#gay couples in media

[k-wame]

MALAKAI & ROWAN | Heartbreak High 2024 · Teen · Drama · S2·EP4

[honeybadger-who-gives-a-shit]

Not enough people are talking about Mr. Loverman on bbc. This show has:

Two elderly black men in love

Tale about internalized homophobia

Caribbean culture in England and in Antigua

Family dynamics and intergenerational relations

Great acting

A touching story

Is based on a book (I haven't read it yet, but I heard great things)

I won't tell you more because I don't want to spoil it.

Granted, it's not a perfect show, but it is sweet and you should definitely give it a try.

[waytooinvested]

So I just finished watching Supergirl for the first time, after years of it being vaguely on my radar via tumblr gifs.

I need to preface this by saying that I went into it determined not to get invested in Lena and Kara in any way. I knew they were not canon and assumed that supercorp was a ship built on the odd long look and friend thing that could be interpreted as gay if you want to make it so (which to be clear I am totally on board with - I mean why WOULDN'T you make it gay if you could?? But this time I was not going to get sucked in. Oh no, not me. This was strictly casual background noise viewing with no emotional investment whatsoever).

I am not that into superhero shows generally so I thought this would be easy.

Then I actually watched it and OH MY GOD.

That is supposed to be a platonic friendship?

THAT?

ARE THEY FREAKING KIDDING???

Now I’m over here writing supercorp fanfiction and I am MAD ABOUT IT.

(and also not because actually I have missed being invested enough in a ship to fic about it. But still)

[lukedifferent]

To the beautiful days between us - Luke C.-

Ai giorni belli fra di noi - Luke C.-

Fonte Ph: Lauro ❤️ Instagram

[formerprincewille]

Something that really sets Wille and Simon apart from other queer ships is that when we say their love language is physical touch, IT REALLY IS PHYSICAL TOUCH. And I’m not speaking of just sex. Over the course of the show, the amount of touching between them is astronomical. And that’s really something rarely seen in queer media. There may be moments here or there, but often times there’s a lack of physical contact unless it’s for “the plot”. Wille and Simon feel like a real couple in the way they’re always physically reaching out for each other.

[fossilizedhysterics]

guess who finished tlok tonight and immediately had this come to him in a vision!!!!

[sillypenguinwitch]

okay so i'm not trying to make this a ~thing~ or a hot take or whatever, but can we talk about how all the hyped up queer shows still predominantly feature mlm couples? i'm not saying there aren't wlw shows/movies or the mlm-focused shows don't also feature wlw characters/couples, just... they either get nowhere near the same amount of hype, have some other main plot, end with at least one of them dying or experiencing something traumatic, get cancelled after one season in the middle of their arc, or they're not the main couple. And that's not to discount the representation you can get from secondary characters of course but just... ugh I want a heartstopper or rwrb or young royals or skam or love, simon or i don't even know... with girls. And I know I'm not the first person to bring this up and I know it's not that simple, but seeing all the hype for heartstopper and rwrb this week makes my heart ache a little bit so i needed to say this somewhere.

[aubreyplazawife]

Birds of Paradise 2021

[herrlichersonnigertag]

Do the tumblrinas know about Le Nozze di Figaro (1786, Mozart/Da Ponte)

[alexpression]

Gays really love running away instead of being vulnerable with each other, huh?

[merlinmerlot]

on my shit again (taking two side npcs that literally don't ever interact and shoving them together like dolls)

[k-wame]

ANDREW SCOTT as Adam & PAUL MESCAL as Harry All of Us Strangers (2023) dir. Andrew Haigh

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

Every time I see someone acting like OFMD caters to straight people or is innoffensive or that the show isn't unapologetically queer enough their arguments always seem to amount to "No real queer rep has ever existed in history" when taken to it's logical conclusion. Like they gave us a rom com about gay men which included a nonbinary character who just was nonbinary and didn't explain themselves to the audience and then people immediately started saying "but they don't even have lesbians" because that's the knit pick for a show that takes place in a male dominated setting (a pirate ship) and the crew was like "Ok heard here's some lesbians" and then the goalpost shifted to "the polyamory wasn't poly enough" (are Jackie and Husbands chopped liver to you girl?) And at this point we're one intersex person away from the whole fucking LGBTQIA acronym, one of the characters has successfully transitioned into a fucking bird, there was an entire drag show, and we haven't seen a single named heterosexual character in 8 entire episodes. Like I'm sorry if this is not gay enough for you then nothing is.

[adustoflove]

I always think well if I dated a man, I wouldn't feel as insane. I wouldn't feel so awful or jealous. And then I remember why I came to the conclusion that I'm a lesbian. I just wouldn't care if it were a man. I just can't bring myself to care about men like that 😔😩😭

[lukedifferent]

Centurioni romani innamorati

Roman soldiers in love

Via Aristide777

[babooshkart]

we can wear the rings, and we’ll know