Opn | Is Frank Unrwood on ‘Hoe of Cards’ gay? Ask Shakpeare. - The Washgton Post

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EVER SCE A STRANGE ENUNTER WH AN OLD LLEGE IEND SEASON 1, QUIET PGS HAVE BEEN GOG OFF ON THE GAYDAR MACHE. IN SEASON 2, THERE WAS AN UNEXPECTED THREOME BETWEEN FRANK, HIS WIFE, AND THEIR DASHG HEAD OF SECURY. AND THE LATT SEASON PEOPLE ARE TALKG ABOUT A CUR SCENE BETWEEN FRANK AND HIS BGRAPHER THOMAS YAT - A SCENE WHICH VOLVED LONG PS, HAND HOLDG AND LOCKED GAZ AFTER YAT SHAR STORI OM HIS TIME AS A MALE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE HUFFGTON POST UGHT UP WH HOE OF CARDS CREATOR AND SHOW NNER BE WILLIMON TO ASK ABOUT THAT SCENE AND FRANK UNRWOOD'S SEXUALY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ACRDG TO WILLIMON, FRANK AND THOMAS YAT HAVE "AN EMOTNAL NNECTN. NOT NECSARILY A SEXUAL ONE, BUT ULD BE. IT PENDS ON HOW YOU LOOK AT THAT MOMENT AND I THK THERE’S A LOT OF GREY AREA THERE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"PEOPLE HAVE ASKED ME STRAIGHT UP, 'IS FRANK UNRWOOD BISEXUAL? IS HE GAY?'" SAID WILLIMON. "I DON’T THK FRANK UNRWOOD REALLY PUTS MUCH STOCK THOSE SORT OF LABELS. AS HE SAYS THE SENTEL EPISO [ SEASON 1], 'WHEN I’M ATTRACTED TO SOMEONE, I’M ATTRACTED TO THEM. PERD.'"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT'S QUE A PROGRSIVE VIEWPOT FOR SOMEONE WHOSE POLIL VIEWS VOLVE STRAIGHT-UP MURRG PEOPLE WHO DON'T AGREE WH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THOMAS YAT (PL SPARKS), LEFT, WH FRANK UNRWOOD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BLURRY AND DISTCT THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WILLIMON NTUED, "HE'S A MAN WH A LARGE APPETE, HE'S A MAN WHO DO NOT ALLOW HIMSELF TO BE PLACED ANY SORT OF I OR WH ONE FN. I THK HE’S CREDIBLY GUARD WH WHO HE LETS GET CLOSE TO HIM, WHETHER THAT’S PLATONIC OR WHETHER THAT’S SEXUAL. AND WHEN HE DO, ’S NOT NECSARILY A GENR OR PREFERENCE, REALLY HAS TO DO WH TST. THERE’S VERY FEW PEOPLE THIS WORLD THAT WE’VE CREATED THAT HE N TST. [...] WE TRY TO APPROACH FRANK THE WAY HE APPROACH HIMSELF, WHICH IS NOT TO SORT OF P HIM DOWN."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO THERE YOU HAVE ! I DON'T THK WE NEED TO ASK THE SHOW'S CREATOR TO FD OUT THAT UNRWOOD'S SEXUALY WAS AMBIGUO. I ULD HAVE TOLD YOU THAT. BUT 'S NICE TO SEE A MEDIA NFIRMATN THAT SEXUALY DON'T ALWAYS HAVE TO BE BLACK OR WHE. FRANK UNRWOOD EXISTS A GREY AREA WORK AND LIFE, AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE HE SHOULD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FOR THE PLETE TERVIEW WH BE WILLIMON, VIS THE HUFFGTON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Ever sce a strange enunter wh an old llege iend Season 1, quiet pgs have been gog off on the gaydar mache. Is he gay?

