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Contents:
- THE GRABBER, 'GAYFACE,' AND THE DANGER OF CONFLATG THE TWO IN THE BLACK PHONE
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
THE GRABBER, 'GAYFACE,' AND THE DANGER OF CONFLATG THE TWO IN THE BLACK PHONE
Content warng: This article discs homophobia, pedophilia/hebephilia, and child abe at length and ntas spoilers for "The Black Phone. " When discsg John Wayne Gacy, we refer to him as a serial killer, a hebephiliac, and a necrophiliac, but what we don't ll him is "gay, " bee he wasn't. So why are some people llg Ethan Hawke's performance of a character spired by him "gayface?
What is 'gayface? Gayface is the term ed to scribe a straight actor performg a riture of a gay person by playg to harmful trop. Admtedly, there sperately needs to be a different name for this practice, as equatg gayface to the unfivably disrpectful "Blackface" is like parg appl to 400 years of systemic racism, but for the time beg, that's the term we have.
Gayface is not only an offensive practice that relegat the reprentatn of queer people the media to paful stereotyp, but also ni queer actors the abily to tell their own stori while implyg that there's only one type of way to be gay. I first heard about the claims of gayface "The Black Phone" followg s premiere at Fantastic Ft 2021, and aga after the Beyond Ft screeng a few weeks later.
CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
Callg Hawke's performance this film "gayface" is a take void of any nuance. I went to my send viewg of "The Black Phone" wh the sole tentn of tryg to clock any and all stanc of Ethan Hawke's performance that uld have been perceived, read, or d as gay.
Before I list them all out, please unrstand that the attribut are not herently or exclively "gay, " bee there is no one way to be, act, look, prent, or exist as gay, and to imply otherwise is homophobic. Believg the aspects make the Grabber a gay riture is so unfathomably harmful hontly mak me physilly ill. In a different genre and wh a lser creative team, I would pletely unrstand why someone would e to this ncln, but bee Derrickson and Cargill aren't homophobic monsters, all of the supposed gayface attribut are explaed the text of "The Black Phone.
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
" The Grabber is so clearly portrayed as a hebephiliac serial killer, not a gay man, and nflatg the two giv legimate power to the opprsive talkg pots of those who are scerely tryg to extermate the existence of queer people real life. The text disprov the gayface claims.
And that mak "The Black Phone" an even more plited movie to asss terms of the gayface accatns and queer reads that are undoubtedly gog to be ma the current climate. It's impossible to know how the film would have been received had the panmic not forced a lay and me out before "Don't Say Gay, " and the obv legimizatn of the Supreme Court.
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
We are currently livg a time when anti-gay legislatn is poppg up all over the untry, and Ana Bryant-que beliefs have returned as right-wg talkg pots. Gay people are beg lled "groomers" nstantly, so ignorg the realy that The Grabber is a hebephiliac and stead equatg him to gayface is playg right to the hands of nservativ who want ad. It's also wildly dangero bee there is zero evince that shows any nnectn to homosexualy and child abe, and the overwhelmg number of those who abe children are actually straight men.
"The Black Phone" was released the middle of a moral panic surroundg homosexualy (and specifilly, trangenrism) and would have been impossible for Derrickson, Cargill, and Hawke to have predicted how furiatgly backward Ameri was movg when velopg the character. Hawke's performance is phenomenal, but 's not herently gayface. Claimg Hawke's flamboyant performance is gayface is an extremely rctive way at asssg queerns, and an even more limg approach to genr performance.
Our culture stggl enough as-is not associatg anythg outsi of the aggrsively mascule as "gay, " which has only ntued keepg all rigid genr role box none of asked for. Ethan Hawke should be able to play a flamboyant predator whout beg acced of gayface, pecially when playg a character that is by all textual support, not gay.