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Contents:
- IT CHAPTER TWO GAY CHARACTERS: THE TE STORY BEHD HARROWG HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK
- IT: CHAPTER TWO’S GAY-BASHG SCENE EXPLOS A REAL-LIFE KILLG FOR A CHEAP SHOCK
- LET’S TALK ABOUT THE GAY STUFF ‘IT CHAPTER TWO’
- IT: CHAPTER 2 FEATUR A GAY UPLE BUT DON’T CELEBRATE JT YET
- 12 GAY COUPL HOLLYWOOD WHO HAVE THE MOST ROMANTIC LOVE STORI
- ROLAND EMMERICH ON ‘INPENNCE DAY 2’S’ GAY COUPLE: IT’S NOT “A BIG DEAL”
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
- GAY MARRIAGE QUANDARY: AM I THE BRI OR GROOM?
IT CHAPTER TWO GAY CHARACTERS: THE TE STORY BEHD HARROWG HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK
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Watch what the filmmakers had to tell about Richie the vio Chapter Two ma text what had only been subtext Stephen Kg's origal book: wise-crackg Losers' Club member Richie Tozier is a gay man, and has romantic feelgs for his fellow Loser Eddie character's sexualy had been hted at the book, and over the years many fans theorized that he had more feelgs than jt iendship for Eddie. The film's openg sequence picts a btal hate crime agast a gay uple, which sets the stage for how unwelg this Mae town is to the LGBTQ+ muny and the chillg effect such open homophobia and bigotry would have had on Richie, who cid to stay the closet even after movg away and fdg fame and fortune stand-up Har wanted the film to m fully to makg Richie gay or to not even brg up. "Har also poted out that the perds that the book was set were very different tim for gay characters than what morn dienc would expect this film to portray.
In this scene, set Derry's ar, young Richie (Fn Wolfhard) has homophobic slurs hurled at him by the bully Henry Bowers after a game of Street Fighter between Richie and Henry's .
IT: CHAPTER TWO’S GAY-BASHG SCENE EXPLOS A REAL-LIFE KILLG FOR A CHEAP SHOCK
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In the film, bulli spot a gay uple together at a funfair Derry, and target them wh homophobic abe starts wh them hurlg sults at the uple, who try to walk away and ignore as well as possible.
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More The Losers Club havg dner IT Chapter Two (Image: Warner Bros)A 23-year-old lled Charlie Howard was walkg down the street wh another man, Roy Ogn, when three teenagers set upon chased them, shoutg homophobic sults at them, before they ught Charlie and threw him over the State Street Bridge to the Kendkeag Stream, spe him tellg them he uld not ped and pulled a fire alarm to alert thori, but Charlie had also suffered om a severe asthma attack, as the topsy later Losers Club werg fear IT Chapter Two (Image: Warner Bros)Stephen Kg is a notable rint of Bangor and wrote It only two years after the cint, showg how greatly affected him. Another moment where a homophobic attack is seen is Richie’s memori, when he reunts bulli forcg him to leave an ar due to his them of homophobia clearly affected Kg are ntued the adaptatn by Andr Mchietti. After the homophobic attack Derry, alerts Mike Hanlon to the reappearance of Pennywise, and he reassembl the Losers mt retrace their memori to try and work out how to kill Pennywise once and for Chapter Two is out cemas now Related articl IT Chapter Two: What is Pennywise the clown?
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) 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.
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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.
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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). In this versn, Richie has grown up to be a stand-up ic who mak sexist jok, but seems he is gay and love wh Eddie, a suggtn that grows somewhat lour the movie’s epilogue. Regardls, what do say about this movie that feels fortable pictg every cshg blow and sperate cry for help om gay men as they’re beg bludgeoned but then reli on a retro, d treatment of s only apparently gay prcipal character, who never even gets the digny of sayg who he is?
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Throughout It: Chapter Two, be clear that Richie is a closeted gay man love wh his childhood bt iend, Eddie (Jam Ransone plays the adult versn). ” is the retort that preces a btal physil attack on a gay uple near the start of It Chapter film ntu the adventur of Stephen Kg’s “Loser” outsts, who battle the killer alien clown, Pennywise, and al wh the hate-filled attus of their townsfolk Meg Ryan quip om Adrian Mellon, the gay man who is beaten by homophob before beg murred by Pennywise.
Kg has nfirmed that the character is based on Charlie Howard, an out gay man murred Kg’s home town of Bangor, Mae, 1984 – who was targeted, part, bee he was wearg a flamboyant hat.
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But, tth, this is lopsid: the story ntas hate speech aimed at (legally-protected) disabily through to (as-yet unprotected) fatphobia, but the BBFC’s guidance foc only on homophobia: “A young man is subjected to homophobic abe (‘faggot’) before beg serly beaten” and “a young boy beg verbally abed a siar manner. ”One of the ratgs body’s ma ncerns is preventg pyt behavur: the BBFC not that, to get a 15 ratg, “the work as a whole mt not endorse discrimatory language or behavur, although there may be racist, homophobic or other discrimatory them and language”. While this isn’t the Richie of Kg’s book, the film applds him for overg his ternalised homophobia a happy endg where he rerv his and his first love’s ials to Derry’s “Kissg Bridge”.
Adrian Mellon (here played terribly by former director of note Xavier Dolan) kiss his boyiend at a Derry rnival, and the two are followed out of by a gang of homophobic hoodlums.
Still, the film n nceive of no reason why Richie should have remaed the closet all the years beyond a general sense of shame and ternalized homophobia, neher of which is ever actually picted. Alongsi the ma characters of the upg movie, Deadle revealed that the adaptatn of Stephen Kg’s horror novel will brg a gay uple om the book to life. Taylor Frey, known for his rol The Carrie Diari and Gossip Girl, will play Don Hagarty, a young gay man a relatnship wh Adrian Mellon, played by Xavier Dolan, known for Tom at the Farm, Mommy and Boy Erased.