Memes are a magical result of the internet and social media, and 20-gay-teen was jam-packed full of priceless tweets, memes and posts by queer people for queer people.
Some were painfully relatable…
gay culture is not knowing if you’re on a date or not
— 𝙻𝙼𝙰 (@_lesleyallan) November 18, 2018
Like, really relatable.
gay culture is not knowing how to do that fucking handshake thing straight men do
— sexy baby fender bender (@quartersmartt) November 25, 2018
…
Gay culture is going home from college and seeing whether or not you’ll match with your high school theatre director on Tinder
— Jackson (@feelingbonkers) November 24, 2018
And if this isn’t the true struggle of gay dating, I don’t know what is.
gay culture is falling for someone who is either:
– straight
– taken
– out of your league
– lives half way across the country
– never catches on they you're flirting
– all of the above— jazmín marie. (@slut4coffeee) November 25, 2018
Sometimes the gay stans are super predictable… but in the best way.
https://twitter.com/Ottoyanez/status/1065750159408156672
And this tweet perfectly sums up the frustration we go through every festive season.
https://twitter.com/greeneggs_/status/1064227220804251652
Honestly, we are pretty upset this didn’t happen.
https://twitter.com/no1seshgoth/status/1030731724735635456
I feel attacked by this meme, but it’s kind of true.
Katy really desperately wants to snatch our culture. Chime down hunny. remember that whole wig mess?
And the ‘Gay Fear’ meme made us love JVN and gay culture in general even more.
https://twitter.com/howvery_/status/1009422995625005063
Honestly, same.
https://twitter.com/AriesHomo/status/1065066714168213509
When people call you a snowflake for getting offended at their blatant homophobia, sexism and racism.
https://twitter.com/annathrne/status/1063941789776793600
This is the gospel truth.
https://twitter.com/womenlooped/status/1064111647894224896
An accurate prediction for us sashaying into 2019:
https://twitter.com/atxpapi/status/1063256906469466112
And honestly, it’s really easy…
straight people will refer to their car as ‘she’ but won’t call a transgender person by their correct pronouns pic.twitter.com/20zhPaDiWv
— 🤧 (@Scarlet4UrMa) November 17, 2018
MOM PLEASE!
mom can you pick me up there are straight people here
— kya (@softsadsatan) November 11, 2018
In fairness, we have the best music taste ever.
https://twitter.com/alezander/status/1058786017195380736
And we stan our queen Ariana.
https://twitter.com/bbearahblue/status/1058943296654004224
Honestly, bring on the apocalypse if this is the case.
https://twitter.com/FckyeahCharli/status/1058366440548515843
THIS ONE.
A straight at work said to me “it’s not fair, it’s so easy for you gays to hook up”, as if we haven’t spent centuries meeting up in sewers at 2 AM to avoid getting murdered by heterosexuals
— Tom Zohar (@TomZohar) November 2, 2018
Okay, Gaga and Ariana can share the title of queen.
https://twitter.com/umcornell/status/1057290912764751874
IM SCREAMING.
https://twitter.com/HereticHR/status/1054838596316868608
And they call us the snowflakes…
'STOP BEING OFFENDED BY EVERYTHING' screams John, who gets instantly enraged when he sees the word feminist or vegan or trans or any other group of people he doesn't understand
— hash brown guy (@joshDIY) October 21, 2018
Yeah, we are the ones forcing our sexuality onto children.
https://twitter.com/ItsAlexJackson/status/1051488865792512000
Yep, we’re definitely the ones causing the confusion here.
Honestly, we have been surrounded by straight people our whole lives, and still turn out super queer.
https://twitter.com/ItsAlexJackson/status/1048944632166473730
Uhm, excuse me. I am not here for this.
https://twitter.com/being__brian/status/1040894173958811648
And when the Pope came to visit, the memes just got better.
https://twitter.com/debhruin/status/1033404424423653376
And the straights didn’t even go after complaining for so long that they didn’t have a straight pride. Ugh.
Homophobes always asking when Straight Pride is, then they get one and don't even bother turning up? Honestly. #popeinireland
— just morto (@DylanTeeBH) August 25, 2018
Same:
https://twitter.com/soy_boye/status/1024778605778423808
The struggle is real.
homophobia is shite but the shittest thing about being gay is all ur girl pals going to the toilet in the club and u have to stand outside for like half an hour alone
— james honeyman (@jamesh0neyman) July 20, 2018
Truth:
One Direction died so the queer eye guys could rise
— Christine Sydelko (@csydelko) June 25, 2018
The closet knew all of our secrets.
13 year old me: no, I’m not gay.
Closet: pic.twitter.com/PDTsG5lUpY
— Zack (@Zack3O12) March 18, 2018
The internet really is our safe space.
https://twitter.com/baIIesteros/status/985954815858458624
Like seriously.
https://twitter.com/heIIagirls/status/982369710233870338
But although we love the internet, we still get shit here too.
Gay people: hi
Straight twitter: not to be rude AND all but I feel like y’all are forcing this gay shit on us 💀💀💀💀💀😴😴 I have no problem with gay people but I just don’t agree with their lifestyle 😂😂😂😂😂😂 don’t get mad at me though
— HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty (@keyon) December 21, 2017
In 2018, we looked back at a historic moment.
https://twitter.com/fkajack/status/984393352182403073
Men, get your act together and tell your friends they’re stunning.
https://twitter.com/kaimccann_/status/980103838857420806
We didn’t come here for all this straight culture.
Me when it hits the point of the night when the club starts playing songs like Mr. Brightside and Teenage Dirtbag pic.twitter.com/PL0g0c5a90
— 🤧 (@Scarlet4UrMa) March 27, 2018
And we just need to take a moment to remember that this actually happened and it wasn’t just some crazy dream we had.
https://twitter.com/RuPaul/status/964518113160019968
And we do not come here to play games.
https://twitter.com/Bello_Kevy/status/950856737476800512
We gave queer icon Carly Rae Jepsen the tweets she deserved this year.
https://twitter.com/shckldg/status/1057999428714401794
It’s what she deserves.
Carly Rae Jepsen: *breathes*
Homosexuals: GLUE THOSE WIGS SISTERS!! CRJ is about to SNAP!! She’s fucking COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can’t wait to huff poppers at her next TOUR!!!!! 🤪🤩💃🏼💅🏻🍆🍾🍸🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
— keag$ (@keaganhy) October 30, 2018
When you know it’s serious.
https://twitter.com/no1seshgoth/status/1056932068335198208
And in 2018, tweets got thirsty…
https://twitter.com/sbstryker/status/1038932725896437762
And obviously, we have to talk about that moment in 2018 when Celine Dion basically put an end to gender forever.
https://twitter.com/neonfiona/status/1062865430480478208
And lest we forget the ICONIC era of Miss Vanjie…
… which gave us some of the most enjoyable memes of all time.
https://twitter.com/BrookeNewbould/status/978354273737216002
https://twitter.com/ChristmanColton/status/979584003857633280
What happens when you say “Miss Vanjie” three times in front of the mirror in a dark room. pic.twitter.com/cLqm0jPCOD
— temporarily embarrassed millionaire (@JScottRasmussen) March 30, 2018
https://twitter.com/majtague/status/981226681171095552
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