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• PRETTY PK DIRECTOR NFIRMS ONCE AND FOR ALL WHETHER DUCKIE WAS GAY
• WAS DUCKIE’S CHARACTER ‘PRETTY PK’ ACTUALLY GAY? MOLLY RGWALD SAYS Y
• MOLLY RGWALD SAYS DUCKIE FROM ‘PRETTY PK’ IS GAY, AND SHOULD’VE END UP WH A ‘CUTE GUY’
• WHAT DO IT MEAN IF DUCKIE OM ‘PRETTY PK’ WAS GAY?
• MOLLY RGWALD: PRETTY PK'S "DUCKIE" WAS GAY
• 'PRETTY PK' DIRECTOR HOWARD DTCH ON FILM'S FAMO LOST ENDG AND MOLLY RGWALD'S THEORY THAT DUCKIE WAS SECRETLY GAY
• JON CRYER SAYS 'PRETTY PK' CHARACTER NOT GAY
• PRETTY IN PKGATE: IS DUCKIE GAY? JON CRYER RPONDS
• MOLLY RGWALD Q&A ON THE REAL-LIFE DUCKIE & JON CRYER’S ‘GAY VIBE’
• DONALD DUCK WILL GET ITS FIRST LBIAN CHARACTER DUE TO THE APPEAL OF A TEN YEAR OLD GIRL: ‘MY PARENTS ARE GAY. BUT ‘DUCK CY’ IT’S AS IF THEY DON’T EXIST AT ALL’
• 'DUCK DYNASTY' STAR WILLIE ROBERTSON IS 'TRYG TO FIGURE OUT' IF BEG GAY IS A CHOICE

PRETTY PK DIRECTOR NFIRMS ONCE AND FOR ALL WHETHER DUCKIE WAS GAY

The director of 1980s teen classic Pretty Pk has fally given a five answer on whether or not the character Duckie was actually gay. Fans of the film, wrten by John Hugh, have long sce speculated that the character – played by Jon Cryer – was gay. Molly Rgwald, who played Andie Walsh the cult classic, has said she always saw him as gay too.

But the film’s director Howard Dtch has put the speculatn to bed, sayg he never saw Duckie as gay. Pretty Pk director Howard Dtch don’t thk Duckie was gay.

When asked if the character was gay, Dtch told Yahoo Entertament: “I don’t thk that, but I mean I n see where some people uld perceive like that. The character’s sexualy was brought to sharp foc 2012 when Rgwald told Out magaze that Duckie was gay, but didn’t know .

WAS DUCKIE’S CHARACTER ‘PRETTY PK’ ACTUALLY GAY? MOLLY RGWALD SAYS Y

“I thk he lov Andie the way that [my gay bt iend] always loved me, ” she said. Actor Jon Cryer said the character was not tend to be gay. Jt e the gaydar is gog off, don’t mean your stments aren’t flty.

John Hugh' beloved 1986 classic movie 'Pretty Pk' featured a love triangle between Andie, Blae and Andie's bt iend Duckie (played by Molly Rgwald, Andrew McCarthy and Jon Cryer, rpectively) the end, Andie choos Blae, but a recent terview, Rgwald said that was only natural sce she believ the Duckie character was actually gay -- somethg Cryer talkg wh, Rgwald said that two endgs for the movie were actually shot -- one which she end up wh Blae, and another which she and Duckie lived happily ever after. The latter endg bombed wh screeng dienc, and Rgwald, who currently stars ABC Fay’s 'The Secret Life of the Amerin Teenager, ' claims to know why:Duckie don’t know he’s gay.

I thk he lov Andie the way that [my gay bt iend] always loved me... Jt bee the gaydar is gog off don't mean your stments aren't flty. EntertamentMolly Rgwald is pretty sure that Duckie om 'Pretty Pk' is gay.

MOLLY RGWALD SAYS DUCKIE FROM ‘PRETTY PK’ IS GAY, AND SHOULD’VE END UP WH A ‘CUTE GUY’

Bee om Rgwald’s perspective, she believ that Duckie is gay. Molly Rgwald thks that Duckie om ‘Pretty In Pk’ is gay and should have end up wh a guy. “Duckie don’t know he’s gay, ” Rgwald tells Out Magaze (via The Huffgton Post.

) “I thk he lov Andie the way that [my gay bt iend] always loved me. Jon Cryer don’t thk his character Duckie is gay but stead effemate.

WHAT DO IT MEAN IF DUCKIE OM ‘PRETTY PK’ WAS GAY?

“Y, she said that the guy whom Duckie was based on was gay.

Jt e the gaydar is gog off don’t mean your stments aren’t flty. But never all my years of watchg have I ever stopped to wonr about whether or not Duckie, Andie’s angsty, Otis Reddg croong, bicycle ridg BFF (who, now that I do thk about , was an obv precsor to My So-Called Life’s Brian Krakow), was gay.

Acrdg to Molly Rgwald, he was one of the many gay characters who Hugh clud his work — even if wasn’t somethg that the two ever discsed she recently told Out magaze: “Duckie don’t know he’s gay.

MOLLY RGWALD: PRETTY PK'S "DUCKIE" WAS GAY

I thk he lov Andie the way that [my gay bt iend] always loved me. “Jt e the gaydar is gog off, don’t mean your stments aren’t flty.

