who misread what she felt was a pretty clear message. "I saw a couple of TikToks where they were like, 'So she's pro Trump?'" Roan's face contorts into disgust. "It is not so black and white that you hate one and you like the other. No matter how you say it, people are still going to be pissed for fucking some reason. I'm not going to go to the White House because I am not going to be a monkey for Pride. And thank God I didn't go because they just made a huge statement about trans kids a couple weeks ago," she says, referring to the Biden administration stating its opposition to gender-affirming surgery for transgender minors in June. (The administration would walk back those comments a month later.)

February 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM

Lucia

@whenyouknow.bsky.social

A quote of Bruce bringing up, unprompted, him going to gay clubs in Asbury in the late 1960s, the inspiration for his music writing.
He would’ve been 18 in ‘67, turned 20 in 1969

in the interview, he describes how his “alpha male” stage persona / image isn’t really him

www.npr.org/2017/09/15/5...

Highlighted section of text, which is repeated in next photo:

You know, clubs were open till 5:00 a.m. There were gay clubs. In even the late 60s, it was a bit of an open city. So as young ne'er-do-wells, we fit very - you know, we fit very comfortably in that picture.

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GROSS: During your early years as a musician, you were in Asbury Park, boardwalk, carnival atmosphere.
What did you love about that kind of urban beach, (laughter) you know?
SPRINGSTEEN: Yeah.
GROSS: And the - you know, Madame Marie and all of the - like, all of the boardwalk regulars. You made great stories out of those characters, great songs out of those characters. But what appealed to you about knowing them and writing about them?
SPRINGSTEEN: It was just my location at the time. I didn't move to Asbury with the thought of - you know, it wasn't an anthropological...
GROSS: But you connected in some way.
SPRINGSTEEN: ...Reason. But I went, and I just fit in there. Asbury was down on its luck but not as bad as it would get. And so there was a lot of room to move. You know, clubs were open till 5:00 a.m. There were gay clubs. In even the late '60s, it was a bit of an open city.
So as young neer-do-wells, we fit very - you know, we fit very comfortably in that picture. And then when I went to write, I just wrote about what was around me. It fired my imagination. It was - of course, was a colorful locale.
The city was filled with characters and plenty of people at loose ends. And so it just became a very natural thing to write about. I didn't give it too much thought at the time. But I did think that it gave me a very individual identity in that if I was going to go out into the musical world on a national level, I was very interested in being connected to my home, my home state. There wasn't anyone else writing in this way about these things at that time. So it was something I did very intentionally, in a sense, as creating a certain

The interview portion about alpha male stage persona, excerpt,

GROSS: So do you think that your stage persona draws both from, like, the angry and uninhibited side of you and the more inhibited, timid side of you?
SPRINGSTEEN: I think it's both there. I think if you just
- you know, I think plenty of folks if you just looked at the outside, it can read - you know, it's pretty alpha male, you know? Which is a little ironic because, you know, it's - that was personally never exactly really me.
I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life. And perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree. I was looking for - when I was looking for a voice to mix with my voice, I put on my father's work clothes, and as I say in the book, and I went to work, whether it was the result of wanting to emulate him so I felt closer or whether it was - I wanted - as I say in the book, I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen his life come to.
It was all of these things. And it was an unusual creation, but most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography. And they re trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history. And I think when I unknowingly - when I went to do that, that's what I was - I was trying to integrate all of these very difficult things that I'd been unable to integrate in my life and in my life with my parents.
GROSS: If youre just joining us, I'm talking to Bruce Springsteen. And he has a new memoir that's quite terrific. And it's called "Born To Run."

February 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM

Lucia

@whenyouknow.bsky.social

Cool way to check how often you alt-text

Alt text is the caption/description on images so they can be seen without sight, and when the image doesn’t load, or if you just don’t know a person and click to see a new celeb name
here’s the way to get it so it makes it automatic:
bsky.app/settings/acc...

A test of Bluesky Alt Text Rating

Score: 100% from 322 posts analyzed, 109 have images, 109 have alt text, 93 posts sent were replies

January 29, 2025 at 3:26 AM

Lucia

@whenyouknow.bsky.social

Louis Tomlinson
colors that I can’t change
spent my whole life thinking I had to change

I don’t want to face the music, I just want to dance with you. I just wanna dance with you.

Louis Tomlinson with his triangle tattoo on his ankle, his 28 triangle on his green jacket with 28 official, the pink triangle in the Miss You music video, the rainbow flare on the 28 official green rain jacket for Dork Magazine, the she is beauty rainbow lights, his Tim Cook rainbow apple shirt from November 2014, the rainbow lights of the venue in Bogota, Eyes Wide Open shirt on judge Louis,the Paradise written in rainbow font by its cowriter, the black and white scene of dancing for Walls music video, his Ferricadooza and Polari shirts (both words are part of the British gay language Polari), his rainbow skeleton hands shirt from 1D era, and his rainbow shirt worn for Just Hold On performance.

December 14, 2024 at 2:57 AM

Lucia

@whenyouknow.bsky.social

Haha, Niall is suchhh a swiftie,
he’s a Lover.

He loves to sing all her songs and lists his favorite TSwift albums,
and he’s marched across continents with a hanky in his left pocket, trying to get everyone to notice his hanky.

He showed off his bin of hankys,
they’d match all his lavender pants.