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- THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
- THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
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In an say analyzg queer thirst for straight actors, Grace Perry explas some thgs that certaly apply to the ncept of bi-awakeng movi — particularly how straight actors like Rachel Weisz and Cate Blanchett often bee gay ins and objects of queer sire after playg queer characters on screen. Thor: Ragnarok’s Hela be gayer bee of Cate Blanchett’s starrg role the sensuo sapphic perd drama Carol, while Weisz’s rol The Favoure and Disobedience may have ntributed to The Mummy’s retroactive addn to bi film non. Once aga forced to make space for ourselv a medium that mak no space for , lookg for queer characters onscreen be like a game of Six Degre of Kev Ban: “Sure, ” I n tell myself, “she isn’t gay here, or gay realy, but I’ve seen Cate Blanchett have movie sex wh Rooney Mara another movie, which mak this movie gayer, too.
While Eternals clus a proment gay character, and the upg Taika Wai movie Thor: Love and Thunr has promised substantial queer reprentatn, Disney also has a lengthy history of queer-bag dienc, promisg queer reprentatn and stead offerg a throwaway le or unnamed character. For example, homosexualy was crimalized Bra until 1967: Gay men adopted techniqu like wearg green rnatns the 19th century, or speakg Polari slang, which remaed proment through the mid-20th century, as methods of vert munitn.
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THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
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It’s the spy thriller Atomic Blon, when the protagonist has sex wh another woman (who is later vlently killed off), the gay Black Mirror episo San Junipero, and the poster for Moonlight. Th, while Twter ers and media crics have noted bi lightg John Wick 3, Bla Runner 2049, 2019’s Color Out of Space, and Spir-Man: Into the Spir-Verse, there’s often a ls gay logic for dog so. Cast a few top-shelf gay ins there — your Bette Middlers, your Joan Crawfords, your Faye Dunaways playg Joan Crawford — and pecially have them reparteeg bchy l tearg each other to piec, and have an athetic that’s outre and unironilly mp, and you’ve got the wng-formula starter-pack for somethg licly fabulo and queer, even if not by tentnal sign.
But settg a precent for movi now nonized by gay culture that don’t technilly have any (non-d, anyway) gay characters were some of Hollywood’s most all-time legendary actrs: Bette Davis “All About Eve” ma “’s gog to be a bumpy ri” an idmatic quip, while Elizabeth Taylor then ma Bette Davis’ “what a dump” even more inic aga the openg le of “Who’s Aaid of Virgia Woolf, ” livered while gnawg down on a chicken wg. Ed Bianchi’s 1981 “The Fan, ” meanwhile, livered perhaps the greatt gift to gay film fans of a certa era stg Lren Ball as an agg actrs stgglg to hold onto her legacy while beg stalked by, what else but, a psychotic gay fan. Films like “9 to 5” and “Steel Magnolias” keep ptivatg bee their sts are all top-to-toe, inic-among-the-gays women who n duce tears and lghs and shout unfettably quotable l the same scene.
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