'You Can’t Say [Faggots]!': How ‘22 Jump Street’ Is Gayt Stud Movie of the Summer (sce ‘Neighbors’)
Contents:
- ‘YOU CAN’T SAY [FAGGOTS]!’: HOW ‘22 JUMP STREET’ IS GAYT STUD MOVIE OF THE SUMMER (SCE ‘NEIGHBORS’)
- '22 JUMP STREET'S BIG GAY PROBLEM
- "22 JUMP STREET": CHANNG TATUM AND JONAH HILL GO META-GAY
- ’22 JUMP STREET’: IT’S TIME TO KILL THE BUDDY-COMEDY “GAY JOKE”
‘YOU CAN’T SAY [FAGGOTS]!’: HOW ‘22 JUMP STREET’ IS GAYT STUD MOVIE OF THE SUMMER (SCE ‘NEIGHBORS’)
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'22 JUMP STREET'S BIG GAY PROBLEM
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"22 JUMP STREET": CHANNG TATUM AND JONAH HILL GO META-GAY
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that while the film do wonrs for the homosexual subtext of bromantic. In between riffg on the nventns of Hollywood sequels and the homoeroticism of hypermascule iendships, the movie’s visn of llege never que jells. “22 Jump Street” has some fun wh the implitn that Zook might be gay and love wh Jenko, but spends far too much time on the ia that sex between the two men would be herently hilar (and mak one very nasty joke about transgenr people) to be any way would have been far funnier for “22 Jump Street” to follow Jenko to his human sexualy class and to explore his revelatns there, or even to embed him wh llege gay rights activists.
’22 JUMP STREET’: IT’S TIME TO KILL THE BUDDY-COMEDY “GAY JOKE”
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