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JAM MCAVOY WOULD BE “BANG UP” FOR A PROFSOR X AND MAGO GAY ROMANCE ARC
The homoerotic unrton their relatnship are already there for all to see, after all, so why not take to the next step? Jt take recent h Thor: Love and Thunr, lled “hella gay” by star Natalie Portman prr to s London screeng: offered slivers of tokenistic queer visibily, not least cludg hand sex between two alien rock creatur dified as gay. Give the gays what we want.
Twentieth Century FoxIf the subtextual homoerotic love affair between Mago (Michael Fassbenr) and Profsor X (Jam McAvoy) the X-Men saga wasn't tablished non before X-Men: First Class, is now. But cir 2011, cultural divisns over race have been supplanted the popular Amerin nscns by a bate over gay rights, and the latt X-Men film has updated Profsor X and Mago's adversarial relatnship thly. But the film n also be easily read as a gay pri allegory, as well as a story of te love gone horribly wrong.
Edward's Universy At, Texas, who ntributed a chapter lled "Makg Gay Sense of the X-Men" to the textbook Unverg Hidn Rhetorics: Social Issu Disguise eded by Barry S. I'm not sure, however, that the majory of moviegoers necsarily regnize the gay love affair, d as is, but I do thk they'd notice s absence. The late, great Vo Rso (The Celluloid Closet) would probably agree wh this assertn, seeg as he found the kds of d gay relatnships rmg so many mastream films over the s.