#(also... atheist YouTube videos help alot soo)

[crownspeaksblog]

I think Coffee Prince is THE first queer story I've ever watched! I watched in my early teens and back then, i loved it so much, because it was a love story, where a man falls in love with a woman, not knowing that she's a woman and my younger self was mostly like "oh my god it's true love!! He fell in love with her not knowing she's a woman!!" But i loved it so much more when i rewatched it, in my late teens because at that point, i was mostly aware of the queerness of it all and now I'm fully aware of it, like that was a story about a "straight" man falling, hard, for this young man he just met! He was suffering and in denial, that man was crying over the thought of being gay and then... he just fully accepted it and was more than willing and happy to run away together!!! He is a queer icon!!

This is probably one of the best ways to present a queer story because, one, it can slip right through censorship laws, i watched it, 10 years ago, on tv, in the fucking middle-east, dubbed in Arabic!! (i haven't seen the original version but I'm willing to bet some stuff was cut in the version i watched). Two, it kinda will confuse homophobic/ignorant people on what to feel, because the audience knows she's a woman throughout the entirety of the show, so people will interpret it as "he fell in love with her, not knowing she's a woman" NOT as, "he fell in love with a man, who turned out to be a woman"

Here's the thing, without internet and tv, most people are completely unaware of the outside world, not just their country, but the outside of their everyday life and when i watched that show as a kid, i didn't see the queerness of it (i had no idea what the word or the concept of gay is) and now i can easily recognize how that story is one of the biggest reasons to make me, a young middle-easterns teenager who's raised religious (kinda..) understand and accept queerness so relatively easily!

So yes, more stories like this, they are groundbreaking!!