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?
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