The Full Monty’s Steve Huison has shared a touchg fan rponse to the anchise's gay reprentatn wh his character Lomper.
Contents:
- GUY AND LOMPER GAY?
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- LETTERS SHOW MONTY AS 'REPRSED GAY'
- THE FULL MONTY'S STEVE HUISON SHAR TOUCHG FAN RPONSE TO THE ANCHISE'S GAY REPRENTATN
GUY AND LOMPER GAY?
First of all, I am NOT a troll. I've read on a uple of webs that their was a gay relatnship between Guy and Lomper. I did NOT see any ditn of this the film. Where do this assumptn e om???? Did anyone get a ht of a gay relatnship between the two? * full monty gay *
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THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
The film is sentially about a group of men dog somethg that they nsir to be pretty gay.
They’re sort of the verse of the scene another queer 1997 film, In & Out, which Kev Kle’s gay character attempts to move like a straight man, stiffeng his walk and ristg the urge to dance exuberantly.
Given the revelatn of his sexualy later the film, ’s reasonable to wonr whether shame and ternalized homophobia played a role Lomper’s suici attempt. They experience no blowback or homophobia that we’re shown.
LETTERS SHOW MONTY AS 'REPRSED GAY'
While I thk ’s safe to assume that men gettg their k off is part of The Full Monty’s appeal for gay dienc, there is somethg fundamentally not-gay about the film’s approach to pictg the male body—and ’s not jt the fact that looks away when the characters fally liver on the film’s tle. It lacks the gay gaze. Of urse, homoeroticism isn’t the only barometer by which a film’s queerns should be judged.
But a film about male strippers, the absence of the gay gaze is signifint.
THE FULL MONTY'S STEVE HUISON SHAR TOUCHG FAN RPONSE TO THE ANCHISE'S GAY REPRENTATN
5 or 2: certaly not exclively heterosexual, but also, not that gay, really. "He said that, for him, was the first time he'd seen a gay relatnship reprentative of northern workg-class men.
In some ways, jt like their jigglg junk, Guy and Lomper's romance was also two fgers up to the unofficial 'permissible standard of gay' verage on TV, which was rced to clanste kiss and nuendo.