#queer commentary

[caressthosecheekbones]

John Singer Sargent - Fashion & Swagger - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Von Paris über Boston bis nach London verewigte der modebegeisterte Amerikaner John Singer Sargent die High Society des ausgehenden 19. Jahr

in love with this (much too short, only 50 minutes) short documentary about John Singer Sargent ❤️

It's completely in English with German subtitles and shows so many gorgeous paintings, drawings and sketches. Close-ups and lovely commentary.

QUEER COMMENTARY 🏳️‍🌈

Available until 23/03/2026

[cherrytea556]

It shouldnt matter that your gay or queer, you shouldn't be acting like a victim when your the one sexualising and/or crossing boundaries with another person's boundaries and get offended when that other person tells you to stop regardless of that person's actual sexuality. Being apart of a minority doesn't immune you from being a bad person or doing bad things.

[zairas-realm-gateway]

Since discovering I'm queer in like the last year 2 years, I've had a bit of an eye-opening experience when watching movie's now.

I'm going back and watching movies that I had an obsessive attachment to when I was younger and I'm seeing stuff.

A couple of examples:

Couple weeks ago, I watched Sneakers. I was suddenly eye-opened that the villain was gay for the MC. No straight best friend suffers betrayal and 20 years in prison and still calls the betrayer their best friend. Definitely queer.

On July 4th, I watched Live Free or Die Hard. At first I thought it was just my ship-loving brain shipping Matt with John McClane because they got vibes, hurt/comfort, character connection, and I like age gap pairings. But then at the end of the movie, the movie canonly ships Matt with Lucy McClane. Lucy is John's daughter and Matt even mentions that she has the exact same personality and traits as her dad. so...

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There are others. I see a lot of queerness now as I watch tv. it's wild.

So, yeah, this has made movies an experience...

[mediacircuspod]

I Don’t Think Stranger Things Queerbaited Me.

With that being said. This is why I didn’t like certain decisions that were made in the writing room, and during production that I find both tone deaf and disappointing. Organized by character.

Robin. I think the decisions they made for Robin this season were okay. I like Vickie. I don’t think the only queer joy we should have gotten from Robin’s perspective should have been through the lens of Vickie complaining about her BOYFRIEND. And I don’t think that scene should have been nearly the only scene of queer joy fans got to see. - I think that’s a 6/10 on the tone deaf scale.

Eddie. Eddie is not queer. I think that’s a mistake but also that’s just my opinion. The real problem here is that Eddie IS an OUTSIDER. And his entire story ends with being punished for that. People hunt Eddie for nearly the entire season. Vecna’s murders to open the gates are called the Munson Murders. The message of his entire character is: Don’t be different. Don’t be an outsider. You will die hated and be remembered not for your heart but for every voice that was louder than the truth. It was cheap. And it wasn’t as impactful as they wanted it to be. An 8/10 on the tone deaf scale.

Will. This one pisses me off. Will’s big gay crush on Mike is fine. It should have been revealed in Season 3, and he should be getting over it now. And he should have been given the opportunity to find queer joy. Also, making Will the queer kid out of the original cast makes sense, yes. But, it retroactively makes the entire first season and subsequent other seasons’ constant Will pain with very little Will happiness taste extremely sour in my mouth. Especially since the first season is now about a queer child being terrorized by monsters in what could be representative of a closet, and most of the town doesn’t miss him, or even continues to bully him in his absence. His “confession” to mike in season 4 is used as a tool to bolster and further the main heterosexual relationship between his CRUSH and SISTER figures. It inspires Mike to tell El that he loves her in the big old grand gesture style. His feelings are not used to develop his character but a relationship he is not in. And that is very uncomfortable for me as a queer person to watch. I know it wasn’t written in any mean spirited way, or with any type of malice, but it did not feel good. 10/10 on the tone deaf scale.

Did I have a good time watching? Yes.

Was I uncomfortable at every one of these instances and feel invalidated and icky? Also Yes.

It can be and IS both of those things.

[michaelvarrati]

Strike a pose! This week, Peaches and Michael are voguing the house down in celebration of 1991’s MADONNA: TRUTH OR DARE! In addition to discussing how a documentary can be cult, our hosts delve into the film’s luminous representation of queer peo...

Strike a pose! This week, Peaches and Michael are voguing the house down in celebration of 1991’s MADONNA: TRUTH OR DARE! In addition to discussing how a documentary can be cult, our hosts delve into the film’s luminous representation of queer people in an era where there was little to be seen. Joining the conversation are three sensational stars of the film who bring their blonde ambition to the table. First, Luis Xtravaganza shares stories of choreographing a pinnacle moment in time…and the evolution of family. Then, Mama Makeup stops by to not only tell tales about styling a queen, but unpack one of the film’s more challenging moments. And finally, we’re joined by Kevin Stea, who offers insight about growing alongside TRUTH OR DARE’s legacy. From cone bras to Vatican reprimands, this episode has it all! Go!

[missjulio]

i feel like platonic romances can be queer, in that the soulmate and intimacy revolve between two people of the same gender and absolves both of relationships with the opposite sex, without being GAY (LGBT+) in caps and including sex...

(not that they can’t or don’t have sex, but that like... just because you’re like “well, it’s only homoerotic and they are just intimate in their soul and even though no heterosexual relationship fills that void, doesn’t mean its gay, they aren’t shown making out or having sex” okay MAYBE but it is queer, and they do end up together and avoid straight relationships so... how do you even define a relationship? sex does not equate a relationship, nor does the absence of sex disqualify a relationship)

[zairas-realm-gateway]

Straight as Silly String

So, it’s only been within the last year and a half or so that I’ve started to realize I am both gray-romantic and Bisexual. I’ve always either been in denial or just had no fucking clue because queer terms are still things I’m learning.

