Is Rudolph gay? |

Contents:

• 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’

“I don’t know if ’s bee of the Adam Sandler le or Seth Rogen le of edy, but people have qutned if Hermey is gay, ” he says. 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 THE RED-NOSED REER: A GAY CHRISTMAS ALLEGORY

"Rudolph is totally, absolutely, 100 percent, Neil-Patrick-Harris-French-kissg-Ricky-Mart 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.

IS RUDOLPH GAY?

"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.

Now, I know what you're thkg: Tony Bravo, you thk everythg is a gay allegory. In the past, I've poted to the X-Men (mutant powers maniftg at puberty that require a g out procs and rults discrimatn), Twilight's gym queen werewolf, Morrissey-lookg vampire and sulky girl flannel (technilly, the books are a Mormon allegory for wag until marriage, but the movi are totally a gay allegory), Maria von Trapp (the mil versn, not the historil one), and even the Ltle Mermaid. Not only is our red-nosed iend a seasonal gay allegory, but he's one that generatns of children have grown up wh, through the song (gay) and the stop-motn Rank and Bass special that plays every year on an ABC Fay loop (extremely gay).

The fact that I n immediately tie this special to a Tennsee Williams masterwork already lets you know jt how gay this is gog to get. " That's sort of like when fathers of gay sons sist on givg them a football for Christmas stead of the One Directn lendar they asked for so they "will have somethg mon wh the boys on the playground. - Wele to Rudolph's (and almost every ltle gay boy's) worst nightmare: gym class.