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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 26/02/2026

She used the phrase “neighbor to neighbor” so many times And that needs to be at the heart of what we do each and everyday… Neighbor to neighbor #whenwefightwewin #dosomething @kamalaharris.com

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 18/01/2026

I have a tough time holding so many contradictory realities to be true at the same time But one of them I appreciate most is Drax #catsky

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 11/01/2026

She’s a gift to this world in oh so many ways…and her words are filling my snowy morning with joy and hope and carbonation and sparkle ✨ From one person who has been told they’re too much to another who’s heard the same…I’m so very grateful for Cynthia Erivo #simplymore #booksky #queersky

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 04/01/2026

The worlds of @alexp336.bsky.social, @mnbennetauthor.bsky.social & @cozydubois.bsky.social topped the list of queer writers who helped me stay alive during one of my most turbulent years Love, loss, magic, sex, fun, resilience, shared & rediscovered history, introspection, abolition Read Hope Live

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 01/01/2026

From @lc-poetics.bsky.social Only a *true* friend would wish all these wonderful things for me 🥰

A picture that says I wish you peace, love, and health... blah, blah, blah.
Fuck that shit.
I wish you lots of sex, alcohol, orgasms and hope you win the fucking lottery.

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 23/11/2025

One of my favorite ARCs of the year celebrates its big cover reveal today! 🎉 Congrats to @vesperdoom.com on this hard won labor of creativity and queer representation With this 🤩 cover, @kjetll.bsky.social has captured just a taste of the ethereal distress you’ll find in MD #queersky #booksky

A black, green, and red swirled space background with two men in the foreground. The one on the left is a broad man with curly brown hair, freckles, a beard, and green eyes. He is wearing a dark blue jacket with golden cuffs and collar open over a black shirt and pants. He has an arm circled around the man on the left’s head. The man on the left is upside down. He is slender and has tawny skin, black hair, and brown eyes. He is wearing all black with cutouts on his shoulders. Below the figures are the words: METROPOLIS DOWN and VESPER DOOM.

A relationship broken. A ship in distress.
Horrors that shatter minds. A song that changes reality
Jett Valla and Eddie Stone stand between life and death for a million souls.
But can they save each other?

The QSR Neo-Tokyo was the first ship in the Quasar Metropolis-class fleet: an immense spaceship housing a glittering, neon-lit city and half a million people. For forty-five years, it has traveled from Jupiter to Pluto and back without incident. For the last six years First Officer Eddie Stone and Head of Security Jett Valla have built a life together aboard the ship. But no longer.
When the Neo-Tokyo intercepts a corrupted distress signal, Jett and Eddie are forced back together to plan a rescue mission to the Golden Lion. But within the code lies an eerie song that haunts them both. They see and hear things that do not exist, and are bound together by its strange tune, forcing them to reckon with their lingering feelings for each other.

The song swells within the confines of the ghost ship, where only corpses and questions await them. Something within the hold tormented the ship and those horrors follow an unraveling Jett and Eddie back to the Neo-Tokyo. And when they think they are finally safe, the crowded streets of their city run red with blood. They must confront cosmic horrors once more, and there’s no guarantee that they, or the Neo-Tokyo, will survive.

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 17/11/2025

Why would anyone in their right mind choose to spend time with other humans over cats & dogs? Asking for…well…myself, as someone who craves human connection and keeps fucking it up The animals get me The humans rarely do

A cute dark-colored kitty lying on a chair, licking the tattooed hand of her human

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 02/11/2025

Our annual #LordoftheRings marathon today Extended Editions, of course If this was everyday…I’d take it #LotR #queersky 🌈

A thick, alt queer wearing a tank top that says You Shall Not Pass with a picture of Gandalf the Grey confronting a fiery Balrog of Morgoth

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 28/10/2025

Just when I needed a queer series that asked nothing of me but gave me so very much, @cozydubois.bsky.social and the Confession series appeared These people are messy with life, with love, and with each other And that’s why I’ve fallen in love with them all You will too #booksky 📚 #queersky 🌈

The book covers of the four books of the Confession series on a table next to a lit candle

