bts being the biggest allies of the lgbtqia+ community, defeating toxic masculinity and moving beyond heteronormative stereotypes: a very long, detailed thread:

starting all the way back from 2013 to re-stating the same in a recent billboard article

when they released I know in 2016

a lot of people have often said stigma & boy meets evil are extremely queer-coded songs

in their japanese song 'good day' yoongi's verse addressed boys, not girls.

they've always openly supported queer artists!!!

and also collaborated with multiple

taehyung wearing NBA pride team shirt during DNA era

jungkook consistently wearing clothes from genderless brands / regardless of gender

when yoongi said gender isn't really a variable in his attraction to people and personality matters more to him in a japanese interview (caused a lot of controversy, people said they were "mistranslations" but yoongi bi/pan - if not labelled but still real)

yoongi bi/pan part 2

94s constantly mentioning the importance of accepting all forms of love, not just queers but also love directed towards yourself.

when they all collectively agreed that they want their bt21 charcters to be genderless

this !! speech !! at !! the !! UN !!

bangtan wearing skirts pt1

part 2

reminder that kim taehyung did drag as a kid

when he said he wanted to dress up as harley quinn for halloween

k-will is very well known for his song "please don't" which is about gay men, namjoon also sang it in bon voyage

this entire interaction between ante badzim & taehyung back in 2017 was so cute :(
he came up with the name "Vante" bc of him and van gogh.

ante is an openly gay photographer!

in 2015 the also covered fools by troye sivan, another openly gay artist and later collaborated with him on louder than bombs!

jk also recommended 'talk me down' which is a part of troye's blue neighborhood series which deals with homophobia https://m.soundcloud.com/bangtan/fools-cover-by-rm-jk-of-bts

In 2016, Taehyung recommended Ryan McGinley, another openly gay photographer

+ all the other times bangtan has supported lgbtqia+ artists

an army was holding a 'lesbians seokjin' sign and jin smiled at it !

“we don’t have like BOYFRIEND OR GIRLFRIEND”

interviewer: "girls are going crazy"
joon: "the boys also going crazy!"

little things he says that actually make a big impact, I feel.

“my voice will turn you on, whether you’re a guy or a girl, my tongue will make you come”

I had to include the video lmfao he's !!!!!!

Taehyung's "no boyfriend, no problem" dubsmash

the concept for blood, sweat & tears was inspired by herman hesse's book "demian".
in the music video, seokjin also kisses a male statue.

when yoongi wore this sweatshirt which has a famous line from the movie "brokeback mountain"

+ jinkook giving zero fucks in interviews

the amount of homoromantic subtext in hyyh.... don't even get me started

joon wrote a song for glam's debut track in 2012 which was about gay people. it's his first credited song on KOMCA.

joon also mentioned they've been consciously considering making all their lyrics gender-neutral (ever since 2016?), for example: serendipity.

taehyung getting drunk for the first time ever and posting about making out with the jimin plushie + accidentally calling a fan his husband

alternatively: just taehyung being taehyung.

they constantly wear lgbtq+ clothing, gender-neutral clothes or female assigned clothes.

hoseok's sister also released a pro-lgbt shirt!

when jimin got the bigender and said this.

and then gave us this choreography for filter

jimin taking every chance possible to say fuck you to toxic masculinity and abolishing gender

jimin said gender roles who

jimin hates toxic masculinity & gender,,, be more like jimin

jungkook prettiest