Is Euphoria's Depictn of the Consequenc of a Hidn Gay Inty Accurate?

Contents:

• 21 "EUPHORIA" MOMENTS THAT THE GAYS ARE STILL THKG ABOUT
• MD THE MEDIA: EUPHORIA'S DEPICTN OF A HIDN GAY INTY, AND S CONSEQUENC
• EUPHORIA FANS DISCS IF NATE JABS IS GAY AMIDST LEXI’S SHOCKG PLAY
• IS JAB ELORDI’S NATE JABS GAY EUPHORIA?

21 "EUPHORIA" MOMENTS THAT THE GAYS ARE STILL THKG ABOUT

Euphoria's sophomore season was a roller aster of emotn. However, tertgly the scen of heteronormative high school romance are terspersed wh shots of the boys wrtlg sglets that have a distctly homoerotic tone, as well as a shot of Cal starg at Derek adjtg himself the r, makg clear that there’s fe potential for the boys’ relatnship to move beyond the platonic. Thgs culmate on the night of their high school graduatn when Derek suggts they take a trip to the lol gay bar bee he knew they’d get served there whout an ID.

Emergg om a mixture of homophobia and misogyny, rerc the ia that queer women are a challenge and nqut for men to ‘turn straight’ Schafer as Jul Euphoria Eddy Chen/HBOEuphoria also steps to problematic terrory wh s pictns of Cal and Nate Jabs, who are exampl of what is monly known as the “homophobic homosexual” trope – where a closeted character is so aaid of their queerns that they rerce their masculy through homophobia and bullyg. Though Nate is not explicly queer, like Cal is, ’s ma clear that he has hered his father’s homophobic and toxic like thisThis was brought to the fore recently season 2, episo 7 the form of Lexi’s school play which, based on her life experienc, dited a large amount of time to showg on-screen Nate (played by Ethan) lip syncg to Bonnie Tyler’s Holdg Out for a Hero while gyratg wh his semi-clad sports team.

MD THE MEDIA: EUPHORIA'S DEPICTN OF A HIDN GAY INTY, AND S CONSEQUENC

While was bizarre, there’s no doubt that was signed to mock Nate, who Lexi has reason to believe is gay after Maddy revealed she’d found gay porn on his phone a prev episo.

EUPHORIA FANS DISCS IF NATE JABS IS GAY AMIDST LEXI’S SHOCKG PLAY

Euphoria isn’t the first teen drama to e the "homophobic homosexual" trope.

From Sex Edutn’s Adam Groff and Glee’s Dave Karofsky, to The Perks of Beg a Wallflower’s Patrick and Brad, TV show creators often wre their villas as closeted gay characters: 's an easy shock reveal, and also adds plexy to the the trope is problematic: picts queerns as somethg negative that, when exposed, fally giv the villas their ppance.

IS JAB ELORDI’S NATE JABS GAY EUPHORIA?

"That was so homophobic, " he then says to Cassie and, for once, he was Dane as Cal Jabs Euphoria Eddy Chen/HBOThe other problem is that, by shiftg the blame onto the queer muny, don’t addrs the ntributors – prejudic, ignorance and jt pla celty – that make homophobia the issue is today. Would not have been more tertg if Euphoria had chosen to explore the reasons behd straight male toxic masculy through Nate and Cal rather than makg about beg (or worryg about beg) gay?

What’s more, Euphoria’s portrayal of Cal also feeds to the homophobic rhetoric that gay men are by nature predatory.