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.
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”.
‘THE SONG OF ACHILL,’ ‘THE NEW NORMAL,’ AND THE FUTURE OF GAY POP CULTURE
“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. 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. 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.
WAS ACHILL GAY? WHAT WE KNOW FROM CLASSIL LERATURE
” Siarly the Hebrew Bible David breaks to a lament upon learng of Jonathan’s ath wh whom he had sworn a venant of iendship: “I am distrsed for thee my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonrful, passg the love of women” (2 Samuel 1:26) make Achill and Patrocl gay is not historilly false the way would be if they were given Facebook acunts or were discsg multiculturalism over ppucco. Makg them homosexual impos upon them a fixed inty, like a heavy armor, an ontologil sence foreign to antiquy and one that nstras behavr. Surely gay upl takg on stereotypil mascule and feme rol have been over-ed throughout lerature?
Is the trope of Achill’ brazen personaly upled wh Patrocl’ soft exterr a false, ovesed fetishizatn of a gay relatnship? Whilst Miller has received praise for her cln of an openly gay relatnship, her approach to their sexual enunters has been cricised.
As a member of the muny myself, I wele healthy and accurate reprentatn, and I acknowledge that my ment on gay male relatnships is limed due to my genr, but om what I’ve seen personally on social media, the majory of fans who are obssed wh gay male relatnships are straight women.
WAS ACHILL GAY? TWTER ERS BATE AFTER RURFACED 2011 BOOK!
And therefore, I ask: why are straight women so obssed wh gay relatnships? NEXT POSTReview: Is The Gay Novel Dead? In rponse to s of popular culture that amed same-sex sire as a ndn that uld only lead to isolatn, misery, and ath, movi, televisn, books, even mic vios rpond wh narrativ that amed homophobia, whether externalized or ternalized, as a powerful and adly force, and a signifint driver of stori.
While the stori have been powerful tools changg attus — Vice Print Bin ced Will and Grace as a factor changg his md about equal marriage rights — they have somethg mon wh the stori they phed back agast: both sets of stori treat homosexualy as a source of problems. As we image a future statn for gay-iendly popular culture, other words, maybe what we should be dreamg of is stori that look like those om the distant past Miller summons back to existence, rather than anythg om the recent past. This is not to say that we should elimate stori about the power of homophobia, given that remas a powerful force Amerin society and the world at large.
Comg out, self-hatred, fay rejectn or surprisg fay acceptance, and displays of societal homophobia, om verbal tolerance to vlence, are both reliable dramatic fulcms, and powerful mobilizg tools agast hateful attus.