Teasing Tuesday *2
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America’s Youngest Gay Kiss
Straight teens have watched their television counterparts smooch on-screen for years, but The Fosters made entertainment history by showing the youngest same-sex kiss ever on US television.
Teenage love—it’s hormonal, complicated, and makes for great television. On Monday night The Fosters featured a kiss between 13-year-olds Jude and Connor. So what’s the big deal? The boys’ lip-to-lip contact is apparently the youngest same-sex kiss on US television; 13-year-olds getting it on was something you’d only find in European films–until now.
Jude and Connor’s BFF-level friendship has been building over the past two seasons. Connor was introduced to the show when he hesitated to fend off bullies who were picking on Jude for wearing nail polish—only to end up painting his nails in solidarity with Jude, which made for a delightfully heartwarming television moment.
It’s inspiring to see that young characters on television are matching reality. On The Fosters, Jude’s journey of self-discovery regarding his sexuality has been an ongoing plotline. It became apparent that Jude had some sort of feelings for Connor early on, and more recently the chemistry had been bubbling, with subtle flirtation emanating from both sides. In the episode “The Silence She Keeps,” Connor adorably goes to link pinkies with Jude in the darkness of a movie theater, and there have been scenes where they hold their gaze long just enough to imply their true feelings, screaming on the inside.
So on Monday’s episode “Now Hear This,” Jude has that momentous “define the relationship” conversation with Connor to see exactly where they stand, and what all this tomfoolery really means. He brings up the time they’d previously kissed on a school camping trip while sharing a tent (the smooch had been off-screen and kept a secret masked as “something that was wrong”) along with the pinky-holding, and demands answers. Then Connor kisses him and… cue the fireworks.
The kiss between Jude and Connor isn’t a first in the world of American television teenagers. When endgame Blaine and Kurt kissed for the first time on Glee, it wasn’t even the first time the show displayed some same-sex lip-locking. And Teen Wolf has featured some steamy same-sex scenes between the students at Beacon Hills High School.
But Jude and Connor are in the 7th grade (their actors are 14 and 15 respectively), a good few years younger than their Glee and Teen Wolf counterparts. According to a 2013 Pew Research Center survey of LGBT Americans, 12 is the median age at which members of the community first felt they might not be straight, and gay men reported that at around age 10 they first thought that they might be gay. It’s inspiring to see that young characters on television are matching reality. Jude and Connor’s nervousness—capturing the nuances of a young friendship—turning to something more is teen naturalism at its finest, and in some ways more so than the passionate sex scenes that LGBTQ characters are chalking up in pop culture nowadays.
The Fosters is already lauded as one of the most progressive shows on TV, with the heads of household being an interracial lesbian couple raising a family of biological, foster, and adopted kin. With the kiss on The Fosters setting a fantastic standard, we’re inching toward more accurate representation of LGBTQ youth in entertainment. It reassures all the real-life Judes and Connors out there that their feelings of self-discovery during those middle school and junior high years are valid, while also providing a heartrending example for those who don’t endure this to understand and learn from.
Via The Daily Beast
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Wet Wednesday *6
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The Fleeting Little Life of Peter Wright
Posted by TheBoy on the milkboard
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Some People are Gay
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Silent T
What is it like to grow up as a transgender teen? This short film, Silent T, is an incredibly inspirational, heartfelt film about the struggle and social injustice some trans people face. It has recently won Best Drama at the world’s largest student film festival, Campus Moviefest.
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Skyclad Saturday *5
Photo by Helix
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One Particularly Danish Workout
There’s some weird stuff on YouTube…
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Mirror Monday *5
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Wonderwear Wednesday *8
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Periodical Political Post *8
Queer News
- No civil unions for Peru as bill is blocked by committee
- Slovenia legalizes same-sex marriage and adoption
- Gay ‘cure’ camp found guilty of killing teenage boy
- Indiana approves bill allowing LGBT discrimination
- Germany tells gay asylum seekers Uganda is safe place
- Number of killed trans-women in US keeps rising
- Lawyer proposes ‘Kill the Gays’ law in California
- Japan: 52% support partnership certificates for gays
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Tender Thursday *6
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Face Friday *5
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A School Day in Japan
Warning: NSFW & loud ;)
Found by Felix
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Cute Caturday *4
Igor Denali
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Break
We’ll be offline for a while but nothing will be lost this time, I made sure that we have a working backup this time ;) I should have enough money to pay for the server again in ~2 or 3 weeks so we’ll be back by then hopefully!
Sorry for that, stay safe in the meantime and see you soon!
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Tummy Tuesday *4
Thanks to some incredibly generous fans we’re back, thanks so much! <3
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The Gender Spectrum finally becomes Mainstream
Young people are more likely to believe gender exists on a spectrum, according to a new study. 1,000 Americans aged 18 to 34 were surveyed on gender, with half believing the binary categories of male and female are too limiting.
They were asked: ‘Some countries, including India, recognize a gender that is neither male nor female. Which more closely aligns with your view?’ Options were ‘There are only two genders, male and female’, which in total received 46% support, ‘Gender is a spectrum, and some people fall outside conventional categories’, which received 50%, and 4% answered ‘Don’t know’.
The poll found 57% of female millenials believe gender falls on a spectrum compared to 44% of male respondees. Northeast 18-34 year olds were even more progressive, with 58% agreeing with that statement compared to the South where that number fell to 42%.
The survey comes as more people are coming out as genderfluid and genderqueer, universities offering gender-neutral identity cards & housing options that include ‘other gender-identity room-mate pairings, regardless of biological sex’ and gender-neutral restrooms becoming more and more common.
via Gay Star News, photos by Thiago Antonucci
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Wet Wednesday *7
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The Shower
Supposedly this is a PSA for chemistry classes but some people seem to think it’s something else ;) We’ll leave it up to you to decide…
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