Gay Bt Friend: Sebastian Venable "Sudnly Last Summer" (1959) - Blog - The Film Experience

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SEBASTIAN GAYER

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Birth of Sebastian Gayer. Baptism of Sebastian Gayer.

Birth of Johann Peter Gayer.

Birth of Anna Margaretha Gayer. Birth of Johann Konrad Gayer.

ANNA MARGARETHA GAYER

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Birth of Elisabetha Gayer. Birth of Maria Anna Gayer.

a seri by Christopher Jam lookg at the 'Gay Bt Friend' trope. Alas, this is most we see of our arly parted subject of Gay Bt Friend this week, Sebastian all gay bt iends get a lot of screen time, but they always know how to make an imprsn. Gore Vidal’s adaptatn of the Tennse Williams play do everythg but say the word “gay” to munite that Sebastian prefers the pany of other men.

You’d be hard prsed to fd a gayer movie om 1959 (though the Bt Picture wner, Ben-Hur, uld give a n for s money). What mak Sebastian Venable, a man who is talked about and not seen, a ndidate for Gay Bt Friend? So many of our past lumns have been about how women e their gay bt iends as soundg boards (see Bend It Like Beckham), misguid love terts (see The Object of My Affectn) and for sperm (see The Next Bt Thg).

SAT SEBASTIAN AS A GAY IN

Sebastian Smythe is an openly gay recurrg character on Glee durg the third, fourth and fifth seasons. He is the former lead sger of the Dalton Amy Warblers, is origally portrayed as the show's ma villa his troductn at the begng of Season Three. He is pta of the... * sebastian gayer *

Y, this plays to the “v homosexual” trope that was monly ed when gay characters were allud to the pre and post- Hollywood eras. However, the way Sebastian relat to Cathere particular reprents a warped, dark template for the gay bt iend trope.

She greets him om an elevator of her own makg, the behavr of a woman who was guaranteed to raise a gay son (Anne Marie wrote about this elevator entrance durg her “A Year Wh Kate” seri). It’s hard to keep track of all the veiled mentns to Sebastian’s homosexualy this long nversatn wh Vlet.

It ticks so many box (bachelor who liv wh his mother, plant gay, never dated, 5 PM daqueri) that everyone playg along at home would surely w gay bgo. Gay ins, everywhere you look. This is part of the burn of beg gay durg the 30s, when the film is set, as well as the 50s, when the film was released.

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It’s not jt the gay person that had to be entsted wh keepg their inty a secret. So how n Sudnly Last Summer be so gay when s only gay character di off screen before even begs?

It n’t get gayer than Tennsee Williams and Gore Vidal.

Fally, the real “gay bt iend” example is the rich iendship of the closeted Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor, who went om gay in to AIDS advote. To dienc, Sudnly Last Summer reads as a peril of livg a gay life. Diggg eper, both Vidal and Williams provid an tertg template for straight-female, gay-male relatnships that n simultaneoly be based on love and on g one another for personal (and sexual) ga.

IS SEBASTIAN GAY?

Prevly Gay Bt Friend.

Sebastian, Christian history’s first gay in.

Some his queer cult even go so far as to ll him the patron sat of the gays. In more recent terpretatns, the Christian fixatn wh the sirable bodi of s sats and the permeable boundari between the bodily flh and the dive have been seen as homoerotic or queer. In 1976, Derek Jarman appropriated the tradn story of Sat Sebastian through a queer lens his homoerotic historil thriller film Sebastiane.

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Brish pater Keh Vghan (1912–1977) also ma e of the myth of Sat Sebastian to exprs and explore his homosexual sire, a mon theme throughout his work.

Sebastian Smythe is an openly gay recurrg character on Glee durg the third, fourth and fifth seasons.

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