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Red, White, and Royal Blue, the movie
Aug. 12th, 2023 08:46 pmRed, White and Royal Blue, movie based on the Casey McQuiston novel.
This is on Amazon; I got the $1.99 for one week trial. I listened to the book some time ago but not closely. It's about the son of the American president falling in love with an English prince.
It's just so... nice? to see a gay romcom? That has high production values and a mainstream release! That has people of color and a transgender character and the word "queer", and inclusion of bisexuality, etc. I love that it had sex scenes. I love that Alex talked about being from an immigrant family. Stephen Fry has a wonderful cameo.
Like OK, maybe the story is silly, and the characterization isn't all that deep, but it doesn't need to be. If the straights can have light-hearted romcoms we should have them too!
This just cheered me immensely and I want a hundred more such films to make up for all the times I had to watch "Love, Actually" when I was a young adult.
I have a pet peeve, perhaps a strange one, because I used to work in infectious disease research.
Alex's mom is giving him some sex talk advice, and she says, "if you are bottoming then you should get the HPV vaccine."
Listen to me, you should get that vaccine regardless. REGARDLESS of your sexual position. HPV can cause throat cancer; the virus gets there through oral sex. And other cancers!! This vaccine should be universal IMO. I am an asexual-spectrum lesbian and I got this vaccine.
https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/hpv/basic_info/cancers.htm
Yes ok maybe don't get your sex ed through movies, but... what else do we have, in this culture of ours.
Perhaps some day over drinks, or in a future journal entry, i will tell you the weird story of how demonstrating too much knowledge of HPV and gay sex got me into hot water at my lab job. Which was an infectious disease research lab!! But a homophobic workplace! my hands are not up for that much typing tonight.
This is on Amazon; I got the $1.99 for one week trial. I listened to the book some time ago but not closely. It's about the son of the American president falling in love with an English prince.
It's just so... nice? to see a gay romcom? That has high production values and a mainstream release! That has people of color and a transgender character and the word "queer", and inclusion of bisexuality, etc. I love that it had sex scenes. I love that Alex talked about being from an immigrant family. Stephen Fry has a wonderful cameo.
Like OK, maybe the story is silly, and the characterization isn't all that deep, but it doesn't need to be. If the straights can have light-hearted romcoms we should have them too!
This just cheered me immensely and I want a hundred more such films to make up for all the times I had to watch "Love, Actually" when I was a young adult.
I have a pet peeve, perhaps a strange one, because I used to work in infectious disease research.
Alex's mom is giving him some sex talk advice, and she says, "if you are bottoming then you should get the HPV vaccine."
Listen to me, you should get that vaccine regardless. REGARDLESS of your sexual position. HPV can cause throat cancer; the virus gets there through oral sex. And other cancers!! This vaccine should be universal IMO. I am an asexual-spectrum lesbian and I got this vaccine.
https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/hpv/basic_info/cancers.htm
Yes ok maybe don't get your sex ed through movies, but... what else do we have, in this culture of ours.
Perhaps some day over drinks, or in a future journal entry, i will tell you the weird story of how demonstrating too much knowledge of HPV and gay sex got me into hot water at my lab job. Which was an infectious disease research lab!! But a homophobic workplace! my hands are not up for that much typing tonight.