Anyway, on this journey, I’ve noticed something that’s really starting to piss me off. And just what is that?

Well, it’s the notion hammered into us that the character cast of any given media source is Straight until proven Queer. and it pisses me the hell off!

Example? Well, have you ever written a fic or draw a pic of a same-sex ship and someone comments something like “How can you ship that?! There’s no canon evidence they’re gay!”

I always just agreed or don’t respond because I don’t have the mental energy to fight it. But what I always want to say is “Well, there’s no canon evidence they’re straight either!” when a character doesn’t have a canon relationship. Or if they do have a canon relationship, I find myself wanting to say “well, you don’t know that they’re not not Bi!”.

Why is it that every character has to be explicitly straight until there’s canon evidence of being queer?

Why can’t characters with unspecified orientations be whatever the fan wants them to be until their orientation is given (or even when an orientation is given. tastes change, after all)?

Want another example? Let’s use Team Fortress 2 for this but it applies to all fandoms.

You have two teams of 9 mercs. 8 of which are proven to be men with the 9th (Pyro) left ambiguous of gender. Together, two teams of 9 mercs make for a total of 18 mercs trapped and isolated in a tiny, geographic location for a minimum of 6 years. 

Now only 2 out of 9 mercs, Spy and Scout, canonly have relationships where they are in love with women. Before you say anything, yes it is mentioned that Medic has/had a wife. But it’s the late 60′s/early 70′s. At that time, just because two people were in a heterosexual marriage did not automatically mean that every married couple was straight. Lots of marriages were gay/bi men marrying lesbians/bi women in order to keep up a hetero-normative front so they weren’t the outcasts of society. In Medic’s case, he was already close enough to being on the fringes of society. Given how he is obviously queer-coded, he would have to be careful about being anything other than straight if he wanted to work and have a livelihood before Mann Co. 

Anyway, you’re trying to tell me that statistically out of 18 mercs, no one’s queer? That sounds like bullshit to me!

There is no way that you can convince me that 18 dudes (I’m Californian, “dude” is gender neutral) away from the prying eyes of social norms aren’t gonna start forming queer or queer-platonic relationships of some kind. 

*Spoilers for the TF2 comics ahead, derp*

I’ll use a classic example of a fan favorite: Heavy/Medic

Two middle-age mercs who are basically the mom and dad of the team. They canonly have a deep “friendship” that can be seen both in the comics and the game. These two spend a lot of time together, they work well together, and they sort of complete each other. They are protective of each other and neither can be properly happy without the other. 

In game, when one player dominates another, their character will tease and taunt the other player’s character. And yet, Heavy and Medic don’t have dominations lines towards each other.

Medic is one of the most fucked-up, sadistic mercs out of the bunch. Seems suspicious to me that he of all people wouldn’t want the pleasure of dominating and jeering someone as strong as Heavy. But, if Medic is romantically involved with Heavy, he’d be much less inclined to jeer his lover’s doppleganger.

And then there’s Heavy. He’s a sensitive man with a big heart despite his honestly frightening love of combat. But he’s softest towards family. His devotion to those that he loves is total. In the comic, the devastation he feels after Medic is murdered is total as well.

This man literally does not want to live without his Medic.

Bringing back the picture from earlier:

Their reunion is heartfelt. Moving on, Heavy immediately praises Medic ingenuity, just as he always does. And lets be real, I have never seen a person pour so much high praise on their platonic friend as constantly as Heavy praises Medic. Heavy can’t go like two minutes without saying how much he loves Medic, or how smart Medic is, or how skilled Medic is. There is just like a never ending stream of adoration that Heavy has for his precious German.

Also, at this point Medic has spent the past several comics being constantly verbally abused by the enemy, Classic!Heavy. Most of the time resulting in Medic being uncharacteristically docile and submissive. But around TF2!Heavy, Medic regains his cold, cruel ingenuity and confidence; becoming the force to be reckoned with that he’s known for.

The two complete each other both emotionally and in combat.

THERE NO WAY IN HELL YOU CAN CONVINCE ME THESE TWO AREN’T GAY AS FUCK!

The mercs are social outcasts. But working for Mann Co. allows them to be themselves away from the judging eyes of normal society. It only makes sense that most if not all of them would be queer, especially in a place where they could be safe in their identities.

So, why should we as a fandom have to believe that they’re all straight just because they don’t have canon queer labels? Especially when a canonly queer character exists in universe.

May I present Ms. Pauling! She’s the boys’ boss. She takes good care of them and she is very clearly gay.

You can see this clearly when Soldier and Zhanna are running around naked and covered in honey. Meanwhile, Ms. Pauling looks like this as she watches them.

It is confirmed several times over that Ms. Pauling is extremely tired of seeing Soldier naked. That means that she is clearly being entranced by the vision of Zhanna naked. 

No straight woman has ever looked at another woman like this. 

Ms. Pauling is definitely gay.

So, yeah, if one character is obviously queer but not explicitly labeled as such, then why can’t all the characters be queer? And why can’t characters be queer without an obviously queer character in canon? Why must all characters be straight unless proven otherwise?

It’s a stupid and toxic narrative that only contributes to shipping wars.

Why should a narrative that’s not even canon be allowed to overpower our personal headcanons?

We need to start allowing people to headcanon sexual orientations for fictional characters.

[pceexistsinthevoid]

btw this whole “u.s. president calling to get a red card over turned for the u.s. mens team in a single soccer game” thing is yet another example (in a long line of examples) that proves this administration doesn't care about “fairness in sports” they just want trans women and girls to die and experience nothing but misery