Now adapted for film, On the Road ntaed gay sex but not the gay experience.
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ON THE ROAD'S GRAPHIC GAY SEX ISN'T A GAY EXPERIENCE
In BBC Sherlock, was Moriarty really gay or he was jt pretendg to be one? Even though the upg celluloid take on Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road 55 years after the book's publitn, the buzz is not about the storytellg, art directn, or fahfulns to the Amerin classic but stead about the gay film, out December 21, featur a graphic anal scene between Garrett Hedlund and Steve Bcemi as well as a scene which Kristen Stewart pleasur two men simultaneoly a tck. Gay experienc and queer people peppered the wrg and the liv of Kerouac and his Beat ntemporari William S.
So 's a relief to see that On the Road director Walter Sall didn't shy away om the nonnformg sex that was a huge part of the eedom the Beats while the movie is brazen about gay sex (well, male gay sex), may not atta queer classic stat like My Own Private Idaho, Bound, and Myster Sk.
While some film crics acce Sall of turng his nose up at the gay sex the book, the tth is that Kerouac's novel is not really a queer work, jt a work wh queers.
IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?
Also, the book is way too stocked wh misogyny and homophobia to be a ttament to the LGBT experience, says Don Romburg, an associate profsor of women's and genr studi and the queer studi adviser at California's Sonoma State Universy.
"On the Road's homoeroticism don't affirm homosexualy or bisexualy as much as shor up the narrator's and ma character's prerogativ, as Beat but ultimately straight whe mal, to go where they want and fuck who they want, " Romburg says.