“The amount of flags during OTB made me sad. Which is sad. Because I'm queer. “
What an odd thing to say. How are you to assume that the people holding those flags are just doing so because of larrie?
I’m not a larrie but OTB has obviously resounded with alot of people. And Louis has a heavy queer fan base. If he makes people feel seem, then who are you to say it’s sad.
I’m queer..:not a larrie..and should I withhold holding a flag at his concert because you might view that as being centered in a conspiracy?
OTB has become sort of a queer anthem - seen often on flags at pride walks. And whether it was meant to be one , that’s not the point.
If he’s ok with the queer community I doubt he’s crying into his millions that people hold flags during that song
I have followed you for awhile but this is the first time I’ve heard you being openly homophobic to people - because according to you, larries have the audacity to feel safe at his concert???? Let them feel that way how is it hurting you or your followers??? Even Elenor update accounts are posting how people feel safe at his concerts . You sound very jaded 😔
Only the Brave has 3 million views on Youtube. I don't think anyone outside out Louis' fan base (and some of the One Direction fan base) have ever heard it. It got zero radio play. Don't pretend it's some kind of broader queer anthem that the whole community has adopted, it's not. It's not even an inherently queer song (the lyrics don't seem to be about...much at all), although I do enjoy that interpretation of it on a purely personal level.
I don't know how Louis feels about it. Neither do you. Is he happy seeing people at least comfortable to be themselves? Is he at the same time saddened that a decent portion (if not close to all) of the people who bring those flags specifically to his concerts are people who hate his son? Both? Liam has already told us how they felt about it years ago. That's the clearest statement we've ever gotten on the topic and how the band felt about the flag being co-opted. Are you going to ignore that?
And why are you trying to tell me, a queer person, how to feel? It makes ME feel sad that I can't bring MY flag to his concerts, without being worried that he'll see it and misinterpret what it means to me. It makes ME feel sad that I can’t go to his concert and see my own flag and know the intentions of the person carrying - know whether they are really queer or an ally, or a conspiracy theorist who fetishizes queer men (which funnily enough, makes queer men feel unsafe). Because people who are BOUNDARYLESS assholes decided to take a flag that represents something entirely different, and turned it into a flag that represents, in that space, 'I believe in larrie and I think Louis is closeted against his will.'
Of course most of the people bringing it, or at least half, are bringing it for that reason, at least partially if not primarily. You haven't been in the fandom long if you don't think otherwise. Larries were LITERALLY posting about doing rainbow flag projects at his concerts in response to him daring to associate with his son, LAST WEEK. They explicitly tied their bringing of the flag to his concerts as a project this time around, to the idea of 'responding' to Louis posting pictures of Freddie.
The fact that that doesn't piss you off, is concerning.
I have no problem with people bringing flags to concerts. I love concerts from any artist with flags all over the place. What I hate is that I, a queer person, feel like I can't even bring one to HIS concert, because other people have tried to encode it with a meaning it doesn't have, and have used it to break normal boundaries and signify a conspiracy. It's fucking gross that queer people who want to take the flag SINCERELY feel they can't do so, because of what larries have made it mean in that specific context. It’s fucking gross that they have taken a flag which SHOULD represent a safe space for queer people, including queer men, and have made it a signifier for a ‘community’ of theorists who systematically dehumanise and fetishize and sexualise queer men.
I'm not going to apologise to you for the fact that conspiracy theorists have made the space feel unsafe for queer people who DON'T want to be associated with their behaviour. I'm genuinley considering selling my tickets because I'm not comfortable, as a queer person, being in that room, but you get to speak over that? Ok bud.
