#lgbtq+ media

[mysweetsinfulobsessions]

Harley & Ivy kisses (minus sex scene) in Harley Quinn, A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special, 3x11

#give it all to meeeee yesssss more harlivy kisses!!!! #can't get enough #harley quinn show #harley quinn #poison ivy #harley x ivy #harlivy #harley quinn the animated series #harley quinn animated series #hqtas #hqas #hqas spoilers #hqtas spoilers #harley quinn spoilers #harlivy kisses #harlivy kiss #lgbtq #lgbtq characters #lgbtq+ media #lgbtq media #valentines day

[liyazaki]

in volleyball- anything can happen.

ROOKIE | MOVIE TEASER

#rookie #aya fernandez #alyssa valdez #pinoy gl #filipina gl #filipino movie #lesbian #wlw #lgbtq #lgbtq+ movies #lgbtq+ media #anima studios

[sunny-rants]

hey everyone frustrated with how the media prioritizes romance and who loves the platonic soulmates trope! go watch The Half of It and Straight Up, both on Netflix

they’re not perfect, and they won’t be for everybody, but I found them so refreshing and they made me cry

#the half of it #straight up #platonic soulmates #platonic love #fuck amatonormativity #the half of it netflix #the half of it movie #straight up netflix #straight up movie #netflix #lgbtq+ media #lgbtq movies #queer #aromantic #aro #asexual #ace #aroace #lgbtq+ #lesbian #gay #gay movies #gay media #lesbian movies #queer movies #queer representation

[zhong-leigh]

I still think about them 💔

#first kill #first kill netflix #calliope burns #julliette x calliope #julliette fairmont #calliette #cal x juliette #sapphic #sapphic media #sapphic show #lesbians #lesbian tv #lesbian shows #lgbtq+ #lgbtq+ media #netflix #netflix show

[crownspeaksblog]

I think Coffee Prince is THE first queer story I've ever watched! I watched in my early teens and back then, i loved it so much, because it was a love story, where a man falls in love with a woman, not knowing that she's a woman and my younger self was mostly like "oh my god it's true love!! He fell in love with her not knowing she's a woman!!" But i loved it so much more when i rewatched it, in my late teens because at that point, i was mostly aware of the queerness of it all and now I'm fully aware of it, like that was a story about a "straight" man falling, hard, for this young man he just met! He was suffering and in denial, that man was crying over the thought of being gay and then... he just fully accepted it and was more than willing and happy to run away together!!! He is a queer icon!!

This is probably one of the best ways to present a queer story because, one, it can slip right through censorship laws, i watched it, 10 years ago, on tv, in the fucking middle-east, dubbed in Arabic!! (i haven't seen the original version but I'm willing to bet some stuff was cut in the version i watched). Two, it kinda will confuse homophobic/ignorant people on what to feel, because the audience knows she's a woman throughout the entirety of the show, so people will interpret it as "he fell in love with her, not knowing she's a woman" NOT as, "he fell in love with a man, who turned out to be a woman"

Here's the thing, without internet and tv, most people are completely unaware of the outside world, not just their country, but the outside of their everyday life and when i watched that show as a kid, i didn't see the queerness of it (i had no idea what the word or the concept of gay is) and now i can easily recognize how that story is one of the biggest reasons to make me, a young middle-easterns teenager who's raised religious (kinda..) understand and accept queerness so relatively easily!

So yes, more stories like this, they are groundbreaking!!

#so many other shows helped me go from this is kinda wrong and against god to i don't care about gay people to no actually i love queer love! #(also... atheist YouTube videos help alot soo) #watch this show if you haven't seen it it's fun!! #also gong yoo is hot win win lol #coffee prince #tv shows #queer media #lgbtq+ media #lgbtq rights #personal #👑

[dorseaa]

2023 is officially queer media year!

Rwrb, good omens, our flag means death, heartstopper,etc. What else im forgetting?

#lgbtqia #lgbtq community #Lgbtq+ media #Heartstopper #Rwrb #Good omens #our flag means death season 2

[thatlgbtqfandom]

People of tumblr, please watch A League of Their Own! No matter how queer you think it is, it's even queerer - I promise you. It's about queer joy, queer fear, queer pain, queer love, queer pride, queer everything, it has so many dimensions. It's also a super fun show about baseball, and that's coming from someone who isn't interested in any sport at all. It is simply *that* amazing!