*Mor season 3 spoilers*Married to Claire but enjoyg threom wh his bodyguard and havg dly homoerotic moments wh thor Tom Yat and former Chief of Staff Doug Stamper, Frank avoids talkg about his sexualy, even his asis. Bisexual erasure is the name given to the nial or ignorg of bisexualy as a legimate sexualy; exampl of bisexual erasure clu labelg bisexualy as “a phase, ” “nfn, ” or “greeds, ” or referrg to a partnered bisexual person as “gay/straight now” or “formerly gay/straight” pendg on the genr of their current partner. Bee is never really addrsed, Frank's engagement romantic and sexual relatnships wh men and women n e off as “experimentatn, ” or that he's “secretly gay” spe his marriage to a woman.

HOE OF CARDS SPOILERS: IS FRANK UNRWOOD GAY?

Bisexual erasure don't jt disappot bisexual viewers— ntribut to the fact that bisexuals are more likely to experience prsn and anxiety at higher rat than straight people, gays and lbians, and that bisexual women are more vulnerable to timate partner vlence than straight or lbian women.

When asked if Frank is bisexual or gay, he rpond “I don’t thk Frank Unrwood really puts much stock those sort of labels.

IS HOE OF CARDS’ FRANK UNRWOOD GAY?

Although his relatnship wh Zoe was purely for polil ga, Frank gas nothg (except maybe pleasure) om his bond wh Meechum, who is dited enough to his job to protect the Print's life whether they're sleepg together or though Frank is not a very good person, I thk that for him to claim his queerns would be good reprentatn for bisexuals on TV, which is seeg more and more openly gay characters but for some reason not openly bisexual on.

Is Frank Unrwood Gay?

While I assume some of you will see as a given that Frank is fact gay, I've also seen some dissentg opns around. In my view, Frank is gay. READ NEXTAtomic Blon: Our Film Crics Discs ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’Pope Tells Transgenr Catholic: “God Lov Us As We Are”Actor Tom Holland’s Gay Sex Scene Sparks ControversyIsland Hoe Staff Says “Keep Key Wt Gay”.

OPN IS FRANK UNRWOOD ON ‘HOE OF CARDS’ GAY? ASK SHAKPEARE.

Nor is he gay.

But all the speculatn around Unrwood's sexualy, bisexualy is rarely even nsired a possibily, which says a lot about the perceptns of bisexualy to most people the first place: one or the other, wh no variatn, no fluidy, and only one choice to label Dison of the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund, an anizatn that helps LGBT policians w office, says he wish Frank were forthright about his sexualy, if he is ed a bisexual polician. Some are gay. And when he's prsed to talk about his admistratn's stance on gay rights, he giv a typil nservative Democrat's answer, even if he sound a ltle fltered givg : Gay people have rights this untry, and their voic shouldn't be supprsed, as they now are Nathan Darrow, who plays Meechum, told Entertament Weekly recently, "The show traffics ambiguy on so many levels -- the ambiguy of our moral life, our sexual life, our life relatn to power.

As Dison says, people are creasgly open to the ia of havg a gay print. A Pew Rearch Center poll om last April shows that 66 percent of voters wouldn't terme their support of a ndidate based on his or her sexual orientatn (for what 's worth, 5 percent said they would be more likely to support a gay or lbian ndidate). "As Dison says, Ameri will be ready for an openly gay print when the time , and Oregon has had no qualms wh Brown as ernor -- she was nsired a potential ndidate to replace John Kzhaber after his term lim was up 2018 anyway.

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'Hoe of Cards' Season 1 episo 8: Is Frank Unrwood gay?

At the end of the episo, Frank parts wh his llege sweetheart and snaps back to his faiar this mean Frank is gay?

Renaissance England wasn’t a utopia for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr dividuals; far om . More than a century passed before the homosexualy of the sons was bated, and Shakpeare’s sexual inty beme a mystery to be urse, beg outed would probably hurt Frank’s polil reer, so he keeps his sexualy a secret.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* FRANK UNDERWOOD HOMOSEXUAL

'Hoe of Cards' Season 1 episo 8: Is Frank Unrwood gay? - IMDb .

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