Stop capitalizing on queer pain.

Just stop it.

Stop buying shit that’s only purpose is to showcase gay, trans, lesbian people suffering.

A film cannot be revolutionary if it ends with the minority character being punished for their “deviancy” (think Alan Turning). A film cannot be revolutionary if it silences the minority it claims to represent (think The Danish Girl). I am sick of watching TV, movies, stand up acts, where my story and the stories of people like me are used as a gimmick. Relax, I know this isn’t actually your favorite moviemakers fault but it is everyone’s job to stop it.

Film, TV, and novels have had a long history of punishing queer deviancy; hell Noir and hardboiled fiction can basically be summarized as “gender policing and homosexual punishment”. It’s well past time for that to stop.

I’m sick of seeing sad coming out stories. I’m sick of seeing homeless trans youth, I’m sick of seeing people die.

I want a dumb rom-com about two nerdy lesbians. And I want it on the silver screen with a huge production budget staring real-life lesbians like Ellen Page, Kristina Stewart, Jasika Nicole… actually I just want the cast to be nothing but queer ladies.

I want a space adventure about a crew composed of nothing but LGBTQAI+ POC that has nothing to do with their identity and everything to do with them saving earth from an invasion or something… I’m not suggesting I write these.

I want a teenage action film about a group of teenagers saving each other from terrible life events and most of them just so happen to be queer… wait that exists and it’s a book called The Foxhole Court. Read it. Trust me. I want that book turned into a TV show.

I want gay leads, trans leads, lesbian leads, ace leads, demi leads, grey leads, gender-neutral leads, I want characters that are experimenting (but not used as a joke or as a central focus) AND I don’t want them all played by white men….

I want gay songs that use pronouns instead of hiding behind ambiguous lyrics.

I want stories written, produced, performed by queer people. I want the product of that to be taken seriously. I want those projects to be given huge budgets.

I want to normalize being queer.

I’m sick of heteros. Really sick of them. Every time I see a rom-com that ends with two straight people kissing, I feel myself cry inside. I’m drowning in all my tears.

I want our pansexual anti-hero, Deadpool, making out with a man or a non-binary person, or all of them. I want him having a functional polyamorous relationship.

I want Captain America and Winter Solider to make out and for media to stop forcing unrealistic heterosexual story lines.

I want kids to know they are okay. That they are normal. That they are safe.

We’ve come so far but have a long way to go.

Lets make it happen people!