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Contents:

• IT: CHAPTER TWO’S GAY-BASHG SCENE EXPLOS A REAL-LIFE KILLG FOR A CHEAP SHOCK
• IS RICHIE FROM IT GAY IN THE BOOK?
• EDDIE GAY
• SPECIAL REPORT: THE GAY 90'S
• BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP

IT: CHAPTER TWO’S GAY-BASHG SCENE EXPLOS A REAL-LIFE KILLG FOR A CHEAP SHOCK

Richie beg nonilly gay (though I hate to assign a specific label to him, sce the book he’s had ser relatnships wh women while still havg subtextual feelgs for Eddie, while the film seems to imply he’s gay rather than bisexual) is not a cisn thrown to appease or panr to the “Tumblr crowd” as some Reddors have already dismissively said. The film also opens wh a btal homophobic attack on a gay man, so to kill off two out of three openly gay characters might have drawn ire, and rightfully so.

IS RICHIE FROM IT GAY IN THE BOOK?

It’s also worth notg that prejudice and bigotry are very much villas the world of IT, and homophobia is clud that.

EDDIE GAY

The darkns of the human ndn and the pa we flict on others is jt as much a monster as Pennywise, and that clus the homophobia that Richie and Adrian Mellon face.

SPECIAL REPORT: THE GAY 90'S

The disurse around the film will probably center on extrem, on whether Richie is qualy reprentatn or if the film is eply homophobic. The film do veer to buryg your gays terrory as stands now wh Adrian Mellon’s ath, Eddie’s ath, and Richie’s somewhat unhappy endg.

BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP

” You might fd the Richie/Eddie story to be another example of buryg your gays, pecially upled wh the Adrian Mellon scene, and a terrible moment of reprentatn, or you uld feel ’s a big step forward for blockbter films engagg wh queer text. ) People om Mae, pecially Bangor, Kg’s hometown, may regnize him stead as Charlie Howard, a 23-year-old asthmatic gay man who was beaten by three teenage boys the town the summer of 1984, before he was thrown off a bridge to a stream 15 feet below and drowned.

The explanatns—that was part of the origal source material, and that anti-gay hate crim still happen today, so was “important” to pict this particular one—suggt a half-baked unrstandg of what lls for different kds of vlence on screen. The murr the book tak place the summer of 1985, one year after the event that spired , and the novel clus an extend scriptn of the victims, the teens, their motiv, and the police vtigatn that follows (“The guy was a u, but he wasn’t hurtg anyone, ” says a sympathetic district attorney), along wh a brief but evotive read of the town’s gay i. In fact, some enterprisg fans of the novel have long surmised that Eddie is gay and love wh Richie (a dynamic played up the 1990 It miseri, which notably exclus the hate crime).