#a league of our own #lgbtq+ media #lgbt media #queer media #lgbtq+ shows #lgbt shows #queer shows

[stefanyd]

So i was having a lovely conversation with @rythyme about the current rapid evolution of the BL industry, specially in Thailand - looking at the impact KinnPorsche is having, everywhere, at the moment - and it led us to a path where i was able to articulate something i’ve been thinking about or a while in regards to BL as a genre and how it relates to (and is) LGBTQ+ media.

BL might have its roots as a genre made for fangirls as fanservice, but the reality of it is, it is ALSO queer media and as the world at large embraces LGBTQ+ identities(i use the term embrace loosely here, we are all aware of the hurdles we face still), the lines have blurred into what people consider just BL - as fangirl fanservice - and LGBTQ+ content.

That does not mean that there isn't just fanservice for the sake of it out there, not every piece of media has to be nuanced and whatnot (we all like chicken nuggets every once in a while people, don’t lie, five course meals are not always where its at), but it does mean that there is more media that lands in the blended space. I believe BL media is and should be qualified under LGBTQ+ media. Bad buddy is a great example. It is 100 percent a BL, ticks all the boxes, but it is also 100 percent a coming of age, nuanced love story between two boys that tugs at your heartstrings and makes you want to go through the joy and anxieties of falling in love. That has a lot to do with the Director of the show, P’Aof, a very talented director, and an out gay man. Watching his reaction/review videos to the show, along with his peers who are also queer men, specially for the final episode, has been one of the best experiences of my life. It was hard to put into words, but hearing what these older queer/gay men had to say about this show, their lives, their experiences, the differences between their youth and today. It was mind blowing, specially because they are from a whole different culture than mine, and as my older sister who is in their age range said: “you’re watching/learning queer history.” It was both touching and a great learning experience.

BL is a genre that can be multiple things at once (like any other), but what lends itself to the blending I mentioned before is that we are not only seeing the industry as a whole growing with its fanbase, but also the fact that more LGBTQ+ voices are getting involved in the making and distribution of it.

Rythyme made a point in our conversation, “BL as a genre despite its shortcomings has always been, at its core, both queer and transgressive and it's hard to draw those lines between what's made for the ‘BL fangirl’ vs the ‘queer person’ bc those boundaries are super blurred” And i agree with that statement, because many of those BL fangirls the genre was aimed at turned out to be queer people later in life. They mentioned listening to a talk by an older Japanese lesbian who was an OG BL fan from the start of it all, and who discussed how BL helped her discover her own queerness, which was a lightbulb moment for Rythyme as they listened to it.

And that’s the thing. BL culture in the east, and slash culture in the west, they both started labeled as “fanservice for the fangirls”, and their similarities don’t end there, they are both movements that have led a lot of queer people in a journey of self-discovery. My sister @teland has almost 15 years+ on me, and as she put it:

I can't count the number of queer people of all genders and ages and everything else who I've spoken to over the past 20-odd years about slash, bl, and other intersections of queerness, fantasy, and *hope* who have said to me:

"This is where I found myself." "This is how I learned who I was." "This is how I wrote myself into my own body." "This is how I learned how to draw the boundaries of my self." And so on, and so forth.

There is nothing more queer than taking identity/self/sexuality/gender and remaking it in our own images for the sake of learning ourselves.

So yeah. i am in no way making light of, or ignoring, the fact that the fetishizing that has gone on since its inception isn't a thing (i am not a gay man, i can't speak for their struggles or issues with said fetishizing), but i feel it disingenuous to deny the fact that it, and the people it was/is aimed for have evolved.

There's surely someone out there better qualified, and with more energy than me, to address the other, more problematic side of this whole thing, where it lacks and where it fails, and I wish them all the luck. I'm genuinely just. So happy to see the growth and evolution of it as a whole. It brings me untold joy, and when there are just so many things in the world that aim to take the joy away from our lives, I want to embrace all the things that give it to me.

Now give me more GL stuff lol.

