Is Chucky the Newt Gay In?

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• IS CHUCKY THE NEWT GAY IN?
• JENNIFER TILLY EXPLAS HOW 'CHUCKY' BEME THE QUEERT SHOW ON TELEVISN: 'IT'S A GIFT TO THE GAY MUNY'
• ‘CHUCKY’ SERI FEATUR AN ADORABLE FIRST KISS FOR THIS GAY CHARACTER
• DON MANCI EMBRAC “SPECIFIC GAY INTY” FOR CHUCKY FRANCHISE

IS CHUCKY THE NEWT GAY IN?

Chucky is changg the horror game once the latt, fifth episo of the Chucky TV seri, Jake, the 14-year-old gay protagonist got his first kiss, and uldn't have happened a better and his iend Devon have been gettg closer all season, dancg around their feelgs.

The two actors are perfectly adorable, brgg to life a young first gay kiss. 1634695696The Chucky TV seri, which airs on Syfy and the USA work, is created by Don Manci, the gay man who origally started the Child's Play movie anchise. He wanted to make the star of this new Chucky seri gay orr to brg some much need reprentatn to the horror genre.

Christe is another a bullied kid gets supernatural revenge, you know, none of those movi has a sgle gay character them. In his new seri, Chucky go out of his way to show his allyship, gog so far as to murr our young hero Jake Wheeler's (Zackary Arthur) homophobic father Le (Devon Sawa) at the end of the first episo.

JENNIFER TILLY EXPLAS HOW 'CHUCKY' BEME THE QUEERT SHOW ON TELEVISN: 'IT'S A GIFT TO THE GAY MUNY'

Chucky killg Jake's homophobic father and tellg Jake that he has a queer kid of his own who he's ol wh (bee he's "not a monster") are jt scratchg the surface. " So the fale, when Chucky Prime lash out one fal time by cricizg Devon and Jake for beg "so gay" before Jake strangl him to ath, 's not as hateful as uld be. "When he says 'That's so gay, ' 's almost like I n say that to one of my gay iends bee we're both gay, " Manci explas.

"I love tryg to keep h, but also jt the rponse to that I've heard om young gay horror fans, and that's who we did that for, was to give young queer horror fans reprentatn the lead a show, " Manci says. His protagonist, Jake Wheeler (Zackary Arthur), is a 14-year- old gay boy and doll llector who fds Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) at a yard sale. So I thk 's good to give kids who are horror fans someone to intify wh, " he for his film reer, Manci, 58, found the horror genre to be "a hospable place" for him as a young gay man startg out his 20s -- although he adms he was "relatively discreet" around stud executiv about his inty.

Particularly as a gay guy, " he says. RELATED | Syfy's Chucky Will Have a Gay Protagonist. chucky-gay-in.

‘CHUCKY’ SERI FEATUR AN ADORABLE FIRST KISS FOR THIS GAY CHARACTER

The story centers Jake, a gay teen bullied by his classmat and fay, who stumbl across the Good Guy Doll and tak him home. "If a supernaturally posssed murro doll n say 'gay rights' so n you! " wrote one this make Chucky a gay in?

DON MANCI EMBRAC “SPECIFIC GAY INTY” FOR CHUCKY FRANCHISE

Horror in and killer doll Chucky is g back for an all-new TV show on Syfy simply tled Chucky, and he'll be joed by a gay ma character.

At Comic-Con@Home, seri creator Don Manci, a gay man, revealed that the protagonist of the seri will be a gay teen named Jake Wheeler who is stgglg wh his sexualy while growg up a small town.

Sce s premiere on Syfy and USA last month, Chucky has emerged as arguably the queert seri on mastream televisn, wh multiple storyl featurg gay and genrfluid example, the show's teenage hero, Jake (Zackary Arthur), has a ser csh on another boy at school, Devon (Björgv Arnarson) — feelgs that turn out to be reciproted. "I thk 's a gift to the gay muny, " she tells Yahoo Entertament, notg that Child's Play creator, Don Manci, is an out gay screenwrer. Chucky and Tiffany's child was origally glimpsed the closg moments of Bri of Chucky, but the next film officially tablished them as genrfluid — one of the many elements that ed the stud to reject Manci's script as "too gay.