#gay rep

[matan4il]

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.

#black sails #blacksails #james flint #Thomas Hamilton #thomas x james #james x thomas #flinthamilton #james mcgraw #captain james flint #pride #gay #biseuxal #gay representation #gay rep #lgbtq #lgbt #gay character #bisexuality #queer #mm

[roadhogsbigbelly]

something that’s frustrating about gay representation is that there’s this expectation that the only purpose of gay rep is to normalize gay people existing and because homophobia still exists it means gay rep has FAILED and that the years of lgbt movies, shows, books was worthless. when like no most famous gay media HAS had a positive affect on gay rights, they just didn’t change the hearts of every homophobe cause some straight people are so heartless nothing will change their minds but also expecting every story with gay characters to be PURELY for straight people that haven’t made up their minds on weather or not gay people should live in kind of insulting, as if gay characters can’t exist so that OTHER GAY people can be entertained.

#lgbt #gay rep

[qbdatabase]

I’m sorry to ask, but are there any gay pirate books? I love a good lady pirate book, but I’m really struggling to find mlm/nblm pirate books :/

YES! and this is a super fun ask to answer, don't worry :)

MLM / NBLM Gay Pirate Books

(YA) The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

(YA) These Rebel Waves by Sara Raasch

Kidnapped by the Pirate by Keira Andrews

Young Men in Love by Joe Glass (MM anthology, includes a pirate story)

Sailing by Orion's Star by Katie Crabb (can only confirm it has pirates and mlm characters)

(YA) The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa (M/NB)

bonus Gay Mermaids

Walking on Water by Matthew J. Metzger

(YA) In Deeper Waters by F. T. Lukens

(YA) Seven Tears at High Tide by C. B. Lee

(YA) Out of the Blue by Jason June (M/NB)

full notes on representation and publishing info at qbdatabase.com

#pirates #gay #mlm #gay rep #nonbinary #nonbinary rep #romance books #lgbtqia #queer books #bookblr #book recs #ask #anon #answered

[thebwarch]

Finished up totally all the episodes in Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix, that animated netflix show that contains a ton of Ubisoft IP in a cyberpunk setting. Show is better than it has any right to be, it's great even for my opinion. I loved this show and these characters.

It is of course enormously adult but everything feels Earned imo in some way. (Be aware, sex, blood, death, you know how this goes) Nothing feels like it was done Just because we're in an adult show and we can do whatever we want now. Plotlines are just cool and great. Every character is just nicely realized.

The animation is incredible and they have a lot of gags of switching up the animation from the main 2D style. The show will go into pixel art, into anime, into FMV sequences for gags and stretches of the show. The movement and look is just, good. I loved how this show was drawn a lot, I want to see more from this studio like this now.

I was personally never really annoyed by almost anything and laughed at a good amount of the jokes, but at least smiling most of the runtime.

It's six episodes long, average 25mins per. Short show, you can crack it out in a day. This show has the best pixel art in a show I've seen so far, I think they got legit pixel artists on this. Puts Sonic Prime to shame.

Okay so like, this is neither a positive or a negative, but they have a couple real life wrestlers show up, like Kenny Omega, and their cameos are kinda ??? Like very short and not particularly impactful or entertaining. I just feel like they coulda used these boys a bit more if they were gonna get them at all.

It's a cyberpunk show and, I think it gets that more than most other cyberpunk media right about now. There are incredibly fucked up fascist things that this show contains and that The Overlords do to citizens. It felt like the writer(s) weren't just saying "Oooo cool glowy city", they had a legit idea about the kind of opression that rampant capitalism and facism would cause and what they wanted to criticize.

Minus maybe oooone franchise, I think all the Ubisoft IP is used really well. I dug what they did with Rayman in this show, and if you've only seem him snorting coke, like, that happens. But there's more to Rayman's story and arc and character in this than just pure shock value. If someone is a fan of multiple Ubisoft IP there's surprising references and characters that show up, it is a show that very much loves Ubisoft's IP. (Ubisoft being a french gamedev and this show being done by a french animation studio.)

Soundtrack was just okay. Functional. Especially comparing it to Cyberpunk Edgerunners, there were A LOT of jams in Edgerunners that I could throw on my spotify playlist. I wouldn't throw a single Captain Laserhawk song on my spotify.

Show is gay. It shows male to male gay explicitly and without hiding it or implying it, a few of these boys are GAY. The main CHARACTER, the PROTAG, is GAY. But it doesn't have any other LGBT letters.

I could feel the Budget at times. Sometimes there would be a freeze frame of animation to end a sequence. But I could mostly just respect what they DID do with what they had.

#bwarch oc #Rayman #Captain Laserhawk #Gay rep #Netflix #Cyberpunk #Adult Animation #Animated show #Animation

[c-nv-s07]

Can't stop won't stop making these

#shitpost #deadloch #eddie redcliffe #dulcie collins #cath york #margaret carruthers #abby matsuda #kate box #madeleine sami #pamela rabe #nina oyama #wlw #gay rep

[chaos-and-freedom]

saw that little leopard print shoe stopping the door total james bond style and i FUCKING KNEWWWWWWW

#trent crimm #ted lasso #season 3 ep 6 #gay rep #colin ted lasso #this bitch gayyyyyy #can't believe i saw him the first time and said gay gay gay #and they made it canon #crying screaming throwing up

[bookshelfmonkey]

queer books for pride month: day 11

Two Boys Kissing- David Levithan

Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ+ Rep.: Gay MCs, trans ftm MC, mlm relationships CW: AIDS, attempted suicide, death, homophobia (inc. violence & slurs), hospitals, illness, abuse (physical, parental), self-harm (mentioned)

Plot: As two boys attempt to break the world record for the longest kiss, they become a focal point for other gay boys navigating coming out, first love, and discrimination.

Why I'd recommend this book: This book both tragic and hopeful but, ultimately, optimism wins out. The look into the past and future of the queer community feels especially relevant to the increasing challenges the queer community have been facing recently. This book can provide a spark of hope for many queer young people.

I'm recommending queer books for each day of pride. If you want recommendations for any specific genres/rep, then let me know :)

#two boys kissing #books #bookblr #reading #queer books #gay books #queer #gay #gay representation #gay rep #my posts #my posts books

[arian-archivist-11]

If I had a coin for every time a popular Netflix series with a gay(mlm) male main character got canceled after two seasons.

I would have 2 coins. And that's weird because it's happened twice.

Also I am going insane with rage Because mlm can never have anything good for long.

Can't even have simply stuff as a queer guy

On my last straw right now

#barney guttman #barney #dead end barney #barney dead end #dead end paranormal park #depp #de:pp #adam #adam the hollow #the hollow adam #the hollow #the hollow netflix #dead end netflix #mlm representation #mlm relationship #lgbt representation #gay representation #gay rep #mlm #gay #gay character #transmasculine #trans male character #im so freaking angry #on my last straw #rage #cartoon

[starwarsbutmakeitgay]

Baymax! is important to me for do many reasons. I will briefly go over the main 2:

1) The representation. Younger trans/queer folk are so incredibly lucky to have the trans guy buying period products & to have Mbita and Yukio. Its such positive rep, its not made into a big deal by the show its shown as normal everyday life. Just a normal guy buying normal profucts. Just a normal romance. I adore it. I get emotional thinking about it. Because if I had that sort of rep, that sort of positive normalisation when I was younger I would’ve been so happy to see people like me.

2) Kiko reminds me of my dauntie. And it makes me emotional. She looks like her and she acts like her and it makes my heart hurt. But I also love it. Kiko’s episode brings me comfort honestly

Giving Disney NONE of the credit for the reasons I like this show. Thank you to the animators who are mostly the ones who push for representation. Thank you so much :)

#baymax is making me cry #i love it sm #thank you animators #thank you #fuck disney #baymax! #bh6 fandom #big hero six #baymax is amazing #trans rep #trans representation #gay representation #gay rep #positive representation

[ilivefordarcy]

IM ALIVE and i want to say im nearing the end of two perfect series and im gonna breakdown :D yay!

