Queer people, like most others, are big appreciators of pop culture. However, it is in their interpretation of film, television shows, and books where they differ from their hetero/gender normative counterparts.
When attempting to find deeper meaning in the cinematic portrayal of a story, queers tend to project their own experiences (frequently those of ”otherness” and “coming out”) onto the experiences and motivations of the characters.
An excellent example of this is a common reading by queers of the “X-Men” movie trilogy as being a story about institutionalized queer oppression in America. The story of the film is seen by queers as a call to arms in the social war for equality.
To most straights however, it is a film about super-powers and blowing stuff up.
If you find yourself enjoying a film with a queer, and all of a sudden they turn to you teary eyed saying “I totally understand how [insert outsider character here] feels…. It’s so hard being different…. I hate my parents!”, it is best to nod in agreement, place your arm around them meaningfully, and pray to god that there is a distraction from the emotional storyline, something like an explosion or mutant fist fight.
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Uh…how can you read the X-Men trilogy? You either mean the movie trilogy, or one of the many comic book series or other reading material from the last few decades. You may want to fix that up.
From an X-Men loving queer
“reading” is an academic term meaning to interpret any text (whether written or otherwise) in a particular way. I was talking about the movies, though.
Come on now. You can’t tell me “Little Women” isn’t about queers.
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