So I was looking through some reviews on the bastard son and the devil himself and came across this
And I must say…
So true bestie! The minute I laid my eyes on Gabriel Boutin any hope of being straight was gone. Poof, nada. While i may not have converted to the gay life style my bisexual levels are through the roof!
Anyway go watch the bastard son and the devil himself, Netflix did very little in the way of advertising it most places and it’s really worth a watch!!
When you really sit and think about the way gay men and lesbians are treated in media it's pretty obvious that we are both getting screwed over just I'm different ways. Lesbians are seen as more palatable so we get more representation in children's cartoons but gay men are more likely to get represented in live action shows and movies especially if they are a background character to a story about a straight women. Gay men and lesbians get shows centered around their sexuality but the shows with lesbians usually get canceled after about five seconds. The shows with gay men fair better but you realize pretty quickly that the types of shows that do well only feature a certain type of gay man the straight white cis kind (ie the one that is most palatable to straight women). We are both heavily fetishized by the opposite gender yet instead of being in community with one another the media likes to portray us as mortal enemies (queue that one modern family scene with mitch and cam vs the lesbians which was hilarious tbh). We need more mlm and wlw solidarity in shows. We need more mlm couples in cartoons and we definitely need more live action shows centered around queer women's romantic relationships asian gl can't carry it all.
I forgot how Tumblr works but I’m just wondering if they meant to code Ned and Conor in Handsome Devil as just two gay friends or if they did want to have them both get together in the end but it was made in an era where that wasn’t a possibility.
Can I just say how excited and horrified I get when someone mentions they haven't watched the gay shows I've been dreaming about for the past five months?
"You haven't watched it? I don't believe you! You're so silly go watch it rn or I'll force your eyes open for the entirety of the show lmao I'm just being goofy but fr I will do that go watch it"
okay if anyone can help me find this i will love you forever bc i know it is not actually worth the hours-long effort it would take me to find this (if i ever did) so back in the day i used to just find random gay storylines on youtube and watch them, like you do. one of them had two guys in suits making out in the woods after one of them was supposed to get married and instead decided to make out with his best man-ish type person. the actual show was SO WEIRD (i watched it all the way through once, i think it was about six or eight eps and from the cut down with just the two dudes you would never know how strange it was. i think aliens were involved??? i can't remember if it was subtitled or not, my brain now wants to say it was uk - maybe scottish - but i don't know if we can trust that). i know they were work buddies first and it took marrying-dude until his wedding to realize he loved his friend as more than a friend.
When I was on s1 of Xena I literally said something along the lines of "god, I wish they would read sappho/Gift each other a poem of sappho" and then this happened and I'll never recover.