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 27/10/2025

Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve intentionally gotten out and engaged with the 🌎 in amounts and ways that I haven’t in quite some time A 10 year wedding anniversary spent alone at the bar and a new phone have been fuel for both Writing the next chapter in this hellscape is draining But I’m still here

A landscape photo of white fluffy clouds in a blue sky, trees with autumn foliage, and their reflection in a still pond

An up-close photo of autumn leaves on wooden steps

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 03/09/2025

“I dedicate this to every queer person who has been told they are unnatural. Not only are you natural, you are flawless and beautiful, exactly as you are.” @nathanlents.bsky.social…can we be best friends? 🥹💚 I’d like to start every book with this fuzzy feeling of being seen #queersky 🌈 #booksky 📚

The cover of the book The Sexual Evolution

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 10/08/2025

Sometimes, I just need to watch it burn

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 08/08/2025

Who’s up for doing some gay shit on the east side soon? #Cleveland #Ohio #queersky 🌈

PURE LBGTQ BAR AND LOUNgE...the newest LBGTQ bar & lounge in
Cleveland! 18025 Euclid Ave. Cleveland,
Ohio 44112 is officially open! FRIDAY is Friday Night Flight! $25 Flights all night!
Bottle Service / Kitchen Open / Hookah.
We're the only LBGTQ lounge on the east side AND we sell food! Follow us on instagram @purelounge216.

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 31/07/2025

Enbies, not-a-girls, and girls just wanna have fun! This is how we live This is how we love This is how we #resist #cyndilauper #queersky 🌈

Three wonderfully queer people with huge smiles sitting on the lawn at Blossom Music Center

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 26/07/2025

“May your sauce never stick to your pasta!” An incredible gift from an incredible artist! 💚💚💚Jen Brhel of Espresso Bean Designs! You have to check out her amazing work! 🤩 Sophia is the grandmother I always wanted and the Golden Girl I hope to be someday! ✨ espressobeandesigns.com #GoldenGirls

A picture of Max holding a hand drawn picture of Sophia Petrillo from The Golden Girls

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 25/07/2025

#ACTUP #FIGHTBACK #FIGHTAIDS I hope to see you at our 7/31 meeting at 6PM at the #Cleveland LGBT Center! If you’re looking for a way to #resist, this is it #queersky

ACT UP
CLEVELAND
July 31st, 2025 6:00 pm-7:30pm
ICEBT CENTER
COMMUNITY
6705 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102
ACT UP Cleveland will discuss how our fundraiser screening of "How to Survive a Plague" on July 24th, 2025 went and we will decide what the funds we raised will go toward.
We will break up into our committee groups and discuss what each has done since our meeting on July 17th, 2025. We will continue to plan our next actions in our fight against HIV/AIDS.
SILENCE-DEATH

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 11/07/2025

If you haven’t read @cozydubois.bsky.social’s Loving Lee…the time is now! Queerness Drag Found family Recovering from trauma Facing sobriety Sex positivity Sex work Finding love Facing challenges And doing it all together #booksky 📚 #queersky 🌈

The cover of the book Loving Lee by Cozy Dubois

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 09/07/2025

Finding some joy tonight at video game and Pokémon trivia with all the local queers I’m glad I fought the exhaustion and found the energy to people Peopling gives me hope People often in whatever ways you can Our joy is our resistance #queersky 🌈 #twistsocial #cleveland #ohio

Three gorgeous humans

A femme presenting brunette with curly hair and glasses with a wide smile on the left

A nonbinary person with big sunglasses in a tank top with a blacked out arm and a wide smile in the middle

A gorgeous human with glasses and a wide smile, stretched ears, and a steampunk chest tattoo in a tank top on the right

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 04/07/2025

We all need a little #Drax right now Sleep as well as you can, friends All my love 💚 #catsofbluesky #catsky

A cute grey cat sits on a tan couch like a hooman

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 30/06/2025

It’s a sign of something, for sure Of what, though? I simply cannot be certain #catsky 😸😺😼

A picture of three kitties

Two in the foreground on a coffee table (one white, black, and brown; one darker with dark stripes and hints of brown)

