Gay yearng driv fandoms — here’s why serv more attentn

Contents:

• 27 GAY MEM SURE TO MAKE ANYONE LGH
• GAY YEARNG DRIV FANDOMS — HERE’S WHY SERV MORE ATTENTN
• YEARNG A GAY STORY: WALKTHROUGH & ACHIEVEMENT GUI
• GAY YEARNG STICKERS
• GAY YEARNG WALL ART
• GAY YEARNG ESSENTIAL T-SHIRT
• QUEERNS IS A MEME: WHY ALL THE GOOD SOCIAL MEDIA IS GAY
• YOUR GAY MEME GENERATOR
• Y'ALL WANT SOME GAY YEARNG? — CID TO DO SOME LOOSE AND SKETCHY STYLIZED...
• YEARNG: A GAY STORY
• GAY YEARNG RNATE

27 GAY MEM SURE TO MAKE ANYONE LGH

” I was a baby gay durg the late 2000s and early 2010s, where the most accsible pictns of queer women to me were Blue Is The Warmt Color, Black Swan (lol), and the UK show Sks.

GAY YEARNG DRIV FANDOMS — HERE’S WHY SERV MORE ATTENTN

"If you glance at TikTok, Twter, or Tumblr (which, sce s ceptn, has kept a home for the gays), queer yearng is everywhere. Through very onle yearng queer ey, Jane Aten manifts social distancg, scen om Killg Eve and Euphoria and The Handmain show women starg at each other bed whout touchg, and Tumblr gays create a new visual language after porn was taken away.

Durg the AIDS epimic, fear and illns domated gay romantic disurse; then, too, people of lor, and Black people particular, disproportnately bore the bnt of illns.

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That is, until s seri fale, which fively squashed fans’ hop wh a btal, queer fans are left to do what they’ve always done: fix the endg themselv wh the creative power of what drew them to the show the first place — gay the epome of gay yearng, Killg Eve failed s ma uple s fal AmeriGay yearng is both the longg for somethg that is often cidly gay flavor and the projectn of that longg onto how different characters feel for one another. For fans who n turn horror-thrillers to rom-s and ss to Greek tragedi, gay yearng is what draws many of them to creative muni — often llectively referred to as fandoms. ”Tom Hardy plays Eddie Brock Venom: Let There Be PicturHannibal isn't the only murro “rom-” that queer fans are gatherg around ’ve also drawn a number of parallels between Hannibal and Venom, a 2018 Marvel film whose 2021 sequel openly acknowledged the romantic unrton between the eponymo alien symbte and s journalist host — another example, as wh Killg Eve, which the queer subtext fans are ed to has been elevated to popular fan-ma Venn diagram suggts semi-jokgly that Hannibal, Venom, and the FX vampire s What We Do In the Shadows all share a “dangeroly pennt relatnship between a man-eatg monster wh heightened sens and a weird human man, ” “actors on-board wh gay agenda, ” and “t4t” (a relatnship between two transgenr people) creator of that Venn diagram, Bug, is an artist who first started sharg fanart bee of their strong attachment to openly queer characters Rosa Diaz (Stephanie Beatriz) om Brooklyn Ne-Ne and David Rose (Dan Levy) om Scht's Creek.

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But while the characters meant a lot to them as a young gay teen, they later found that their wholome storyl weren't enough.

In shows like Hannibal, characters that read as — or are — queer aren’t forced to repent or reem themselv (or die) orr to fd acceptance and a world where queer people are alienated, hunted, and feared, shows that allow anti-protagonists jt like them to survive giv queer fans a chance to virly transcend even the most hostile of circumstanc they face their own fans are lookg for shows where, stead of fallg prey to the bury your gays trope and killg off s queer characters, as Tumblr er @bluelona put , “the gays bury everyone else stead. 7 percent fans like Bug are lookg for stori that go beyond beg gay high school, and beyond addg a queer and/or trans character jt to fill a quota.

”Of urse, when creators of a show tentnally prerve this lack of rolutn an are-they-or-aren’t-they-gay pairg to entice a queer dience whout ever liverg on s promis, this is nsired even queerbag don't tomatilly negate the space fans need for generative art.

