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JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS FANS PRAISE ALEX AND WILLIE'S GAY STORYLE
The straight male lead characters of Netflix’s Julie and the Phantoms share a fortable closens that wonrfully fi all stereotyp of “bromance” and “gay panic” humor. * julie and the phantoms gay fanfic *
There’s still a strong stigma that straight men (and boys for the matter) who show too much physil affectn are somehow out of the ordary, immoral, or tomatilly seen as gay. For years this was fueled the media wh endls “gay panic” jok featurg characters negativley reactg to any display of male on male affectn. A proment example Friends’ “The One Wh The Nap Partners” where Joey and Ross accintally fall asleep on each other and, upon wakg up and disverg they’re cuddlg, eak out and have to nfirm that nothg gay happened.
Many edi domated by straight men feature gags volvg guys huggg too long, exprsg their feelgs to the pot of beg awkward, or others assumg they’re gay based on how close they are. Are extremely close but have to clarify, “there’s nothg gay about our ey.
GAY PANIC (ALEX X WILLIE)
Julie and the Phantoms on Netflix featur a gay romance between Alex (Owen Joyner) and Willie (Booboo Stewart)." name="scriptn * julie and the phantoms gay fanfic *
It’s better than gay panic to be sure, but ’s still not great. When society tells you, as a straight man, that showg affectn toward another man is a joke or flat out bad, It’s not a hard leap to assume gay men are at bt a joke or at worst somethg to fear. Even worse if you’re a gay or queer man, who may ternalize this by assumg there’s somethg herently wrong wh you bee of your sire to exprs affectn to other men.
Le sgs and is lead guarist, Reggie plays bass, and Alex dms (he’s also gay and we wrote a lot about him and his male love tert here.
For most shows and movi this would be the set up for a typil gay panic joke where at least one of the straight characters would be revolted at even the ia of beg flirted at by another man. Havg a gay guy say this out loud don’t then make the two pull apart disgt or lead to the punch le of a joke. Now one uld pot out that Le and Reggie are extremely progrsive for ‘90s straight boys but a lighthearted and wholome show like Julie and the Phantoms there’s really no need for them to be homophobic for historil thenticy.