• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
        15·
        29 days ago

        Well, Gaston isn’t really attracted to anyone but himself. He’s a classic narcissist, and his pursuit of Belle is purely to feed his ego. If he could have sex with himself, he would. Vigorously, and somehow selfishly.

        Le Fou, on the other hand, is an effeminate sycophant. The live action explicitly makes him gay, but the animated version merely suggests it. Singing about how handsome and manly he is, and how much everybody wants to wrestle with Gaston with the biting and the spitting and the hair-covered inches.

      • GraniteM@lemmy.world
        4·
        28 days ago

        Gaston has a trio of smoking hot blondes that are all over him, but he goes for the bookworm who wants nothing to do with him. He wants a wife who won’t care when he goes on extended “hunting trips” with his manly man buddies, not one who will be all over him in the bedroom.

      • Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
        1·
        28 days ago

        While he does seem attracted to Jasmine, he’s also very theatrical and campy in a way that was heavily associated with homosmsexuality in the 90s.

    • GraniteM@lemmy.world
      4·
      28 days ago

      Interestingly enough…

      Hannibal Lecter: Look for severe childhood disturbances associated with violence. Our Billy wasn’t born a criminal, Clarice. He was made one through years of systematic abuse. Billy hates his own identity, you see, and he thinks that makes him a transsexual. But his pathology is a thousand times more savage and more terrifying.

  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    29 days ago

    There are two kinds of vampires: aggressively bisexual vampires and shitty vampires

    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
      2·
      28 days ago

      I only know Agatha Harkness from Marvel’s Midnight Suns so I’m only vaguely aware she’s evil in other media?

      • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee
        4·
        28 days ago

        yes, if you want to see evil agatha in a non-comic book check out wandavision

        also midnight suns is an incredible game and i was surprised agatha was a hero 😂

        • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
          4·
          28 days ago

          It was such a good game! I’m sad it won’t get a sequel. Ebony is the best cat shaped cat like creature!

  • Delphia@lemmy.world
    51·
    28 days ago

    I want to see more “Benign Queerness”

    Its briefly mentioned that the character is gay or bi or trans and then it never comes up again because its not relevant to their job in a hospital/cop/whatever.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      3·
      27 days ago

      I feel like Brooklyn 99 did this well. The chief Captain Holt is a really interesting nuanced character who happens to be gay.

      • exasperation@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        28 days ago

        Minor nitpick: he was Captain, not Chief.

        And him trying to pass for straight was some of the funniest scenes in the show:

        Guard: It just seems like you wanna be with Jamie-Lynn. I mean, you keep talking about her thigh gap.

        Captain Holt: That’s my favorite part of a woman. There’s nothing more intoxicating than the clear absence of a penis.

    • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      28 days ago

      I need every character who is gay to be portrayed as a jellybean-throwing simpleton. That way I know they’re gay.

      • Delphia@lemmy.world
        2·
        28 days ago

        I had a buddy growing up who had a really hard time coming to terms with being gay because he really loved lifting weights, football, dirt bikes and hard rock. He was “One of the boys” in an era when most of the portrayal of gay people in popular media was (and I say this with all love) mostly flamboyant lisping queens.

        Fortunately his story had a happy ending, but role models are important.

        • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          28 days ago

          I’m very gender fluid even though I’m straight af. I don’t even know what the hell’s going on with my gender identity to be honest I don’t know the magic words and I don’t even care because I accept myself for who I am finally. I would have loved to know it’s okay to not align myself or portray myself as the stereotypical man because I don’t feel that way inside. Basically I’m agreeing with you but in my own way.

    • Revan343@lemmy.ca
      1·
      28 days ago

      Kids show, but Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts did that pretty well with one of the main cast

    • sness@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      28 days ago

      Magic: tG has a few characters. Comes out as queer in a book, never mentioned on any card except maybe during pride month.