#Thai BL #Boys Love #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQ+ media #asian lgbtq dramas #i am SO SORRY about how long this is #i have so much to saaaaay #i mean im leaving out a bunch of other stuff that brings even more nuance to my argument #like cultural differences #how lgbtq+ rights are being fought over as we speak in the countries that are the leading exporters of BL #and my thoughts on how revolutionary it is that this content IS so popular there and worldwide #and how i want to watch the evolution and growth of this genre and watch how it impacts the fight for those rights #and so much more oh man #someone send me to bed

[lilithfairen]

Also, high recommendation for folks who subbed to Crunchyroll for RWBY that if you want to support female-led, positive-themed, queer-as-heck media with your subscription, High Guardian Spice is a thing you can check out~

It's got adorable friendship, cute art, a cat-girl, a missing mom, a canon trans character, an axe-wielding murder-gremlin in waiting, a goth girl with Reactions to a magical-girl-esque transformation, an egg-in-cracking, and Parsley.

And you can totally binge the whole series during the week before the V9 finale~

#rwby #high guardian spice #crunchyroll #lgbtq+ media

[whysojiminimnida]

Jimin’s dad is an ally.

From Magnate in Busan’s public instagram, posted May 17.

And some folks still think his son and son-in-law are (gasp) straight.

Nahhhh.

I kinda think we all need a dad like Jiminie’s dad.

#jimin #park hyunsoo #magnate busan #magnate #lgbtq+ media #lgbtq+ allies #jimin’s dad #jungkook’s father in law #he's so cool #be like jimin’s dad #be a good human #🌈

[pipedreams13]

Not me rewatching Firebird for what is probably the 13th time and still having my heart shattered

#no movie has ever made me smile this hard while simultaneously breaking my heart this bad #also the symbolism in this fucking scene #like are you fucking kidding me rn. why do you so desperately need to stomp all over my poor heart #i love these two so much its not even funny anymore #firebird #gay #lgbtq+ media #movies #gay movies

[grrlofswirls]

In my final entry for this year's "What You May Have Missed" blog series, I discuss a variety of excellent indie comics and manga that deserve more love! Enjoy!

#My Writing #Comics #LGBTQ+ Media

[liyazaki]

you have my attention 👀 | Aug. 4th

#by the same studio that produced gaya sa pelikula! #rookie #aya fernandez #alyssa valdez #pinoy gl #filipina gl #filipino movie #lesbian #wlw #lgbtq #lgbtq+ movies #lgbtq+ media #anima studios

[dxrlinggxd]

i need sapphic media reccs!!

hi!! i would rlly love to get some recommendations for sapphic media. a book, a show, a book, a graphic novel, a fanfic, anything works!! thank you in advance <3

#sapphic #lesbian #bisexual #pansexual #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtq+ #queer #wlw #wlw media #lgbt media #lgbtq+ media #queer media #queer lit #queer shows #wlw literature #wlw shows #lesbian shows #sapphic media #wlw love #wlw pride #sapphic art #sapphic pride #pride

[freshlybakedfandoms]

i think diary of a future president means so much to me as a tv show because i went through basically the exact same thing bobby did. i dated a guy, realized i was a lesbian, had a crush on my best friend whom i thought was straight but wasn't. seeing that story played out on screen helped me accept myself and come to terms with who i was.

i am also like elena; outspoken, a little bit bossy, gets great grades in school. i had a lot of the same struggles she did with her friends and things changing a lot in middle school, and it allowed me to connect with both cañero-reed siblings.

it's truly a shame that it got cancelled and will eventually fade away because people are no longer watching it, because stories like that are so important to so many young people.

#idk what this is #im rewatching s2 and just. fuck this show was so good #for so many reasons #and i WISH we could've gotten a season three #just one more season to wrap it up #there are so many stories like mine too #of queer kids watching queer media and learing to accept themselves because of it #and these stories are so important to be told #but it is so hard to get that to happen #ilana peña i love you and everything you did with this show #doafp #diary of a future president #bobby cañero reed #elena cañero reed #queer media #lgbtq+ media

[im-some-lionheart]

bro why isn't everybody talking about La Llamada (Holy Camp!)

It's a musical

Directed by actual Queer people (and they're a couple and adorable af!!)

It's camp AS FUCK - like seriously, you think you know camp you don't know camp until you've seen La Llamada

It's on Netflix

It doesn't pass the reverse Bedchel test

Rebellious teen bffs have a band

Lesbian nun

God serenades a girl with Whitney Houston songs

Dance numbers

Lesbian nun rapping

Literal stairway to Heaven

When I tell y'all this is a masterpiece I'm not lying. Stream Holy Camp! this shit SLAPS

#Holy Camp! #Holy Camp #la llamada #lgbtq movies #lgbtq+ media