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fetus-cakes:mother-entropy:amuseoffyre:indieninja92:monstrousgourmandizingcats:abbaskiarostami:zarohk:antonwalbrook:and what about it.When you could be watching She-Ra or something actively and openly LGBTQ+ friendly.oh shut the fuck up#can’t believe people in 1956 were watching johnny guitar instead of she-ra#smhim fucking dying what the hell kind of noxious fart gas do u have to have instead of brains to fucking comment something like that im just i dont even know where to begin, between the foolishness of forgetting that queer people predate the she-ra reboot and the blatant disinterest in hearing the experiences of queer people in different contexts and the fact that maybe just maybe we dont exclusively want to watch Certified Gay media and that queer reading is a way of actively engaging in the art u consume and validating urself and etc etc… im dying, what a mook It must be so strange for kids now to wrap their head around how little representation there was back in the day. And what we did get was generally bad - if you were any kind of queer character, you were either murdered or a murderer who deserved to die. No in between. It really did a number on generations of queer people, seeing ourselves presented that way.If you want to talk animated queer characters, up into the Disney Renaissance and beyond, the only queer-coded characters you ever saw were the villains. Hell, in the Beauty and the Beast reboot, they gave us “a confirmed gay character” who was apparently LeFou, Gaston’s side-kick. I say apparently, because have you watched the film? I can only think of one mainstream film I saw from the 80s that had any positive queer representation while studying film at uniand it was tangled up in a savage critique of racism, culturalism and Thatcher’s Britain.Things are better now, yes, but let’s not forget where they started. Let’s not forget how far we’ve come and how far we still need to go.ellen is garbage, but when she came out on her TV show (april 30th, 1997. i was fifteen.) it was national news. for months.a year and a half later, matthew shepard was beaten, tortured and left to die, because he was gay. his death was also national news - but more importantly, his murder is what led to gay bashing being legally declared a hate crime. i was sixteen years old and had been with my then-girlfriend for almost a year. assaulting, raping, and killing us for being queer wouldn’t have been prosecuted as a hate crime. i could go on for so, so long but this is already pushing me close to tears.“you could be watching she-ra” my god. you know, i did watch she-ra when i was a kid.i didn’t see myself in any of them. kids today should read up on the Hays Code and how for decades no mainstream movie could have a queer character portrayed in a positive manner. At least no overt queer character. This is where queer-coding came in; film makers could subtly imply a “forbidden” sexual orientation or gender identity, but if they made it too obvious their movie would be censored.The code barely allowed for negative portrayals, though it was more “acceptable” than positive ones, so queer-coded characters appeared long as villains, sex perverts or mentally ill. No queer character could have a positive resolution to their arc; they would either have to repent or die by the end of the movie.I recommend The Celluloid Closet, a documentary on this subject. -- source link