#izombie #dead end paranormal park #barney #norma #pugsley #jog x barney #liv moore #ravi izombie #zombies #lgbt representation #trans guy rep #gay rep #wlw #mlm

[matan4il]

Quietly thinking about the fact that Karen in 606 said to Hen, "They don't let people like us go to space," but didn't specify who 'people like us' refers to. Did she mean black people? Women? Queers? All had a role in America's success going into outer space, all were discriminated against at one point or another.

And I'd like to suggest that this was done on purpose. To explain, I wanna expand on something I mentioned briefly in a reply to one of the asks I got: sometimes texts intentionally leave something open to interpretation precisely because they want us to consider all options, and realize that, to one degree or another, they're all true.

It's like one of those bits of dialogue where a character asks another, is it A or is it B? And the other character answers, 'yes.' Except in this case, the 'yes' is found in the writers' intentional silence.

Still in owe that in 911, we get to watch a show so dedicated to serving justice in more than one way for so many different minorities.

#911 meta #911meta #karen wilson #911coc #911 coc #911 #9-1-1 #henren #gay rep #gay representation #gay #lesbian #mm #911onabc #911 on abc #911abc #911 abc

[automnelog]

“why is every gay rep booooring??? why doesn’t it feel the same way as queerbait??” maybe if you stopped comparing lighthearted romcoms with highly dramatic action media that has queer subtext you wouldn’t feel this way. or if you stopped only watching popular and mainstream shows with sanitized rep digestible for a straight audience, or for teenagers, you wouldn’t feel like the representation you’re consuming is boring. 

also please stop using queerbait instead of subtext, it’s annoying

#if you don't like watching teens falling in love with minimal conflict or drama... #maybe don't watch the lighthearted highschool romcom #automnelog #queer #queer media #queer rep #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbt+ #lgbt rep #gay #gay rep #gay representation #lesbian #bi #bisexual

[unionize-aromantically]

Not sure if people here read but if you want a book recommendation I can recommend TJ Klune's book The House in The Cerulean Sea. (his website) (bookshop.org)

It's a story about an orphanage with children with super powers that are considered undesirable and the main character (a middle aged man) is an office worker usually, and he works with orphanages, making sure they run like they're supposed to (which is super restrictive), but he's given a special mission on this orphanage to stay there a while and help decide if it should be shut down. It's full of wholesome atmosphere, and there are also serious topics. Spoilers but there is a bit of romance (between two middle aged men). It's mostly at the end (in the epilogue especially). The author is gay as well.

Searching the book up I found some mention of trans rep and I just want to disclaim that this book is not about that at all so don't expect that.

It's a very highly rated book with an average rating of 4.8/5 on storygraph, 4.41/5 on Goodreads and it has gotten even more praise that you can read on tjklune.com or by reading any review.

The cw's from storygraph are as follows:

Graphic: Child abuse, Xenophobia

Moderate: Fatphobia, Confinement, Body shaming

#ink.post #bookblogging #tj klune #gay books #gay rep #ink.fandom

[qbdatabase]

Any reqs that have a trans man and a gay cis man? (I’ve already read Felix Everlasting)

here's a list of books with trans male MCs / LIs who are gay, mlm, or bisexual who have a romance with gay (or mlm) cis men; titles that are italicized are ones I've read and recommend, as a trans man

Romance

Make a Circle by Elliot Joyce

Cat's Got Your Heart by Jem Zero

(erotica) Vintage Toys for Lucky Boys by G. R. Richards

(YA) Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee (two possible LIs; the cis one is mlm but unknown if specifically gay)

(YA) The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons

(YA) May the Best Man Win by Z. R. Ellor (questioning mlm cis male MC; he previously dated the trans MC but doesn't question if he's bi so much as realizes he likes men)

(YA) Sharing Secrets by Matthew J. Metzger

(MG) On a Summer Night by Gabriel D. Vidrine

(YA) Only on the Weekends by Dean Atta (the trans male LI is in a love triangle with gay cis male MC & gay cis male other LI)

