Seeing the recommendation posts and the book discussion posts, I'm actually wonder is there anything produced for or with gay people that's worth it? I can name 3 books of the top of my head, all science fiction, with some gay content, worth reading. The vast majority of it, pure shit. Most of it was produced for and by women who fetishize or treat gays like they do little dogs. The rest is produced by butt-squealing faggots from NYC/LA who are the very definition of plague rats.
Is there such thing as good gay content? That is to say, is there media with a gay person featured as a normal person and not some freak. I'm tired of being demonized by the left for not being a flaming whore who shits a new man's cum every 5 minutes and by the right for not being a super-repressed faggot who kills other gays to score points with some crazy deity for being born a filthy sinner homo. Just some regular person. There's got to be.
Not OP, and not gay, but I do find it interesting when you occasionally see explicitly gay characters, who don't act "Hollywood gay" or whatever. So I think this thread is interesting not for "representation" or anything, but just as a bit of a social experiment or whatever.
Probably interesting to look at a breakdown by year when the the media were released. There was a definite push in the late 90s/early 00s to make gays appear to be "just ordinary guys who just happen to like having sex with other guys".
The neighbors in American Beauty, Oscar in The Office, the "Hot Cops" in Arrested Development. I'm sure there are others but those come immediately to mind.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking to. Late 90s and early to mid 00s sounds about right.
Well, by then it was dead. Got excited about having satellite for the first time. Which came with ShowTime. Tried watching Queer as Folk with my mother because it had Sharon Gless from Cagney and Lacey. We turned that shit off real fucking quick. Showtime got blocked by me.
Exactly. Can Hollywood make a normal person who just happens to be gay? I don't know.