I think the LGBTQ community feels like they’re on the periphery. They feel like they’re not seen, they feel like they’re not worthy, they feel like they’re not valued. And there’s no answer to that, other than the fact that you’re not heterosexual. Really, that’s it. That’s what I think, and I certainly feel the same way, as someone who has been marginalized my entire life. Listen, when I think about myself, I am everything within me. I’ve had boyfriends, people think I’m cute. I’m funny! I’m telling you, I’m all of those things. And I cannot stand labels. I cannot stand them. […]
(So) I had everything to do with that (Annalise’s sexual fluidity). And so did Pete Nowak; I can’t leave him out. I really have to give him credit for that too. And also, “I Am Jazz”: I was watching that one night. I love that show. But I was watching that one night and (trans TV star and model Jazz Jennings) was playing in the closet with one of her friends who was a trans teenager, and it was just great. They were talking about who they see themselves with in the future, and they were like, “Whoever, you know. I’m open. I’m open to a boy, I’m open to a girl.” And they started talking about just the attributes of the people they wanted to be with.
That transformed me more than anything. I thought, “That is the greatest thing in the world,” and I thought that that was a great idea for Annalise because Annalise is so damaged, so traumatized that what if she just said, “I’m just open to love”? God, think about what we can explore there.
Viola Davis on LGBTQIA community and Annalise’s sexuality
photoshop when I go to save a gif: 3.023 Mb me, trying to reduce the size: deletes 40 frames, decreases brightness, ups the contrast, crops canvas, makes small offering to a local deity photoshop: 3.022 🙂
What I didn’t like? Pretty much all of it where Leila is concerned tbh. She does nothing to me but reinforces the very thing and stigma’s bi folxs fight against from outside and within the community including every awful thing that’s said about us bisexuals- which the character themselves recites with a bitterness that crawled all over me in one episode and made it even worse when the next episode she decides to use the label for herself and immediately does something that made me side eye the screen so hard. I almost quit watching it by episode 3 but figured I may as well finish it since it was only 6 episodes.
The things I did like
Denis and Ruby and even Hemmy. Give me stories about them instead.
Just Sha 