Less than 24 hours after Vice President Kamala Harris revealed she would run for president following Joe Biden’s exit from the race, queer individuals flooded the web with saucy videos and memes about her candidateship.
A supercut of Harris chuckling, set to a Charli XCX tune from the album “Brat,” rapidly went viral, with more than 1.3 million views. Within hours of the statement, images and videos distributed of a group of males on Fire Island Pines, a queer-friendly beach on New York’s Long Island, using cropped T-shirts in “brat” lime green — the color of Charli XCX’s album — with “Kamala” emblazoned on the front in the exactsame typeface utilized on the album.
“BRAT Kamala t-shirts currently on Fire Island. The gays relocation SO FAST,” a user composed.
Some LGBTQ individuals shared their assistance bymeansof memes and videos. And there was no scarcity of campy and queer-coded posts referring to Harris as “mother.”
“BIDEN IS OUT!” a individual composed on X. “MOTHER KAMALA… IT’S YOUR TIME.”
Another user composed, “knee deep in the guest’s seat and biden dropped out is it kamala now?” utilizing lyrics from queer pop icon Chappell Roan’s tune “Casual.”
A TikTok user reanimated pictures comparing Harris to “The L Word” character Bette Porter, an supreme power lesbian with an excellent pantsuit collection, played by Jennifer Beals.
“Bette Porter strolled so Madam President Kamala Harris might runnnn,” the TikTok post stated.
Others linked a speech Harris offered referring to coconuts to trans pop artist Kim Petras’ tune “Coconuts.”
Across the web, coconuts and the coconut emoji have endupbeing expressions of assistance for Harris.
“All aboard the coconut reveal!!!” a individual composed on X, togetherwith a video of Harris including RuPaul’s tune “Call Me Mother.”
Support for Harris’ candidateship extended offline to LGBTQ rights groups, consistingof the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s biggest LGBTQ advocacy company. The group promoted her work as lawyer basic of California to end the so-called gay/trans panic defense, which hasactually enabled those implicated of murder to get lower sentences by stating they worried after havingactually discovered out a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
She has likewise been backed by 10 of the 12 honestly LGBTQ members of Congress, consistingof Sens. Tammy Baldwin, of Wisconsin, and Laphonza Butler, of California; and Reps. Angie Craig, of Minnesota; Ritchie Torres, of New York; Becca Balint, of Vermont; and Mark Takano, of California, amongst others.
The appreciation has not been consistent throughout the LGBTQ neighborhood, . H