Welcome, Caller by M. Dean Wright (mlm cis male LI)

If I Can Give You That by Michael Grey Bulla

Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Paranormal

Peter Darling by Austin Chant

(YA graphic novel) The Watcher's Test by Hamish Steele

(YA) The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson

(YA) Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

(YA) The Witch King by H. E. Edgmon

Of the Wild by Elizabeth Wambheim (asexual mlm cis male MC)

(MG) The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas (mlm cis male LI)

(YA) Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot

Mystery / Thrillers

(YA) A Fine Bromance by Christopher Hawthorne Moss (asexual mlm cis male LI)

Horror

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Blackwater by Jeanette Arroyo (mlm cis male MC)

Historical

The Doctor's Discretion by E. E. Ottoman

(YA) The Nightland Express by J. M. Lee (fantasy-western)

Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen (fantasy-western; MC is questioning 1st book, transitions 2nd book)

full notes on representation and publishing info at qbdatabase.com

#trans rep #transgender #gay #mlm #gay rep #lgbtqia #queer books #bookblr #book recs #romance books #ask #anon #answered

[exammole]

Wattpad self promo: App Academy 🤭🤭🤭

Premise is literally app fanfiction (Chrome x Tumblr) on Wattpad

Highschool au - lgbt rep (male x male) - ZERO smut - ZERO bully x victim trope 🤮 - drama - planned angst and fluff - TW for homophobia, bullying and light swearing, more TW’s will be added later on - mature tag on - planned chapter release is every month, though likely to be inconsistent

Synopsis: Tumblr and Chrome get paired up together for a Modern History assignment. Story follows them hanging out and researching for the project, while outside drama with other apps feed into their relationship

One chapter is currently published called Login, 866 words - total amount of chapters remains unknown - no official planning YET - link is here

#app academy #wattpad #wattpad fanfiction #fanfiction #fanfic #my fic #fiction #original story #original #original characters #original art #my artwork #do not steal art #please repost #self promo #self promotion #apps #google chrome #tumblr #gay rep #male x male #gay #homosexual #bisexual #asexual #ocs #my ocs #original ocs #high school #highschool au

[sams-special-space]

2023 Reads: The Sky Blues by Robbie Couch

Genre: Fiction: Contemporary  Age Level: Young Adult  Format: Novel

Summary: Sky Baker is going all out for prom, and has a list of promposal ideas on his wall in his room. He plans to ask out his crush, Ali- because even though he's tried to keep himself invisible, he's determined for his senior year to end with a bang.

But then someone leeks a picture of his wall, and sends out a e-blast that's equal parts homophobic and racist. And now it's up to Sky, Ali, and the rest of their friends to figure out who did it before the countdown till prom ends.

Thoughts: I was surprised by how much I loved this one! Outing narratives are pretty hit or miss for me(though Sky isn't outed, the premise is similar), and the book summary didn’t pull me in. But after a bit of a rough start(I just wasn’t interested at first), I was able to get really into it, and I think this is probably one of my favorite reads of the year. Sky is such a sweet teenager and I loved his heart. His struggle with the question of if his dead dad would have supported him being gay hit me really close- I adored how that plot line was concluded.

All the characters felt full of heart, and I loved the eventual romance Sky had. I also love how he didn’t get with his crush at the beginning, but instead fostered a close friendship with him! I appreciate the handling of racism as well, and the solidarity shown between different minorities. I think it’s just a really cute read! The plot threads were wrapped up nicely too. Sky my beloved <3

Rating: 5/5  Trigger warnings: Homophobia, racism(specifically anti-Iraqi), past car accident, and past death of a parent.  Rep: Gay MC, mlm romance, Black SC, Iraqi SC, trans SC, autistic SC, and gay SCs.

#novel #contemporary #the sky blues by robbie couch #book reviews #queer rep #gay rep #side iraqi rep #side poc rep #this is so cute :) #fiction #side trans rep #2023 reads #side autistic rep