Most of the posts I've seen are about a nostalgia for a purer time when being masculine or feminine didn't matter. When I see Prince George in that photo, I'm reminded of how much I liked gymnastics at primary school, only to later learn that it was considered a sport for girls, and so the other kids would be mean to me about it.
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The time when you are free to enjoy the things you like without the fear of prejudice, only because you have no conception of it yet. It's about the time before boys experience 'shame' for being effeminate and are taught to be masculine. As Louis Staples so articulately wrote in the New Statesmen, the reaction to this photo isn’t really about sexuality it’s about the innocence of childhood. That said, there is a nuance being lost here. As someone who is gay and was often intrusively questioned about my sexuality when I didn't want, or know how, to talk about it, I can understand how stressful that experience can be. More than a decade later, Ang Lees epic romance drama is viewing as a stunning achievement and a ground-breaking film in mainstream Hollywood. Speculating on the sexuality of a child isn't cute. When it was released in 2005, Brokeback Mountain was one of the most talked-about films of the year. i like this photo because i see my young self in it It's not really homophobic if i think being gay & camp is positive. Only if you see being gay or camp as a negative and intend it as such. Some argued that people were only uncomfortable with the idea of Prince George being gay because they were homophobic, or because they viewed effeminate behaviour in men as a negative thing. This being Twitter, there was a backlash against the backlash. Not to get discoursey on this fine evening but this thing of making gay jokes abt prince george cos hes limp wristed in a pic is a bit
V v uncomfortable with all the people sharing that photo of Prince George and calling him gay. Others felt these tweets were mocking George, similar to the homophobic bullying many effeminate men face during their school years. They felt it was wrong to project a sexual identity onto a 4-year-old boy. That made some some people very uncomfortable. Guys what if Prince George is gay and it causes a constitutional crisis? /vlb6q4QqKC Other tweets appeared to speculate on Prince George's sexuality because of the camp/effeminate pose that George has in the photo. When Mom said I could finally quit the soccer team /K3jLMEtDWE When I hear Into You playing in a shop, restaurant or from a car driving past /Eb2b9qFQvw the help of his siblings and his wife, he realizes he is gay and comes out.
Me when I hear the sax start in Run Away With Me /BPGegN77B7 So yeah it is pretty much overlooked because they are so well liked in the. “The B in LGBT stands for Babadook,” another user responded.The Carly Rae Jepsen fans were all over it. In December, a screenshot was posted to Tumblr showing The Babadook listed prominently among “LGBT Movies” on Netflix – more likely to be a doctored image indicative of the meme’s gaining momentum, than a categorisation error. “It may be ‘just a movie’ to you but to the LGBT community the Babadook is a symbol of our journey.”
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“A movie about a gay man who just wants to live his life in a small Australian suburb?” replied the original poster, “ianstagram”, from Boston. The post drew close to 100,000 responses – a jokey back-and-forth about the deeper meanings of Jennifer Kent’s 2014 independent film that prompted one user to complain it was “JUST A MOVIE.” “Gay Babadook” was born when a somewhat ironic post to Tumblr in October went viral: “Whenever someone says the Babadook isn’t openly gay it’s like? Did you even watch the movie?” Current favorite meme is the lgbt community insisting that the babadook is a gay icon /jetZomtDzd- jenna June 11, 2017