Bette Midler said her new film 'Hoc Poc 2' don't add or subtract om her "gay in" stat.
Contents:
- DISNEY IS GIVG THE GAYS WHAT WE WANT WH HOC POC 2 AND NEW PRI SERI
- WHY THE SANRSON SISTERS OF 'HOC POC' ENDURE AS GAY INS
- NO, BETTE MIDLER DON’T THK SHE NEEDS ‘HOC POC 2’ TO RENEW HER GAY IN STAT: ‘THIS IS GLOBAL, GIRL’
- ‘HOC POC 2’ OFFICIALLY STARTS FILMG
DISNEY IS GIVG THE GAYS WHAT WE WANT WH HOC POC 2 AND NEW PRI SERI
Disney is givg the gays all we want wh a new six-part documentary seri about the history of Pri and a long-awaed Hoc Poc 2. * 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). The 1970’s helped fe a natnal movement, om the first Gay Pri march, to the rise of artists like filmmaker Barbara Hammer and poet Audre Lor, to the nontatn of tersectnal femism and the backlash and opposn om the relig right. New York Cy the 1980’s, revigorated by the prr era’s sexual revolutn and the ascendance of the Gay Liberatn Front, saw an flux of queer people to downtown Manhattan and the rise of the unrground ball scene.
At the same time, the AIDS epimic vastated the gay muny as Ronald Reagan and his Moral Majory refed to tervene. Episo 6 – 2000’s: Y2Gay. The 2000’s hered a new age of queer visibily where gays and lbians were gag acceptance the mastream media.
Wh blk-and-you’ll-miss-them gay characters appearg their Marvel movi, Pixar movi and film blockbters – isn’t time we took centre stage? © 2021 GCN (Gay Communy News).
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. * gay stuff in hocus pocus 2 *
Then was the gay muny, and jt kept growg. 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.
The stg alone is imprsive, wh Midler, Najimy and Parker each enjoyg a sizable gay fanbase. 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.
NO, BETTE MIDLER DON’T THK SHE NEEDS ‘HOC POC 2’ TO RENEW HER GAY IN STAT: ‘THIS IS GLOBAL, GIRL’
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. 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.
‘HOC POC 2’ OFFICIALLY STARTS FILMG
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. 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. 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.