The hband of Transportatn Secretary and former a2020 printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg is speakg about the young adult adaptatn of his memoir, cludg his experience g out as gay.
Contents:
- STEPHEN KG CHAMPNS ‘IT CHAPTER TWO’ GAY CHARACTER SURPRISE: ‘KD OF GENI’
- IS RICHIE FROM IT GAY IN THE BOOK?
STEPHEN KG CHAMPNS ‘IT CHAPTER TWO’ GAY CHARACTER SURPRISE: ‘KD OF GENI’
Is Richie gay 'IT Chapter 2’? Bill Har plays the character the new movie, and he harbors a secret attractn to one of his bt iends. * was eddie gay in the book it *
But Chapter Two, ’s revealed Richie is gay, and he’s always had feelgs for Eddie. I don’t believe there was an tentn to make Richie gay the first movie, and the character isn’t gay the books. Kg’s origal novel featured the btal murr of a young gay man, which was spired by the 1984 murr of Charlie Howard Bangor, Mae.
Watch what the filmmakers had to tell about Richie the vio Chapter Two ma text what had only been subtext Stephen Kg's origal book: wise-crackg Losers' Club member Richie Tozier is a gay man, and has romantic feelgs for his fellow Loser Eddie character's sexualy had been hted at the book, and over the years many fans theorized that he had more feelgs than jt iendship for Eddie. The film's openg sequence picts a btal hate crime agast a gay uple, which sets the stage for how unwelg this Mae town is to the LGBTQ+ muny and the chillg effect such open homophobia and bigotry would have had on Richie, who cid to stay the closet even after movg away and fdg fame and fortune stand-up Har wanted the film to m fully to makg Richie gay or to not even brg up. "Har also poted out that the perds that the book was set were very different tim for gay characters than what morn dienc would expect this film to portray.
IS RICHIE FROM IT GAY IN THE BOOK?
In this scene, set Derry's ar, young Richie (Fn Wolfhard) has homophobic slurs hurled at him by the bully Henry Bowers after a game of Street Fighter between Richie and Henry's . IT Chapter Two's twist about Richie Tozier beg gay was surprisg bee not only did not happen the book, but also wasn't hted at the first film. Throughout IT Chapter Two, Pennywise's method of tormentg Richie centered on a "secret" that he was keepg: that he's gay.
That secret is revealed a flashback featurg the homophobic Henry Bowers and then more overtly towards IT Chapter Two's endg. Richie Wasn't Gay In The Book. After all, the 1980s, while beg a far cry om the origal 1950s settg of the book, was still an pecially difficult time to be gay.