#queer death

[isthisfilmgay]

Bride of Chucky (1998)

Is it gay?: Yes Warnings/Notes: 🏳️‍🌈 ☠

Description: Chucky, the doll possessed by a serial killer, discovers the perfect mate to kill and revive into the body of another doll.

Director: Ronny Yu

Running Time: 1hr 29min

[isthisfilmgay]

Curse of Chucky (2013)

Is it gay?: Yes Warnings/Notes: 🏳️‍🌈 ☠ 😢

Description: After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to recent bloodshed and chaos.

Director: Don Mancini

Running Time: 1hr 37min

[isthisfilmgay]

IT: Chapter 2 (2019)

Is it gay?: Yes Warnings/Notes: 😢 👊🏼 ☠ 🚫 🏳️‍🌈

Description: Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back.

Director: Andy Muschietti

Running Time: 2hr 49min

[isthisfilmgay]

Holding The Man (2015)

Is it gay?: Yes

Warnings/Notes: ☠️ 😢 🏳️‍🌈

Description:  Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years to laugh in the face of everything life threw at it - the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses - until the only problem that love can’t solve tried to destroy them.

Director: Neil Armfield ( 🏳️‍🌈)

Running Time: 2hr 7min

[isthisfilmgay]

As You Are (2016)

Is it gay?: Yes

Warnings: ☠ 👊🏼  🚫  😢

Description: Set in the early 1990's, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation.

Director: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte

Running Time: 1hr 50min

[isthisfilmgay]

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Is it gay?: Yes

Warnings: ☠ 👊🏼  🚫  😢

Description: The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years.

Director: Ang Lee

Running Time: 2hr 14min

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

OITNB Killed Off Poussey and You Can’t Tell Me Not to be Pissed

The title of this article is not vague. It does not include a spoiler warning. If you hadn’t heard yet that this happens, I want you to be pissed too. I want you to be angry, like I am, that yet another queer female character was killed for shock value. This was not an act of “relevant social commentary.” This is nothing more than part of an ongoing social narrative that tells queer and trans people, especially women, especially women of color, especially black women, that no matter what, they will be punished.

It is not just “real life” that women like Poussey Washington have to fear. In the past six months, EIGHTEEN queer female characters have been killed on TV. For a group already vastly underrepresented, to have 18 killed just so far this year is outrageous. Back in March, Autostraddle published an article called “All 65 Dead Lesbian and Bisexaul Characters on TV, and How They Died,” which has since been updated to a more comprehensive list of 158 names. They also put together a detailed info-graphic on fictional queer death that further puts the problem into perspective. Salon summarized their findings:

...queer women [are] the most likely characters to die on TV: Since 1976, 11% of television shows have featured a lesbian or bisexual character, and of these programs, 65% have a deceased queer female character. If lesbian characters no longer on television, 31% have bitten the dust. Just 11% have been allowed to have a happy ending that doesn’t [end] in tragedy or death.

Imagine if one third of all straight female characters were killed off. Imagine how ludicrous it would be if one in every three straight male characters on television ended up dead. It’s not a coincidence that this happens so often to queer women. It’s not an accident. Now I don’t believe that TV writers are killing these women out of explicit homophobia, but that doesn’t lessen the importance of looking at the implicit homophobia that leads these writers, over and over and over again, to make the same explicit choice to kill queer female characters. 

At this point, now that the “Bury Your Gays” trope has been taken so far, I think it’s more than fair to say that killing queer female characters is always, always, always, always, always the wrong choice. It’s not about being creative or edgy or “true to life;” it’s not a commentary on violence or racism or homophobia. It is part of the violence and racism and homophobia. It does not allude to; it contributes to. 

Queer people watch shows with queer characters, in part, so that they can see people like them represented on screen. What are they supposed to think when two-thirds of these shows have killed characters they identify with? A show like Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black,” which originally was praised for it’s largely diverse cast, is still mainly a show about a privileged white woman surrounded by women of color, including queer women and transgender women. 

And yes, it’s based on the memoir of a privileged white woman, but we can’t pretend that including other stories means they’re being told well and with respect, when even the main character’s bisexuality is erased. Having a black lesbian be suffocated to death by a guard- and being told to sympathize with that guard- is not telling black lesbian stories well. It’s one indication, among several, that a show which markets itself to viewers as being queer-friendly, cares more about queer subscription money than queer representation. 

And that is not acceptable. That pisses me off. You can’t make money with the promise of diverse representation, and then kill off the characters that make your show diverse (and worth watching) and then just expect all these viewers to keep watching your show anyway.

I used to be a fan of “Orange is the New Black,” but not anymore. I will no longer watch a show that treats queer black death as a “surprise plot twist.” It’s not fun. It’s not exciting. It’s not good TV. All it is is a cruel, triggering reminder that black lives are constantly under threat. There’s enough of that in real life; I don’t need to tolerate media making further spectacle of it. 

[wolfyshepard]

I care only Root and Shaw.  who the hell cares the fucking AI?? who??? no i'm not get emotional. just telling the truth