A Lbian Reviews MTV’s Fx-Gay Comedy ‘Fakg It’ – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• IT: CHAPTER TWO’S GAY-BASHG SCENE EXPLOS A REAL-LIFE KILLG FOR A CHEAP SHOCK
• IT'S GAY BASHG SCENE SERV NO PURPOSE EXCEPT AS PORN FOR HOMOPHOB
• THE BT PORNOGRAPHIC GAY HIPSTER SHORT FILM I’VE EVER SEEN
• A LBIAN REVIEWS MTV’S FX-GAY COMEDY ‘FAKG IT’
• IT: CHAPTER TWO'S VIC GAY HATE CRIME OPENG SCENE EXPLAED
• TOM HOLLAND 'REACTS' TO 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

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IT: CHAPTER TWO’S GAY-BASHG SCENE EXPLOS A REAL-LIFE KILLG FOR A CHEAP SHOCK

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IT'S GAY BASHG SCENE SERV NO PURPOSE EXCEPT AS PORN FOR HOMOPHOB

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THE BT PORNOGRAPHIC GAY HIPSTER SHORT FILM I’VE EVER SEEN

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A LBIAN REVIEWS MTV’S FX-GAY COMEDY ‘FAKG IT’

Willett), the school’s most popular and good-lookg gay senr, who his gaydar to ci that Karma and Amy are a uple and that he’s “cravg lbian energy his life. When he thanks Karma for advice and refers to her beg gay, she realiz he thks she’s a lbian.

The typil high-school trop are trotted out wh tertg attempts to turn them on their heads, but ultimately they revert to the same borg clich, even if the gay kids are fally popular figur stead of punchg bags.

When at a school assembly, Lren announc that Karma and Amy are mockg the gay rights movement, the pair kiss to prove their love is real.

IT: CHAPTER TWO'S VIC GAY HATE CRIME OPENG SCENE EXPLAED

But if there are more tre jok about gay women and highlightg the disrpectful Liam as a good guy bee he’s willg to be iends wh a gay man and a femist, there might not be much worth watchg the future.

The seri premiered April 22, day, bt iends Amy (Ra Volk) and Karma (Katie Stevens) are outed as lbians by popular gay guy Shane (Michael Willett). All Gays are Promiscuo: Played wh.

Acrdg to Shane at least, while all gay men want to do is hook up, lbians prefer to bond and nt build.

TOM HOLLAND 'REACTS' TO 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE

Stubble and Syzzr, datg webs for gays and lbians, rpectively. Boomerang Bigot: While he isn't anti-gay, Shane mak a lot of assumptns like All Gays are Promiscuo and No Bisexuals that would f fortably the mouth of someone who was.

Camp Gay: Shane, played by Michael Willett, who plays a siar character to the Gay Bt Friend he played the movie GBF, which basilly has the same plot as Fakg It. If she never sulted them such a way, Shane wouldn't have thought Karma and Amy were gay. If Shane hadn't thought they were gay, he never would have spread the mor.

Gay Bt Friend: Shane to Liam and he would be to Amy if Karma wasn't already her bt iend. He is a hopels and often malic gossip, his "Gay Suts honor" promis always wd up beg broken and he go through guys like a chasaw through puppi but he's a genue iend to both Amy and Liam. Manly Gay: De, the MMA fighter Shane hooks up wh "Prent Tense".