#rt pride

Before you get angry about the RT Pride shirts, please watch this LGBTQA+ panel from RTX where they got revealed. Watch this panel featuring only the LGBTQA+ members of Rooster Teeth. Listen to their stories and understand how much they worked to have this shirt made. Understand how much RT is trying to be inclusive of this side of the community.  RT isn’t always right, and sometimes their content is queerbaity and their jokes are offensive. I won’t defend them on that. They’ve done a lot of things wrong. But this! This is the right thing to do! This right here is a step in the right direction, and fuck me if I’m not going to support that. I want RT to improve; to be better than what it is now. We can still be critical of what they do wrong, but we need to remember to support the right steps and celebrate the small victories too. And for everyone who thinks they’re trying to ‘scam the queer community out of their money’, I guarantee you, they’re chasing off a lot more ‘dude-bro cishet’ customers than gaining new LGBT ones.This move was a risk they took because they want us to feel welcomed in this community, even if that pushes their bigot customers out. That is so important. These are the kind of decisions companies need to be making right now; to make the LGBT community feel welcomed over the bigots. They still have their problems, sure, but they really are trying. Day 5 has a lesbian character who’s sexuality isn’t treated like a joke in any way. Last season of RvB featured 2 other lesbian characters. And the newest RWBY album featured a song that foreshadows Yang/Blake, much in the same way Boop foreshadowed Ren/Nora though at the time, canon made it clear they were just friends. I know we want more; I know they need to be doing more. But right now, these are good things. Let’s celebrate these small victories and encourage them in continuing this trend. If you want change, you need to support that change. Be critical, always be critical. But support is still important too.