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#young royals #wilhelm x simon

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Hi.

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What the hell are we going to do?

#young royals #simon x wilhelm #wilhelm x simon #lgbtq

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wilhelm + crush behaviour

#young royals #young royals netflix #simon x wilhelm #lgbtq

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when simon was there to hold wilhelm… and when he wasn’t

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This account is now a Young Royals stan account

#young royals #wilhem x simon #lgbtq

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shot out to whoever heard the news about Elliot Page and immediately corrected his pronouns on Wikipedia.....God works hard but Wikipedia editors work harder apparently

#trans rights #trans rights are human rights #elliot page #he/they

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In light of the #TheySilencedThem/#SomethingToSay movement brought forth by the poor representation of marginalized groups in the media, I thought I would revisit a classic in LGBT media representation: The Celluloid Closet.

Some disclaimers: I am not an expert on LGBT+ studies. I am a proud member of the LGBT+ community but I have never formally studied this topic. All of my opinions have come from engaging with other members of the community, finding and analyzing media resources, and reading journal articles (lol I’m a science grad student, could you tell?).

Even more disclaimers: this movement is not just about LGBT+ representation. It is about the representation of marginalized groups including LGBT+, POC, disabled, women etc.

My boyfriend and I decided to rewatch The Celluloid Closet last night and see what has changed and what hasn’t changed a generation after the documentary came out. We both agreed that there is more LGBT+ visibility in the media which is great. But we also agreed that visibility does not equate to good representation. Tragic endings are still the norm. Negative tropes are still popular. Stories beyond our sexualities are still few and far between.

For those who feel that we should be grateful for the visibility we have been “gifted”, I implore you to consider the matter more deeply. Including LGBT+ characters is the first step in good representation, but it is not the last. The stories and their legacies are what separate mere existence in stories from good representation.

Here are some select quotes from both the book and the documentary that I thought were thought-provoking.

The Celluloid Closet - Vito Russo (1995)

The root of heterosexual fear of male homosexuality is in the fact that anyone might be gay. Straight men aren't threatened by a flamboyant f*gg*t because they know they aren't like that; they're threatened by a guy who's just like they are who turns out to be queer.

Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love are seen as stories about the individual people they portray. This is as much a problem today for American filmmakers who cannot conceive of the presence of gay characters in a film unless the specific subject of the film is homosexuality. Lesbians and gay men are thereby classified as purely sexual creatures, people defined solely by their sexual urges.

American society has willfully deleted the fact of homosexual behavior from its mind, laundering things as they come along, in order to maintain a more comfortable illusion. The censors removed it; the critics said, "Well, look! It isn't there"; and anyone who still saw it was labeled a pervert

The Celluloid Closet (1995)

Richard Dyer:

Most expressions of homosexuality in most of movies are indirect. And what's interesting about that is of course that is what it was like to express homosexuality in life, that we could only express ourselves indirectly, just as people on the screen could only express themselves indirectly. And the sense in which the characters are in the closet, the movie is in the closet and we are in the closet.

Susie Bright:

[on Johnny Guitar] It's amazing how if you're a gay audience and you're accustomed to crumbs, how you will watch an entire movie just to see somebody wear an outfit that you think means that they are homosexual. The whole movie can be a dud, but you're just sitting there waiting for Joan Crawford to put on her black cowboy shirt again.

Tony Curtis:

Movies are part of my life. Part of everybody’s life. That’s where we learn about life.

Lily Tomlin:

Hollywood, that great maker of myths, taught straight people what to think about gays and gay people what to think about themselves.

Lily Tomlin:

For all its efforts, the production code didn’t erase homosexuals from the screen. It just made them harder to find. And now they had a new identity, as cold-blooded villains.

Harvey Fierstein:

There are lots of needs for art. The greatest one is the mirror of our own lives and our own existence. And, that hunger that I felt as a kid looking for gay images was to not be alone.

Harvey Fierstein:

I like the sissy. Um, is it used in negative ways? Yeah, but my view has always been, visibility at any cost. Um, I’d rather had negative than nothing.

#keep the conversation going #bury your gays is the trope i grew up with #tragic endings were the endings i grew up with #the celluloid closet #lgbtq+ community #spn #spn 15 #supernatural #somethingtosay #theysilencedthem #theywillneversilenceus

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After careful consideration and analysis of both “Dead Man’s Blood” (1x20) and “Carry On” (15x20) I think I finally have answers about why Jenny was in the finale.

I present:

#supernatural #15x20 #carry on #very important read #spn 15x20 #spn 1x20 #spn spoilers #spn #spn 15

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And it looks like things are settling down on tumblr after the supernatural fiasco- wait what’s this?? YURI ON ICE WITH A STEEL CHAIR?!?!?

#yoi #yoi to the rescue #yuri on ice #yuri!!! on ice #ice adolescence

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🚨 YURI ON ICE MOVIE TEASER HAS DROPPED PEOPLE 🚨

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If anyone wants to help with dinging the US CW early, even if plans on the long term hard-haul won’t hit till this weekend, please do the following:

- Unfollow the US CW accounts. SPN, or whatever ones you follow. Like right now. All of them. Every platform.

- Stop streaming it immediately. If you’re one of those people that only use netflix for SPN, cancel it, right now, and in the option box to explain why, tell them the deletion of queer content in the US version of Supernatural that was allowed in other countries.

- Stop engaging on any official hashtags on any major media (IG, FB, TWT). Or anything even official-adjacent. SPN, Supernatural, SPNfamily, WinchestersForever, etc. CastielForever is currently housing the LGBT fundraising so continue using it if you must but ONLY that one. That alone is a rebellion statement but once that fundraising is over, desist immediately.

- Only purchase things from fanartists, discontinue swag, conventions, etc. 

- Start replacing official hashtags with #rancidnutwork and #theysilencedyou

- reblog this post, don’t just like, make sure everyone gets on board.

- Stay tuned to the blog for the drop this weekend on how we start hitting the CW on their advertising. Do not go rogue on this. Wait for centralized messaging and signaling. This has to be done meticulously or it’ll fail. Just… wait for it. It’s coming. We’re working on it. Have been for a while.

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Man, I’m so f*cking sick of gay tragedies.

I’m already living a gay tragedy I don’t need to see it on tv.

#im fine #im just being dramatic #destiel is real #destiel will always be real to me #spn spoilers #spn #spn 15 #destiel #spoilers #supernatural #deancas #spn 15 spoilers

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Tired of bury your gays and unreciprocated queer love?

Go watch Yuri on Ice!

They managed to give a canon gay couple a happy ending even while dealing with heavy LGBTQ+ censorship in Japan.

It’s feel-good and I think we all need that right now 🏳️‍🌈❤️

#yuri on ice #viktuuri #victuri #yoi #not spn #but tagging spn to help distract from that clusterfuck #spn #spn 15 #destiel #supernatural #deancas

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I understand, sort of, what Dabb was trying to do...

However, as a gay man I am devastated and offended.

I think this episode should’ve been the one called ‘Despair’.

#spn spoilers #spn #spn 15 #spoilers #supernatural #spn 15 spoilers #spn 15x20 #carry on

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#spn #spn 15 #spn spoilers #spn 15x20 #carry on #dabb #supernatural #spoilers #well... i get the overall character themes but that episode was shit