The straight male lead characters of Netflix’s Julie and the Phantoms share a fortable closens that wonrfully fi all stereotyp of “bromance” and “gay panic” humor.
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JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS FANS PRAISE ALEX AND WILLIE'S GAY STORYLE
* is reggie gay in julie and the phantoms *
One of the ma stori nng throughout follows Alex (played wh much charm by Owen Patrick Joyner), the bands dmmer, who’s also gay. Other seri might have had that scene I scribed above be the big gay moment of the show and then have Alex and Willie’s romance fa to the background but this is not the se for Julie and the Phantoms.
They get to be two gay boys wh csh on each other given a lot of screen time wh room to grow if the show is given more seasons. There’s still a strong stigma that straight men (and boys for the matter) who show too much physil affectn are somehow out of the ordary, immoral, or tomatilly seen as gay. For years this was fueled the media wh endls “gay panic” jok featurg characters negativley reactg to any display of male on male affectn.
A proment example Friends’ “The One Wh The Nap Partners” where Joey and Ross accintally fall asleep on each other and, upon wakg up and disverg they’re cuddlg, eak out and have to nfirm that nothg gay happened. Many edi domated by straight men feature gags volvg guys huggg too long, exprsg their feelgs to the pot of beg awkward, or others assumg they’re gay based on how close they are. Are extremely close but have to clarify, “there’s nothg gay about our ey.