Is Richie Gay 'IT Chapter 2'? The Big Secret Pennywise Knows

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
• STEPHEN KG CHAMPNS ‘IT CHAPTER TWO’ GAY CHARACTER SURPRISE: ‘KD OF GENI’
• IT: CHAPTER 2 FEATUR A GAY UPLE BUT DON’T CELEBRATE JT YET
• IT'S GAY BASHG SCENE SERV NO PURPOSE EXCEPT AS PORN FOR HOMOPHOB

IT CHAPTER TWO GAY CHARACTERS: THE TE STORY BEHD HARROWG HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK

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

**WARNING IT CHAPTER TWO SPOILERS**What is the te story behd the homophobic attack IT Chapter Two? 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.

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?

That’s bee Adrian, a gay man, is the victim of a btal hate crime. ” Kg has said that Adrian’s ath the book is closely based on the real-life killg of Charlie Howard, a gay man who was murred by three lol teenagers Bangor, ME, 1984. “Leavg bigotry and homophobia and that kd of vlence out would not only not be accurate to the tim that we’re livg , would be omtg somethg that is still happeng to this day and is horrible.

STEPHEN KG CHAMPNS ‘IT CHAPTER TWO’ GAY CHARACTER SURPRISE: ‘KD OF GENI’

Slate‘s Jefey Bloomer wr that Adrian’s ath is a “gay-bashg scene” that “explos a ghastly real-life killg for a cheap shock, livered whout ntext or any clear thematic unrpng.

Henry acc Richie of htg on his , and the immediately steps away and jos hurlg homophobic slurs at Richie.

After leavg the ar as an adult, Richie aga has an enunter wh It the town square durg which It, as Pennywise, threatens to reveal Richie’s “dirty ltle secret, ” implyg that he will out him as gay.

IT: CHAPTER 2 FEATUR A GAY UPLE BUT DON’T CELEBRATE JT YET

In Mchietti’s terpretatn, “Richie is gay and he’s always had a thg for Eddie. But never flourished bee probably Eddie wasn’t gay and pecially bee Richie was never able to e out” he says.

” 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. 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”. Acrdgly, It Chapter Two’s homophobic murr scene disurag discrimatn by prentg Adrian and his partner, Don, as hero.

IT'S GAY BASHG SCENE SERV NO PURPOSE EXCEPT AS PORN FOR HOMOPHOB

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”.

The BBFC ratg suggts mature children n unrstand that the film’s queer portrayals nmn homophobia and promote self-termatn. (He’s played the movie by wunrkd Québéis filmmaker and actor Xavier Dolan, well known to gay cephil and crics. ) 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.