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Steven Universe got blatantly and unapologetically cancelled by the network because the creators pushed for a lesbian wedding, and instead of going, "oh, fuck, that's incredibly homophobic, we should give Cartoon Network hell for that for the rest of forever, holy shit," everyone collectively decided to blame the crew for "rushing the ending" as if it wasn't completely out of their hands. Fuck's sake.

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Actually yknow what. WTNV should be considered revolutionary and significant gay media that played an important role in the growth of gay representation in media especially in podcasts. When people talk about important gay media in the early 2000s I want wtnv to be one of the ones people talk about. No if ands or buts about it.

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[“Many gay people will say that their families are “fine.” But when you ask for details, this means, basically, that the gay person has not been completely excluded from family events. Or that their partner, if they have one, is allowed in the house. Very few experience their personhood, lives, and feelings to be actively understood as equal to the heterosexual family members. Often parents or siblings keep the person’s homosexuality secret from others, or euphemize it. They vote for politicians who hurt gay people; they contribute to religious organizations that humiliate gay people; they patronize cultural products that depict gay people as pathological. They speak and act in ways that reinforce the idea of gay people as “special interest.” In many ways the message is clear that the gay person is not fully human. But because many gay people know others who have been more severely punished by their family’s prejudices, they look on their own continued compromised inclusion to be miraculously positive and a product of their own correct behavior.”]

sarah schulman, ties that bind: familial homophobia and its consequences

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Favorite moments from The Penumbra Podcast: Murderous Mask live show

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Fatphobia in the gay men's community is uh. Rampant and i don't think people really address it that much because thin people don't think it's an issue and fat people are never taken seriously (often because they're fat!!).

Y'all will call any skinny buff man with a bit of chest hair a bear, then label the actual bears as "creepy" or "ugly" if you don't just flat-out ignore their existence.

Y'all will be like "i love men's tits" until a fat man exists and suddenly it's all "we can't promote such an unhealthy lifestyle, because being unhealthy is bad" pretending to care about us while simultaneously calling us undesirable and linking moral weight to physical weight.

Apparently it's completely impossible to show support for fat gay men without being fetishistic about it and i'm fucking sick of it. Do better. i'm not holding you at gunpoint telling you to find every fat man hot. i'm asking you sternly to treat us like human beings. It's not that hard.

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Interview With Jamison Green. Originally posted on Youtube, by Dr. Lindsey Doe.

TRANSCRIPT: [Jamison Green sitting on a couch, being interviewed by Dr. Doe. He is wearing a suit shirt and a black jacket, and has a grey beard.] JAMISON: When I first transitioned, I thought I was going to go get a sex change, then go home and mow my lawn. I did not ever imagine that my life would change at all, because already people- at least half the time, sometimes more- thought I was male. And so, I figured nothing was going to change, I would just feel more comfortable in my body. I realised that there were all these other people out there who were living in fear and shame, because of their differences. And I thought, that is not right. And so I said to them, I’m going to start using my full name in public, and I’m going to start talking about who we are. Don’t be afraid to change in all kinds of ways. Your self can change. [Jamison and the interviewer high-five.] INTERVIEWER: I’m impressed by what you’ve done. JAMISON: Thank you. END TRANSCRIPT.

Jamison Green was born in 1948. He came out as a trans man the late 1980s and made his transition public, for the benefit of others. He has been an activist since then, and led the FTM community after Lou Sullivan's death.

His contributions to trans rights have been largely erased by mainstream narratives around trans history.

Mr. Green wrote the book Becoming a Visible Man, exploring his experiences as a bisexual trans guy, his relationships with lovers and family, and his struggle to transition. He was involved in the 2012 documentary TRANS, where he advocated on behalf of trans people, and discussed his experiences with being s*xually assaulted.

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You ever think about how The Producers ends with the two male leads literally walking into the sunset together, and it’s played totally unironically? And less than ten minutes before that they sing a tender ballad about how much they mean to each other, and it’s played totally unironically? And these two male leads are supposed to be Just Friends?

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Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (deleted scene)

Seriously though, this scene. WHY DID THEY DELETE THIS SCENE?

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H. Melt, “There Are Trans People Here” (2021)

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kath and kim s01ep02 “gay” (2002)

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how do you guys ignore or not realize that stede is just as sad and lost and passively suicidal and exhausted as ed is. he's given up on everything. his last hope in his life to feel any kind of happiness was to go out to sea and even there was tormented by his guilt of leaving his family behind. he was told his crew were planningto mutiny - to quite literally murder or abandon him; leave him in the sea to drown for all they care. this all just confirmed that he IS a failure - that his father and his bullies were right: he can't do anything right, he is a disappointment, just a lily-livered good for nothing rich boy. of course he couldn't answer whether he wanted to live or die when olu asked him.

and contrary to popular belief, i dont think his healing arc is over. i think it's just beginning. he is finally free but he still doesn't know who he is. he has to find himself now, has to get comfortable with who he is and what he's done. a big part of his guilt is gone (abandoning his family) - but that doesn't mean hes totally free of it. he still has to face and fight so many aspects of his past. he has to overcome his selfishness, his self-loathing.

the stede bonnet who was held down by societal expectations and weighted down by guilt has died at the end of s1.

the stede bonnet who was freed can just only now begin his real healing and journey of self discovery.

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Looney Tunes: Back in Action dir. Joe Dante (2003) | “Therapy” by All Time Low | screenshot of a discord message I wrote dissecting Bugs Bunny’s emotional detachment reflected in his characterisation and marketing materials over the years | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | Feud: Bette and Joan s1ep7 “Abandoned!” dir. Ryan Murphy (2017) | Eric Goldberg on Daffy Duck in “Bang Crash Boom!” behind the scenes featurette for Back in Action | Matt Groening’s preface to Jones’ memoir Chuck Amuck | Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

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To a homophobe, even the most chaste kiss on the cheek between gay people is exactly as disgusting and degenerate as a hardcore BDSM orgy hosted in the town square, so you may as well ally with the BDSM orgy enthusiasts to throw bricks at the cops who are going to try and arrest all of you together anyway.

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I'm actually wheezing this is so fucking funny

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stede bonnet really looked at this face and thought "he's obviously just trying to make me feel better about how i ruined his life"