#20gayteen indeed

[mondaijo]

Proud.

A little something I came up with between commissions and SRBB work cause frankly, I feel like I’m dreaming. I still can’t believe we got to see such beautiful representation in mainstream media this soon. To the producers, the animation team, the VA cast and everyone else involved - thank you.

(( commission info | twitter ))

[elphamejourdemayne]

#20gayteen moments so far (in no specific order)

1. Hayley Kiyoko tweets:

«It’s our year, it’s our time. To thrive and let our souls feel alive. #20GAYTEEN #expectations2018»

2. Harry Styles drops «Medicine»

3. Janelle Monáe drops «Pynk»

4. Hayley Kiyoko drops her album «Expectations»

5. Troye Sivan drops his second album «Bloom»

6. Keiynan Lionsdale drops «Kiss the Boy»

7. «Love, Simon» hits theaters

8. Kehlani comes out

9. Demi and Kehlani kiss onstage

10. Alyson Stoner comes out

11. Janelle Monáe’s rainbow outfit at BET Awards

12. Keiynan Lonsdale wins MTV Movie Awards for Best Kiss for «Love, Simon»

13. «Queer Eye» gets Netflix reboot

14. India decriminalizes homosexuality

15. «Adventure Time» Princess Bubblegum and Marceline kiss

16. Ellen Page and Emma Porter announce marriage

17. Nicole Maine’s (trans activist) becomes first trans superhero for «Supergirl»

18. «Call Me By Your Name» four nominations and one win at The Oscars

19. «Una Mujer Fantástica» wins Oscar

20. «Black Lightning» lesbian superhero, Anissa Pierce, gets a girlfriend

21. Courtney Act wins Big Brother UK

22. Adam Rippon wins bronze medal for figure skating at the Winter Olympics

23. Years & Years drops «Sanctify»

24. «One Day at a Time» is renewed for a third season

25. Cheryl and Toni’s kiss in «Riverdale»

26. Kacey Musgraves releases «Rainbow» as a love letter for her LGBTQ+ fans

27. Farrah Moan and Shea Coulee clap back at homophobes:

«We're touring the world being gay while you're living in Newcastle with your crusty ass eyelashes»

- Farrah Moan

28. «Blockers» hits theaters and has gay twist

29. Kesha officiates a real-life lesbian wedding on her music video «I Need a Woman»

30. Lena Waithe rainbow outfit at Met Gala

31. «Drag Race Thailand» premieres

32. «La Más Draga» premieres

33. «Brooklyn Nine-Nine» gets resurrected by NBC a day after Fox announces cancelation

34. Ariana Grande writes letter for the LGBTQ+ community

35. Janelle Monáe comes out

36. Abbi Jacobson comes out

37. Teddy Geiger’s first public appearance after coming out as transgender in October last year

38. CupcakKe leads LGBTQ+ dance off in her music video for her LGBTQ+ supportive song «Crayons»

39. Liv’s asexual storyline in «Emmerdale»

40. Kate’s storyline in «Everything Sucks»

41. «Disobedience» hits theaters

42. «Vita and Virginia» premieres

43. Myra and Sally become couple in «Hollyoaks»

44. «The Miseducation Of Cameron Post» hits theaters

45. Holland drops «Neverland»

46. Gus Kenworthy’s televised Olympics kiss

47. Jay Z’s touching interview about his mother’s sexuality

48. The Lambda Literary Awards, which honors LGBTQ+ literature, held its 30th ceremony

[distressedmoonchild]

I’ll go to sleep now fuck me

[johnnystrophywife-remade]

🌈

[gregorycddie]

uhm what?????

[ohardently]

me: my favorite artist is hayley kiyoko, also known as lesbian Jesus, lesbian messiah

boy: that's gay

me: exactly

[pippinforthewin]

i’m out of things to do at work so for the next 3 days i’m going to make a rudimentary program to predict the possibility of rainbows appearing at a given location over a 48-hour period and that’s the true meaning of summer

[nexttothelamp]

Wow I cant even hyper blog about this im

[petrxsolano]

hayley and troye really out there making me wanna live through january

[shamewaddle]

i’m still here, wide awake, thinking abt the fact that dan quickly associated the word “lover” to phil. and they posted that on IG STORIES. i’m not okay.

[blairwarner]

jOLENE

[aktivity]

my gay heart was screaming all the way through watching What i need!!!!!! angels

[saportuh]

yalll,,,,i luv gotham,,, we have two queer actors playing two queer characters,,, two complex characters,, who have a v complicated relationship w each other,,, & they've gorgeously reinvented iconic characters & made them GAY, pissing off dudebros everywhere,,,, wow blessed

[mendedserpent]

hey for those of you that missed it the last time, I have a season 5 fs playlist that y’all can find here if you’re interested

[letstrysomefanfic]

it’s literally 1 day into the new year but one thing is clear: 2018 - 20gayteen

[mbg159]

we had 20gayteen in the bag and y’all had to trip at the last hurdle

LONG EDIT BECAUSE THIS POST SOMEHOW BECAME THE MOST POPULAR THING I’VE EVER DONE :

i appreciate how people are reblogging or commenting thinking this is pro klance. it is why i am sad to disabuse them of this notion. it’s not. fuck klance. it was the physical embodiment of fujo twink all-sizzle-no-steak bait pairings. it out-trended actual milestones in lgbt development and animation this year. it’s also the main pairing of a show that i got bored of halfway through its second season. the characters involved are a comedy moron and the blandest motherfucker in space. and i’m not even touching the horrible horrible discourse it spawned. my first reaction to hearing it was sunk was basically, "ha!"

but man. for a little while, i was both worried and hopeful that i would be proven wrong and have to eat my words. maybe they’d understand the backlash from shiro and pull the trigger on it, or it was their plan all along. and honestly? a mlm relationship between main characters on a mainstream children’s show would still be a colossal-ass milestone. it would be a genuine triumph and provide a role model for millions of kids. and considerably less importantly, i’d feel like shit for doubting a show that was trying to create some positive change. i’d be embarrassed, sure. but i’d also be happy that we got there. any schadenfreude that could derived from saying “wow who coulda predicted this” is a rounding error in the overall good it would do.

but that’s also why i’m not overtly torn up about it not happening. because this is a trend. people have been pulling it for decades, and klance is just the latest scam. the reason people are angry about it now is because they thought this scam had finally died. in an era where shows are making real splashes by swapping out their bait for actual meals, it’s pathetic to see a half-measured dinosaur like this. i’d say the over-under on the actual first main MLM pairing is inside of the next two years, but to not take that step is cowardly regardless.

the thing about queerbaiting is it’s something these shows can drag out forever. all they have to do is keep a slight bit of ambiguity and not quite pull the trigger on any heterosexual romances until the last episode. and then the entire fandom realizes they’ve been getting pulled around by the nose - but at that point it doesn’t bloody matter, does it? y’all made voltron a success story. you can’t go back and tell everyone that klance was fake. you can’t vote with your dollar and swear you’re not gonna watch the next season because there isn’t one. you’ve been duped. and that sucks.

so klance shippers - your fury is righteous. you have indeed been cheated. you can reblog this. even if i still don’t forgive you for flooding my dash with discourse about whether sheith is pedophilia or not.