Contents:
- IN ‘MY BT FRIEND’S WEDDG,’ I FOUND MY GAY ROLE MOL: JULIA ROBERTS
- MY BT FRIEND'S WEDDG IS GEE GAY
- MY BT FRIEND'S WEDDG ALMOST HAD A GAY SEQUEL
IN ‘MY BT FRIEND’S WEDDG,’ I FOUND MY GAY ROLE MOL: JULIA ROBERTS
The trope of the “gay bt iend” prov that not all reprentatn is created equally.
In the 90s pecially, we fally got to see openly gay characters big Hollywood movi, specifilly romantic edi.
While this reprentatn was a step forward, the typ of LGBTQ+ reprentatn were always the same: whe, cis gay men whout an terr life. Gee Downs (Rupert Everett) embodi a lot of what is bad about the “gay bt iend” trope. In 1997, pecially romantic edi, gay bt iends were never sexualized.
MY BT FRIEND'S WEDDG IS GEE GAY
Y, we don’t get any terry to his actual sex life as a gay man.
MY BT FRIEND'S WEDDG ALMOST HAD A GAY SEQUEL
What do any gay bt iend do when they’re thst back to the closet for a scheme to break up a straight weddg? While reli on the stereotype of gays lovg mil extravaganzas, ’s an important moment that f Gee as a character, rather than a functn of the plot. Y, this is an example of the gay bt iend beg a wise oracle for the heroe.