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I’m tired of the narrative that queer art with transgressive, complicated characters is only acceptable because the state of the world was so bad in the 70s or 80s, like “sure it’s not good by today’s standards but that’s all we had!”

Fuck that!

Sometimes you don’t want squeaky clean, buttoned up inspirational “representation”. Sometimes you want to get a little fucked up! Sometimes you want a psychosexual horror where a transexual alien that defies your norms and understanding shakes-a-you-up and forces you to confront what it’s possible for you to be or want, where fear and revulsion and desire and your very sense of self are violently beat together, leaving you forever changed. That’s as true in 2026 as it was in 1973, and I fear we have lost that understanding which used to be practically instinctual for queers.

Queer people should make queer art irrespective of whether the queer characters in it are “good representation” or everything in it would be okay to happen if it were real life.

That’s not “problematic”. That’s fiction.

If you’re asking whether Frank-N-Furter is “good representation”, you fundamentally misunderstand Rocky Horror; you are trying to force Frank to fulfill a role he fundamentally does not exist to fulfill, and putting Rocky Horror in a box it exists to transcend.