#queer bts

[stvrkeysgal]

no man has ever babygirled the way drew babygirled as eugene

[decladam]

eugene !

[greeneugene77]

Oh this is interesting. I kinda had a very different read on this scene...

Because Eugene reaches back only a few seconds after speaking to Lee, I assumed that he's actually still awake, and is trying to comfort Lee under the guise of having fallen asleep.

In both the script and the book at this point Lee thinks this: "He tries to lie absolutely still so as to not wake Allerton and have him move away." Which I understood as Lee convincing himself that Eugene would never willingly reach out for him, so he must be asleep. It must be that Eugene was just streching in his sleep and accidentaly touched Lee without knowing.

The tragic irony here being that Lee fears that if Eugene was awake he would move away from him, not realizing that Eugene is awake and not moving away.

"And in the sleep, Allerton reaches out for Lee, which sends a shock in Lee because Lee knows that this is a gesture of the unconscious. And as we know, the unconscious never lies, if you believe in psychoanalysis." -Luca Guadagnino in the Queer (2024) filmmaker commentary

Queer (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

[brazilianturtle]

every queer person deserves at least one pair of fingerless gloves

[just-another-dream-about-yuu]

sunkissed

[michuga]

see both sides like chanel

summary: your best friend, jeongguk, has only ever dated boys. unbeknownst to you, (he was also into girls).

pairing: jeongguk x fem reader

content: best friends to lovers, sexual tension, fluff, reader is a little absentminded, jk is a damn tease

warnings: cursing, (it gets steamy)

wc: 2k

you and jeongguk have been friends for the past seven years.

jeongguk has only ever dated boys.

does that a gay man make? no! of course not, you knew this. it is the big year of 2025 after all. sexuality is a spectrum; and you were never one to judge.

leaning in, jeongguk brushes his lips against yours.

and that's how you ended up kissing your very gay best friend.

or, not? i guess?

you don't know if it was because he was your best friend; instantly crossed off as a potential lover in your mind anyway, or because he was always sporting a new shiny boy toy every couple of weeks. or the crop tops he wore all throughout high school. or the sexy fireman posters plastered all over his dorm room walls in college! either way; you never would have expected to end up bent over on his couch on a random tuesday afternoon.

but one thing is for sure.

you were stupid.

oh so very stupid.

you're probably wondering how you got here.

well, let me walk you through it.

it all started with an incident that happened a few months ago.

your best friend, jeongguk, was on your bed, ranting to you about his new fling.

"i can't believe i ever thought jimin and i could work," he complains.

grabbing the hem of your blouse, you lift it up and off your body, tossing it across your room.

left in your black lacy bra, you scour your closet for something to wear.

a minute or so passes, and you finally notice the silence that falls upon the room. you turn around to find him visibly preoccupied, going through his phone.

"you were saying..?" you tap his shoulder.

clearing his throat he continues, maintaining eye contact with his phone, "i just don't think he's the one for me. he's too.. flaky?"

you've always found it adorable how jeongguk got shy at times like these. it's been seven years and he has remained ever the gentleman, never taking advantage of your friendship or abusing the amount of trust you put in him. you never had reason to doubt him anyway, it's not like you were exactly his... type, per se.

"i agree, babe. you deserve way better than that," you say, returning to the agonizing task at hand; finding an outfit amidst the chaos that is your closet.

finally picking one out, you hold up the hangers against your body, standing in front of your full length mirror to see how it would look on you.

"what do you think of this?" you ask, lost in thought.

"your black skirt would go along better," jeongguk mumbles from your bed.

"right? i thought so too." putting the hangers down, you bend over to grab said skirt from your bottom drawer.

from an outside perspective, one could consider you shameless.

from jeongguk's perspective, he found you amusing.

and from your perspective.. well, the most complicated thought in your mind right now was putting together a damn outfit.

an hour later, you and jeongguk sit at your table eating the brunch he cooked you, catching up on your busy lives; as was your routine together.

"and this girl i was fooling around with at the time-"

your brain short circuits.

"come again?"

"what?"

"sorry, i thought you said girl." you say with a dismissive laugh, "imagine that."

"i did." he looks at you with furrowed eyebrows and an amused smile.

the entirety of your coffee is wasted in your spit take.

you wish you were exaggerating.

cleaning up the mess you made on the table, you backtrack.

"you like girls???"

"..yes?"

looking at him suspiciously, you scramble to find your words. you didn't want to offend him, but he had caught you very off guard.

"did you think i was gay?" he asks, with a raise of his eyebrows, fully dumbfounded this time.

"i've just.. you've always.. i've only ever seen you with guys?"

"well yeah, those are just the ones i've encountered, i guess."

