LGBTQ·Posted on 21 Feb 202027 Jokes About LGBTQIA+ Representation In Media That Are Funny But Also Too RealSometimes you just have to laugh so you don't cry.by Lana HuhBuzzFeed StaffLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. milo @stuckingayhell I am a: ⚪️ Man ⚪️ Woman 🔘 desperate queer Looking for: ⚪️ Men ⚪️ Women 🔘 good LGBTQIA+ rep in media 04:28 PM - 17 Aug 2017 Reply Retweet Favorite 2. 🌈ro⁷ @dykehearts gay representation in media https://t.co/AEFbO1E51q 06:28 AM - 10 Feb 2020 Reply Retweet Favorite 3. grace @itsabadreIigion @JonCozart everything is an exclusively gay moment if you try hard enough 02:47 AM - 21 Mar 2017 Reply Retweet Favorite 4. JP @jpbrammer Disney should emulate the success of the LGBT representation in the Beauty and the Beast remake for The Lion King. they should declare that one of the water buffalo that tramples Mufasa is gay 06:24 PM - 11 Apr 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 5. rat king @funksocks when you realize people have to resort to shipping the babadook and pennywise because we have so little actual lgbtq representation 05:06 PM - 13 Sep 2017 Reply Retweet Favorite 6. Fenny Leclerc @Local__Tsundere straight writers writing gay couples vs gay writers writing gay couples 09:39 PM - 18 Feb 2020 Reply Retweet Favorite 7. esther rosenfield 📹 @EstherOnFilm movie websites: Kevin Feige Teases LGBTQ Characters "Will Have Dialogue" By 2035 games websites: This NPC Who Says "I Like Women" Is A Game-Changer For Queer Acceptance book websites: Author Of Controversial Novel 'The Mean Trans Girl: An Autobiography" To Be Executed At Dawn 01:33 AM - 09 Jan 2020 Reply Retweet Favorite 8. 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹𝗮 ⛧ @captinmarvel us: actual queer representation in the books! jk rowling: https://t.co/MT9YFYKMzd 09:39 AM - 17 Mar 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 9. thrifted sweater with holes in it @IAINTSELENA me after being in public for 2.5 minutes: thats enough non binary representation for today ❤️ 01:34 AM - 12 Feb 2020 Reply Retweet Favorite 10. Tom Zohar @TomZohar Laura Dern telling Timothée Chalamet “call me mother” in LITTLE WOMEN? That’s gay rights, honey 05:07 AM - 26 Dec 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 11. berry @sckberry VILLANELLE DRESSED AS A CLOWN I CAN'T BREATHEEEEE WE'RE FINALLY GETTING THE REPRESENTATION WE DESERVE 12:37 AM - 13 Feb 2020 Reply Retweet Favorite 12. plazpussy @ gothstuck zine & HSpressplay @plazynoodles straight writers hiding the single line of LGBT "subtext" in their media and insisting its representation 10:53 PM - 16 Feb 2020 Reply Retweet Favorite 13. bennie @andthejets nonbinary characters in media: 1. robot 2. alien/nonhuman beast 3. human but they’re fully covered from head to toe all the time so you can’t actually see them 01:12 AM - 23 Oct 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 14. 🔥 Ana Valens 🔥 @acvalens I don’t mind queer subtext but I just want stories with a character who is just like me and gets absolutely railed by a fellow lesbian, that’s not a tall ask. Straight people get it all the time 06:11 PM - 14 Feb 2020 Reply Retweet Favorite 15. Mary Emily O'Hara @MaryEmilyOHara Me: how about some lesbian representation in — JK Rowling: Hermoine’s first vibrator was a wired bullet she got for free in a raffle at an L Word screening party in 2003 but then her ex got a job at Babeland and she used the discount to invest in a rechargeable Hitachi 07:35 PM - 17 Mar 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 16. Lia's inescapable downward spiral @LiaaaNyaa Trans ppl: we don't get much representation in media so we're gonna headcanon this character as trans Cis ppl: no don't do that just find actual trans characters Trans ppl: ok can we have more trans characters in media there's not a lot Cis ppl: no 05:51 AM - 02 Feb 2020 Reply Retweet Favorite 17. Rachel Wenitsky @RachelWenitsky I would like them to add queer love scenes to all the other movies https://t.co/Lns0RtBxiy 07:16 PM - 02 Nov 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 18. Georgie @LegallyGeorgie Queer culture is asking “is it gay” before you start watching a new TV show 08:10 PM - 06 Sep 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 19. Jill Gutowitz @jillboard all this talk of “representation” in the new L word, yet i do not feel “represented” by this show. where’s the lesbian character who lives in LA and amasses a social media following by stoking celesbian conspiracy theories and asking actresses to step on her neck? disappointing 11:22 PM - 11 Nov 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 20. ✨ @kzabrekker gay ppl: [headcanon two fictional characters as partners] straight ppl: why do they have to be gay?? why can’t they just be best friends?? why does it always have to be about romance??? we need more intimate friendships representation!! 08:48 PM - 19 Jan 2020 Reply Retweet Favorite 21. giabuchi @jaboukie representation is so important. disney gave us countless queer coded villains and now we finally have one running for president 06:20 PM - 04 Feb 2020 Reply Retweet Favorite 22. Brittani Nichols @BisHilarious On TV shows when they’re at a gay party the extras are always covered in glitter, wearing rainbow tutus, harness on, sequins everywhere. Like actual queer parties everyone is wearing all black or the same button up from Target and barely had the energy to show up 08:39 PM - 30 Jan 2020 Reply Retweet Favorite 23. Chwistopher @Loudwindow bare minimum lgbt representation: a happy queer main character lgbt representation in the media: dead gays. aliens. non binary robots. tortured gays. monsters. sad gays. fantasy race explaining lgbt themes to clueless humans. a living gay couple but one's abusive. bisexual cat. 11:14 AM - 07 Jun 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 24. Alice Oseman @AliceOseman me: hello i would like 1 order of a cool fun aromantic and/or asexual character i can relate to media: sure! here is 1 sociopath me: um, no- media: oh, did you want 1 emotionless nerd? here me: no, that's not really what i- media: ah, sure! here is 1 devout religious celibate me: 05:04 PM - 13 May 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 25. Celine Dionysus @clarepttrsn queers CANNOT have a little representation, not even as a treat https://t.co/oEq3GXoRvr 11:56 PM - 27 Dec 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 26. ceo of gay yearning @kitscarstairs new technique everytime a cis white character exists im going to go “idk seems like forced representation to me 🤔🤔🤔 its just not realistic 🧐🧐🧐 theyre just pandering 🤨🤨🤨” 11:29 PM - 21 Dec 2019 Reply Retweet Favorite 27. heartspocky @heartspocky Kids these days with your nonsexualized age-appropriate wlw representation in cartoons.... when i was growing up all we had was tATu and that was good enough for us [stares into a sunset while smoking a cigarette in one of those old timey cigarette holders] 12:48 AM - 19 Feb 2020 Reply Retweet Favorite