#lbgtq representation

[docgold13]

Hey!

so I’m plotting out my DC Comics cut-out heroes project for the month of June and June being Pride Month I wanted to have lots of representation of heroes of the LBGTQ+ community.  The one part where I’m drawing a blank, however, are heroes who identify as ace/asexual/aromantic.  Does anyone know of any DC heroes who are cannonicaly (or at least fan-cannonically) ace?  ...and who are not robots? 

Thanks!

[depressedstressedlemonzest]

Okay so I've already told @witchyguardian15 and @aziraphaleisagender about it, but I wanted to share with the rest of my 209 followers (where did you all come from? I love you all) about this book that I picked up at Target.

I just finished it and it was freaking awesome. A nice little romance book you think? Oh no no, it has....

Fat representation

POC representation

Ace representaion

LGBTQ representation

French representation

It also has

Romance

Very little sex/smut

And my personal favorite?

No where in this book does the main fat female lead diets or loses weight or is attempting to lose weight to find romance!!!!!!

Do you know how fucking

REFRESHING

That is? Especially in a romance book?

Anyway not that anyone asked but! This book was awesome and I will definitely reread and recommend. They have it at T@rget and Am@zon

[astromechs]

this was an interesting article, about the parallels of genis-vell and now carol danvers finding sisters they never knew they had, but i want to highlight some of the section about queer identity.

Carol Danvers might be an even more dramatic case. Here, Marvel cannot make clear enough that no admission has been made on page or screen that Carol is anything but resolutely straight. Yet she might have the longest history of fan insistence on a queer identity of any major hero in superhero comics. Beginning in Chris Claremont’s run during the late 1970’s, there have been no shortage of veiled hints that Carol has had a decades-long romantic relationship with fellow hero Jessica Drew, and writers and artists haven’t been shy about playing to the attentive fans who have noted the clues all along. But from the perspective of a marketable, multimedia franchise, it seems that a gay or bisexual Captain Marvel just won’t do. Carol, like Genis, can be queer in suggestion, but not in fact. Only the foils on her supporting cast can do that.

this, right here, is the exact problem with marvel. (and others, but for the moment, we’re talking about marvel.) let’s take one example mentioned in the article specifically. i love phyla-vell — she’s literally one of my favorite comic book characters of all time, and i have so much appreciation both for her being an unapologetic lesbian and also for that not wholly defining her character — but, realistically, do many people outside of a small, niche fandom actually know who she is? despite being a founding member of the guardians of the galaxy, did you see her as such on film? the answer to both of these questions is no.

marvel wants to have their cake and eat it, too. they want to claim representation, but they don’t have the guts to give it to flagship characters that lead books and actually enter the sphere of pop culture public knowledge — and for the characters they do give representation to, they keep them in the shadows, because it’s safer there.

it would be so awesome if we had an actual explicitly queer carol danvers, for instance — especially since she’s so high profile now. but that will never happen, because this is marvel.

i don’t know what else i’m trying to say here other than that i’m Tired.

[rubiesandrain]

TEN REASONS TO WATCH HULU'S HARLOTS

1. Sex work seen as a career and not something dirty or shameful 2. Mixed raced relationships 3. LBGTQ relationships 4. Women of every size, shape, and look being sexually beautiful and wanted (even Fanny, a plus size woman!) 5. Mother/Daughter relationships being shown as imperfect but caring and loving 6. FEMALE FRIENDSHIPS AND SISTERHOOD (loving and caring) 7. Female rivalries (competitive and cunning) 8. Costuming. The period clothes for women of all classes are BEAUTIFUL 9. Compelling plotline- every episode had me on the edge of my seat, wanting more 10. FABULOUS ACTING- compelling and heart wrenching scenes by all actors. ALSO JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY

[katniss-emoteen]

I REALLY need to start watch HTGAWM like it ticks all the criteria for a show