You see, I do like that we are getting more and more representation for LGBTQIA+ community in wide media in the last 20 years; it was in fact a problem when the only character we’d see on TV was a fem queen who was always used as a joke + https://twitter.com/buckleysdiaz/status/1249659061177589760

+ However, having in mind the moment we are living in our community, I think it’s specially important to not shift the focus entirely towards the “straight acting” members of our community. Transgender people, fem queens, butch lesbians and people of color were always the first +

+ ones to show up in movements such as Stonewall and were always the ones who suffered the most with prejudice and prosecution. It bothers me that nowadays this community wants to show how much alike any straight person we are by showcasing only “straight acting” members +

+ In a attempt of normalizing the image of gay people (white cis and rich gay people, let’s not forget), that actually hurts the community when it creates a image that you’re only normal and relatable if you follow heteronormative rules of social behavior, or “act straight”

I don’t know, I may be in some kind of parallel reality to be able to see this, or...? @Station19 @GreysABC @911LoneStar

PS.: let’s not get into the whole “straight actors playing LGBTQIA+ roles” debate, ‘cause that would make this thread even longer.