#homosexual lions

[bangoose]

Low effort shitpost

[conartisthaiji]

i think my favorite part of the lion's head fights was that everyone was like "i am here to shame you into being a better person" EXCEPT for hiragi vs sako. that fight was just sako going "i am going to beat your ass for telling me to stop following you >:(" and hiragi going "i'm sorry i left you behind and also i'm going to beat YOUR ass :(". that was some real gay shit right there.

[jazzy-flowerr]

Indigo Park more like Homosexual Park (why am I like this-)

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(torso-less Lloyd edit (aka loy) made by Scorpius_1999cute on Reddit)

(Ranglore and Twimbly belong to @lunozapp) (hiiiii :3)

[k0tta]

Sorry for this random Ship, but i can't, i love them

[number-1-panstander]

they were gay they were queer they were homosexuals that were gay please you gotta listen to me please pls plaes

[uwmspeccoll]

Steamy Saturday

"Creatures of the twilight . . . . driven to prowl their secret, forbidden underground."

"Here is the half-world of the invert . . . the bitter crises and reckless acts to which his irresistible urges drive him."

Julian, his friend, had broken away from this world of searing desire. . . . And then . . . he had committed a monstrous act. Page had to know why. . . . Because he himself, once, had been Julian's lover. . . ."

Oh, the steamy mystery! Dr. Tony Page is a successful psychiatrist, and when his friend Julian Leclerc, a handsome and talented young barrister -- and Tony's former lover -- is found dead, an apparent suicide, something doesn't seem right, and Tony sets out to uncover the truth. His quest takes him from the parties and pubs of the gay underworld of 1950s London to Scotland Yard and the House of Commons as he uses his shrewd and penetrating insight to find who or what was responsible for Julian's death.

Such is the premise of Rodney Garland's The Heart in Exile, a groundbreaking classic of gay fiction and considered the first gay detective story, published in this pulp paperback edition by Lion Library Editions in 1956. The novel, written by Hungarian émigré Adam de Hegedus (1906-1958) using the pen name Rodney Garland, was first published in London by W. H. Allen in 1953. It was a commercial success and was positively reviewed by mainstream publications, and it continues to maintain a significant presence in the queer cultural imagination. The cover art for this first American pulp edition is by noted American artist Arthur Shilstone (1922-2020).

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[disaster-bxy]

BLEH

phil is SO me xp

[ivyllamauwu]

No straight man stands like that

[angevinyaoiz]

The Devil’s Crown (1978)

Not news to anyone who follows me lol, but for the folks who are now doing their seasonal The Lion in Winter watching and going “Wow I’m getting some real Succession Vibes from this weirdo family” Are you all aware that there is, indeed, a miniseries about the Plantagenets where Brian Cox indeed plays Henry II and does his own take on the famous bombastic patriarch dealing with Heir Drama…in 1978…

He’s so toxic and unhinged with lots of artistic license of course but there’s a lot of cool details from various texts included into his characterization, which I love. I especially appreciate the approach to stuff oike the Thomas Becket drama, which places it more in the historical context while still keeping in line with the homoerotic precedent. Jane Lapotaire’s Eleanor is brilliant too, and it’s great to see her as kind of the center of the story as it covers and develops over several years.

It’s available (in french) on Madelen but not really available officially on english platforms which is a shame, but you can find uploads various places if you dig around (or u can ask me… hehe)

The “style” of the show is very artistic and stylized stage-play esque, lots of not hiding the Artifice of the costumes and set, kind of in the vein of I, Claudius but kind of inspired by medieval manuscripts. Which isn’t everyone’s thing but i personally ADORE. A lot to nerd out about!

Also the toxic Dadson (x3) in it is unreal. As one of the only adaptions ever (besides Becket i think? And that one Dan Jones Goofy documentary with the reenactors) To feature Henry the Young King as a major character, they incorporate that kind of weird political/personal emotional dependency that ends up being a huge instigator of the conflict. they even do the cute dadson bed sharing at Chinon…(right before the BETRAYAL)

Anyways, I always feel like I should share… it’s tough for what’s practically a lost media bc its literally only in this Potato Quality, but for me the design and the strength of the actors and loving attention to lots of detail in the decisions made visually and storywise makes it really special to me, it’s just really neat to see! I love TLIW, but it’s also cool to see the longer version of the “story” of these figures and how it develops and changes over time, and also explores I think some of the more abuse and relational consequences over the years. It is a bit dated in its historical positions at times, like any media, but it holds together as a story well. Very strange show, very made with love, very problematically gay (for real)and incestuous (as we like it). Highly recommended to people who want a medieval experience that is both colorful and strange but also familiar…

[hearteyespierce]

Paper Lion (1968) dir. Alex March

[plushbunbun-blog]

No rush

A pride piece. I feel more people might need this. And ye I still struggle with finding myself. And with accepting what I got figured out that I don't really like.

We all got time. It's not a race. We all get there in our own time and you shouldn't feel like you have to know right away, Try new things, gain some life experience and it will someday click for you.

[0rg13]

Ok

I don’t know who this is for, but being sick and having just woken up randomly at 4 am I’ve hit this absurd train of thought

What if, like, we just started saying the most absurd things about remasters/remakes?

Like advertising all of the live action Disney’s as having

‘50x as much gay sex’

Because strictly speaking the original’s had 0 gay sex, so the math works out

I really don’t know how much this is anything, but thank you for not listening to my Ted talk, who now’s if this survives until the actual morning

[jeannereames]

@bestnoncannonship, here you go!

Calling all the queer Classicists. :-)

BookTok Part I, going over some of the important books (and a few articles) about homoeroticism in ancient Greece. This covers material pre-2000. It's not everything, but several important works, including some that had an impact on my own academic work ("An Atypical Affair?: Alexander the Great, Hephaistion Amyntoros and the Nature of Their Relationship," et al.), as well as on Dancing with the Lion.

Enjoy! Part II will come, but probably not for a little bit. I'm covered up in grading/et al. Same goes for the asks.

But I will answer!

[thedawnofcrime]

Buddy I got some news for you

[k0tta]

I had a vision

[tenth-sentence]

Initial observations of homosexuality in captive female Lions, made in 1942, were confirmed in the wild in 1981, while observations of male pairs in wild Great Cormorants in 1992 corroborated early observations of this phenomenon among zoo birds in 1949.

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl