GeorgeLThomas<p>Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Characters I want to Meet<br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WriterCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WriterCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BloggingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BloggingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BloggerCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BloggerCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Challenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Challenge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Wednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wednesday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TheGoldenGirls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheGoldenGirls</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/QueerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ADogsPurpose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADogsPurpose</span></a></p><p><a href="http://georgelthomas.com/2025/03/12/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-characters-i-want-to-meet/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">georgelthomas.com/2025/03/12/w</span><span class="invisible">ednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-characters-i-want-to-meet/</span></a></p>
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Lauren McMenemy<p>Great piece here from Katie Bruce for the British Fantasy Society</p><p>___</p><p>For this last day of Pride month 2024, Katie Bruce reflects on how a recent cinema experience showed her the power of queer representation in our fictional stories. </p><p><a href="https://britishfantasysociety.org/the-bog-of-eternal-stench-the-pit-of-despair-the-nothing-how-man-witch-helped-heal-the-lack-of-queer-representation-in-my-childhood/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">britishfantasysociety.org/the-</span><span class="invisible">bog-of-eternal-stench-the-pit-of-despair-the-nothing-how-man-witch-helped-heal-the-lack-of-queer-representation-in-my-childhood/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersofmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pride</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/pride2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pride2024</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/queerrepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerrepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/queerwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerwriters</span></a></p>
Zuri (he/him) 🕐 CET<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PhantastikPrompts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhantastikPrompts</span></a> JAN-19 Wem würdest du dein WIP empfehlen?</p><p>Es gibt wirklich besseres zu lesen 😅 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/KingConsort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KingConsort</span></a>: Leute, für die es okay ist, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/KenFollett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KenFollett</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/aufWishBestellt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aufWishBestellt</span></a> zu lesen, wenn sie dafür ein bisschen <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/queerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerRepresentation</span></a> bekommen</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/amWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ZuriStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZuriStories</span></a></p>
Zuri (he/him) 🕐 CET<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://trekkies.social/@humanisttrek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humanisttrek</span></a></span> At the same time, Disney tries everything to keep <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/queerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerRepresentation</span></a> as low as possible in their Star Wars movies</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/StormPilot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StormPilot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HaysCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaysCode</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/queerCoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerCoding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Section28" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Section28</span></a></p>
Flatbush Gardener 🌈<p>My husband and like to watch our weather gays on the local TV channels.</p><p>We just saw a new one who broke our gayness scale.<br>"The rain in December was riDIculous."<br><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Television" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Television</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/QueerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Weather</span></a></p>
Rat Can't Read (she/her)<p>At the same time, however, I want to end on an optimistic note, and watching <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/TippingTheVelvet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TippingTheVelvet</span></a> reminded me that when I first saw it, <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/SameSexMarriage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SameSexMarriage</span></a> wasn't legal in the US, and it is now, even if its future is in doubt. Also, at the time, the city near where I went to college was having a referendum on <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/LGBTQHousing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQHousing</span></a> and <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/HousingDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HousingDiscrimination</span></a>, which eventually won <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/HousingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HousingRights</span></a> for queer people. Dan Savage's <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ItGetsBetter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ItGetsBetter</span></a> campaign was going viral. </p><p>We were fighting the bigots then, and it felt like we were winning. Now it feels like we're on the backfoot in that fight, but that doesn't mean the fight is over. We've come really far, too far to give up now, and we have the opportunity to both protect what we've won while pushing for true <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> and <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/equity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>equity</span></a>. <br>9/9</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QueerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Queer</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QueerMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerMedia</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Sapphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sapphic</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Lesbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lesbian</span></a></p>
Rat Can't Read (she/her)<p>I also find myself worrying whether a show like <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/TippingTheVelvet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TippingTheVelvet</span></a> could be made today. There's such a backlash toward <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> stories and <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QueerMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerMedia</span></a> right now, and the BBC especially seems to be going backwards rather than forwards. Also, almost none of the characters in the show really seem to fit the blandly squeaky clean kind of representation that certain very vocal parts of the internet seem to demand of queer characters. </p><p>It feels like the fact that I couldn't quite imagine this show being made today both days something about how far we've come, in that we're telling lots of other queer stories, but also how much we've recently been backsliding, in that I worry a show like this would seem too controversial</p><p>8/?</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QueerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Queer</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QueerMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerMedia</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Sapphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sapphic</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Lesbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lesbian</span></a></p>
