#lits perspective

they tried to closet the queer and sell the clean-cut. all to make them palatable for midwestern walmart aisles.

and then—and then—they wrote the gayest songs known to man. like “i can’t love you in the light so i’ll suffer in the dark” levels of gay. they slapped the word “girl” in there like it was a get-out-of-closet-free card and called it a day. whole albums that are just “everyone else thinks it’s wrong but i don’t care” and “this love is forbidden but i’d burn the world for it.” sir. what.

like imagine trying to sell your product to traditional families and instead creating a generation of gay girls who heard "they don't know about the things we do" and went “wait. oh.”

congratulations. your conservative brand campaign just made the soundtrack to thousands of sexual awakenings.

dear louis tomlinson,

i hope, sincerely hope, that you now understand that we didn’t follow blindly. even if you felt you didn’t deserve it, we saw something you couldn’t yet see. those paper thin walls of yours, they were frustrating but were never enough to hide the good in you.

we are not, and never were, more than you deserved. and at times we have been much less than you deserved.

this larrie louie shit is for life. we will be here until the end.

sincerely,

this fandom, especially the larrie corner of it, is inherently queer. not just because of who we believe H and L are, but because of why we believe it — and what it says about the world they’ve had to survive in.

this june, i'd like to encourage you to take the time to learn. really learn.

look at the legacy they coded into the background of their lives:

🌟 rbb and sbb stood for something. they still do. - george michael taught the world the cost of being outed. - divine broke boundaries with drag before most of us were born. - freddie mercury gave the world his voice while the world gave him silence.

learn about section 28 — the uk law that told a generation of queer kids they didn’t exist. learn about keith haring’s art and activism. learn about polari — the secret language gay men used just to survive. rewatch my policeman and sit with what it meant for H to take that role. really sit with it.

but go even further. step outside of fandom and learn about:

- matthew shepard, who was brutally murdered for being gay. - the stonewall riots, led by black and brown trans people. - harvey milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the u.s. - the aids crisis, and how an entire generation was lost while the world looked away.

and then — celebrate our progress. go to a pride parade if you can. stream queer artists. read queer authors. watch queer films made by queer people. donate if you’re able. volunteer if you’re willing. advocate always.

because at the end of the day, we exist as larries for a devastating reason: in 2010, it was more profitable to shove queer teenagers into a closet than it was to believe that the girls buying their music could love them as they were. and in the fact that, in the big year 2025, queer and trans people — especially in the u.s. — are still fighting every single day for the right to live safely, freely, and fully.

so yes — H and L are beautiful. but the reason we care about it is because it’s rooted in something real. in something painful. in something ongoing.

use this month to honor that. to learn. to grow. to love louder. to make the world a little safer and kinder.

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Sold Out MSG

Louis Tomlinson, the inspiration you are.

Proud is an understatement.

Together. Side by Side.

Love,

the creepy adults around him as a teenager had no right to sexualize harry styles as a seventeen year-old child and then continue to do so throughout his entire career.

however, HARRY STYLES has a right to sexualize HARRY STYLES how ever he sees fit.

and i know they have doubts too. “you keep on building mountains hoping that they'll turn to gold. but the truth is, you still doubt that what you do can get me home.”

but then days like today happen. when H waits just long enough for them to get on the plane from CR and follows an author (a very good one) whose newest release is Stuntboy, In the Meantime and an artist whose most recent release is Slow Dance in a Gay Bar with the lyric: "i just want someone to see me."

and suddenly it feels like a whisper in the noise. a reminder. a reach across the void. and i remember that unlike us, they have to live it—every day, all the time, in the spotlight, under contracts, behind curated smiles.

but apparently... its worth it.

imagine you’re driving on a winding, curvy road. most people just drive it, right? it gets them where they’re going. they don’t question why it bends left here or swerves right there — it just is what it is. but if you stopped and looked closer, you might start to wonder: why doesn’t this road take the most direct route? why does it loop around the hill instead of cutting straight through?

and the answer is: because the road wasn’t always a road.

before the pavement, before the traffic lights and gas stations and modern maps, that road was once a dirt path. a trail worn by foot, by horse, by carriage. it followed the terrain because it had to. it curved around trees that no longer exist. it detoured around rivers that have since dried up. and even though the landscape has changed, the shape of the road still remembers what came before.

that’s what it’s like being in this fandom.

the story of larry wasn’t always this polished, this distant, this hard to see. there was once closeness. comfort. familiarity. accidental softness. and then — there wasn’t. the terrain changed. the industry paved over the truth with denials and distractions and girlfriends and “just friends.” but if you look closely, the path is still there. the bends in the road still tell a story.

so i don’t blame people who only see what’s on the surface now. i really don’t. but i also don’t apologize for remembering what came before the pavement.

L, on the other hand, expresses it way more quietly. little choices, lyrics, the way he talks about love and connection, how careful and intentional he is. and bc he’s not loud or aesthetic about it, ppl act like it doesn’t exist. like he has to prove it more. (look, i know part of that has to do with the denials but still)