This image went viral on Twitter for the truth it served. Photo: Michael James Schneider

This image went viral on Twitter for the truth it served. Photo: Michael James Schneider

Gay artist Michael James Schneider has a message about consent, and it’s blowing up Twitter.

Tweeting under the handle @BLCKSMTHdesign, Schneider posted a picture of himself in front of a sign that read, “Straight men understand consent when they go to a gay bar.”

“Wow this tea is brisk today,” he wrote in the tweet.

wow this tea is brisk today pic.twitter.com/Wmiv3OLZ9G — Michael James Schneider (@BLCKSMTHdesign) October 24, 2018

The message has been retweeted over 30,000 times.

Other Twitter users understood the message.

I suspect that much straight male fear of gay men, stems from the fear that gay men will treat straight man the way straight men treat women. — Professor* Harbinger (@profharbinger) October 24, 2018