#evan buckley/josh russo

[triskel-samulet]

Buck/josh FWB with FireBeast end game. Basically a what if the poker double date was Buck’s bi realization?

[originalcrime]

Buck: I have boy problems

Josh: I’ve been waiting for this one, turn it up!

[jdorian]

9-1-1 otherwise known as THE GAY FIREFIGHTER SHOW

[tim-lucy]

is his happiness at least as more important to you than yours?

[cobbbvanth]

Tommy, guys like me, we came up in the pre-Glee world. It was scarier, more confusing, and not half as accepting. And so, sometimes we did things to protect ourselves that... we might not be proud of, that in a post-Glee world look less than noble, but you don't judge the people who came before you. The ones who fought battles you didn't have to.

#they did this for me :) 9-1-1 › 8.06 Confessions

+ bonus

[sakuramoonlightblossom]

So I’ve been on a Buck/Josh kick lately and I was wondering, did they ever get a ship name?

I tried Jevan, but I think that belongs to a ship in another fandom. I also tried Russley but I only found a couple Buck/Josh posts using that name.

So was one of these the actual ship name and the ship just isn’t that popular, or was there another name picked for the ship?

[incorrectbuddie118]

Chim: What is gay privilege?

Buck: Better sex.

Josh: Date someone your size and double your wardrobe.

Karen: Being able to listen to really good music together cause of automatic good taste.

Eddie: No accidental kids.

(x)

[moonylouwho]

eddie diaz count your fucking days

[eddiediazismyhusband]

9-1-1 Tweets Part One

• other installments under the cut •

(Part Two) (Part Three) (Part Four) (Part Five) (Part Six) (Part Seven) (Part Eight) (Part Nine) (Part Ten) (Part Eleven)

[lover-of-mine]

#its about contrast or something

3x13 “Pinned” -> 8x06 “Confessions”

for @eddiegettingshot 💜

[autisticjoshrusso]

one quick thing i need to put out there uh as funny as it is to be like "omg the Glee namedrop bc he produced both shows" or whatever i DO need to inform you that pre-Glee/post-Glee era IS an actual academic discussion point. that is a genuine unit of cultural measurement and had been long before this. that piece of dialogue was not pulled out of nowhere it was pulled directly out of existing queer discourse.

[pedropcl]

9-1-1

S08E06: Confessions | dir. Chad Lowe

[jdorian]

It ain't no lie, baby, bi bi bi ♫

[xofemeraldstars]

#oh they're gonna get along swimmingly

[karenandhenwilson]

Let's talk about the 21st century and queer rights

Sometimes I see a post and wonder what kind of world people live in, how ignorant and hateful they are of the community they claim to be part of, and even the most recent history of that community.

I saw this post with this line in it: "Its the 21th century, are we still suppose to justify people who lie at their partners in order to protect their reputation?" And I'm not reblogging because I don't want to have it on my blog.

So, let's talk about the 21st century and queer rights in the US, shall we, @queershits?

Did you know that same-sex marriage in the US as a whole has only been legal since the Supreme Court decision on Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015? Prior to that, the first state to grant same-sex marriage was Massachusetts in 2004, while the first civil unions for gay and lesbian couples became legal in 2000. But at the same time, 28 states had banned same-sex marriage and the recognition of those marriages from other jurisdictions until 2015. In fact, the federal government had been banned from recognizing same-sex marriages by the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, which had been voided by the Supreme Court decision in 2015 but has only been fully repealed by the Respect of Marriage Act in 2022. That's all the 21st century. And very recent 21st century!

When Hen and Karen adopted Denny in 2011, they weren't married. Because at that point in time, they weren't allowed to in California.

Did you know that until the Supreme Court ruling on Lawrence v. Texas on June 26, 2003, same-sex sexual activity was illegal in 14 US states? And that even with that ruling 12 of these states have not changed their state's constitution, so that these laws aren't executable but still on the book and regularly used to harass queer people? (And didn't the current Supreme Court just say after overthrowing Roe v. Wade they'd like to take a good long look at Lawrence v. Texas, too? People might lose their rights again in those 12 states if the worst comes to pass here.) That's all the 21st century.

Did you know that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" came into effect in 1994, allowing gay and bi people to serve in the US military as long as no one found out about their sexual orientation? If they were found out, they could face dishonorable discharges or even prison time. Either would be a permanent burden on their records for the rest of their lives. DADT was repelled in 2011 after a long and hard debate. That's well into the 21st century.

Karen explicitely states that DADT is part of the reason she didn't become an astronaut. (Though, NASA was never truly subjected to the rule as it is not a military organisation. But on the other hand, many of the astronatus are active or former military.)

Tommy was at the 118 in 2005. We know he was in the Army prior to joining the LAFD. That means Tommy served under the rule of DADT, which would have been an immense burden on him.

Do you know that there is a defense called "LGBTQ+ panic" often used in combination with a defense of insanity, provocation, or self-defense? This defense tactic is only banned in 21 US states, and most of those bans are very recent. In 2018, only three states had banned this defense. In 29 US states people are allowed to say "this person is gay/trans/queer/etc and I felt threated by that fact alone so I saw myself with no other choice but to hurt them" in a court of a law and the jury has to consider that argument. That's the 21st century.

Let's take a look at the kind of world Josh, Michael, and Tommy would have been children and teenagers in. That's not quite the 21st century, but it's near enough.

Tha aids epemedic started in the 1980s, and is — for the record! — still ongoing. But in the 1980s it was very much deemed a problem of the gay community only. And many, many people claimed outrageous things like "they're getting what they deserve". Josh and Tommy are both 80s children, Michael was a teenager in the 80s. We know Tommy grew up with a bigoted and hateful man like Gerrard as a father. He probably heard the above quote and worse regularly.

Have you ever heard the name Mathew Shepard, @queershits? (If not, go and educate yourself!) Mathew Shepard was a young gay man tortured and murdered in October 1998. Josh and Tommy would have been teenagers or maybe young adults (as we don't know the exact age of either of them) when that happened. It was all over the news and there were, again, people not shying away from saying he got what he deserved. I've no doubt Tommy's father (and Gerrard) was one of those people.

That's the world Josh, Michael, and Tommy grew up in as gay men that Josh talked about. They didn't hide to protect their reputation, as it was put in the quote above. They hid to protect their life and well-being. Finding the confidence and security to let go of that kind of learned behavior to protect yourself is so hard. But all three did it!

There are still people today who have to hide like this in the US. Because they're born into the wrong family or the wrong neighborhood or the wrong religious community where being queer is still seen as a ground to hate them, to exclude them, to hurt them, to kill them.

The number of hate crimes is rising again. The hard-won rights and freedom of queer people are threatened again. It's the 21st century, but that doesn't mean we are always safe or that we don't sometimes have to do shady things to protect ourselves or that we can lean back and enjoy the rights we have. Because many of us all over the world either don't have any rights or are facing the very real danger of losing the rights again that those who came before us fought so hard for.

[buckleys9-1-1]

oliver: *being skeptic and making sure not to spoil anything in interviews*

lou: so yeah eddie is also gay and tommy was supposed to be with him but that fell through

ryan: so buck and eddie are in love and love each other to their cores and are gonna get even closer this season

abc pr team: *puts ryan on family feud with the 4 actors who play the canonically queer characters of 9-1-1*

everybody but oliver basically outting eddie including ryan himself is so funny to me