![]() Last week, I went to go see the latest movie release – Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us. There’s something about the franchise that draws LGBTI audiences in, appealing to specific areas of their gender identity and sexuality. | Photo: James BesanvalleĪ lot of people within the LGBTI community love Pokémon. Now, as an adult, it’s equal parts nostalgia, escapism and belonging bringing me back to Pokémon each time.Īnd I’m not alone. With every new release, it transported me deeper and deeper into the franchise. Over the next couple of years, the games reached North America, Europe and Australia. The Pokémon franchise officially began in 1995, but the first game didn’t come out in Japan until February 1996. Then I’d come home and play Pokémon Blue, while my twin brother played Pokémon Red right next to me. I’d trade Pokémon cards with my friends during lunch. Then I’d go to school and draw Pokémon with my best friend during recess. I’d wake up and watch the TV show over breakfast. I was about seven years old when I first became aware of Pokémon.
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He started using his handle - which, translated into heterosexual English, refers to a penetrating partner in gay sex who, against popular stereotype, has a caring nature - to post his nudes and sex dates because he ran out of space on his iPhone. ![]() The alt known as A Considerate Top (not safe for work) explained this to me while recounting his origin story. And some of Twitter’s sexiest alts have huge followings. They’re not that different from the urge to create “finstas” (fake Instagrams) or private Snapchat accounts, pseudonymous accounts where users can, paradoxically, really be themselves. “Alt” can be read as alternative or alter ego, but the word has its own life as the term for secondary account. And a faction of gay Twitter users have taken full advantage through their alts. Anyone, if their heart desires, can post nudes, selfies, and homemade videos of up to two minutes and 20 seconds. (Twitter, reached for comment, directed Vox to said media policy.) It’s a sex-positive policy on an increasingly sex-wary internet. The platform may have banned a former president who helped stoke a deadly insurrection, but nonviolent, non-extremist, consensual nudes and sex videos are fair game, according to the site’s media policy. ![]() ![]() Twitter, I’ve come to learn, is a fantastic place to find, store, and share homemade gay porn. ![]() It's a straight venue, per se, but it's extremely LGBTQ-friendly.
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