Love, Simon: at last Hollywood is sayg ‘I’m gay’ | Love, Simon | The Guardian

Contents:

•  GAY CLUB!
• A VERY GAY BOOK
• 'LOVE, SIMON' IS A GOTDAMN LIGHTFUL ROM, AND 'S GAY AS HELL
• SIMON GAY
• LOVE, SIMON: AT LAST HOLLYWOOD IS SAYG ‘I’M GAY’
• COMIC BOOK GAY

 GAY CLUB!

There was no such thg as a “gay club” when I was at school. Check out the Gay Club! “Sharp, wty, and strikgly thoughtful, Gay Club!

From the creators of @verygaypat, the immensely popular edy sign brand, A VERY GAY BOOK pats a cheeky and satiril portra of the world where everythg—om sports to science to soup—is are gay. Right-hand people are gay bee that’s the first hand you e when you do the Marena. Left-hand people are also gay.

All gay.

A VERY GAY BOOK

A satiril textbook—cludg sectns on history and hero, ctoms and tradns—celebratg a very gay world, A Very Gay Book is an vatn to revel the (both real and absurdly fictnal) inic succs of the LGBTQ+ muny. Neatly, also enpsulat the re msage of Gay Club!, his latt novel for young adults, which follows chs geek Barney on his missn to shake up his own school’s LGBT+ society.

'LOVE, SIMON' IS A GOTDAMN LIGHTFUL ROM, AND 'S GAY AS HELL

” He ntrasts the matury wh which today’s teenagers discs genr and sexualy wh his own g-of-age a ral town Llnshire “where ‘gay’ wasn’t even ed as a slur – I grew up total ignorance of LGBT+ people, partly bee of sectn 28 [the legislatn enacted 1988 to “prohib the promotn of homosexualy” by lol thori; was abolished only 2003]. You n watch certa media and get the imprsn that they always end up ad at the end of the story, there’s homophobic attacks and ’s all misery. ’ mentaly [but ’s really] a nvenient exce for homophobia.

SIMON GAY

”There is “absolutely” a lk between growg homophobia and the ragg culture war around transgenr rights, he says. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, " the 2015 but novel om Becky Albertalli, followed an -the-closet gay teen forced to operate wh one of his classmat or be outed to the whole school.

Though don't share the book's tle, the adaptatn ma an earnt effort to stay fahful to s source material, likely due part to s openly gay director Greg Berlanti, known for wrg "Dawson's Creek" and "The Flash. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, " om an email thread between Blue and Simon, as Jacqu explas midway through the book.

Blue jokgly referenc the phrase "homosexual agenda, " once ed as a rogatory term the fight for gay rights.

LOVE, SIMON: AT LAST HOLLYWOOD IS SAYG ‘I’M GAY’

Simon fir back that should be lled the Homo Sapiens Agenda if everyone should have to e out.

COMIC BOOK GAY

The Homo Sapiens Agenda" is followed by "Leah on the Offbeat, " a book about Leah and her stggle wh tellg people she's bisexual on the cp of high school graduatn.

Jack is filled wh dad jok, some of which are homophobic nature, and seem to upset Simon or make him unfortable, even though he very clearly stat the social leangs of his parents. The Homo Sapiens Agenda" is based around a tangled love triangle.

Mart disvers Simon's emails wh Blue, and that Simon is gay, after readg them on a school puter Simon ed, fettg to log off. Albright brgs stunts to him for bullyg Simon and Ethan (Clark Moore), another gay stunt at school, he mak them apologize and shows his acceptance of Simon beg gay.

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And 's te; plenty of LGBTQ+ movi om the last few s have centered on trma some form or another, like Boys Don't Cry (about a hate crime agast a trans man), Milk (about the murr of California's first openly gay polician), Philalphia (about AIDS and discrimatn), Monster (about a gay serial killer), Bent (about gay men durg the Holot), etc. The list go on, so much so that there's even a trope lled "Bury Your Gays" referencg the equency wh which LGBTQ+ characters are killed on-screen.

But Love, Simon, directed by openly gay filmmaker and LGBTQ+ advote Greg Berlanti, is different. "What mak [Love, Simon] unique is the fact that, at least on the surface, [Simon is] a fairly well adjted kid, " Robson explas of the movie, which follows a gay 17-year-old who only shar his secret onle wh an anonymo guy om his school.

The Homo Sapiens' Agenda — may not be the first LGBTQ+-foced film to not be based around tragedy (Call Me By Your Name, anyone? A gay story reprented this way was more emotnal than I thought would be, " he explas. Simon Gay (Author of Semantic Techniqu Quantum Computatn).