Rat Can't Read (she/her)<p>I also think that when I first watched <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/TippingTheVelvet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TippingTheVelvet</span></a> in college, I was disappointed that Nan and Kitty didn't get back together. I think my younger self found the idea of them having a secret affair to be romantic, and I think I found Florence to be a bit boring.</p><p>Now though, as an older socialist who works for a nonprofit and likes stability, I am fully on team Florence! I actually now see a lot of myself in that character, and I'm glad she and Nan ended up together. Florence was clearly the healthier choice for Nan.</p><p>7/?</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QueerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Queer</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QueerMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerMedia</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Sapphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sapphic</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Lesbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lesbian</span></a></p>
Rat Can't Read (she/her)<p>Don't get me wrong. There were things I liked about <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/GentlemanJack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GentlemanJack</span></a>. But I think the show could have been stronger if it would have dug deeper into the class dynamics of the show. Anne's ability to express herself as she does is very much the result of her class privilege and her ability to do so is literally paid for by children working in coal mines. I'm not saying people can't like her character or the show, but I wish the show would have maybe made space for discussing the intersections of heteronormativity and cis-normativity and class. </p><p>Because <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/TippingTheVelvet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TippingTheVelvet</span></a> focuses specifically on working class queer characters, though, it didn't bring up as many complicated feelings for me around the characters.</p><p>6/?</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QueerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QueerMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerMedia</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Queer</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a></p>
Rat Can't Read (she/her)<p>That being said, I think <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/TippingTheVelvet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TippingTheVelvet</span></a> pretty much still holds up today. Maybe there's a bit more opportunity there to explore the possibility that Nan is nonbinary now than there would have been back in the early 2000s. The camera work does this unnerving thing where the audience is sometimes put in the perspective of a character in the show in a way that to me is unnerving and 4th wall breaking, I think unintentionally. Sometimes tonally the Vaudeville kind of aestheic they're going for doesn't always work. But it mostly holds up. </p><p>I found myself comparing it to <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/GentlemanJack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GentlemanJack</span></a>, and overall, I think Tipping the Velvet does a better job of examining class, which I really wish Gentleman Jack would have been more critical of or encouraged the audience to be more critical of. I'm sorry, but I struggled to root for Anne when she was a landlord.</p><p>5/?</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QueerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Queer</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Lesbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lesbian</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Sapphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sapphic</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ComingOutAsAnAdult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComingOutAsAnAdult</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QueerMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerMedia</span></a></p>
Rat Can't Read (she/her)<p>Watching it again, today, brought me back to my college days and just how paltry <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> representation was at the time. People didn't really even talk much about queerness then, honestly. In the mainstream, both in media and activism the focus was on white, cis, gay, middle class men and the big political demand was for <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/SameSexMarriage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SameSexMarriage</span></a>. Stories about anyone else were few and far between, and stories about even those white, cis, gay, middle class men were few and far between. </p><p>There was also a heavy focus on <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/monosexism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monosexism</span></a>, so in retrospect, maybe it makes sense <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/TippingTheVelvet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TippingTheVelvet</span></a> didn't lead to a queer awakening for me. After all, I knew at that time I was attracted to men, and the main character in that show says she feels nothing for men. So maybe that's why I didn't relate? </p><p>4/?</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QueerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Lesbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lesbian</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Sapphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sapphic</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ComingOutAsAnAdult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComingOutAsAnAdult</span></a></p>
Rat Can't Read (she/her)<p>Also, the actor who played Nan Astley looks a lot like my college crush (who I didn't realize was a crush until a decade later). So rewatching <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/TippingTheVelvet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TippingTheVelvet</span></a> has kind of left me wishing that it would have spurred some sort of <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> awakening in me. But I guess it didn't. Maybe that's too much to ask of just one show in the early 2000s. As I said before, it was the first piece of media I'd ever seen at the time that focused specifically on queer women. </p><p>3/?</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QueerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Sapphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sapphic</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Lesbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lesbian</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ComingOutAsAnAdult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComingOutAsAnAdult</span></a></p>