"you're telling me we've been friends for the past seven years, and i'm just finding this out now?"

"damn. when you put it that way, you sound like a real bad friend, you know," he says with a chuckle, casually gulping down the rest of his coffee.

oh. oh.

helikesgirls

helikesgirlsandhe'sseenyounaked

helikesgirlsandhe'sseenyounakedonmultipleoccasions

with a small smirk and a tilt of his head, he gets up and walks up to you. "don't worry, you're still not my type." he whispers in your ear.

"if you need me, i'll be with the community dick!" he yells out as he walks away, taking your dignity and your pride with him; the last of it escaping with the final click of your apartment door.

"god how stupid am i?" you complain, rather dramatically, to your other best friend, hoseok. "i mean, how could i just blatantly assume he was gay? what if i made him uncomfortable before and he never told me? i'm a terrible friend!" flailing your arms, you ignore the dirty looks from onlookers passing by.

"i'm sure if you had made him uncomfortable, he would have told you. this is jeongguk we're talking about? are you trying to tell me he has any sort of filter?" he jokes, trying to cheer you up.

repeatedly bumping your head into the wall in front you, you surrender to the sea of embarrassment you found yourself drowning in.

"you should have seen my face. as if i wasn't stupid enough already, i made things awkward and rethought every interaction we've ever had, like, right in front of him. you could literally see the gears turning in my brain. i probably looked like a bloated pufferfish blowing bubbles. stupid, stupid, stupid," you repeatedly smack yourself in the face.

"wait. you're gay though, right??" you ask, suddenly feeling as insecure as ever.

"yes babe, i came out to you in the 12th grade. still as straight as rupaul." he says with a chuckle, finding your meltdown completely adorable.

reaching behind you, he takes hold of your seatbelt and fastens it.

you can't help but burn bright red. what the fuck is wrong with you? what ever changed? he's still jeongguk. your jeongguk. the same jeongguk whose clothes you helped clean from vomit, after he got drunk one too many times back in college?

you feel like ripping all your hair out.

maybe this wasn't such a good idea.

jeongguk had picked you up from work, and you were on your way to his place to hang out, as usual.

"so it's either that or fried chicken.. what do you think?"

"huh?"

"i said what do you want to order??"

"oh.. anything is fine, thanks," you say awkwardly, clearing your throat.

"okay then?" he says as he starts the car.

a few hours later and the evening was going smoothly. perhaps too smoothly.

mishaps forgotten, you and your best friend sit in his living room, eating, laughing, and watching desperate housewives. just as you always have been for years.

"i'm gonna go get us some more drinks," you say as you get up, making your way over to his kitchen.

"he's such an idiot," you mumble to yourself as you chuckle, remembering the joke jeongguk had cracked a minute prior.

initially you open the fridge to check for beer, but there wasn't any; so you resort to plan B: the fancy wine he stores in his top cupboard.

you stand on your tiptoes and extend your arm up, trying to reach the wine bottle.

suddenly you feel a prescence behind you. last time you checked, brick walls can't move. so if 1+1 equals 2; then warmth, musky vanilla and hard equals jeongguk.

you see a bigger arm reach up and get the job done. "here, let me."

"thanks.." and just like that, the strange feeling is back.

you knew there was no way the evening could go smoothly. no, you're never that lucky.

pulling away, jeongguk pops open the wine bottle, pouring crimson liquid in two glasses.

you jump up to sit on the kitchen counter.

"have you picked out an outfit for the gathering yet?" he asks, taking a sip of his wine.

"nope," you say with a sigh, shoulders slumped in defeat. "it seems like everything i try doesn't look as good on me as i imagine in my head."

"but everything looks good on you, doll."

"are you putting the moves on me, jeon?" you say, jokingly; waiting for him to laugh along.

inching closer, closer, closer.. he stops and situates himself between your legs.

"and what if i am?" he mutters with a deep hushed voice. "am i making you nervous?" mere inches between your faces laced with thick, undeniable tension. he dare not raise his voice a single octave; for that could ruin the intimacy of it all.

whether it was something in the air or the liquor in both your systems, something between you had shifted.

this was not your gay best friend.

this was someone much more dangerous.

"we really.. really shouldn't.." voice barely above a whisper, you manage to let out with every remaining ounce of self-control you have. a feather light hand on his chest, you fruitlessly attempt to push him away; physically melting into his touch instead.

grabbing your hand, he holds it in his.

"do you have any idea how batshit crazy you drove me all those times, stripping half naked right in front of me?" he starts, voice raspy and full of need, slowly tracing his finger along your thigh, going up, up.. "mindlessly running your mouth, bending over in your tiny panties.. when all i wanted to do was bend you over myself, and put you in your place? my best friend of seven years, assuming my sexuality.. tsk tsk.."

ghosting a hand over your throat, he firmly grips your chin, lifting your head up to meet his gaze.

