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CHAPTER 1: QUEERS AND DYK THE DARK: CLASSIC, NOIR & HORROR CEMA’S COD GAY CHARACTERS:
Growg up as a gay woman, though genr and sexualy are fluid, there was not a well sprg of characters film or televisn that I uld grab onto as a buoy for my burgeong self-awarens – I was ‘different than the others.
And while films uld not overtly reprent ‘queerns’ directly, they uld pos mixed msag and a whole generatn of uld unrstand the subtext, unsheltered om an array of homophobic language. There were no ‘obv’ gay role mols. I am not assertg that the actors themselv were gay their personal liv, but that what was d was merely the particular characters they played the film.
Not all d gay characters are portrayed by gay actors, and not all d edy, jok, or suatns not that the character themselv are gay, jt that the humor is nnily ma to be queer at the moment.