while i get and agree with the fact that gay people should probably play gay people and gay stories are best written by gay people, the fervor to prove that âstraight people shouldnât play gay characters!!â is what the interviewer used to forcibly out lee pace so like
idk maybe slow your roll and realize that like⌠actors can be closeted, content creators can be closeted, and tbh this âyou can only write your own experiences, never write someone elseâsâ rhetoric is also a bigotâs fucking wet dream?? like the perfect excuse to never write diverse characters?? and to say that they have nothing in common with people who donât look/love/exist the same way as them??
yeah, the author of simon vs the homo sapienâs agenda is a cis straight woman, which means love, simon (though directed by a married gay man with multiple gay characters played by gay/bi actors) is based on a novel written by a straight woman⌠but this straight woman literally ends her book acknowledging the LGBT teens who helped her write the book and make sure she was writing it appropriately.
this is the content we want
listen⌠EVERY SINGLE piece of media EVER involves some level of writing about experiences that are not your own, especially if itâs diverse. even bland stories just about white people involves an author writing about genders that are not their own. if you want a story with characters of color, white authors are going to have to write about those perspectives. if you want gay characters in every story, straight authors are gonna have to write about those perspectives. even LGBT narratives might involve gay authors writing about bi characters or cis authors writing about trans characters.
what we HOPE FOR when they do that is that they talk to people⌠actually belonging to those groups to learn what is and isnât appropriate and true to life. which is what the author of simon vs the homo sapienâs agenda did.
itâs exactly what she did. she literally worked in a support group for LGBT and GNC kids, saw they did not have cute love stories written for them after they told her this, and then worked with them to give them the love story they craved.
this is a good thing. this is progress for lgbt people. this is the path we need to walk towards getting LGBT content created by LGBT authors.
when you attempt to take the ~moral ground on protesting this film, all youâre doing is telling people who fund these projects that gay products donât sell. they donât get the nuance of what youâre going for. and, chances are, youâre looking like a fucking hypocrite, because i can promise you most of the canon gay characters you stan profit a cishet somehow (if theyâre even canon).
so, yâunno, as someone who has read simon vs the homo sapienâs agenda AND seen the fucking movie let me tell you!! itâs fine!! itâs diverse beyond having gay character, itâs written respectively, and it hit home on a lot of experiences i WISH i had as a gay teen. itâs corny, itâs silly, and itâs all i ever would have wanted at 13, 14, 15
if you donât want to see it, just fucking say so! but donât act like youâre doing it on moral grounds. you can just⌠not like a movie or not want to see it without it being some moral victory.
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