27 Jokes About LGBTQIA+ Representation In Media That Are Funny But Also Too Real

    Sometimes you just have to laugh so you don't cry.

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    I am a: ⚪️ Man ⚪️ Woman 🔘 desperate queer Looking for: ⚪️ Men ⚪️ Women 🔘 good LGBTQIA+ rep in media

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    gay representation in media https://t.co/AEFbO1E51q

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    @JonCozart everything is an exclusively gay moment if you try hard enough

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    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

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    when you realize people have to resort to shipping the babadook and pennywise because we have so little actual lgbtq representation

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    straight writers writing gay couples vs gay writers writing gay couples

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    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

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    us: actual queer representation in the books! jk rowling: https://t.co/MT9YFYKMzd

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    me after being in public for 2.5 minutes: thats enough non binary representation for today ❤️

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    Laura Dern telling Timothée Chalamet “call me mother” in LITTLE WOMEN? That’s gay rights, honey

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    VILLANELLE DRESSED AS A CLOWN I CAN'T BREATHEEEEE WE'RE FINALLY GETTING THE REPRESENTATION WE DESERVE

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    straight writers hiding the single line of LGBT "subtext" in their media and insisting its representation

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    I would like them to add queer love scenes to all the other movies https://t.co/Lns0RtBxiy

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    Queer culture is asking “is it gay” before you start watching a new TV show

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    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

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    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!!

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    representation is so important. disney gave us countless queer coded villains and now we finally have one running for president

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    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

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    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.

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    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:

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    queers CANNOT have a little representation, not even as a treat https://t.co/oEq3GXoRvr

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    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 🤨🤨🤨”

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    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]