We Need "Bad" LGBTQIA Representation | A Movie Video Essay

LGBTQA Representation has become a hot button topic. Disney has introduced their first gay character eleven times in the last decade. LGBTQA books keep getting banned. Adaptations of popular gay books seem strangely sanitized.

It makes me think back to the days of John Waters, where gay rep meant watching Pink Flamingos in a dark room or picking up Clive Barker novels. With Steven Universe and Nimona, what happened to bad LGBTQA Representation? Should we go back to it?

Special thanks to ‪@ChloeSunfloraVA‬ and ‪@jazzyoliver5390‬ for reading those lines.

Chapters:

0:00 John Waters
2:03 No More Explicit Than Hand Holding
3:45 Becky Albertalli Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda
8:11 LGBTQA Representation and Disney
10:29 ND Stevenson, Nimona, and She-Ra
16:17 The Sanitized Queer Story To Appeal to Bigots
20:22 Queer Coded Villains
24:08 LGBTQA Fans Are Eating Scraps
26:27 We Needed Rebecca Sugar and Steven Universe
29:00 Companies Use LGBTQA Stories, Then Drop Them (Yuri on Ice)
32:45 We Need Mean-Spirited, Problematic LGBTQA Stories
34:26 Studios Are Ignoring Messy Queer Stories (But Want LGBTQA Dollars)
36:55 "I Have the Feeling This Man is Gay"