Quick list of LGBT/disability crossovers in TV shows? Remember your spoiler warnings, unless it's obvious that the characters are both queer and disabled right from the start
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Does anyone know if there's a bookmarklet or little toolbar button you can install for "?style=mine" ? You can't always get it to come up automatically, and it's a pain in the neck typing it in manually.
If you've got Java enabled, you should be able to do it by making a bookmark with this as the destination: javascript:location.search+=(location.search?'&':'?')+'style=mine'
You can also use Readability to create a custom bookmarklet that'll work on sites outside of the LJ/DW/JF family, though it's also Java based and I think the options are a little more limited. http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
Oh, wow Butterfly Kiss was terrible. It had truly magnificent number of lesbian and disability cliches, though the poor actors occasionally broke through to make a real connection, at least!
Yes, Dana died of cancer in The L Word. After coming out, which was a long story.
I had mixed feelings about that series but I was moved by the scene in which her girlfriend Alice bought her a silly toy - a flower that sang 'You are my sunshine' - in the hospital shop, then went to her ward to give her the toy and found that she had died. The flower started singing as Alice slumped to the floor in tears. Then there was the scene at Dana's funeral, when her family made speeches about how sad that she never found the right man, and Alice leapt up in the chapel and shouted 'What are you talking about? Dana was gay!' before stealing her ashes and scattering them in the presence of Dana's lesbian friends.
Now this is *really* spoilers! I hope it's acceptable. Perhaps the idea is that a person doesn't have to open the comments to this thread if they don't want to risk seeing spoilers.
This is where you put "SPOILER WARNING" when it applieselettariaDecember 10 2010, 19:25:16 UTC
I am getting the feeling that we have managed to get you completely confused about how spoilers work! You did the spoilers for the previous post just right, but this isn't quite how they're done for comments.
You're right in that this was an appropriate comment to put them in, but but they need to be signposted so people can avoid the specific comment rather than having to stay away from the entire post.
It helps to put "SPOILER WARNING" in the comment subject, and then in the text as well. For example something like:
"And then Dana - hang on, spoilers ahoy
SPOILER FOR SEASON 1 OF THE L-WORD
dies of cancer after coming out."
The extra spaces between the lines are important, as it allows people to register that there's a spoiler warning, and see what it's for, before they have automatically read the lines undernearth.
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This.
Though I don't have eye problems like yours, there are some style themes that make me wonder WTF? the journal owner is thinking.
"?style=mine" is your friend; it's certainly mine!
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"?style=mine" ? You can't always get it to come up automatically, and it's a pain in the neck typing it in manually.
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javascript:location.search+=(location.search?'&':'?')+'style=mine'
You can also use Readability to create a custom bookmarklet that'll work on sites outside of the LJ/DW/JF family, though it's also Java based and I think the options are a little more limited.
http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
I've been using both for a while now.
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Rick and Steve has a character who is both HIV-positive and in a wheelchair.
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I think on the whole disabled people having any kind of sexuality in film/TV is rare so finding crips with an alt sexuality is even rarer.
Re: Gay men with AIDS in film: Jeffrey is quite good.
Also in film you've got the (dreadful) British road movie Butterfly Kiss which is about the relationship between 2 disabled women.
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I had mixed feelings about that series but I was moved by the scene in which her girlfriend Alice bought her a silly toy - a flower that sang 'You are my sunshine' - in the hospital shop, then went to her ward to give her the toy and found that she had died. The flower started singing as Alice slumped to the floor in tears. Then there was the scene at Dana's funeral, when her family made speeches about how sad that she never found the right man, and Alice leapt up in the chapel and shouted 'What are you talking about? Dana was gay!' before stealing her ashes and scattering them in the presence of Dana's lesbian friends.
Now this is *really* spoilers! I hope it's acceptable. Perhaps the idea is that a person doesn't have to open the comments to this thread if they don't want to risk seeing spoilers.
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You're right in that this was an appropriate comment to put them in, but but they need to be signposted so people can avoid the specific comment rather than having to stay away from the entire post.
It helps to put "SPOILER WARNING" in the comment subject, and then in the text as well. For example something like:
"And then Dana - hang on, spoilers ahoy
SPOILER FOR SEASON 1 OF THE L-WORD
dies of cancer after coming out."
The extra spaces between the lines are important, as it allows people to register that there's a spoiler warning, and see what it's for, before they have automatically read the lines undernearth.
Does that make sense?
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