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[–]8bitgay 36 insightful - 1 fun36 insightful - 0 fun37 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

The event is being produced as part of the #MakeItGay live reads series, founded during COVID-19 quarantine as a way to “reimagine typically white, straight, cis and male films into ones with diverse casts of various queer people.”

The nerve of calling this series Make It Gay.

I might dislike it when they try to force queer as an umbrella term for us... But I hate it even more when they use gay as an umbrella term for them, especially in situations like this that they use the word "gay" while also making actual gayness problematic.

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 26 insightful - 1 fun26 insightful - 0 fun27 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

films into ones with diverse casts of various queer people.

At least they here admited that gay men are not queer people. If they are changing "gay men" to "transgenders" in readings.

especially in situations like this that they use the word "gay" while also making actual gayness problematic.

They are using phrase "make it gay" as a slogan for gay erasure. It is ridiculous.

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They are using phrase "make it gay" as a slogan for gay erasure.

They aren't making the movie gay, they're making their bullshit definition of queer into the new definition of "gay"

Basically, the 'it' isn't the movie, 'it' is them

[–]Shadow_Lurker 20 insightful - 2 fun20 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Make It Gay? More like Trans it out.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 12 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Trans the gay away!

[–]3MistersAndAMissy 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Identi-tay away the gay!

[–]fuckupaddamsBisexual Terve 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

white, straight, cis and male films

Okay so they're white (the horror) but they aren't straight. And yes they are cis and male. Which is precisely what makes them gay men...

[–]les4leshomonormative 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The fact that they're 100% serious... I don't know whether to find it funny or devastating