straight guy yaps about lavender media
This month for the carnival my friend Xaya is hosting with the prompt "Lavender media that made you feel things" found here.
Lavender media is basically any queer media (shows, movies, the like). Now I'm a straight dude, so I'm generally not the target audience of lavender media, but that doesn't mean I didn't catch some strays.
I would say the first thing that I encountered that was 100% queer was the music video for "You Spin Me Right Round" by Dead or Alive. You can't look at Pete Burns and not thing "Queer Icon". It's still a banger of a song.
I first got exposed to the concept of being transgender (or 'transvestite' based on the language at the time) was from Eddie Izzard. I used to watch his stand up special 'Dress to Kill' on repeat. My mom and I would quote his special constantly. At the time, he identified as a transvestite (male lesbian as he called it). Basically a guy who wears women's clothes but without the flamboyance and energy of drag. Later he started to identify as genderfluid opting for either he/him or she/her and going by either Eddie or Suzie. I respect the fuck out of Eddie, she ran a marathon in South America every day for 27 days in honor of Nelson Mandela which is just a mind blowing feat.
I follow a lot of queer youtubers that I would attribute to helping pull me out of the alt-right pipeline in my early 20s. Seeing what actual LGBTQ+ people thought and said rather than hearing it 2nd hand from homophobic cishet white men and poorly clipped "debates" really changed the course of my journey. I love channels like Queen Coke Francis, Luke Kono, and NotEvenEmily. I feel like I keep giving my youtube algorithm a fucking flashbang, it can't tell what I am anymore, good.
Anyway that's kinda the long short with my experience with lavender media.
Pirate is wearing black shorts and black Linkin Park tee
Pirate is feeling tired.
Pirate is listening to 2000s alternative
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