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WAS FRODO BAGGS GAY AND IS SAM LOVE WH HIM?
Note: This say ntas discsn of homophobia and mentn of suici. Outsi of the safe darkns of the theater, the Mordor-like wasteland of middle school, the movi were synonymo wh the favored sult of the time — “gay.
WHEN WERE FRODO AND SAM FIRST NCEPTUALIZED AS GAY?
Early-2000s preteen Ameri was a time of gay jok, of “no homo, ” of mockg voic and slurs, and secret, punive vlence enacted the locker room agast anyone who had a whiff of otherns. He never would have wrten about gay people!
He faced a urt-martial 1918 after one of his letters scribed “homosexual relatns wh men his pany.