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Contents:

• IS BILLY ELLT GAY.
• BILLY ELLT 'GAY PROPAGANDA' ROW EXPOS PURGE HUNGARY
• 'GAY' BILLY ELLT DIRECTOR MARRI
• BILLY ELLT CUMPLE 20 AñOS: TODO LO QUE LA PELíCULA L NIñO BAILARíN ME ENSEñó SOBRE SER GAY
• BILLY ELLT MIL AX DAT HUNGARY AMID CLAIMS ULD 'TURN CHILDREN GAY’
• ‘BILLY ELLT’ MIL BRAND GAY PROPAGANDA HUNGARY; CANCELLATNS FOLLOW
• 'GAY' BILLY ELLT DIRECTOR MARRI
• IS BILLY ELLT GAY.

IS BILLY ELLT GAY.

In another year's time, he may well have wiped off, or h his iend, or n ma qutn the film seems to be whether or not his passn for dance mak Billy gay, and we are nstantly remd that he’s not. His father, once he fds out Billy wants to dn for the Royal Ballet School, is fur bee people will thk he’s gay, and Billy has to remd him that he’s not and that ballet dancers are as strong as any athlete.

” He’s immediately acceptg of Michael, but he’s still the is not gay, he jt wants to dance.

BILLY ELLT 'GAY PROPAGANDA' ROW EXPOS PURGE HUNGARY

But the unrlyg assumptn here is, obvly, that beg gay would be bad. Billy’s father worri that other people will thk Billy is gay and treat him poorly for , puttg on Billy to prove his straightns stead of fightg agast people who would make life harr for gay people the first place.

He's such a charmer as he teach his gay bt iend, Michael, to dance after he out to him.

Prevly Gay Bt Friend. But, alas, Howard los his battle agast the beat and danc, at which pot the stctor asslts him wh a barrage of homophobic sults. Homosexualy do not only make heterosexualy possible as an oppose to .

'GAY' BILLY ELLT DIRECTOR MARRI

Heterosexualy happens homosexual, non-straight, and queer spac. This may seem surprisg sce the dance that Billy engag wh is ballet, and mal ballet still nont stereotyp that they are homosexuals (Buckroyd, and Burt).

While this scene is suggtive of the homosocialy of dance, Top Hat narratively plac Astaire’s dancg body and (by ialistic intifitn) Billy’s dancg body to a space that masculiz, heterosexualiz, and utopianiz dance (Dyer). [27] Lt this subtle scriptn of dance as mascule and heterosexual be overlooked, Billy Ellt provis s viewers wh two characters they eher know or spect are homosexual, who serve as pots of ntrast to Billy himself.

BILLY ELLT CUMPLE 20 AñOS: TODO LO QUE LA PELíCULA L NIñO BAILARíN ME ENSEñó SOBRE SER GAY

The most obv of the is Billy’s bt iend Michael (Stuart Wells), first troduced chidg Billy about the futily of boxg, later revealed to and to Billy to be a cross-drser, and eventually nfirmed to Billy and to a viewg dience primed to nflate male cross-drsg wh homosexualy to be a ‘poof’ (Garber).

Michael’s strong prence throughout the film ensur that viewers ‘know’ how a homosexual behav and what a homosexual looks like, makg a male dancer like Billy appear to be straight parison.

BILLY ELLT MIL AX DAT HUNGARY AMID CLAIMS ULD 'TURN CHILDREN GAY’

Yet jt prr to this scene, Billy has refed Michael’s pass — a pass that leads to Michael’s nfsn that he is ed a homosexual — to which Billy rponds by explag to Michael and to the dience, ‘Jt s I like ballet, don’t mean I’m a poof, you know’.

[35] In their exchange, Billy rists ‘knowg’ the ‘facts’ his father sists Billy already knows — that male ballet dancers are homosexuals.

‘BILLY ELLT’ MIL BRAND GAY PROPAGANDA HUNGARY; CANCELLATNS FOLLOW

Even when Billy allows the unsayable to be said — prottg to his father about ballet that ‘It’s not jt for poofs’, this ncsn to Dad’s ‘knowledge’ of Billy’s ‘knowledge’ is immediately whdrawn when Billy offers Wayne Sleep as his example of an athletic dancer, for is monly known 1980s Bra that Wayne Sleep is a homosexual. Young Billy is not a ‘poof’ (as he repeatedly tells , a disavowal which might as easily mark Billy as gay as unmark him as such). In Bourne’s parodic versn of Swan Lake, this dualism is not only of good and evil but of homosexualy and heterosexualy bed one male dancg body, wh the heterosexual loted the place the ballet rerv for evil.

'GAY' BILLY ELLT DIRECTOR MARRI

To be clear here, I am not makg an argument about whether Billy is or is not a homosexual.

The pot I am argug is that Bourne’s ballet plac Billy — gay or straight, we nnot know — to the space of queer performance. Queerg the Color Le: Race and the Inventn of Homosexualy Amerin Culture. Billy Ellt is set the 1980s, where homosexualy was still a agile topic to discs pared wh today.

IS BILLY ELLT GAY.

Genr stereotyp are explored through homophobic ments by fay members. The film strs that Billy is not actually gay, like his fay members thk. It is through Billy’s iend Michael that the homosexual topic is raised.