Rat Can't Read (she/her)<p>I didn't watch <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/TippingTheVelvet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TippingTheVelvet</span></a> when it first came out. I watched it a few years later when I was in college. Someone had uploaded it to YouTube, and this was back in the day when YouTube videos had a 10 minute time limit, so anything longer than that had to be seen in 10 minute increments, and after each video you had to search for the next one and hope that the user had both remembered to upload it, number it correctly in the title and that one of the videos hadn't randomly been taken down for copyright violations even though the rest of them had been left up. </p><p>What I'm saying is, in retrospect, I think the amount of work I put into watching this show went beyond the "I'm just being a good ally™️!" explanation that I gave myself at the time. </p><p>2/?</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Queer</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QueerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Sapphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sapphic</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Lesbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lesbian</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/InTheCloset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InTheCloset</span></a></p>
Rat Can't Read (she/her)<p>If you're in the United States and have access to Amazon Prime (and if you're boycotting Prime, I don't blame you and you're doing the right thing!), they have the BBC's 2002 show Tipping the Velvet available right now. </p><p>I watched it because I was feeling nostalgic. I think it was the first piece of media I'd ever seen about queer women, in which queer women were the main characters of a show and straight characters were peripheral to the story. So I want to do a thread on it. Not sure that I'll have any brilliant insights—this is probably just going to be me being nostalgic and reflecting on how far we have and haven't come since the 2000s.<br>1/?<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Queer</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/QueerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Sapphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sapphic</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Lesbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lesbian</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/TippingTheVelvet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TippingTheVelvet</span></a></p>
Rainbow Rodeo<p>OPINION: Josh Friedberg applauds the new Tyler Childers video, which features two gay coal miners making a life for themselves in the postwar years, but questions why queer stories for cishet consumption must always end in tragedy.</p><p><a href="https://buff.ly/3DCgLur" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3DCgLur</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/QueerCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerCountry</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Americana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americana</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/CountryMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CountryMusic</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Appalachia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Appalachia</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/TylerChilders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TylerChilders</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/AltCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AltCountry</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/QueerMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerMedia</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/QueerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/LGBTQRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQRepresentation</span></a></p>
MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<p>Here s my response to <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Disney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disney</span></a>+ fucking <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Hulu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hulu</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MAX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAX</span></a>, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Showtime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Showtime</span></a> and the other fucking cowards who got rid of their <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/LGBTQIAplus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIAplus</span></a> :anqueer_flag: :newpride: telly shows </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Whatthematterwithyou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Whatthematterwithyou</span></a>?".</p><p>What the fuck is the matter with you, you fuckin arseholes!</p><p>Fuck you!</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEezpi9g6_w" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=pEezpi9g6_</span><span class="invisible">w</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/queerrepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerrepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TV</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a></p>
Grammargeddon Angel<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/QueerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRepresentation</span></a> is a given in this book series.</p><p>It's just . . . there. Nothing big made of it. For example, in conversation a character says he likes his work because he gets to go home to his husband and kids.</p><p>That's all. It's just part of life.</p><p>Same as it is here, but without all the bullshit and histrionics.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AmEditing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmEditing</span></a></p>
Grammargeddon Angel<p>I love that in this book there's an enby character on the genetics team.</p><p>Why are they enby?</p><p>Because they are. </p><p>There doesn't have to be a reason for someone to be who they are. They're not a plot device. They're not used for anything special, aside from their position on the team. They just are.</p><p>Same as in real life. </p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AmEditing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmEditing</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/QueerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRepresentation</span></a></p>
Hi, it’s Felicia<p>This week, I’m spotlighting examples of sapphic romance in animation! </p><p>*Heavy Spoilers below!* </p><p>While some of these shows were (in my opinion) way too short, they celebrate queer love, queer struggle, and ultimately, demonstrate queer joy! I only wish we got more seasons of each. 😊 </p><p>What animated shows are you loving with sapphic representation? Share yours on the tag <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/SapphicSaturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SapphicSaturday</span></a>!</p><p><a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/SapphicRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SapphicRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/QueerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/SapphicMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SapphicMedia</span></a></p>
Hi, it’s Felicia<p>Latest GLAAD report is out on <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> rep in TV: <a href="https://www.glaad.org/whereweareontv22" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">glaad.org/whereweareontv22</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>Most notable and unsurprising statistic…”Of the 596 LGBTQ characters, 175 (29 percent) will not be returning due to series cancellations, endings, miniseries/anthology format, or a character dying or leaving the show. Of those, 140 characters won’t return due specifically to series cancellations or otherwise ending.”</p><p>Please stop canceling us. We deserve better.</p><p><a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/QueerRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/LGBTQRepresenation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQRepresenation</span></a></p>
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