Contents:
- HIS DARK MATERIALS FALE: THE BT ADAPTATNAL CHANGE? MAKG IT GAYER
- HBO’S ‘HIS DARK MATERIALS’ IS ABOUT TO TRODUCE A WHOLE LOTTA GAYNS. TIME TO TCH UP!
HIS DARK MATERIALS FALE: THE BT ADAPTATNAL CHANGE? MAKG IT GAYER
The fact that TV-Malone’s story has the exact same impact on Lyra and Will as book-Malone’s did is self a poted rebuttal to the pernic homophobic myth of the queer “groomer.
HBO’S ‘HIS DARK MATERIALS’ IS ABOUT TO TRODUCE A WHOLE LOTTA GAYNS. TIME TO TCH UP!
Talkg about beg gay don’t turn Lyra or Will gay, as homophob claim would, but do make them more fortable beg open about who they are: a perfect illtratn of the posive value beg exposed to queer people’s stori n have for all young people regardls of their personal inty. Pullman’s novels already featured some signifint gay characters: the angel uple of Balthamos and Bach (played by Kobna Holdbrook-Smh and Simon Harrison the show). Both characters end up dyg, Bach beg the first major character killed off The Amber Spyglass, so the book uld be cricized as ftg the much-cricized “kill your gays” trope.
In the ntext of the year 2000, however, cludg a heroic gay uple at all a children’s/YA book, let alone a pair of angels whose love is stctively unrstood as pure and betiful by the straight male hero, was jt one of many ways the His Dark Materials trilogy was downright radil (needls to say, J. Pullman said 2000, "Ocsnally, no doubt, people do have a mon of the same sex; that might dite homosexualy, or might dite some other sort of gift or qualy, such as send sight. Siarly, fans have theorized that gay characters who don't e out until later life may have same-genr dæmons, potentially markg an outward ditn of their sexualy om birth.