"do you want me to show you.." with a sinister smirk he breathes into your ear, "just how much i love women?"

your breath catches in your throat.

it was at that moment he leaned forward and crashed his lips against yours, closing the gap between you.

78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen in the atmosphere, but right in this very room and in this very moment; it's 100% you, jeongguk, and your breathless pants. a different third gas; the kind that smells like blurring the lines between you and your best friend. potentially damning a solid friendship, and throwing years down the drain. not 1% was spared for rationale.

both of you are forced separate, bound by your human bodies, in need of air.

ravenous, you grab his shirt collar and shoved him right against your face, devouring his lips once more.

with a groan, his free hand grabs your calf, hitching your leg against his hip. you wrap it around his waist, while the other hangs low; your heels hanging poorly on your foot and finally dropping to the floor with a clank.

both of you move rhythmically at first, then it gets sloppy; a sense of urgency overwhelming you. your lips move together with hurry, adrenaline coursing through your body; as if replacing the very blood that flows through your veins. chasing his lips, you just about swallow him whole.

not that he minds, he seems adamant on doing the exact same.

tangling your fingers in his hair, you angle your head better to ensure your prey is perfectly trapped. an act of cannibalism.

it was primal in the most natural way, finally letting go after an entire night of need and clouded lust.

"mm'not.. here," you mumble in between kisses.

finally picking you up and wrapping both your legs around his waist, he wastes no time leading you to the nearest surface he could find. well, as good as he can see, anyway.

and that's the story of how you hooked up with your bisexual best friend.

you learned the hard way.

[leashybebes]

by popular demand, more of this.

It seems like there's a lot of ways to get it wrong. Buck just doesn't want to get it wrong. It's a word that's supposed to be him, and he doesn't want to get it wrong.

Some people say bisexual is exclusionary. Some people get real animated about the fact that it's not. Pansexual, he remembers from watching Schitt's Creek with Maddie - the wine, not the label. Queer feels…scary. He reads about the history of reclaiming slurs but like. No one's ever used that word as a slur against him, so is it allowed? Is he allowed?

He thinks about high school, thinks about dude that's so gay. Gay having almost nothing to do with sexuality, but gay meaning bad, gay meaning uncool, gay meaning unwanted. He feels grimy and guilty when he closes his laptop.

Does it even matter? He likes women, and he likes Tommy.

Liked.

He liked Tommy.

Does that even need a word?

[andy-wm]

President of the Jikook fan club makes his statement

Hobi's And What exhibition merch includes this bucket hat 🥹

You're safe with me 🧷

I guess when your leader's had a same sex partner (rumoured)

and your rapper-producer came out as bi/pan years ago (from his own mouth)

and two of your besties (and band mates) are co-stars in the most delicious gay love story (evidence abounds)

When all of that is true, I guess you must be a safe person to be around

Hobi really is that genuinely supportive ally who adores his friends no matter who they date.

If you didnt love him to the moon and back before, this will surely clinch it for you.

But... they've worn that before right?

Yes, they have worn safety pins in their stage fits and their concept photos, but this is significant because its the first time BTS official merch has had this symbolic element.

And this isn't a safety pin as just another decorative flourish in amongst chains, rings, pendants and grommets.

This is a plain black hat with a prominent pin as a feature.

And just in time for pride month... is it purely a coincidence? I think not.

But a safety pin could have lots of meanings...

Yes it could.

It's been an element of punk styling for decades too. (Punk is the archetypal anti-establishment movement and stands right alongside LGBTQIA+ culture). But the way it's used in punk culture is different. It's often worn as a piercing, or dozens of safety pins on an outfit.

You're unlikely to find a lone safety pin OR a bucket hat on a punk.

So no a safety pin isn't always a queer signal, but it's enough of a signal to be recognisable to most LGBTQIA+ people. And ultimately that's who it's worn for.

It's not a fashion statement, its a PSA.

They've worn it on stage, sure, but I'm really only interested when it's a personal choice. And we do see it off stage and when they're in their own clothes.

Yoongi, Namjoon, Jimin and JK with safety pin bucket hats 🏳️‍🌈

[queer-cinephile]

our enhanced photo of Jennifer Grey kissing Mia Sara behind the scenes of Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

[queerly-autistic]

I've been turning over the 'boyfriends' deleted scene in my head all day, rotating it gently in my hands to get a good look at it from all angles, trying to figure out why it hit me in such an emotional place, and I realised it's because it's so...young?

