In many countries, gay sex is still punishable by death.īut I’ve begun to feel, here in the Western world where we have the privilege of being picky with our needs for representation, that televised gay desire has skipped the emotional aspects of relationships. In many countries, a gay kiss will still get banned from airing. Marvel, in all of its live-action glory, still refuses to show much of anything queer. Without a doubt, censorship and homophobia have prevented much of anything from being showcased in the past. It is indeed radical for queer sex to be showcased so unabashedly, without it being framed as shameful or perverse as it may still have been a decade or two ago. Obviously, I’m not saying all characters must be sexually watered down to suit heterosexual respectability politics and for the Modern Family gays to be the status quo. What I kept expecting from Young Royals was sex - what I got instead was gay yearning. I feel, without any statistical backing or qualitative research other than my own gut feeling, that there is a lack of gay representation that doesn’t revolve around the spectacle event of coming out or sex scenes bordering on the pornographic. In fact, the only more graphic sex scene is between two straight teen characters. What could be a sexual pressure-cooker environment at a boarding school is instead a space of exploration and yearning. Pores are visible and each character has their own acne arc as the episodes progress. On Young Royals, the teens look like teens, even if they’re rich. And on each of these shows, the actors are played by adults with glistening muscles and invisible pores - actors closer to my age than they are to a teen. Every time someone recommends Elite to me, another teen show about a boarding school, they do so by mentioning how hot the teen threesomes are.
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In the pilot episode of Generation, a high school teen gets semen in his eye while trying to give another teen a blowjob. We hear moaning and the camera frames the student’s face from above as he visibly swallows the teacher’s semen. In the fifth episode of the Gossip Girl reboot, a 17-year-old student gives a blowjob to his adult teacher he has been stalking, in an open-doored classroom. I exhaled when both were able to share a private moment in Simon’s bedroom, and held my breath when they restrained themselves from showing any sign of intimacy to each other in public. I started to feel, as a viewer, the bubbling frustrations at life’s ability to get in the way of intimacy - the feeling of scarcity. Any moment the two share together feels like it might (and usually does) get interrupted, witnessed, or recorded. Even more frustrating to watch is their schoolmate August, finding any given moment to interrupt Wilhelm and Simon’s private scenes throughout the season. We learn about the discrimination Simon faces from his schoolmates and teachers for being an outsider of class, race, and sexuality.īut what seems to move at the slowest pace is the central relationship, withheld by Wilhelm’s uncertainty around his own sexuality and the pressures of being royalty. The show moves through plot quickly, from a character’s death, drug dealing gone wrong, and social media scandals. Over six episodes, a lot - perhaps too much - seems to occur. Once at school, we quickly learn that Wilhelm has his eye on Simon (Omar Rudberg), a scholarship student who attends the school during the day and returns home to his single mother and sister during the night. On Young Royals, a new Swedish coming-of-gay-age drama on Netflix, Sweden’s prince Wilhelm (played by 18-year-old Edvin Ryding) is sent to a boarding school for the rich after getting in a fight out in the world and having it documented on social media. But when these shows place no-strings-attached sexual exploration at the forefront of their stories, I feel disconnected (and frankly, creepy) investing in the show. In the meantime, teen shows are dominating with their queer characters. There has yet to be a gay Fleabag, which is truly what I want. It’s not that I’m not grateful to watch such a range of experience, but I still feel there is a gap in shows about the contemporary, gay male-identified experience. Coincidentally this had been on my mind for the last year, when dates turned into health risks and I started to wonder if I would ever feel gay yearning again.īetween Pose and P-Valley, Everything’s Gonna Be Okay and Special, Search Party and It’s A Sin, Schitt’s Creek and This Close, I feel guilty for wanting more out of queer representation on television in the 2020s.
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In our session, she explained how my Taurus in Venus - along with placements in my houses that were beyond my comprehension - favour a slower approach to intimacy. I recently had my first astrology reading by a friend.