Laugh or Cry: LGBT Twitter Responds to Election With Dark Comedy

We're all a feeling sick to our stomachs, so hopefully it's true that laughter is the best medicine.

Well, the election is over, and this morning dawns darker for LGBT people, immigrants, women, people of color, and the disenfranchised than any time in recent memory.

The funny LGBT people of Twitter reacted to Donald Trump's election win much like the rest of us, with disbelief, anger, fear, frustration, but also hope. And through all of that, they still offered some much-needed humor. Maybe it’s too soon for some of us to be laughing about any of this, but healing has to start somewhere, right?

Pretty sure I know this guy.

Loud gay, upon reaching the front of the line at the polls, to no one: "And Trump thinks we're trying to do this twice? Girl, I'm busy" — Sam Lansky (@samlansky) November 8, 2016

A silver lining.

hope I end up in the same gay camp as Kate McKinnon — maddy (@lemon_knope) November 9, 2016

OK, maybe it was really hard to find a bunch of funny tweets.

I never knew how despised, hated, reviled and unwanted I and people like me were in America until now. — Mathew Rodriguez (@mathewrodriguez) November 9, 2016

One way of looking at it.

Trump is sweeping the "gay guys tied to fences or car bumpers" states. — Guy Branum (@guybranum) November 9, 2016

Please do it!

These election returns got me feeling like I gotta start making some woke-ass brown babies — Danielle Radford (@danielleradford) November 9, 2016

Maybe worse. Maybe.

This is a stressful as being in the audience of the first preview of TITANIC on Broadway. #ElectionNight — Robbie Rozelle (@divarobbie) November 9, 2016

This is one way of putting it.

the queers who were nice/patient/gentle all got shot or bullied to death all that's left r me & the other pissed-off cockroach motherfuckers — MAX IM A KOOPA (@meakoopa) June 13, 2016

I really thought for a minute that this was going to work.

Called upon all of our angels, living and dead, to help pull this off tonight. #gohillgo #imwithher #angelofmine (Did I miss anyone?) pic.twitter.com/D6vAM6nG2P — Timothy Dunn (@timothydunn) November 9, 2016

For those of us getting uncomfortable with how mainstream we’d become….

Deep breaths. I'm most worried about Pence and the ax he has to grind against the LGBTs. After 8 mainstream years, Queer is punk again. — Alec Mapa (@AlecMapa) November 9, 2016

Is that friend America?

Can you impeach a president before they take the oath? I'm asking for a friend. — deray mckesson (@deray) November 9, 2016

Ain’t nobody got time for that.

As if my life wasn't busy enough, now I have to find a country with both gay marriage and someone dumb enough to marry me. #ElectionNight — Brandon Cloud (@theclobra) November 9, 2016

I think this is a joke?

America, bro! I feel like you just date raped me. — Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) November 9, 2016

These last two are definitely not jokes. But they are important. Share some love today with your most vulnerable loved ones today. We all need it.

The unthinkable happened before, to my family in WWII. We got thru it. We held each other close. We kept our dignity and held to our ideals. — George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) November 9, 2016