One in the background (darker with dark stripes), lying lazily in front of the TV

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 30/06/2025

Happy happy launch day to @darbyquinn.bsky.social! 🎉 darbyquinn.beehiiv.com/p/gratuitous... #booksky 📚 #queersky 🌈

A graphic for the book Gratuitous Games by Darby Quinn highlighting the main themes of the book

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 17/06/2025

Have I mentioned recently how much @gidnav.bsky.social and I love Out! at @playhousesquare.bsky.social? Happy #Pride, friends 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ If you’re safe and able, get out there and do the things #PlayhouseSquare #pride #Cleveland #Ohio

Two queer people with piercings, tattoos, and glasses, smiling into the camera

The one on the left is wearing a shirt that says “Have the day you voted for”

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 15/06/2025

#Cleveland showed up…and so did the rest of the country! #NoKings indeed Happy #FlagDay! 🇺🇸 What’s next? 📸 1: @cleveland.com 📸 2: my generously long arms #queersky 🌈

Three queer individuals holding an American flag across the fronts of their bodies

The middle human is wearing a tie dye shirt that says PROTECT TRANS KIDS

Photo credit to @cleveland.com

Three queer individuals

The leftmost one is holding an American flag

The one in the middle (lots of tattoos) is holding an umbrella and smiling in a most sparkling manner

The rightmost one (lots of tattoos and piercings) is wearing a tie dye shirt that says PROTECT TRANS KIDS

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 09/06/2025

Had the incredible pleasure 😏 of finishing @mnbennetauthor.bsky.social’s yet-to-be-released Bend Him Break Him Trauma Darkness Discovery Plenty of spice Lots of human messiness Complicated relationships Redemption Lots of queerness And yup…even some love Full review to come! #booksky #queersky 🌈

Shows the cover of the book Bend Him Break Him along with the two main characters — Isaac (light hair, tattooed, pierced) and Colton (in hit baseball jersey)

Tropes
Dark Bully Romance Enemies-to-Lovers
Revenge/Redemption
Crumpy/Sunshine
Hurt/Comfort
CATA Vibes®
Dom/Sub
Hate rutting

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 07/06/2025

#Cleveland is showing up with #PRIDE!!! And we see you, @playhousesquare.bsky.social! 🎭💚 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈HAPPY PRIDE!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #PrideintheCLE

Three pride flags against the Pride March in Cleveland

Playhouse Square marching in the Pride March

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 04/06/2025

Join ACT UP #Cleveland on 6/5 at 3:30PM outside #Cleveland City Hall for our first action of 2025 And stay for HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day to honor those who are still with us They want us dead Let’s show them how we thrive #ACTUP #FIGHTBACK #FIGHTAIDS #alwaystogether #queersky 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

ACT UP
CLEVELAND
JUNE 5, 2025 4:00 p.m.
Cleveland City Hall
601 Lakeside Ave, Cleveland, OH 44114
POLITICAL FUNERAL:
ACT UP Cleveland calls for a community action on the 44th anniversary of the CDC identification of HIV in GAY men.
We demand that the City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, the CCBH, The AIDS Funding Collaborative and all medical professionals in our HIV continuum of care gather with funders and people living with HIV/AIDS to create an Emergency Preparedness Plan in the face of inevitable Federal Funding cuts!
DO NOT BURY YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND OR MORE OF OUR LOVED ONE'S IN THE COLD GROUND OF YOUR DISINTEREST, STIGMA AND HATRED!
ACT UP! FIGHT BACK! FIGHT AIDS!
SILENCE=DEATH

Come & join us for
HIV LONG-TERM
SURVIVORS
AWARENESS DAY EVENT
JUNE 5
NE
DAI
HILTSAD.ORG
Cleveland City Hall Rotunda
Thursday, June 5th 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 04/06/2025

#Pride Trivia at Twist Finding some joy And spreading it aaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllll around 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

A colorful display of Pride flags and rainbow colors from the ceiling of Twist Social Club

