Jonathan Bent jok he's the 'gay kg of Christmas'

Contents:

• FAR-RIGHT PASTOR SAYS THERE ARE MORE GAYS THAN EVER THANKS TO A ‘MONIC SPIR’
• THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN
• SANTA IS GAY; GET OVER
• ‘MEAN GIRLS’ STAR JONATHAN BENT JOK HE’S THE ‘GAY KG OF CHRISTMAS’
• FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’
• MAKE THE YULETI GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THIS YEAR'S LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVI

FAR-RIGHT PASTOR SAYS THERE ARE MORE GAYS THAN EVER THANKS TO A ‘MONIC SPIR’

The novel’s plot is further plited by the revelatn of Christmas’ unfed mixed racial inty and the homoerotic unrton his relatnships wh the other male characters, particularly Joe Brown and Percy Grimm.

THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN

Christmas’ ntradictory feelgs on Joanna’s masculy are particularly tertg when nsirg the implitns of homosexualy surroundg him Flkner’s origal text.

SANTA IS GAY; GET OVER

The scriptn of the magaze this le draws a parallel between the sexual imag of young women and men shootg each other, stillg an herent sense of homoeroticism the latter scriptn that is passed onto Christmas for havg kept such an em unrneath his t. Their partnership tak on a eper homoerotic sense wh the sheriff’s ment about the two, when he says, “‘I at terted the wiv [Brown] left Alabama, or anywhere else. Abdur-Rahman argu that this “homoeroticism amg the Jo’ liaison” is a signifier of “the vulnerabily of whe masculy to peratn by black men the social, enomic, and polil realms” (185).

‘MEAN GIRLS’ STAR JONATHAN BENT JOK HE’S THE ‘GAY KG OF CHRISTMAS’

Jt as Christmas’ multiracial inty perturbs his homoerotic relatnship wh Joe Brown, also further plit the town’s abily to prehend his genr and sexualy.

His relatnships wh Joanna and Brown both reflect that vlatn of sexual rtrictns, so that is not jt Christmas’ genr-nonnformy or homosexualy that Jefferson reacts to, but stead, as Watson scrib, Christmas’ ntradictory and nsummatory portrayal of masculy, which is viewed as ntag a “predatory sire wh the potential to extend self every directn throughout the social field” (153).

On the other hand, John Duvall scrib Grimm’s tense need to kill and strate Joe Christmas as a reflectn of a “male homosexual panic, ” driven by his sire to fd a stable sense of masculy by beg accepted to the “homosocial world” of the men of Jefferson (62). Grimm’s e of the phrase “taken their pants down” adds a sexual element to his anger, implyg that there is a reprsed homoeroticism motivatg him trackg down Christmas.

FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’

However, the homoerotic nature of Grimm’s ments before he strat Christmas impli a more sexually charged layer behd the vlence that he seeks to enact.

MAKE THE YULETI GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THIS YEAR'S LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVI

This perspective is supported by Abdur-Rahman, who explas that lynchg is a “btal enactment of homoeroticism and s panicked repudiatn” bee functns as both a femizatn of the black male body and a “‘munal rape’ of black manhood” (188-189).

From that viewpot, the lynchg that Grimm nducts n be viewed as an assertn of his whe masculy an attempt to domate Christmas’ black manhood, rultg this racially motivated and homoerotic enunter between the two (Abdur-Rahman 188).