#Black Queer Representation | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

gisellelivesunderabook · 2 months

Text

Here are some books by black queer authors!! Happy Black History Month!!!

🖤❤️💛💚

#lgbt pride #lgbt representation #lgbtqa #queer community #lgbt books #queer books #queer writers #queerrep #bookworm #black history month #black queer representation

112 notes · View notes

tani-b-art · 2 years

Text

P-Valley, from day one, has given Black queer representation in just about every spectrum! From gay, to lesbian, to bisexual! There's non-binary representation! And in this latest episode (S2E4), they gave us two very intimate and beautiful moments/scenes from two Black femme women and two Black masculine men. I gotta emphasize that these two Black masculine men are tatted up and burly...representation from Black gay men on tv this way is very unexplored.

What was so beautiful about it was each scene showed us how much we need to be there for each other. In sisterhood and brotherhood. As Black women with other Black women and Black men with other Black men. And the tenderness and softness that was expressed through words and contact (touch) was done so, so well.

#Pvalley #P-Valley #Black queer representation #Black love #queer #BLGBTQ #LGBTQ #bisexual #lesbian #gay #Black and queer #Katori Hall #lgbtqia #the writing on this show!#Demethrius #same-sex couples #p valley

412 notes · View notes

mrsblackruby · 1 year

Text

My Favorite Character In Goncharov (1973)

‘Theodore Campbell’

Theodore is played by a black female actress but the character’s gender is never specified in the movie.

The biggest role Theodore’s character plays in the movie’s events is when goncharov is in need of assistance from a well endowed criminal who knows their way around the world without laws.

Theodore had to learn how to survive the underground on their own. They grew up in a world where the law was always out for their family so Theodore adapted. And now Theodore has made a name for themselves in a world full of lawbreakers. if something’s brewing in Paradise bet your ass Theodore knows about it. But are they in a good mood to share what they know?

I guess everyone forgot about the A+ diversity this movie had in it making it way ahead of it’s time. So here’s an appreciation post for the very gender neutral coded Theodore Campbell.

So hear me out we all remember the morally gray black anti-hero in goncharov now right. I sure do.

173 notes · View notes

blackfemmecharacterdependency · 10 months

Text

They Should Have Never Given You the Word “Queerbait”

It’s been 5 years and I’m still thinking about this, so now I am going to vent a bit. I hate when there is a Black female protagonist who is queer coded and seemingly in a slow burn setting, and the viewers flag it as queerbait and disengage.

I feel like I have seen so many shows where people can take a character who is never even suggestively queer and nit pick even the smallest glimmers to validate reading them as such and they will be able to ship and create and support all of the ways this is a queer character and trust the writers to possibly give more.

But, when there are Black women in these areas, it falls down as soon as they aren’t given overt displays of wlw actions. I said its been 5 years, because I’m specifically thinking about Kiss Me First, but I also want to hit on Crazyhead, while I’m here because I feel like it got paid the same treatment in this regard. And both of those shows had such good writing, and as a Black queer woman WITH mental illness, both of these characters spoke to me and seeing them have potential for love stories for wlw stories was so rewarding, only to see the journey get bashed and the shows get cancelled.

So. Let me talk a minute. Starting with Kiss Me First. If you haven’t already watched it, you probably aren’t going to, so I’m not sparing potential “spoilers,” as I’ve said, its been 5 years.

Kiss Me First centers around this dynamic of an orphan, Leila, who recently lost her mom and is getting attached to a woman, Tess, that she met in this computer universe, who she also has befriended irl. Leila and Tess start off with some mystery, as you can’t tell what Tess’ intentions are for this woman, but you see very early on that Leila doesn’t necessarily trust people that are in Tess’ life. When Leila realizes that the person who Tess seems to care about the most is a dangerous and manipulative person, she does everything that she can to protect her.

The criticisms of the show were that people were “queerbaited” with the relationship between them because of the romantic and sexual relationships that these characters had with men and not with each other...

This is what is frustrating to me: So much of this series is realistic, INCLUDING the story arcs where these women are in relationships with men that don’t really serve them best. Real life queer people frequently have relationships with partners that they don’t really belong with before finding the love that they had been seeking. But, the moment it happens in media, especially with a Black woman, it is unbearable for audiences. They gotta see her eating box, or it ain’t real.

And it’s aggravating, because there is this fairy tale happening in which Leila literally is on a quest to save Tess. She knows that this guy is dangerous and her entire goal becomes making sure she rescues Tess from him. He lifts Tess on a pedestal and makes her feel like she is the most important person, but he is actually an abuser and preying upon this group that idolizes him, so Leila spends episodes working to get Tess out of his grasp.

In the end, they aren’t IN a queer relationship, but she has absolutely freed Tess and Tess is helping her to escape being framed by the enemy. They are “friends,” but if you have a queer eye, and are not racist, you’d be able to see that this is and was the entire time a fucking love story between these two women! If anything, they tossed in some dudes for the straights to pay attention. I’m livid every time somebody suggests that Kiss Me First is queerbait. To you, but not my Black, gay, bipolar ass. I loved it. I wanted to see them flourish. I wanted to be given the payoff, yes. But, I loved being able to see a beautiful love story between two fucked up people who were side by side at the end.

