Could be that "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reer," the 1964 stop-motn Christmas special repeatedly broadstg durg the holidays, is actually a "parable of gay acceptance?" That's exactly what Brian Moylan, a wrer for Vulture, believ. And last week, he laid all out a lumn tled, "T...
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- ENTERTAMENT WRER: ‘RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REER’ IS FULL OF ‘GAY SUBTEXT’
- RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REER: A GAY CHRISTMAS ALLEGORY
- IS RUDOLPH GAY?
ENTERTAMENT WRER: ‘RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REER’ IS FULL OF ‘GAY SUBTEXT’
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RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REER: A GAY CHRISTMAS ALLEGORY
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Could be that "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reer, " the 1964 stop-motn Christmas special repeatedly broadstg durg the holidays, is actually a "parable of gay acceptance?
And last week, he laid all out a lumn tled, "The Gay Subtext of 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reer. "Rudolph is totally, absolutely, 100 percent, Neil-Patrick-Harris-French-kissg-Ricky-Mart gay.
IS RUDOLPH GAY?
Unlike Rudolph, Hermey ref to live the closet, so he leav Santa’s workshop and heads to the wilrns himself to open up his own ntal the woods, Moylan wrote, Hermey and Rudolph enunter the "lumbersexual" Yon Corneli, "an olr, hirsute gay man who embrac an over-the-top masculy, spe beg gay. This is the gay muny that all of the men fd after leavg the closet behd. This is the fay of their own makg that they vise bee their own blogil fai have rejected went on to wre that, shortly after arrivg on the island, Rudolph took off bee he was "still aaid that his very obv red nose will brg the wrath of the Abomable Snow Monster, a fanged embodiment of vlent homophobia.
Acrdg to the Vulture wrer, the subtext of the movie shows "Rudolph is promiscuo and engagg the sort of short-term relatnships that gay men were expected to have at the time. "This beg the early ’60s, the film’s subtext also needs to lie fully below the surface — Rudolph n’t be entirely gay, " he wrote.
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