that supergirl lesbian kiss where the girls look like they are going to quit after that take is the polar opposite of the scene in brokeback where alma sees jack and ennis making out and heath ledger almost broke jake gyllenhaals nose
the binary
#someone said ‘the supergirl kiss looks like when michael kissed oscar on the office’ and it does and i’m screaming
this is literally the same gif
I fucking choked
Hollywood cast queer folks to play queer characters challenge. And cast POC to play POC
This last point is absolutely true.
HOWEVER.
Having been in high school when Brokeback Mountain came out, I can tell you Heath and Jake took A LOT of heat for many of the scenes in it (including this one), because they WEREN’T all awkward and afraid to touch each other. They both went in with the attitude of “we’ve been hired to portray a relationship, and we’re going to do that.” I lost count of the number of times they were asked if it was weird/different to kiss another man. I think it was Jake who made the most confused face ever at the camera and kind of went “….no…..? A kiss is a kiss?” The speculation on their sexualities ran RAMPANT—at the same time that Heath started dating Michelle Williams (who played his wife, in the most positive-but-ironic turn of events ever). They literally were basically not allowed to say “queer people are people, and you don’t have to be queer to see that queer people can love and cherish each other emotionally and physically.” They did their best to do that, working against a mass media that was going “look, it’s a story about TWO MEN!! And they HAVE SEX!!! HOW FREAKY!!!”
So while I agree that in 2019 we should be aspiring to cast queer actors to play queer roles, please recognize that the fact we can aspire to that now is partly because of what two straight actors did fifteen years ago, when they decided they weren’t going to be afraid to risk breaking each other’s faces in a show of passion and longing.
#I’m happy that young queers are getting so much compared to my youth #but there’s such a lack of understanding at the same time #like you can tell they never grew up in a world where their first experience with queerness was a brutal violent murder
Brokeback Mountain was released in 2005.
Lawrence v Texas, the lawsuit that overturned sodomy laws that made gay sex illegal, was in 2003.
The cast was set before SCOTUS made that ruling. The film was already being planned at a time when gay sex was a crime in more than a dozen US states.
They couldn’t “get queer actors to play queer roles” because the majority of queer actors were deeply closeted, because it was a crime in a lot of places, including all of Texas and Florida. Your movie has a scene at Disneyworld? Can’t have known queer actors or they could be arrested during filming.
I don’t know how to get across how different it is now.
This is just additional flame on the fire of that stupid “why didn’t Elliot Page come out in 2007” thing.
Trixie and Katya, two alumnaes from ru pauls drag race, actually had a shirt discussion about this on one of their podcast’s.
At 44:25, they talk about how if there were LGBT actors playing those roles back then unfortunately they just wouldn’t be watched, cared for or even recognized, and Katya later adds that the problem isn’t that straight actors should or not play gay characters, the problem is that for a long time in the industry and even to this day LGBT people are still not being given jobs to even play random main roles much less gay ones, she perfectly puts it “i don’t want gay people to only play gay people and i don’t want straight people to only play straight people, i want to people to play people, i want everyone to play everyone”
1) a very simple and genuine “i like your shoelaces”, which tells me that you are either a lesbian or a very cool ally
2) “i like your shoelaces” followed by the pronounced grimace of one recalling their past sins, which tells me that you were a 2012 tumblr user. i now hold the power in this conversation and you are at my mercy.
if you know about 2012 tumblr how do you hold any power in any conversation
well, stucky fanfic url, the trick is to not let them know that you are also cringe
This is what hozier meant when he says he falls a little bit in love everyday with someone new
I once watched a girl in the produce aisle pick up a bushel of bananas that were precariously perched on the edge and move them farther back and under her breath she said “there you go sweeties - that will be more comfortable” before shuffling off and… I think about her often.
« Silent lovers » is such a sweet way to put it.
I was driving on the highway and passed a dude absolutely JAMMING alone in his car, doing those little half dance moves you do when you’re stuck sitting down in a small space, bellowing unheard lyrics at the top of his lungs, and my instant reaction was to think “I love you.” And then to pray he had a good day, or whatever, because those fleeting moments of connection are so incredible.
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Sorry for the shaky voice,I almost cry sorry I’m not being dramatic, I just can’t stop myself.
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