Was Achill gay? Twter ers have been readg Male Miller's book 'Song of Achill' and took to the social media platform to discs the ia.
Contents:
- THE PROFOUND GAY LOVE STORI OF THE OLD GUARD AND SONG OF ACHILL
- ‘THE SONG OF ACHILL,’ ‘THE NEW NORMAL,’ AND THE FUTURE OF GAY POP CULTURE
- WAS ACHILL GAY? WHAT WE KNOW FROM CLASSIL LERATURE
- WAS ACHILL GAY? TWTER ERS BATE AFTER RURFACED 2011 BOOK!
THE PROFOUND GAY LOVE STORI OF THE OLD GUARD AND SONG OF ACHILL
The gay romance books be Achillean love stori wh sci-fi and fantasy them. * the song of achilles gay *
Joe and Nicky aren’t the ma protagonists director Ga Prce-Bythewood’s film, but sce the film’s release on July 10, they’re the characters who have garnered a lot of attentn bee of how rare is that gay men are featured actn movi. That The Old Guard’s Joe and Nicky are unapologetic about their love allows queer people, and gay men particular, the opportuny to see that throughout all of history, we’ve been there all along — and such a mastream, typilly heteronormative medium, no ls.
At s heart is a simple msage: that straight people might not ever fully unrstand what ’s like to be gay and to fd love.
‘THE SONG OF ACHILL,’ ‘THE NEW NORMAL,’ AND THE FUTURE OF GAY POP CULTURE
Beyond that not-great movie, Achill and Patrocl’s homosexualy has been bated over and over, ually g down to dissectg ancient Greek culture and the semantics of “gay”. “I did not liberately set out to tell a liberately ‘gay’ love story; rather, I was eply moved by the love between the two characters—whose rpect and affectn for each other, spe the horrors around them, mol the kd of relatnship we all n aspire to.
WAS ACHILL GAY? WHAT WE KNOW FROM CLASSIL LERATURE
Though Miller says she didn’t liberately set out to create a gay love story, ’s a fantasy that unravels and jtifi the feelgs and vulnerabily of the LGBTQ experience, and of gay men particular. Much of the ntemporary LGBTQ+ lerature we are exposed to today mak beg gay the only thg the book is about. Gay people didn’t jt happen to show up the past 100 years.
WAS ACHILL GAY? TWTER ERS BATE AFTER RURFACED 2011 BOOK!
It serv as a great example of LGBTQ+ reprentatn that approach and treats gay romance the same way straight romance would be wrten about.
Neher Achyl, nor Plato, nor Xenophon uld have imaged Achill and Patrocl as gay. Patrocl’ self-doubts show that his (gay) sexualy is trapped a morn tensn between ncealment and Wolfgang Petersen, Pels and Thetis would not have been disturbed by the erotic turn of their son’s iendship.