@guujiyaoi@buckIeydiaz for me the essentials are - Carol, Portrait of a Lady on Fire (not “happy” but not tragic), Maurice, Beautiful Thing, Latter Days, Shelter, Boys (2014), God’s Own Country, The Way He Looks, and My Beautiful Launderette.
@guujiyaoi@buckIeydiaz there are also a ton of queer films with happy or otherwise open endings. if it was 2006, sure, i could understand this complaint. but it’s 2026. there are sooooo many non-tragic LGBTQ films out there if you just look for them. we still need both tragic and non-tragic movies btw.
@john_5554@ChrisDStedman @DJRummel it’s also a gender-neutral, all-inclusive term that can be used to describe our community. i totally understand the fear, but there’s no logic in removing it from our lexicon when we regularly ID ourselves with other words like “gay” that have also been used as slurs against us.
@john_5554@ChrisDStedman @DJRummel i can understand why you’d be triggered by the term but many LGBTQ ppl feel that by reclaiming the word they take away it’s power as a slur (and they’re right). “gay” has been used as a slur just as often as “queer,” yet we use that word to ID ourselves every day, so.
@zone_arcadia@NotABigJerk@lmNOTcatholic i firmly believe that’s the case for some folks here too. my parents rejected me after i came out & at first i thought it was just religious bigotry. but a friend of mine suggested that they likely also resented me having the freedom and courage to be myself when they never did.
@muskmagazine in my experience it often means the person is conservative or far-right. but i have also seen a lot of progressives using it recently as a way of reclaiming it. in a rural area chances are it means conservative but you never know!
@MsPicklesP replacing a statue of a traitor to this country doesn’t “replace history.” we can easily learn about Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in a museum, in a textbook, or online. the purpose of a statue is to glorify. and in this country we don’t glorify defenders of human slavery.
@ckgarcia07 @Zach__Frank @buttafingaz_ i think that is definitely part of it, but internalized homophobia is too. again, we’ve been conditioned to see femininity in men as an undesirable thing, and to believe that all gay men are feminine. neither of these things is true.
@Quantum_Witcher @Zach__Frank @buttafingaz_ which is stupid because there are plenty of “masc” gay men as well. i think it’s partly internalized homophobia. we’ve been conditioned to see gay men as “feminine” and inferior to/less desirable than masculine straight men. these guys take advantage of that fallacy.
@orangeribena@LeagueOnPrime and the detractors weren’t going to be swayed by this show anyway. their minds were already made up. this wasn't made for them. they are perfectly free to continue living in an insular world, watching shows featuring all straight/white casts. god knows there are plenty of those.
@orangeribena@LeagueOnPrime you’re gaslighting. virtue signaling implies moral grandstanding. the creators aren’t doing that. they believe representation matters. they followed through by focusing on stories of queer/POC women. just bc something is inclusive doesn’t mean it’s preachy or grandstanding.
@orangeribena@LeagueOnPrime the work absolutely speaks for itself. it might feel “preachy” or “woke” to you because we have *rarely* seen a mainstream show that dares to focus more on the stories of queer women and POC than on str8 white women. but it’s not preachy. it’s simply inclusive.