Bette Midler said her new film 'Hoc Poc 2' don't add or subtract om her "gay in" stat.
Contents:
- WHY THE SANRSON SISTERS OF 'HOC POC' ENDURE AS GAY INS
- KATHY NAJIMY KNOWS SHE’S A GAY IN
- NO, BETTE MIDLER DON’T THK SHE NEEDS ‘HOC POC 2’ TO RENEW HER GAY IN STAT: ‘THIS IS GLOBAL, GIRL’
- NO, BETTE MIDLER DON’T THK SHE NEEDS ‘HOC POC 2’ TO RENEW HER GAY IN STAT: ‘THIS IS GLOBAL, GIRL’
WHY THE SANRSON SISTERS OF 'HOC POC' ENDURE AS GAY INS
Wh plenty of mp and whimsy, the Sanrson Sisters of Hoc Poc ntue to endure as ins for the gay muny. * any gay stuff in hocus pocus 2 *
Hoc Poc is an inic Halloween film and the book is likely to garner a wi dience ( currently tops the Amazon chart for YA Gay & Lbian Fictn). Wnie, Mary, and Sarah are mp queens embodied by gay ins. Though nearly everyone mak Hoc Poc a part of their annual spooky season viewg, no one gags as hard for the film’s tr of villas que like the gays.
But jt what is about the famo sisters that mak them the five queens of Halloween for gay fans? The mp sensibily, though sometim attributed to var popular culture artifacts, is a specifilly queer athetic traced to gay men’s relatnship wh classil Hollywood cema.
KATHY NAJIMY KNOWS SHE’S A GAY IN
Bette Midler said her new film 'Hoc Poc 2' don't add or subtract om her "gay in" stat. * any gay stuff in hocus pocus 2 *
To ll the Sanrson sisters mpy, then, is to attribute their appeal to gay fans, part, to their larger-than-life quali. Of urse, the mpit scene the film, and therefore the one that most exemplifi the Sanrsons’ gay appeal, is Wnie’s “I Put a Spell on You” mil number. It is impossible to discs the mp appeal of “I Put a Spell on You” whout addrsg the extratextual ronance for gay fans found watchg Midler sg and dance.
This troduc the send reason for the film’s populary among gay dienc: the actrs who embody the Sanrson sisters are embedd gay pop culture.
Midler famoly achieved gay in stat after she built a followg sgg gay bathho. Transng to beg an all-around talent of stage and screen, Midler has starred several gay favor (Beach remas a particularly beloved example) and remas an advote for the muny. Parker has portrayed one of the most celebrated characters of the gay pop culture non, Carrie Bradshaw, the var eratns of Sex and the Cy, cludg the recent sequel seri And Jt Like That… Najimy has found gay fans throughout her reer, as well, om her performanc the Sister Act films to the recent gay holiday movie Sgle All the Way.
NO, BETTE MIDLER DON’T THK SHE NEEDS ‘HOC POC 2’ TO RENEW HER GAY IN STAT: ‘THIS IS GLOBAL, GIRL’
The actrs’ recurrence gay-appreciated or centric ntent mak them endurgly popular as stars for gay people, th also makg some of their most famo characters endurgly popular.
Third, om an analytil perspective, is no surprise that gay viewers intify wh and fd joy characters who live on the margs of society. Creatg fay an alternate kship formatn (three sisters who tend to live together eternally) wh a particular disda for tradnal fay stcture (evincg by their eatg of children’s souls), the Sanrsons’ liv are textually ronant wh those of certa gay viewers. Rather than intifyg wh the film’s protagonists, gay dience members are far more likely to root for the film’s villas, whose liv may echo their lived experienc.
NO, BETTE MIDLER DON’T THK SHE NEEDS ‘HOC POC 2’ TO RENEW HER GAY IN STAT: ‘THIS IS GLOBAL, GIRL’
Consirg their mpy characterizatn, the gay appreciatn for the actrs who portray them, and their potential for empathetic intifitn, is no wonr that the Sanrson sisters endure as gay ins. For perhaps the bt evince of the takg up of the Sanrsons the gay world, one need look no further than their prence drag culture. Even the thor of this piece himself, a certified gay™, has donned a red bouffant and heart-shaped lip to get to the Halloween spir.
It is often said that Halloween is the gay-equivalent to Christmas. If that’s the se, the Sanrson sisters, mpy gay ins portrayed by gay ins, are the gay equivalent to Santa Cls. It also serv as an important b of queer cema — important many ways bee of the young dience Hoc Poc isn't particularly gay, wh no LGBT characters, s queerns is prent nearly every element.