Geni Optns Book on Growg Up Gay and Disabled 1980s London - Variety

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• ROTTMNT LEO'S GAY

ROTTMNT LEO'S GAY

ALL POSTSIs Donnie gay? (eded by Gilgamhkun)I uld picture at least one of the Turtl beg gay. I don't know if Leo is gay specifilly, but after all this he seems at least unniably Rise Leo is is this thread still active?

Hard to say, men admire other men's mcl all the time whout beg gay. On TMNT’s Lack of Gay Characters. On The ’s thread on the latt issue of the current TMNT ic, a discsn spng up over the possibily of revealg that a particular character was gay this latt rnatn of the anchise.

As my ntributn, I noted that given that as far as I knew, no a character the turtl’ quarter-century history has ever been intified as gay* or as any of the other letters the QUILTBAG** blanket, and that I really wished that this newt rnatn uld clu some—possibly someone like Baxter Stockman or Karai, who are historilly major characters and whose sexuali hadn’t been tablished yet this versn of their tale. I liked the whole Montoya thg Gotham Central a lot, and Vo’s storyle The Soprano’s was actually tertg even if was almost totally random, but wh somethg like TMNT… there’s enough njas, aliens, mutants, monsters, dimensns hoppers, and time travelers that I don’t thk the “surprise gay character” rd needs to ever be played to me any extra drama. If somebody don’t re to read a story about a characters’ sexualy, and that same somebody don’t feel that shouldn’t be clud if ’s not relevant to the story, then that don’t leave any space at all for gay characters the story.

Is the origal Baxter Stockman gay, straight, bi? I mean, suppose, for example, that the latt rnatn of Karai is gay. She’s gay.

You don’t suppose she’s gay too?

If Tom Waltz don’t wish to clu a gay character (or reveal that a currently existg character is gay), then that is his right. In the end, there are many good reasons why the TMNT narrative should clu characters who are gay, and no reasons why shouldn’t. ** (Queer, Uncid, Intersex, Lbian, Trans, Bi, Asexual, Gay/Genrqueer).

By 1990, everyone, even punds, had heard of the four slacker-talkg, pizza-obssed nja turtl named after Renaissance artists (two of whom, by the way, were gay real life). Geni Pictur (“Mrs Lowry & Son, ” “Good Luck To You, Leo Gran”) has optned Emmett Monterey’s acclaimed memoir “Go the Way Your Blood Beats” – about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London – for TV adaptatn. At his mastream school, teachers refe to schle his class on the ground floor, and at his llege for disabled stunts, he’s told he will be expelled if the mors are te, if he’s gay.