Theory: Lbians get om their fathers, gay men om their mothers.
Contents:
- SAM WILLIAMS OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY INTY FOR THE FIRST TIME: 'IT IS SRY, BUT IT FEELS GOOD'
- WHY SAM IS GAY?
- SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
- YAAAS! FOR PRI MONTH, GENERAL MILLS ANNOUNCED THAT TOUN SAM IS GAY NOW EVEN THOUGH HE’S OWNED BY KELLOGG’S
- WAS FRODO BAGGS GAY AND IS SAM LOVE WH HIM?
SAM WILLIAMS OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY INTY FOR THE FIRST TIME: 'IT IS SRY, BUT IT FEELS GOOD'
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WHY SAM IS GAY?
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. Two years before The Lord of the Rgs was published, war-wng breaker and geni mathematician Alan Turg stood trial for “homosexual acts and gross cency” — that is, beg ught his own home wh another man.
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SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
As scribed by thor Reynolds Price, at least one member of Tolkien’s iend group, the Inklgs, “separated om his wife and lived a quietly homosexual life. She beme an in the gay male muny for wrg sympathetilly about same-sex relatnships ancient Greece.
Bilbo and Frodo’s home of Bag End is scribed by other hobbs as “a queer place, and s folk are queerer” — an adjective which had a strong nnotatn of homosexualy by the late 1800s.
YAAAS! FOR PRI MONTH, GENERAL MILLS ANNOUNCED THAT TOUN SAM IS GAY NOW EVEN THOUGH HE’S OWNED BY KELLOGG’S
It’s tricky to apply morn labels to people that they did not claim life — but morn labels clu “straight” and “cisgenr” jt as much as “gay” or “transgenr. One of them was Geofey Bache Smh, a poet whose work is nsired homoromantic by morn rears.
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In The Lord of the Rgs: The Fellowship of the Rg's st mentary, Ian McKellen, a gay in his own right who played Gandalf the Grey, revealed that he was rponsible for the cln of a small but ccial moment between Sam (Sean Ast) and Frodo (Elijah Wood) that featured the books but might not have ma to the films whout his suggtn. "When I suggted to Sean that he take Elijah's hand, ” McKellen explas, “ was bee I thought that [] might be missed by two rolutely heterosexual actors who might not appreciate that gay people, like myself, saw a touch somethg, perhaps, more meangful than others might.
WAS FRODO BAGGS GAY AND IS SAM LOVE WH HIM?
McKellen’s suggtn exemplifi how The Lord of the Rgs so succsfully rved a niche for self as a part of queer fandom, and why LGBTQ+ fans are so drawn to the Sam/Frodo relatnship the books: Though Tolkien himself likely didn’t tend to the relatnship as gay, the sheer tenrns of the language and the nstant affectn between the two speaks to a kd of timacy that queer fans are able to regnize and ronate wh.
When director duo Alexa and Stephen Kigopoulos were nceptualizg the "Tilted Crown" mic vio, they felt was important to clu a gay kiss to tell the story of his life. Asked about the tails of his inty by host Hunter Kelly, Williams explaed that he "he/him" pronouns and said, "I intify as gay, and I've never said that to anybody else. Durg his Proud Rad terview, the mician spoke about rmg Katie of his gay inty before her ath.