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 28/05/2025

You ever get some new ink that hits juuuuuuuuuuuust right? #twunt

A black and gray tattoo heart with the word TWUNT across the middle

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 11/05/2025

Let yourself get lost in @mnbennetauthor.bsky.social’s Crescentville Haunting… www.mnbennet.com/crescentvill... And check out my full 5⭐️ review… app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/9953... #booksky #queersky 🌈📚

The cover of MN Bennet’s Crescentville Haunting, showing Logan with blonde hair and a white shirt facing Henry with dark hair, a black shirt, and a smile that reveals his pearly white teeth and fangs

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 09/05/2025

We could all use a little more Truffle in our lives #catsofbluesky

A little nugget of a black, white, and brown kitty curled up on a blanket with her eyes closed…obviously having reached her limit for dealing with everyone’s shit

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 08/05/2025

Next #ACTUP meeting tonight at 6PM at the LGBT Community Center of Greater #Cleveland ACT UP FIGHT BACK FIGHT AIDS Join us...please. We need every voice Also...learn something... www.kff.org/quick-take/s... This is why we still have to do this; they want us dead #dosomething #queersky

ACT UP|
CLEVELAND
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ACT UP
CLEVELAND
MAY 8, 2025 6:00 pm -7:30 pm
ICBI
COMMUNITY
CENTER
GREATER CLEVELAND
6705 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102
We are thrilled to have ACT UP Cleveland 3.0 up and running.
We will report out on progress for creating an Emergency Plan to get meds into bodies if expected funding cuts are enacted. Legal Clinic will run after updates. Committee breakdowns, Social Media, Messaging to elected officials, fundraising, Membership Outreach, Data Management, Education...
SILENCE-DEATH

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 28/04/2025

Drax is resisting through rest…giving in to that Monday feeling #catsofbluesky 😼

A grey kitty curled up on a tan couch in front of a few pillows

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 24/04/2025

Oh, how much I absolutely 💚💚💚 Wally and Bez! 🥹 These two have my love, my heart…and another body part or two 😏 Book 2 of @mnbennetauthor.bsky.social’s Diabolical Romance trilogy explores the depths of connection and a reckoning with the past #booksky #queersky 📚🌈 www.mnbennet.com/the-misfit-m...

The cover of MN Bennet’s The Misfit Mage and his Darling Demon. It shows two young men, one a demon with dark wings and curled horns protruding from his head, embracing a mage with blonde hair and glasses

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 07/04/2025

Out there on Saturday, at the Hands Off! protest at Market Square Park in #Cleveland Surrounded by anger, hope, and the desire to take action We have a playbook for this We have community to stand with And we must find the energy to keep going #resist #handsoff #dosomething

Four people wearing shirts in support of queer and trans people stand together at the Hands Off! Protest

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 05/04/2025

“Rebellions are built on hope” And the #hope in #Cleveland today is strong Thousands and thousands of people overflowing from Market Square Park, up and down the surrounding streets, waving signs, exchanging smiles, chanting, and fighting for us all This is just the beginning ✊ #handsoff #resist

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 05/04/2025

I was there! The size of that crowd warmed my little queer heart! ♥️ So much hope!

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 01/04/2025

Mid-Century Modern It’s kismet that I start watching it the day Betty arrives Queens…treat yourselves to a laugh Especially now And if you run out of episodes, the first two of the Trilogy are there for you Golden Girls and Hot in Cleveland live on and on

A sheet of 20 stamps featuring the acclaimed Betty White

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 29/03/2025

Existing, resisting, and thriving tonight with @kswinton.bsky.social and @clevelandorch.bsky.social 🎼 And holding space for Chadwick Boseman’s legacy and memory 🔥 Art like this…this is #whywefight #theclevelandorchestra #Cleveland #resist

A stage that is slowly filling with musicians and instruments

Above the stage is a screen that says Black Panther in Concert - Welcome and had 5 actors from the movie standing and facing the crowd

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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 26/03/2025

From @dansavage.bsky.social and shared by @amandapalmer.bsky.social on Substack Keep fighting Keep dancing I’ll be right beside you for both #queersky 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💚

A post by Dan Savage that says:

During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night.
The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for. It didn't look like we were going to win then and we did. It doesn't feel like we're going to win now but we could. Keep fighting, keep dancing.

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