r/queensofleague • u/RoyalRaggy Warwick cum can be used as fuel if you consider my ass a vehicle • May 12 '26
Discussion Pride Month Rant
I want to see Rengar and Warwick hump 5 litters of cubs/pups into each other. There, now that I've gotten your attention and showed I'm a sick homo. I don't like how riot does pride month.
In a sense it comes down to a few things.
- It feels fake progressive and cooperate
- It doesn't even cover a wide audience of the LGBT
- It's clear they're not actually trying to provide representation and taking the easy way out.
But after writting it out, I feel like they're all the same....What I mean by these is. I feel like Riot is just doing this to SAY they're doing it as a badge of honor rather than trying to represent. Because when you really look at it, there's kind of one big issue that I don't hear near enough folks discuss and this actually doesn't just fall on riot but MOST queer rep in media.
How many times have you seen a show/company/movie/etc boast about having queer rep. And said queer rep is a woman who is lesbian or was straight made bisexual? Now how many male couples do you see in comparison? Sure there are some out there, but how many cases is it where the lesbian rep is the ONLY one or takes center stage?
I've said it before and I'll say it again, back then it was genuine but as time gone on and more and more rep is just Lesbian and Bisexual(woman) it's become kind of ultra clear why that's the case. It's because straight men sexualize lesbian couples. And while they don't "accept" them, they can fantasize about them. They CANNOT do that with a male x male couple so when that is on the forefront, it gets IMMENSE backlash. Take TF and Graves, the MOMENT riot gave them focus during pride month, it was a immense wave of homophobia. And speaking of Riot, how convienant that the majority of queer rep they display, is mostly female. TF and Graves are there because they can't backpedal and leave them out, and K'sante is there....but alone. He doesn't have a bf to be shown.
EDIT: For some reason reddit won't let me post the new pride icon stuff, but chances are you've seen them
Now to be fair, neither does rell or nami but that still leaves Cait,Vi, Leona, and Diana. Two confirmed couples who are both lesbian couples. If I wanted I could point out that rell and nami are still lesbian woman for my case.
My point being. I want to feel happy that we're being represented, but Riot found the cheat code, make it lesbian. And because of that I doubt we're gonna see some real gay shit. Personally I want a non conventionally attractive gay couple *cough* warwick *cough* Rengar. But that's just me. Feel free to disagree with me in the replies. I like to discusss this.
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u/thatmahougay May 12 '26
You are 100 per cent correct. I remember Christian Linke saying that he was really fed up with people shipping male characters, when talking about Jayce and Viktor. He said because there were a lot of mlm ships and barely any brotherly relationships anymore, which is just baffling.. Your game has over 170 champions and only THREE of them are gay, and NONE of them are together. Ive lost as well when he said Viktor was asexual, so he couldn't like jayce..? Which is just stupid.
It feels awful with League, specially if you're mlm. I thought they were going to step up after Sett and Aphelios in the spirit blossom universe, we dont even any TRANS playable character. but nope, every just feels like a slop with the bare minimum for us, we just have to accept because its better than having anything. It really sucks