This happened in Crazyhead, as well.

Raquel is a target for an apocalypse and do you know how Amy saved her and the world? By telling her she loved her and giving her a kiss that brought her back from the brink of destruction...

Now... I will admit, the writers did a “no homo” type thing at the end... but the homo in me seen the homo in thee, so I wasn’t bothered by that.

I just think that it is an unfair measurement, to expect everything to be served up for you in order to support representation, and not being able to detect subtext or to envision the potential coding shows a huge amount of privilege. I adore the fact that so much queer content as of late gets spoonfed to you, but I also enjoy a slow burn, and it’s not right that Black queer women rarely get one because you give up if there’s not an automatic tonguing and huge declarations. And in the cases of these two shows, there were very clear expressions of love and several moments of intimacy, but I guess they needed to trib for true love.

Anyways, I love Kiss Me First and Crazyhead, and I consider them representation FOR ME.

#Kiss Me First #Tess x Leila #Crazyhead #Raquel x Amy #Nesha Rants #black queer representation #black female characters #commentary #Tess KMF #Raquel Francis #Simona Brown #Susan Wokoma #Disability Pride Month

47 notes · View notes

superduperkas · 2 years

Text

A League of Their Own is pleasantly a lot blacker and queerer than I originally anticipated

Heck yeah

221 notes · View notes

astronautbree · 1 year

Text

Yes, yes I did. 💕🖖🏾💫

#seven of nine #raffi musiker #star trek picard #barbie #barbie movie #lgbtq characters #black queer representation #Barbie x picard #saffi #seven of nine x raffi #raffi x seven

21 notes · View notes

orionsangel86 · 9 months

Text

I like how in this era of excellent queer TV to replace the SuperWhoLock era, each light hearted comedy show of the trio has a dark queer mirror. Black Sails is to Our Flag Means Death, as Interview With The Vampire is to What We Do In The Shadows, just as The Sandman is to Good Omens.

I do find it odd how in each pairing its the supposed light hearted comedy show that has emotionally devastated its audience so far though...

#good omens #the sandman #ofmd #our flag means death #black sails #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #iwtv #interview with the vampire #the key words here are 'so far'#queer representation #lgbtq representation #i absolutely love it #each of these shows have me in a bit of a chokehold #some more than others #but still its a great time for queer tv

1K notes · View notes

elsie-dee · 8 months

Text

Can I just take a moment to give a big shoutout to Neil, Pterry and the team for REPRESENTATION!

It’s so natural in the show that we almost take it for granted. But in this world, we see characters of every race, every gender, every sex, every sexuality, every ability as if it’s the most normal thing in the world. Women have agency. Sex workers are treated with respect. Hooligans use Grindr. Middle-aged+ people are sexy. No-one ever jeers or laughs or demeans someone for what they ARE, just how they’re behaving.

And with a couple of exceptions, these characters aren’t the Hollywood ideal of beauty, but they ARE all beautiful in their own unique ways. Even demons and zombies with rotting faces and mouths full of flies. Everyone just shines from inside out.

#good omens #go2 #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #lgbt representation #queer representation #black representation #disability representation #feminist #trans representation #representation matters

1K notes · View notes

the-bi-library · 2 months

Text

Happy Black History Month! Here are upcoming bi black books! Make sure to preorder the ones that interest you!

Did I miss any books? If yes, then, feel free to let me know 💖

Books listed:

The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste

Saint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga #2) by Brittany N. Williams

Dear Bi Men: A Black Man's Perspective on Power, Consent, Breaking Down Binaries, and Combating Erasure by J.R. Yussuf

We Will Devour The Night (The Essence of the Equinox, #2) by Camilla Andrew

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call by Jamison Shea

A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins

The 7-10 Split by Karmen Lee

464 notes · View notes

thebroadwaybi · 11 months

Text

J. HARRISON GHEE A N D ALEX NEWELL WON IN THEIR CATEGORIES AT THE TONY'S TONIGHT

I REPEAT

Both BLACK NON BINARY ACTORS NOMINATED IN THEIR CATEGORIES

WON THE TONY AWARDS IN THE SAME NIGHT

1K notes · View notes

melancholyofautvmn · 2 years

Text

hbo max, it's pride month now. surely as a gift for the gays you're going to announce the news of an ofmd season 2 renewal??

7K notes · View notes

matan4il · 11 months

Text

On this Pride Month I would just like to say that Black Sails really made all of its four seasons and 38 episodes into an expression of gay rage against homophobic brutality and the unbearable loss of love, especially in that tragic context, and that’s still one of the most breathtaking things that any TV show has done, ever.

743 notes · View notes

mrsblackruby · 2 years

Text

Give me more black dark skinned characters who are less Palatable to the mainstream. Who are angry mad at the system and want it to burn. Who are morally ambiguous.

#black representation #black queer representation #black tumblr #byronic hero #my politics #I kinda hate the film industry💀

21 notes · View notes

blackfemmecharacterdependency · 1 month

Text