'PRETTY PK' DIRECTOR HOWARD DTCH ON FILM'S FAMO LOST ENDG AND MOLLY RGWALD'S THEORY THAT DUCKIE WAS SECRETLY GAY

And yet, I n’t help but be trigued by the ia that Hugh tentnally clud closeted gay characters his movi — until now, the equent e of the word “fag” his ovre was the only real ditor I had that homosexualy even crossed his md. While that kd of sual homophobia was certaly more prevalent the ’80s, don’t exactly spire much nfince what Rgwald is sayg. What if Cameron Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or Brian The Breakfast Club were actually tend to be gay?

Molly Rgwald | Photo Creds: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagicMolly Rgwald, '80s movie teen queen, thks that Duckie, her ostensible love tert Pretty Pk, was gay. "Duckie don't know he's gay. "Y, she said that the guy whom Duckie was based on was gay.

JON CRYER SAYS 'PRETTY PK' CHARACTER NOT GAY

”In 2012, Rgwald told Out magaze that she thought the flamboyant-leang Duckie was actually secretly gay. “Duckie don’t know he’s gay, ” Rgwald said at the time. “I thk he lov Andie the way that [my gay bt iend] always loved me.

Your ner ‘80s teenager may have been ncerned earlier this week, when Molly Rgwald spoke wh Out about her rol as the Brat Pack Queen, and revealed that John Hugh wrote a gay character jt about every movie he ma — even if he never me right out and said so.

For Pretty Pk, that means a send look at Duckie (played by Jon Cryer), whom Rgwald outed: “Duckie don’t know he’s gay, ” she told the magaze. But spe Rgwald’s sistence, the one cliche he didn’t really have his films was the gay sikick (at least not openly), which now sentially standard most teen romantic-edi.

PRETTY IN PKGATE: IS DUCKIE GAY? JON CRYER RPONDS

If the movie was ma today, would Duckie be gay? It’s tly the end of an a gay teenage Londoner the mid-90s, the first club I went to was Heaven, which felt somehow pulsory. And, like many other misfs, weirdos and queers, I felt right at this went agast the gra of the 90s gay scene.

Rather than gym culture, dance mic, strippers and pills, Duckie meld the boozy bonhomie of gay die-pop night Popstarz wh the live-art vibe of the ICA, creatg what lled “homosexual honky-tonk”. Ls nsumerist-aspiratnal gay, more sarky art-school queer, the crowd was thoughtful, bolshie and (mostly) kd. The RVT beme a space of gay socialisg after the war and was central to London’s 60s drag boom.

And 2014, after the pub’s sale to ternatnal velopers, helped secure legal protectns safeguardg s future, cludg makg a Gra II listed ’s Summer Tea Party, hosted by Amy Lamé Hull, part of the LGBT 50 celebratns markg the 50th anniversary of the crimalisatn of homosexualy England and Wal. Photograph: Keh Larby/AlamyBeyond the RVT, Duckie creat big immersive parti such as the sbroly ironic Gay Shame, held each year on the night of Pri London. Ben Walters Duckie’s Saturday nights at the Royal Vxhall Tavern end wh Gay Shame on 2 July.

MOLLY RGWALD Q&A ON THE REAL-LIFE DUCKIE & JON CRYER’S ‘GAY VIBE’

There was a sense of havg a shared aim and beg an alternative to mastream gay culture. I’m performg at Duckie on 18 June and when I was wonrg what to do, I sudnly remembered a character I ed to play – a gay man who talks about sex all the time. So I will be reprisg has been very fluential the sense of puttg forward what I would ll a queer athetic, as opposed to a gay athetic.

Photograph: Am Lennon/The ObserverDuckie was such a clear alternative to the sanised, cynil, money-makg London gay clubs of the 1990s. It’s such a wonrfully queer and creative world and has been pivotal the gay muny. We were playg rerds that you didn’t really hear clubs – X-Ray Spex, Kate Bh – whereas everythg on the gay scene back then was hoe or really chey pop.

DONALD DUCK WILL GET ITS FIRST LBIAN CHARACTER DUE TO THE APPEAL OF A TEN YEAR OLD GIRL: ‘MY PARENTS ARE GAY. BUT ‘DUCK CY’ IT’S AS IF THEY DON’T EXIST AT ALL’

We had no experience of playg to gay crowds, even though we’re gay ourselv, so we were like: “What are the gay people gog to do when they hear Jilted John or Sound and Visn, are we gog to get attacked?

I thk the ls rigid mic that you hear on the gay scene now has que a lot to do wh and the fact that people are more open about what you n have on stage, rather than jt a drag queen. Born the Wt Midlands, he worked as an NHS dlogist before beg a wrerWhen I moved to London the mid-90s, I uldn’t fd any plac on the mastream gay scene that felt like they were for me. Wh the Saturday night endg, feels like the gay scene is beg that b more homogenised.

[The night] was unashamedly, proudly, liberately and flamboyantly gay and that’s always cheerg. I talked about my gay life.

'DUCK DYNASTY' STAR WILLIE ROBERTSON IS 'TRYG TO FIGURE OUT' IF BEG GAY IS A CHOICE

Bee ’s odd, beg a very public gay woman. There were lots and lots of leather boys and had that air of a b exced, pent-up sexualy that gay boys generate. I’m not somebody who go to gay bars.

I like crossg barriers; I don’t [ually] enjoy exclively gay experienc, but this was noisy.