Contents:
- HBO’S ‘HIS DARK MATERIALS’ IS ABOUT TO TRODUCE A WHOLE LOTTA GAYNS. TIME TO TCH UP!
- HIS DARK MATERIALS FALE: THE BT ADAPTATNAL CHANGE? MAKG IT GAYER
- 9. HIS DARK MATERIALS: MY FAVOURE B WAS THE TWO GAY ANGELS.
HBO’S ‘HIS DARK MATERIALS’ IS ABOUT TO TRODUCE A WHOLE LOTTA GAYNS. TIME TO TCH UP!
Pullman said 2000, "Ocsnally, no doubt, people do have a mon of the same sex; that might dite homosexualy, or might dite some other sort of gift or qualy, such as send sight. Siarly, fans have theorized that gay characters who don't e out until later life may have same-genr dæmons, potentially markg an outward ditn of their sexualy om birth.
Moreover, the seri clus a hearty dose of queer characters, particularly the form of a uple of gay angels (y, really) that show up mid-way through the story. The stori also offer a very strong crique of mixg relign wh ernment, thorarianism, and sexism & homophobia wh the Catholic church. Stay for the gay angels.
HIS DARK MATERIALS FALE: THE BT ADAPTATNAL CHANGE? MAKG IT GAYER
The fact that TV-Malone’s story has the exact same impact on Lyra and Will as book-Malone’s did is self a poted rebuttal to the pernic homophobic myth of the queer “groomer.
Talkg about beg gay don’t turn Lyra or Will gay, as homophob claim would, but do make them more fortable beg open about who they are: a perfect illtratn of the posive value beg exposed to queer people’s stori n have for all young people regardls of their personal inty. Pullman’s novels already featured some signifint gay characters: the angel uple of Balthamos and Bach (played by Kobna Holdbrook-Smh and Simon Harrison the show). Both characters end up dyg, Bach beg the first major character killed off The Amber Spyglass, so the book uld be cricized as ftg the much-cricized “kill your gays” trope.
In the ntext of the year 2000, however, cludg a heroic gay uple at all a children’s/YA book, let alone a pair of angels whose love is stctively unrstood as pure and betiful by the straight male hero, was jt one of many ways the His Dark Materials trilogy was downright radil (needls to say, J.
9. HIS DARK MATERIALS: MY FAVOURE B WAS THE TWO GAY ANGELS.
That might dite homosexualy, or might dite some other sort of gift or qualy, such as send sight. Some have theorised that this uld be an ditn they are gay and/or trans, and that non-bary characters have dæmons wh fluid prentatns. Philip Pullman said same-genr dæmons “might dite homosexualy”.
My favoure b was the two gay angels. While the Church of England is still batg gay marriage, Pullman giv gay angels wh Bach and Balthamos. A Queer Mary Malone: In a season that also ma good on Pullman’s regrettable “bury your gays” plot the form of the rebel angels Balthamos and Bach, one small change om the novel ma a pretty signifint impact on the seri’ overall reprentatn of LGBTQ characters.