I think the tma characters generally Know about contemporary queer labels and identities, they’re really not that old and jon uses language like “male presenting” and georgie and melanie have jobs that require them to be very on social media. it’s not out of the question that any of them might have pride stickers on their laptops or would introduce themselves with their pronouns if they thought the social situation was relaxed and gay enough. the important and beautiful thing to remember is that this does not preclude any of them from having extremely weird internalized queerphobia and very repressed relationships with their gender and sexuality, because I am a young adult in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty five and I know plenty of people with those exact problems. jon can know what the colors on the asexual flag mean and be casual friends with trans people and still turn around and say “well my issues with sex and my body are because I’m uhhh a fucked up little freak? probably?” and that wouldn’t be any contradiction. you don’t need to temporally lock him into a mid 90s understanding of queerness, he can be the pinnacle of a modern man and have issues aplenty. x
I think melanie has been extremely clockable as queer since she was like seven and it pissed her off so bad that she avoided coming out until her mid twenties just out of spite