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Contents:
- REAL HOEWIV‘ SIMON: STOP ASKG ME IF I’M GAY!
- LOVE, SIMON: AT LAST HOLLYWOOD IS SAYG ‘I’M GAY’
- GAY SIMON
- LOVE, SIMON IS A GROUNDBREAKG GAY MOVIE. BUT DO TODAY'S TEENS ACTUALLY NEED IT?
- A ROMANTIC COMEDY ABOUT A GAY TEENAGER? WHAT TOOK SO LONG?
REAL HOEWIV‘ SIMON: STOP ASKG ME IF I’M GAY!
The film stands acced of privilegg the "right type of gay" at the expense of the effemate and genr-nonnformg. * is simon gay rhony *
Love, Simon has won over many gay fans wh s tale of an unassumg hero nontg the challeng of g out high school. But not everyone the LGBT muny lov an op-ed for The New York Tim, Jab Tobia reunted how he was "a verable genrqueer ms" after seeg the movie -- the first about a gay teen to be ma by a major stud, 20th Century, who is genr-nonnformg, bemoaned how Love, Simon privileged the whe, heteronormative character, while silg a more effemate character of lor, Ethan. "For over a , the unspoken le of gay cema and televisn has been that gay men n be sexy protagonists -- as long as they are mascule gay men, " Tobia wrote.
"Feme or genr-nonnformg gay men, on the other hand, are sexualized edic relief. ""Mascule gay men are central characters, unrstood as attractive, powerful, tertg and dynamic, " they add.
LOVE, SIMON: AT LAST HOLLYWOOD IS SAYG ‘I’M GAY’
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GAY SIMON
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Get straight, says Real Hoewiv of New York Cy Simon van Kempen: He's not gay.
"If I was gay, I would be gay, but I'm not!
LOVE, SIMON IS A GROUNDBREAKG GAY MOVIE. BUT DO TODAY'S TEENS ACTUALLY NEED IT?
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On the recent rnn show, Jill Zar even told Simon's wife Alex McCord that Simon is gay – he jt don't know yet. "If other maniftatns of gay means that I like to wear nice cloth and go shoppg, then I gus that's fe!
That mak me gay? " He then quipped, "I mean, I've worn Speedos” therefore, I mt be gay! Wh the rporate clout of 20th Century Fox behd , Love, Simon is the first gay teen movie om a major stud.
A ROMANTIC COMEDY ABOUT A GAY TEENAGER? WHAT TOOK SO LONG?
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Tolerance has s mercial benefs; a gay film need no longer appeal exclively to small or specialised when Betiful Thg opened 1996, the UK age of nsent for gay men had only recently been lowered om 21 to 18 (still two years higher than the heterosexual one). Lbians and gay men were banned om servg the armed forc, the sid Sectn 28 was seven years away om beg repealed while phras like “civil partnership” and “marriage equaly” were as unfaiar then as “social media” and “trigger warng” Get Real, a Brish g-out movie that followed two years after Betiful Thg, feel-good material still had to acknowledge the possibily of vlence and homophobia.
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