New community

cimorene has written a post about queer invisibility in mainstream media and has smart things to say about the differences between queer content and subversive readings of the text and about the types of queer content that get the green light. This paragraph in particular really resonated with me:

So sometimes I want to consume some media where the gay content was actually the creator's explicit intent - mainstream media is pretty clear about not wanting us, and sometimes you are sick of that. And Wax and I do have a small collection of hard-won gay films, but they're pretty much all An Issue Movie and they usually involve HIV and/or unhappy endings. Until last month I'd actually never seen a lesbian romance film with a happy ending. The thing is that that genre is almost entirely hidden from the mainstream.

So, to try to make it easier for people to find those stories, I've created a new community, gay_also_means_happy, where people can post recommendations for queer media with happy endings. Please check it out if you're interested!