Let's talk about the importance of telling stories about queer joy in a media environment that seems to only like us when we're bitter and sad, suffering horribly, or dead. We'll be talking about drama for the sake of telling a good story versus drama for the sake of subconscious moral punishment; the quiet subversiveness of a simple story well told; of every day happiness; and the effects media has on a queer person's sense of self in larger society.
