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From the earliest fandoms on Tumblr to niche communities on TikTok and X (formerly Twitter), queer folks have developed a digital slang that combines political commentary, niche style, fandom tropes, and pop culture into something that's half-performative art, half-group therapy.

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I better get out before they make it mandatory!

The intent of this joke is obviously to disparage the idea of an all-gay Marine Corps, but the more you think about it, the more an all-gay Corps actually makes sense.

Hear me out: if the military is all about efficiency, an all-gay Marine Corps would be much closer to that utopian society vision than the former straight Corps.

But to truly understand queer meme culture is to enter a coded world where the absurd, the transgressive, the traumatized, and the celebratory coexist in strange, humorous symbiosis.

gay marine meme

The Marines are better-dressed, better-mannered, and better on camera for our PAO-minded HQMC folks.

Of course, this idea requires me to make sweeping generalizations about a group of people…

…So did disallowing people to serve on the basis of them being gay.

Of course, we already know that the Marine Corps is actually the gayest thing a straight man can ever do… And now that I think about it, maybe there’s a correlation to this and the fact that Marines have historically been known as one of the world’s most elite fighting forces… Perhaps a thought for another day.

Happy Pride Month.

It's not always easy being queer in a world that hasn’t quite caught up.

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    With the internet age, that tradition has come to manifest as meme culture that is actively opaque, self-referential, and dripping with levels of irony.

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    The Meme Generator is a flexible tool for many purposes. If you don't find the meme you want, browse all the GIF Templates or upload and save your own animated template using the GIF Maker. The set up for this comic is actually a reference to a terrible homophobic joke I’ve seen many times over the years along the lines of…

    Back when I enlisted it was illegal to be gay.

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    But between the activism, the self-discovery, and the constant emotional whiplash of existing under late-stage capitalism, sometimes what we really need is a meme about how our gender identity changes depending on the lighting. If you’ve ever stumbled across a post that combines a screenshot from Shrek 2, a quote from Judith Butler, and a caption like “me trying to girlboss too close to the sun,” then you’ve had a brush with it.

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