*me seeing any body of water larger than a puddle*
sharks in ther.
Your gay characters cannot:
- Have an illegal or otherwise creepy age gap.
- Cheat on each other or anyone else (especially not if the cheating is portrayed as romantic).
- Die tragically, violently or AT ALL.
To all the people in the notes going “but but tragedy is a valid form of…” Yeah, sorry, straights broke it with decades of nothing but tragedy for LGBT characters. This is a moratorium on all such tragedy films with tragic endings for at least the next 50-75 years at which point there will be a review to determine if mainstream media has EARNED it.
From 1922 to 1968 the Motion Picture Production Code (commonly known as the Hays Code) enforced rules regarding the treatment of gay characters in tv and film. Homosexuality and gender nonconformity could be acknowledged, but it had to be punished to show that consequences would come from such “immorality.” Showing these characters as creepy, predatory, unfaithful, etc etc was common, and for decades pretty much every queer or queer coded character was brutally murdered. The homophobic tropes born from the Hays code are pervasive in media today. The sheer amount of tragedy and violence written into queer media in the last century has in the long term damaged people’s perceptions of what queer stories are “supposed” look like.
New Bechdel-like test for gay/lesbian romance films: If your queer piece of media complies with the Hays code, start over.
2016: gay????
2017: gay.
2018: gayer
2019: gayest
straight people watching brokeback mountain and going “heehee gay cowboys! so funny!” is literally evil. it’s a movie about how gay men are terrified to be together and a lot of them end up in unhappy and unfulfilling het marriages. a lot of gay men back in the day were cowboys with the express purpose of living their fucking lives. gay cowboys existed everywhere because being out there in the middle of fuck knows where surrounded my other men (often times their partners) and farm animals was better than being publicly out and murdered, especially if you were a man of color, since they pioneered cowboy culture.
she said spank me and i slapped her with the word of the lord
hold on im just have to kick myself in the face 27 times
Why, cat?
had an itch upon my beauté chin
actors are great in theory. they’re like people only more snazzy.
my last two brain cells
ngl i was expecting they’d have both their dicks out by the end or this was a gay porn intro
“silly intrusive thoughts” im almost fucking crying just begging you to call them what they are. thoughts. youre thinking and having thoughts. i know you arent very used to that but when you think like “eat leaf” it means your brain is on and working. theyre called thoughts. its called thinking.
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