Jim Queen? More like, Jim P*mp!
This film is so problematic, from it‘s nearly complete lack of female characters to its portrayal of sexual assault. It makes itself clear that it is not queer but simply gay (men only).
The drag character (who was insulted at being addressed as madam) explains to us that this film has no interest in being LGBTQ+, they simply state that this is the G only. Gay white men is all this film is interested in portraying, along with a token black woman character who is insulted and sexually assaulted by Jim (he kisses her without consent and stares lasciviously at her breasts). Women are objects in this film, either back ground decoration or pieces of cellulite.
Additionally, there is no mention of trans men at all! In fact when Jim becomes more and more heterosexual, he repeatedly say „vagina“, reducing all people with vaginas to women. This is anti-queer and reduces trans men to women.
The framing of children was vile, all the children that are shown in this film are shown as disgusting. Eg a girl was shown picking her nose while her eyes were staring in different directions with a gay man who kept wanting children. Later in a pizza parlour, there was a child who also looked a mess and was eating food disgustingly, the child was drawn in a cruder way than the adults. The movie makes it clear that gay men are meant to find children disgusting. The worst part? These children look like they are possibly disabled, which added a level of ableism to the whole film that was bigoted. The film explicitly tells us that gay men find children disgusting, while forgetting that in the real world, gay men have fought so hard to be able to adopt children and give them a loving home.
Sexual assault: the scene were Lucien was strapped to the chair in the doctors office was assault. This is glossed over by the film, Lucien was not framed as being traumatised or upset, only at Jim. He quickly gets over it all when reunited with Jim later. Jim did nothing to redeem his trust. When handling sexual assault and attempted r^pe in films, it is essential never to frame it from the r^pist‘s view point, the film does this multiple times, we see Lucien‘s bare bum with the instrument. It’s vile, degrading and triggering for people who have experienced sexual assault.
The villain: of course the villain was the only older woman in a position of power in this film. Statistically, women are far more accepting of LGBTQ+ people than men (I am NOT saying that women cannot be homophobic, what I am saying is the male creator’s purposely chose the only homophobe in the film to be an older woman). This all suggests that women in positions of power are dangerous and should not be given access to these kind of places. Where was the male president? Why was he not stopping this? As if the health minister can just run a mock over politics. Her final scene on screen shows her being blown away and the creators decided to up-skirt her. This is degrading! Women are fighting so hard to make up skirting recognised as the crime that it is.
The showing of drug users as dangerous and disgusting is another outdated trope. In the drug den, we see emaciated naked men, shown as disgusting in contrast with the „acceptable“ gay characters, such as Jim. They are shown as less than human, rather than the victims of a system that has robbed them of their bodies.
The ending: from the start it is made clear that this film is pro-prostitution and pornography. Jim Queen acts as an advertisement for Only Fans, even mentioning the website explicitly. The ending sees Lucien (who was a virgin up until the end of the film) become prostituted out as the gay men having sex with him will now become gay again. This film attempts to make light of situations like Bonnie Blue’s. As if this man would not be abused, like the majority of people in prostitution. Also the men having sex with him are no longer gay, so they would be doing this with disgust. It is interesting that the weaker, more effeminate man is the one who ends up being pimped out, while Jim promotes what is happening to Lucien. The „twink“ trope is reductive and regressive, it creates a group of gay men who accept shabby and abusive treatment unquestioningly. While the bigger, more stereotypically masculine, Jim acts as a pimp who checks on his sex object in the tent.
Regardless of all these problems, the film itself self drags in the second half, even Jim states that he is bored of all the searching. And the characters do not develop past their stereotypical, hypersexualised, (literally) two dimensional selves. There is no learning curve for Jim, no one becomes better people. We start with self absorbed people and end with them too.
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