healthy gay male relationships in which the characters involved kiss, have a sex life, go on dates, declare their love and affection for each other, share a bed, etc will ALWAYS be more revolutionary and necessary to portray than a relationship that’s “undoubtedly a love story but what kind is up to you! uwu why do you want to see them KISS or get some other actual confirmation of their love you disgusting homosexual!”
men being friends or in a relationship ~without labels~ comes second to representing gay men’s love. always.
You know what? No. No, and also, fuck this noise.
My aromantic ass is out here getting NO representation 90% of the time, and the one time, the ONE TIME I actually see a queer couple with what looks like a queerplatonic love story, and which is UNDENIABLY *some* kind of love story, that’s when y'all’re gonna go off about it not being gay enough? Fuck you. Take your alloromantic privilege and shove it.
my gay ass is over here risking getting literally murdered if i hold a man’s hand in public but sure, “alloromantic privilege”
Look, don’t underplay the TikTok/K-Pop communities: dashcon did it to themselves but Trump got this done to him.
Actually, nope! The whole “the stands were empty because KPop fans got all the tickets” narrative would be funny, but it assumes a few things that aren’t true. First, it assumes that there were a limited number of tickets. Second, it assumes that there was anyone who wanted to go who was prevented from doing so because tickets were unavailable. In reality, nobody who asked for a ticket was denied one because there was an unlimited number of tickets, and nobody who showed up at the door was denied entry for not having one.
The fact is that the people who might’ve filled those seats just flat-out did not show up. Sure, they might’ve seen that KPop fans reserved tickets and figured “ahh, I don’t care enough to fight for a ticket,” but there’s also a LOT of people who just didn’t feel comfortable at a large gathering while there’s a pandemic on. Maybe some of them didn’t feel like signing a waiver absolving the campaign of responsibility if they get Covid 19 at the rally and got turned away at the door. Maybe their fear of getting sick finally outweighs their faith in Donald Trump, or maybe they’ve lost faith in him entirely.
Yes, the jokes about KPop fans ruining his rally are funny, but they obscure the true (and much funnier) explanation: Donald Trump is losing so much popularity with his base that he can’t find enough racists to fill a stadium in support of him. In Tulsa Oklahoma.
Antonin Mercié/Adalbert Volk, Robert E. Lee Monument, Richmond, Virginia, 1890. Projection by Dustin Klein; photo by Alexis Delilah; spray paint improvement by the public, 2020.
