Damon Llof of 'Watchmen' on brgg the gay, fetishistic hero of the seri to life - Queerty

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Gay guys who geek out for superhero are about to get an eyeful. Watchmen director Zach Snyr puts Dr. Manhattan (a buff, CGI'd Billy Cdup) ont and center, buck naked for mut at a time.

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WATCHMEN STAR JOVAN APO ON PLAYG THE WORLD'S FIRST GAY, BLACK SUPERHERO

This scene, along wh Mason’s ments on his relatnship wh Silk Spectre, is the source of the general assumptn that Hood Jtice was a gay man and a sexual sadist.

DAMON LLOF OF ‘WATCHMEN’ ON BRGG THE GAY, FETISHISTIC HERO OF THE SERI TO LIFE

He was secretly homosexual and a romantic relatnship wh Nelson Gardner aka Capta Metropolis. Watchmen has earned glowg reviews for s subversive take on the superhero genre, socpolil mentary and the cln of a storyle volvg a gay, terracial superhero romance.

Now, as a die-hard lover of the origal novel, and as a queer person, a gay man, I was very terted to see how the sexualy of the queer characters would be handled. In the book, Adrian Veidt, Hood Jtice, Capta Metropolis and possibly Rorschach are all gay. One of the tricky thgs is that their relatnship is scribed to by someone who is homophobic, Hollis Mason [the stumed avenger Ne Owl I].

” There are also implitns that maybe Hood Jtice was to rough stuff, or even pedophilia, which were, as you know, phras for people who didn’t unrstand what meant to be gay. More importantly, if you were a man, let alone a man of lor the 1930s or 1940s, you don’t even have the word “queer” or “bisexual” or “gay” to scribe your attractn to other men.

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Damon Llof of 'Watchmen' on brgg the gay, fetishistic hero of the seri to life - Queerty.

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