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What is happening right now too Mike Faist needs to happen to more Broadway boys who are still primarily only known in the theater community.

The international sluttification of Broadway boys is something that can be so beautiful to witness.

#mike faist #challengers #luca you have plenty of newsies and mormons to choose from #but i hope you do isaac powell next #luca guadagnino #gay stuff #broadway #newsies #dead evan hansen

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Just started Dead Boy Detectives... oh Edwin, the gay little bitch representation we needed. I love him.

#dead boy detectives #edwin payne #charles rowland #sandman #dc comics

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Keiynan Lonsdale

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Via @nickhornbyartist on Instagram

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aliceosemanart: Happy Birthday Charlie Spring!!! 🥳🎈🍂🌈🥁

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Connor Jessup

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Keiynan Lonsdale

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HEARTSTOPPER (2022-) Season 2, Episode 1: Out

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aliceosemanart: Haven’t been drawing much lately but thought i should check in with them!! Looks like they’re doing okay so i guess i should try drawing something else soon 😮‍💨

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It makes so much sense that Jay Gatsby is about to be played by the most beautiful man in the world.

(no I'm not talking about Jeremy Jordan you fools)

#the great gatsby #broadway #musical #isaac powell #isaac cole powell #gay men #beautiful men

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Just wanted to point out that my last post is in no way meant to be offensive to August. I low-key think August is the most interesting and most well developed character in the show. I would totally watch a King August spin-off. A show about a young king with so many issues to unpack would be deliciously shakespearean.

#young royals #august #august horn of årnäs #malte gårdinger #malte gardinger

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The most realistic thing in Young Royals is the ending. I fully believe that someone would give up the throne of Sweden and leave it in the hands of a toxic fool just to be able to stare into Omar Rudberg’s eyes.

#young royals #omar rudberg #edvin ryding #netflix #gay love #gay boys

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I just finished the last season of Young Royals, which I adored. Truly one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. It also… kind of made me think of something. I’m sure people have brought this up before but I’ve never really seen this take anywhere, and if you can recommend anyone who wrote about it better than I’m about to I’d be eternally grateful, because it’s something that I find truly fascinating and I’m sure I won’t be able to fully explain what I mean.

What I was thinking is that… openly queer storytelling in mainstream media has never gone through, and will never go through the kind of archetypal, sometimes naïve storytelling that straight love stories often went through up until six or seven decades ago, simply because today’s audiences do not understand archetypes and look for twists and turns that simply don’t belong in traditional cinematic fairy tales.

I recently completed a rewatch of the whole Disney canon and maybe it’s the combination of a modern fairy tale like Young Royals and the recent memory of all those Disney classics that made me really think about this, because what I mean is that something that is as archetypal (maybe naïve) in its storytelling as, say, the original 1937 Snow White has never been made and will never be made about a gay couple.

Of course we’ve had queer comedies and fairy tales. But even without bringing up something like Young Royals, which was always intended to have mature themes and adult situations, you have things like Heartstopper or Red White and Royal Blue which, while generally more lighthearted and romanticized, also don’t shy away from more or less complex psychological themes.

Which is a GOOD THING, because writing something as straightforward and rooted in archetypal tradition as Snow White would not make sense nowadays, unless it’s experimental. I’m thoroughly convinced that each era has its own distinctive storytelling requirements that make sense in the cultural context in which they were developed, even though they can still be appreciated by new generations when understood within that cultural context.

At the same time… I find it really sad that queer stories will never experience that kind of storytelling simply because when that storytelling made actual cultural sense, our stories simply were not allowed to be told.

I’m not saying that that kind of storytelling is better than what we have now, it had its problems both by an artistic and an ethical point of view, even though I think there’s a conversation to be had about how modern audiences seem not to have a grasp on the concept of archetypes and contextualization and seem not to understand that not everything needs to be analysed through the lenses of modern sensibilities.

But at the same time… straight love stories get to have that history. Gay love stories don’t. I don’t want a gay Snow White in the style of the 1937 animated movie to be made now, but I wish such a story could have been allowed to exist back when it was actually culturally relevant, so that we could also have that kind of history behind our modern stories.

I love Wille and Simon. I love Charlie and Nick. I love exploring the complications, turmoil and realistic emotions of their love stories. I wish I could have had those stories when I was a teen. But I also wish that gay people could have been allowed to believe in true love’s first kiss.

#young royals #red white and royal blue #heartstopper #fairy tales #fairytale #gay stuff #gay love #gay art #gay history

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Omar Rudberg & Edvin Ryding YOUNG ROYALS FOREVER (2024)