![]() But as a young queer pre-teen, I did see myself and what I wanted to be in anime. But about 10 years ago, as a closeted gay kid grappling with who I might be and how I might fit into the world, explicit lesbian content was not only scarce and difficult to access, but repeated a lot of the same tropes–many of which were, frankly, not great.įrom unhealthy power dynamics, such as student-teacher relationships to biphobia, transphobia, body shaming and white beauty standards to an over-saturation of tragic endings, “forbidden love” and coming-out narratives I couldn’t really see myself in any of that. ![]() This usually manifests either as characters refering to their identity by name, or as the confirmation of a queer relationship through a kiss or sex scene (unfortunately, ‘I love you’ alone is still too vague for a compulsorily heterosexual world). These days, it’s taken for granted that the only good queer representation is ‘explicit’ - that is to say, that individual characters’ queerness is made undeniably clear.
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