Hollywood’s First Gay Teenager and His Two Tragic Endgs | Vany Fair

Contents:

• REBEL WHOUT A CSE'S GROUNDBREAKG GAY SUBTEXT EXPLAED
• REBEL MA ME GAY (& THE NETFLIX REMAKE IS TELLG OUR QUEER STORI)
• REBEL WILSON’S SEXUALY: IS SHE GAY?
• TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
• GAY REBEL OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE: SELECTNS OM THE WORK OF RICHARD BCE NUGENT
• GAY REBEL OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
• GAY REBEL OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE: SELECTNS OM THE WORK OF RICHARD BCE NUGENT
• GAY THOMPSON
• A COMPREHENSIVE GUI TO PORTLAND’S BT LGBTQ+ NIGHTLIFE
• HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY TEENAGER AND HIS TWO TRAGIC ENDGS

REBEL WHOUT A CSE'S GROUNDBREAKG GAY SUBTEXT EXPLAED

Bee of this, some of his fans spected him to be gay.

REBEL MA ME GAY (& THE NETFLIX REMAKE IS TELLG OUR QUEER STORI)

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REBEL WILSON’S SEXUALY: IS SHE GAY?

In a groundbreakg move for the mid-1950s, Ray serted several clu Rebel Whout A Cse that Plato as gay. The fact he is often seen gazg adorgly at Jim and has a picture of Hollywood heart-throb Alan Ladd taped si his school locker has seen the character ced as one of the first gay teenage characters film history. Apparently, was mon knowledge among Rebel Whout A Cse's crew Plato was ed gay.

However, Hays Co censors soon put the kibosh on the kiss via a warng memo sent to a Rebel Whout A Cse producers Warner Bros that stated, “It is of urse val that there be no ference of a qutnable or homosexual relatnship between Plato and Jim. By today’s standards, the subtle gay subtext Rebel Whout A Cse is rtraed. Photo: Alamy; urty of age-old proverb stat: “If you were a ltle too obssed wh Rebel as a ne-year-old, re-watchg scen on YouTube, ncerts, and mic vios, and starg a ltle too long at the sntily clad sgers — you’re most fely gay.

In the ey of the then-third and fourth grars watchg the 2004 Mexin novela about a band at a super-ele boardg school (the Rebel remake h Netflix this week), there were a plethora of exc at the ready to expla away our totally-not-gay obssns: om profsg our love of the mic or storyle to claimg “I jt want to be them!

TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT

It was to me what the novela was to everyone else: a gay that I knew that then.

As a Catholic private school stunt wh helipter parents Puerto Ri and very mimal accs to the Inter, I didn’t even know what gay was.

“Roberta’s character, like any 'dark' character, was a huge gay awakeng for me growg up.

GAY REBEL OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE: SELECTNS OM THE WORK OF RICHARD BCE NUGENT

Of urse, my gay awakeng happened bee of this, ” says Sofia Sanchez, Instagram fluencer and owner of the spirual brand Sofre, and fellow RBD-ma-me-gay uniforms. A Halloween staple to this day, the Ele Way School shorts skirts, loose tie, and tied whe button-down are sanely ’s not jt the outfs or even the hot girls that ma all gay, ’s the songs. From the heartbreakg yearng to the most dramatic sad songs (the emotns only rerved to lbians, duh), the are fely the gayt hetero lyrics our morn age.

It’s the gayt. The first trailer hted at potential sexual tensn between two female characters, which the teaser ma official by showg a scene of them makg, that rint female queer character, is exactly what I need as a gay youth. Seeg her gay panic while talkg to her csh?

Seeg La, our other rint gay character, tell off someone for not g the genr ntral term “tos” the first episo? But after walkg down memory lane, and realizg that my gay awakeng me about by accint wh no actual reprentatn behd , I and so many others are exced that this new generatn will have queer characters to clg to. Pl, I’m sure Andi is already someone’s gay awakeng, jt like Roberta was ours.

GAY REBEL OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

A seri by Christopher Jam lookg at the 'Gay Bt Friend' trope. After a few months of lookg at the gay bt iend trope over the past 30 years, we wanted to go back to a time where the “gay bt iend” uldn’t be lled a “gay bt iend. However, that didn’t keep gay characters off the screen.

GAY REBEL OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE: SELECTNS OM THE WORK OF RICHARD BCE NUGENT

One of the more famol “gay bt iends” durg the era was Sal Meo’s Osr-nomated portrayal of Plato Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Whout a Cse.

GAY THOMPSON

How uld we tell he was gay?

Plato don’t know what a happy gay life looks like. This feels like the genis for the “gay bt iend” trope as we’ve seen many romantic edi. Even a movie directed by bi-sexual Nicholas Ray, happy endgs weren’t afford to gay characters, cludg the on that didn’t officially e out.

The “gay bt iend” was also gog to be the sacrificial lamb that brgs everyone else’s arc to a close. Prevly Gay Bt Friend.

A COMPREHENSIVE GUI TO PORTLAND’S BT LGBTQ+ NIGHTLIFE

The Motn Picture Productn Co, also known as the Hays Co after censor/stick--the-mud Will Hays, regulated film ntent for nearly 40 years, rtrictg, among other thgs, pictns of homosexualy. Filmmakers still managed to get around the Co, but gay characters were cloaked nuendo, leadg to some necsary dg.

HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY TEENAGER AND HIS TWO TRAGIC ENDGS

For queer viewers, Rebel Whout a Cse is semal for Sal Meo’s portrayal of Plato — whom he later referred to as the first gay teenager on film — but the entire movie is bathed a geoly gay, Cemaspic light. From a queer (and queer-iendly) st and a bisexual director to a possible on-set same-sex affair and the aforementned pneerg gay teen, Rebel remas one of the most important films the queer film non. Jim’s loyalty to and love for Plato is extraordary bee — no tea, no sha — Plato is obvly gay.

Inarguably one of the most blatant homosexual characterizatns of the Hays era, the Motn Picture Productn Co office ma sure to send a memo to Warner Bros. Head Jack Warner, warng him agast “ference of a qutnable or homosexual relatnship between Plato and Jim.