Contents:
- WHY THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA IS A GAY CULTURAL TOUCHSTONE
- STANLEY TUCCI IS PRETTY FE WH STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
WHY THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA IS A GAY CULTURAL TOUCHSTONE
But what is about this film, birthed at the height of the schmaltzy rom- (The Holiday, Failure to Lnch, and John Tucker Mt Die are ntemporari), that has kept relevant and a wellsprg for mem and ter humor, pecially gay pockets of social media, after all the years?
In what is known today as the gay Gettysburg Addrs, Pritly drs Andy down a lengthy monologue about the lor celean. She don’t raise her voice even once, but manag to wipe Andy off the ’s journey om “umpy” (Pritly’s word) assistant to glamoro fashnista no doubt mirrors the gay bourgeois narrative, where one exacts revenge on their bulli and society at large by beg that girl as an adult. To be well-drsed, rich, and pletely severed om one’s emotns is a power fantasy for gay urse, on closer spectn, much of The Devil Wears Prada is a portrayal of straight up abe.
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STANLEY TUCCI IS PRETTY FE WH STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
Criqu asi, Prada has earned s place gay meme non and the nostalgia pantheon. Nigel, the gay art director, is the only important man. A gay man and feme women work for a dictatorial, mascule Miranda.
While there may not be a simple answer, Stanley Tucci—who has played gay rol The Devil Wears Prada and 2020's Supernova (not to mentn Emma Stone’s father who was inilly gay once Easy A)—recently weighed , sayg that he believ ’s perfectly acceptable as long as ’s done “the right way. “I am always very flattered when gay men e up to me and talk to me about The Devil Wears Prada or they talk about Supernova, and they say that, ‘It was jt so betiful, ’ you know, ‘You did the right way. ”While Tucci didn’t elaborate on this particular form of bad-fah actg, ’s pretty easy to assume that he was referrg to the myriad of films which LGBTQ+ people have been rced to harmful, homophobic stereotyp over the years.
) Or perhaps he was referencg the super ol clatn of, erm, certa actors to fensively claim that the gay films they star are not jt “a gay story about the guys beg gay.