#loona pride

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Happy Pride month + Bisexuality day!

everyone is valid & beautiful!♡

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퀴어(Queer). 기묘하고 괴상하다는 뜻이다. 처음에는 성소수자를 낙인찍으려는 의도로 사용됐다. 성소수자들은 이를 뒤집었다. 스스로 퀴어라 불렀다. 그러자 ‘개념의 전복’이 일어났다. 이제는 성소수자 전체의 자긍심을 표현하는 단어로 굳어졌다.손가락질

LOONA were featured at Jeju Island's Queer Culture Festival this year. (image above machine translated)

Music such as Girls' Generation's "Into the New World," LOONA's "Butterfly" and TWICE's "Feel Special." were blared over the speakers throughout the venue. The songs were not chosen randomly; these songs all have something in common. They were songs either sung by artists who have expressed their support for queer people, or songs that did not feature references to heterosexual relationships in the lyrics.

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happy pride to yves desperately trying to toe the line between allyship and representation and vivi trying not to laugh at her

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I’ve read articles about how “heart attack” was initially perceived as sapphic and caught the interest of many gay girls nationally and internationally for that reason. i’m always curious if chuu and yves are happy w that, if they liked doing this concept, if it resonated w it at all, or if this attention was not what they expected or wanted

This is a really good question! To my recollection, the interview with MTV was the only time either of them explicitly talked about Heart Attack and the fan reception

Part of me thinks that Yves is kind of bullshitting by saying "We didn't see it like that" because the MV description makes it quite abundantly clear that Chuu is looking at Yves in a romantic light, though I wonder if whilst shooting, it might not have been made clear to them as actors and then when the MV was released and they saw the final cut they were like 'oh damn'. Which would kind of be hilarious.

(In Korean it reads something like "Heart Attack is not a serious contemplation of her feelings of falling in love, but rather a lively expression of Chuu's feelings as if looking at an IRL emoji", again making it pretty clear that Chuu's feelings for Yves is love)

Even ignoring the description, the MV alone spells it out quite explicitly that Chuu's feelings are love, not like. I guess platonic stalking happens, but the camera's focus on Yves' lips and smile, how Chuu is shown to react (a glance from Yves is translated to a finger heart bullet with fluttering heart confetti exploding everywhere upon impact), and Chuu's fantasy/dream sequence is Yves handfeeding her, holding her hand and hugging her with heart balloons in Yves' room, strongly suggest Chuu is in love with her. I kind of have a hard time believing that either of them thought Chuu's feelings for Yves were just platonic whilst filming.

I think they definitely had an inkling of what they were doing whilst filming (I don't think they did prior to this), and I think they knew how it'd be received, but I also think they played dumb when asked about it to play it safe with conservative audiences. I'm not sure whether in 2017-19 (or even now) an explicit answer of "Yes, it's homoerotic on purpose" would've been OK for their careers.

"happy with it, liked it, resonated, expected" I think are difficult questions to answer. I think Chuu really liked her concept, but I know that Yves was actually quite upset -- not by the LGBT angle -- but because she was promised by the director to debut like a sexy R&B/Hip Hop 5th blackpink member, and instead she got love4eva. I think Yves has grown into liking it a lot, because I think as an idol a lot of where she finds enjoyment from her job is meaning a lot to people. By becoming an iconic LGBT figure in Kpop alongside Chuu, she means more to people and gives far more to people than if she was just a bogstandard singing and dancing idol. I think it means a lot to all members of LOONA to represent the LGBT community in their body of work, and the members make a conscious effort to reinforce this as often as they can, albeit within the perceived restraints that society has on how far they can go with it.

Also fun bonus but I like this article where Yves is listed as an idol who expressed solidarity for the LGBT community alongside Tiffany Young hehe

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Jinsoul) You are my pride