It’s all pretty refreshing and what we want to see more of on TV. Lucius (Nathan Foad) and Black Pete (Matthew Maher) get together and fall in love, but their romance doesn’t define them. Tough bounty hunter Jim (Vico Ortiz) uses they/them pronouns. Our flag means death has been celebrated by LGBTQIA+ communities and their allies for its groundbreaking queer representation. “I like to go on social media and see all the fan art and see all this amazing soft gay porn that’s been created around our characters and stuff.”ĭon’t even try to tell me you’re an ally if you don’t spend hours browsing Tumblr and Twitter to find racy fan art of your queer OTP. “It’s really nice for me to be involved and to be able to participate in something where we don’t have to label anything or talk about it or say, ‘This is the gay pirate show.’ It’s just a thing that just happens on the side. Waititi then revealed that he’s seen all the adorable fan-art of him on Twitter about the queer pirate crew.
He said it’s refreshing to be involved in a project where you don’t have to label anything and instead be part of a show where queer identities are treated as normal rather than stigmatized.
Waititi confirmed his support during a Variety TV Fest panel this week when asked during the panel about the budding queer romance between his character Blackbeard and Darby’s Gentleman Pirate. Waititi, the latest Internet pirate dad and notorious bisexual rights ally, is reportedly a big fan of all the soft erotica surrounding his and Rhys Darby’s characters in Our flag means death. If you are a fan of all the “smooth and horny gay porn” created around Our flag means deathgood news: so is Taika Waititi.
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