Gotham Actor Slams 'Homophobic' Reactns To Gay Character

Contents:

• WH PENGU & RIDDLER, GOTHAM GAVE US DC'S BT GAY RELATNSHIP
• ‘GOTHAM’ ACTOR ROB LORD TAYLOR SLAMS ‘HOMOPHOBIC’ REACTNS TO GAY CHARACTER: WATCH
• GAY KISS STOCK VIOS
• NEW EXHIBN ‘GAY GOTHAM’ CELEBRAT 80 YEARS OF ART AND UNRGROUND LGBTQ CULTURE NEW YORK CY
• LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO
• IS ‘GOTHAM’ GOG GAY? A PENGU/RIDDLER ROMANCE MAY BE ON THE WAY
• THE WALKG DEAD'S GAY KISS IGN CONTROVERSY ONLE
• ‘GOTHAM’ ACTOR ROB LORD TAYLOR SLAMS ‘HOMOPHOBIC’ REACTNS TO GAY CHARACTER: WATCH

WH PENGU & RIDDLER, GOTHAM GAVE US DC'S BT GAY RELATNSHIP

Wh Pengu & Riddler, Gotham Gave Us DC's Bt Gay Relatnship. By stg Pengu and the Riddler as a romantic pairg, Fox's Gotham has given the bt superhero (OK, supervilla) gay relatnship, ever.

Can you thk of any show that would take a character who is straight the ics, wh the same level of name regnn as the Pengu, and turn him gay? In fact, this relatnship might very well be DC’s bt gay relatnship, ever.

The relatnship has s issu, y, but ’s never prented as a “gay relatnship” jt... Thk of some of the “bt” reprentatns of homosexual characters ics -- Midnighter and Apollo for stance -- and you’ll realize there are always some issu, to put dly. The problem wh Midnighter and Apollo -- wh homosexual characters ics general -- is that most of the time, attentn is drawn to them, or the fact that they’re homosexual is pated as a big al.

‘GOTHAM’ ACTOR ROB LORD TAYLOR SLAMS ‘HOMOPHOBIC’ REACTNS TO GAY CHARACTER: WATCH

Even amazg shows like Supergirl, the fact that one of the characters is gay is a big al -- wh plot l alg wh the character g out and how others will react. Homosexualy n happily ri mps. Thk of the Village People’s YMCA -- a song that appears to many to be a no more than a simple and mpy song, but is actually a homosexual anthem about public sex!

The mastream world has long shunned homosexualy, and even now treats as some strange other. When was first revealed, Gotham was still s first season, and was prented to the dience wh all the flair and dramatics as typil gay relatnship reveals, wh a smatterg of male gaze.

They’re huge, huge villas, and Gotham has turned one of them gay, and the other?

GAY KISS STOCK VIOS

LGBT+ Characters are; Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and other typ yet to be fed by the show's official materials. Oswald Cobblepot - Ambiguoly Gay.

Renee Montoya - Homosexual/ Lbian.

Openly gay actor and the man behd Oswald Cobblepot on Fox's TV drama Gotham h back at viewers' cricism surroundg his character's romantic tert another male character, Edward Nygma, llg the reactns “homophobic.

NEW EXHIBN ‘GAY GOTHAM’ CELEBRAT 80 YEARS OF ART AND UNRGROUND LGBTQ CULTURE NEW YORK CY

' And I'm like, ‘You're homophobic, that's homophobic, ” Taylor said at the event. What is wrong wh Hollywood every superhero tv show has gay & lbian ntent kissg: Gotham, Supergirl, Arrow & DC Legends of Tomorrow.

In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.

He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

IS ‘GOTHAM’ GOG GAY? A PENGU/RIDDLER ROMANCE MAY BE ON THE WAY

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

THE WALKG DEAD'S GAY KISS IGN CONTROVERSY ONLE

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. One group was appalled that Gotham would ter om Batman non so abptly by makg Pengu "gay" (this spe the fact that Gotham has never had a strict adherence to non).

‘GOTHAM’ ACTOR ROB LORD TAYLOR SLAMS ‘HOMOPHOBIC’ REACTNS TO GAY CHARACTER: WATCH

It means that Pengu may not intify as a 0 on the Ksey sle, the soclogil ia proposed by Aled Ksey 1948 that humans aren't strictly heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual, but land somewhere on a sle between heterosexual (0) and homosexual (7). But Pengu's number is not necsarily enough to label him as all-out gay. Labelg Pengu as gay, or even bisexual, and rootg for this uple assum that they are a normal LGBT relatnship, and they aren't at all.

Ten years ago, when you uld unt the number of gay TV characters seri regular rol on one hand, was cril that those characters be fully flhed out and not rerce stereotyp to the mastream dience at home.