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Yearng: A Gay Story, or YAGS for short, is a eeware Visual Novel by Bob Conway about alg wh the trials and misadventur that e wh beg a closeted gay man startg his first year of llege, cludg but not limed to: makg new iends while keepg touch wh old on, not flunkg exams, tryg to e out to one's fay and new iends, stomachg the terrible food on mp, and yearng for other men who may or may not be YAGS, you gui the player character, a gay man you get to name, through his first semter at llege and ci how he spends each day. All Gays are Promiscuo: Averted wh most of the game's gay guys, but Dan wears this trope like a badge of pri and will want to keep thgs non-exclive even if he velops genue feelgs for you.

All Gays Love Theater: Discsed by Jam, who ments that many people assume was easy for him to e out bee of his theatril profsn even though wasn't. Armoured Closet Gay: Carlos starts out as que vol about "psy" beg one of his ma hobbi, but you n tch him checkg you out durg several of your possible scen wh him. He eventually out as gay to you and Adam, and adms that he slept around wh women so much bee he hoped would somehow make him straight.

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The Bully: Robert, who throws around homophobic slurs and attacks anyone he remotely spects of beg gay and beats up Ellt so severely that Ellt has to be hospalized for weeks and still suffers om seizur even after beg released om the hospal, jt bee Ellt tried to suggt that he accept his brother's sexualy.

Intertgly, ’s mentned that Robert didn't e to be like this until his brother me out as gay and he didn’t know how to handle . You n back out of two opportuni to tell Adam you're gay, but the third opportuny has the PC ci that he really n't keep chickeng out about this and your only two optns are to say that you're gay or to say more directly that you're not terted women which Adam still realiz the full meang of.

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Closet Key: If you hang out wh Carlos a lot, he adms after g out as gay that you were the primary factor that ed him to be unable to ny his te sexualy any longer. Fratbro: Subverted wh Adam and Carlos, who are at members but f almost none of the stereotyp associated wh atboys: Adam is an telligent, open-md pre-med stunt who joed the at only to make iends and starts spendg creasgly more time away om the at hoe due to feelg like he don't f wh the other people there, and Carlos, while more of a womanizer and slacker than Adam, don't like gettg dnk, is more Brilliant, but Lazy than outright dumb, and has no problems beg iends wh a puter science geek like the PC and also spends creasgly ls time at the at hoe after he out as gay.

Adam also ially thks that you're jokg if you tell him you're gay at your first opportuny (and didn't show attractn to him), before he realiz you're ser.

Gayngst: The PC starts out havg told only his bt iend Ja about his sexualy bee of his fear of what might happen if he out to his parents or anyone else. Carlos and Jake both stggle wh g out to their iends and are eply aaid that their fay might disown them if they knew about their homosexualy.

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Carlos particular has the most gayngst-filled route, wh him takg a long time to get fortable wh beg open about your relatnship and takg Robert beatg Ellt to unnscns very badly wh him lamentg that uld have easily been him the hospal stead of Ellt. If It's You, It's Okay: If you manage to get Adam’s secret endg, he nfs to you that he lik you even though he don't like guys general or thk of himself as gay or bi. In the epilogue, he still don't thk of himself as gay or bi but you n assure him that don't matter as long as he's yours.

Ladykiller Love: Dan be the gay versn of this trope towards you if you pursue him, and Nate also be this towards Jake if you don't pursue the latter. Mistaken for Gay: If you nvce Adam not to sleep wh Ashleigh and Leigh, Ashleigh plas to Leigh that "you always pick the gay on".

" Kiss: If you've been makg mostly assertive/snarky choic, you get the optn to kiss Robert durg one scene where he's harassg you and Carlos wh homophobic sults.

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” — Bayard Rt"Our society needs to regnize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivol civil equaly for every gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr cizen of this untry. " — Portia Rossi"Every gay and lbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growg up is a survivor.

" — Chaz BonoCanva/ParaRelated: Celebrate Pri Wh the 14 Bt Gay/LGBTQ Movi on Netflix Right Now“Openns may not pletely disarm prejudice, but ’s a good place to start. ” — Chris Colfer"From a relig pot of view, if God had thought homosexualy is a s, he would not have created gay people.

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