It just perfectly captures that wonder and surprise and joyfulness of being in love for the first time, and realising that you can suddenly use words like 'boyfriend' and they mean something tangible to you - testing out the language and definitions of your relationship for the first time and being absolutely giddy with it all.

And the fact that it's two middle aged men, who have both been on their own specifically queer journeys, gives it a whole other layer of meaning and importance.

As queer people, so many of us were denied the opportunity to have these experiences when we were kids; standing on the sidelines and watching our peers go through all these rites of passage, whilst never quite able to reach out and touch it ourselves. And I think many of us live in perpetual fear that because we didn't to get to have this as kids, then we've missed out, and we will never get the chance to have those experiences in the same way.

But it isn't too late.

My mum came out as gay at 50, and I watched her go through the same thing when she met her first ever girlfriend (who is now her wife): the absolute excited youthful joy of being in love and getting to do all the things she never got a chance to do when she was younger. As a twenty year old, I was a bit annoyed and embarrassed by my mum suddenly turning into a lovesick teenager, but looking back on it now as a thirty-something, it actually makes me well up slightly thinking about how absolutely beautiful it was.

And that's why the 'boyfriend' moment puts me in such an emotional headspace. Because what this silly show did was cup my face gently in its hands and say 'it's never too late to have this'.

I'm so, so glad that we have so much representation for younger queers these days; that young queers get to see themselves represented on screen, having all these experiences that every young person deserves to have. But it's so much rarer for us to see older queers represented in this way, too. Older queers getting to have this is so important, and watching these two men in their 40s experience this, being allowed to revel in the giddy joy of first love - omg we're boyfriends! - like the happy lovesick teenagers they thought they'd forever lost the chance to be, it's just everything to me.

[greeneugene77]

[redwhitebuddie]

im sorry???

[queen-of-hawkins-why-ler]

If this is the people of Hawkins’s reaction to Eddie, just think of what their reaction will be to two queer boys who are rumored to have ties to the occult. It’s so joever for Mike and Will like their gay asses are getting witch hunted. 🧙‍♀️😭💀

[ryliversbuddie]

Hearing Oliver acknowledge Bisexual Buck feels so good 😭😭 Love Oliver so much for this, he’s great

[lay1306]

Listen, I always try to be very mindful of keeping my wild fandom mind and reality properly separated and not become ACTUALLY insane about a ship, but as a 30 year old queer I feel like I must say that there is no way that what jikook are doing isn't an actual gradual soft launch. As someone who has the tiniest bit of actual life experience now, I just don't see how their dynamic and chemistry could NOT be read as romantic. Are they coworkers? yes. Are they best friends? yes. But it's pretty obvious there something even deeper going on there and it's honestly just denial at this point to think otherwise.

And it all comes back to the whole fandom thing again. So many people try to deny it by making whole ass essays about how they interacted with x y and z that one time. I need y'all to remember they're actual people and real people are capable of incredibly complex relationships with more than one person at once. They have friends that aren't each other, they have confidants that aren't each other. And if anything, all those interactions just make an even more stark of a contrast as to how THEIR relationship is different than all the ones they have with other people.

[g4y-th0ughts]

i appreciate the realistic way in which corrie is portraying what falling for a woman feels like with carla’s storyline. like yes, exactly, you’re going to get with a woman and first of all, you’re going to realize that she treats you better than all of the men you’ve dated before (turns out you’re actually a flower person when it’s your girlfriend who picks them out anytime you need cheering up and you don’t have to ask for them) (turns out your feelings actually matter and deserve to be validated).

then, you’re going to see that you can put all your anger and body armour down because all you’re being met with is softness (the same reassurance a thousand times) (i’m going nowhere) (of course i’m sure).

and after a bit of resistance, you try it out, you peel off the layers around your heart and let yourself bask in the love (you still can’t believe it’s real) (you’re terrified of her bailing on you daily). and you don’t know where all this clinginess is coming from all of a sudden but you find that you actually don’t care (you want her close all the time, pressed up together on the couch and buttering your toast only inches away from her) (you say i love you one month into the relationship) (where’s lisa? i need lisa).

you realize you’re so down bad that sometimes it’s cute (triple texting sending kisses even during a fight that you didn’t cause) and sometimes it’s straight up dumb (offering to move out of your own flat just to make sure she has somewhere safe and familiare to sleep). but ultimately it’s never dangerous because there’s so much safety, so much love (she fucks up and lashes out at you but her apology is genuine) (shaky sobs at the idea of hurting you) (relieved sigh when you show her that you still want her) (i don’t need space, i need you). soft soft soft all around (wiping away tears from her face) (tucking her hair behind her ears) (realizing you’ve got something precious in your hands) (something you can never let go of) (you’ll forever be a simp and you’re okay with that).

so yeah, great healthy sapphic rep!