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’
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.
IS RICHIE FROM IT GAY IN THE BOOK?
Stephen Kg’s 1986 classic novel It featured a gay character, Adrian Mellon, who was killed by Pennywise after he and his boyiend were btally beaten by Derry’s ft homophob. No, neher Eddie nor Richie were out as gay the book. It Chapter Two—the send half of the two-part film adaptatn om director Andy Mchietti—took that homoerotic subtext and ma non.
Richie’s terrified reactn—and Pennywise tntg him that he “knows his secret”—mak pretty clear that Richie is gay.
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.