#biblazer

Instead of “If I knew you were surrounded by so many pretty girls…” Why not “surrounded by such attractive people…” ? Gender neutral flirting is not that difficult.

Like straightwashed Constantine was annoying enough the first time around. I was hoping for better since the CW DC tv shows are slightly better with dealing with queer characters.

Literally none of them care about John Constantine being straightwashed, or the yucky queerbaiting that the show runner did this season.

You know when it’s really great to have the LGBT community in your corner? When you’re trying to mount an online campaign to save a show.

Hi there! Thanks for the question. I apologize in advance for the long response.

Well since I’m not a nielsen house I may see how it happens (on twitter or here) then decide if I’m going to help ratings by watching it via hulu or on demand.

Just saying “Constantine kisses a man” doesn’t tell me if the context of the kiss comes off joking or what. After the way the creators acted during pre-production you can’t blame me for being skittish.

Also I haven’t really decided how I feel about the show using John’s bisexuality sort of as their “hail mary pass” now that the ratings are falling. They treated the community poorly but now that they need us it’s like that didn’t happen?

But in the end I am super thirsty for representation. I’ve watched a few episodes sporadically on hulu (I know I’m a terrible bi activist, forgive me) and I’ve at least appreciated the way they have kept his sexuality open so far. I would like to see a comic book show get renewed especially if they’re serious about exploring John’s bi side with another season.

So if people want to watch it, and get together to show that when you actually represent sexuality correctly like they should have from the start fans will be there then that is awesome.

Just don’t forget to watch it in a way that will help the ratings. If you watch on demand, on hulu, or the NBC site within a couple days I think it gets counted. NBC also sees tweets during the airing that use #Constantine and don’t forget to also use #BiBlazer to remind why we’re watching.

i'm really frustrated with how some of the Great Constantine Bisexuality Debate has been framed, like i've seen a lot of people saying like, 'guys, don't worry! we're not those fans, we're not asking to see john get out of bed with a man, we just want acknowledgement'

and like?? why is john getting out of bed with a man portrayed as something super ridiculous? we've seen him getting out of bed with a woman on the show, why not a man? i DO want to see that, actually!

I feel like a bisexual fan of Hellblazer I need to explain why we're--or at least I--so passionate about making sure he remains so on constantine, since most of tumblr seems to be under the wrong assumption that we're just angry fangirls pissed we don't get to see white boys fucking on TV.

While there will always be those kinds of fans--every fandom has them, and they're a huge reason some fandoms are largely hated--most of the Hellblazer readers who were bothering Goyer (a producer with a history of bigotry) to make the change aren't those fans.  In fact, most of us don't even care if he ever gets laid on screen, we just want it acknowledged that he is bisexual, not gay, not heterosexual, bisexual.   

It continues to astonish and aggravate me how often it's the gay male community, instead of the straight community, who diminish, belittle, and insult any mention of the production's erasing of Constantine's bisexuality as a reason the bi community is bothered by, and not supporting this show. Thank you too all of our allies who've been boycotting with us.

I had a minor kerfuffle with one of the writers for Comic Book Queers today on their Facebook rally cry to save Constantine and got a lot of biphobic and erasing rhetoric for my efforts. But I also opened a dialog and will be doing a podcast with them on Thursday about Constantine, straightwashing and bi erasure in general, and other issues of media representation. Hopefully that works towards a positive and not just more airtime to talking down to our issues.