All I want now is to dance wh Fez to INXS's "Never Tear Us Apart" some roadsi gay dive bar.
Contents:
- EUPHORIA EXPLOR CAL JABS’ SEXUALY WH TRAGIC GAY ROMANTIC BACKSTORY
- 21 "EUPHORIA" MOMENTS THAT THE GAYS ARE STILL THKG ABOUT
EUPHORIA EXPLOR CAL JABS’ SEXUALY WH TRAGIC GAY ROMANTIC BACKSTORY
On graduatn night, Cal and Derek celebrate at a gay bar outsi of town, where they share a dance and their first kiss. If Marsha hadn’t lled that morng wh the news that she was pregnant, Dane believ he and Derek would have been together, and Cal uld have been a happy gay man, fortable his own sk and not livg a lie. I don’t know if Derek was as gay as Cal was.
Young Cal and Derek kiss as they dance together a dimly-l gay bar. In season two episo three ‘Rumatns: Big and Ltle Bullys‘, which dropped on NOWTV the UK this week, the show’s rint villa Cal (Eric Dane) was given a gay orig story worthy of s own movie. Gay.
21 "EUPHORIA" MOMENTS THAT THE GAYS ARE STILL THKG ABOUT
However, tertgly the scen of heteronormative high school romance are terspersed wh shots of the boys wrtlg sglets that have a distctly homoerotic tone, as well as a shot of Cal starg at Derek adjtg himself the r, makg clear that there’s fe potential for the boys’ relatnship to move beyond the platonic. Thgs culmate on the night of their high school graduatn when Derek suggts they take a trip to the lol gay bar bee he knew they’d get served there whout an ID.
Euphoria's sophomore season was a roller aster of emotn. In a stirrg sequence set at a gay bar jt outsi their hometown, the two boys celebrate their recent graduatn and mourn their rapidly approachg separatn for llege wh an INXS-soundtracked slow dance, eventually givg way to a passnate kiss. And knowg what we know about how (and who) Cal turns out to be — a philanrg hband who’s ma a hab of secretly filmg his illic enunters wh young gay men and trans women — ’s easy to fill the gaps that separate that life-changg ‘80s moment om prent-day.
Cal gets piss-dnk on a benr, dangeroly swerv traffic, and returns to the gay bar where he had his first same-sex kiss, only to try to start a brawl.