I’m kidding! Or I’m like, kind of kidding? Good queer memes will make you cackle out loud while you stand in line for the bathroom at the gay bar, they’ll make you groan into your home-brewed kombucha, they’ll make you take a screenshot and send it to your group text like “OMG LOL TAG URSELF,” they’ll make you smile and laugh and cry and accept the mortifying ordeal of being known.
Y’all! QUEER MEMES ON INSTAGRAM ARE HIGH ART! I have had some friends argue that all memes are queer, because the meme form is inherently queer (lol I love/hate us) but I would say you have not truly experienced Queer Meme Culture until you’ve deep dived into some of these accounts late on a Tuesday night, filled with despair and dread, and finally stopped scrolling at like 5am, still maybe filled with despair and dread but now sated with the knowledge that at least you are not feeling those feelings alone. I understood the concept, of course – an image, some text, a commentary on Shared Life Experiences – but I never found the memes I saw on Twitter very funny or relatable, and I assumed this was something that brought other people joy but was just not for me. I have an embarrassing confession: for a very long time, I didn’t really understand memes. The 200 Best Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Movies Of All Time.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
