Ldsey Graham's 10 gayt moments - LGBTQ Natn

Contents:

• HANNIBAL & THE GAY ELEPHANT THE ROOM
• LDSEY GRAHAM’S 10 GAYT MOMENTS
• IS LDSEY GRAHAM GAY? THE TTH ABOUT HIS S*XUAL ORIENTATN EXPOSED!
• LDSEY GRAHAM SAYS 'I'M NOT GAY' AFTER CHELSEA HANDLER TROLLS HIM ON NATNAL COMG OUT DAY

HANNIBAL & THE GAY ELEPHANT THE ROOM

The openly gay creator of Hannibal did so by sharg a shot om the tenr fal moments between Will and Hannibal the as-of-now seri fale. Over the years, Fuller and the st have discsed length about the subtle homoerotic nature of the relatnship between the central characters.

As pictns of homosexualy have bee progrsively ls prohibed  televisn and movi, portrayg timate emotnal relatnships that don't volve sex seems to have bee even more plited. Aled Hchck's 1951 film Strangers on a Tra featur a relatnship between two male characters that is parable to that between Will and Hannibal, and is wily regard as havg strong homoerotic subtext. Yet Strangers on a Tra was ma an era where, thanks to the Hays Co, wasn't possible to have explicly gay characters Amerin films.

LDSEY GRAHAM’S 10 GAYT MOMENTS

That le clearly don't apply to Hannibal, the latt season of which saw Margot Verger and Alana Bloom get married and have a child together - so why did Fuller choose not to make Hannibal and Will's relatnship explicly homosexual? "But that do not necsarily prevent om a homoerotic subtext. " When asked why he wanted to clu so much homoeroticism between two characters who don't and never will have a sexual relatnship, Fuller explaed that the fact that sex is not volved is what mak Will and Hannibal's teractns so tertg.

IS LDSEY GRAHAM GAY? THE TTH ABOUT HIS S*XUAL ORIENTATN EXPOSED!

There’s a scene at dner where we were tacklg the ed bay bee was so transparently homoerotic. In the real world, some straight men attempt to navigate the boundari of iendship wh other men by addg the veat "no homo" to exprsns of affectn, appreciatn of male bety, or any other statement that might be terpreted as havg gay nnotatns. No homo, " lacks a certa amount of gravas.

LDSEY GRAHAM SAYS 'I'M NOT GAY' AFTER CHELSEA HANDLER TROLLS HIM ON NATNAL COMG OUT DAY

The iendship between Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggs the Lord of the Rgs trilogy is, along wh Hannibal, one of relatively few morn attempts to portray tensely emotnal male homosocial relatnships wh absolute scery, and the number of gay jok ma about Frodo and Sam the wake of the films' release speaks to the fact that dienc weren't (and still aren't) que fortable watchg straight male characters get emotnally timate wh one another. Depictns of homosexualy may have bee more acceptable mastream cema and TV, but homophobia still exists many pervasive and sid ways - one of which is the cultural need to mata a strong dividg le between heterosexualy and homosexualy. Hence, "no homo.

In TV, this kd of gay subtext is sometim labelled 'queerbag' by fans, who acce shownners of tryg to appeal to gay men (or, more monly, straight women) by teasg the possibily of guy-on-guy actn whout ever takg the risk of actually makg lead characters gay or bisexual. One show that seems to straddle the le between scere homoerotic subtext and a nng "no homo" gag is BBC's Sherlock, which the plex nature of John Watson's (Mart Freeman) feelgs for Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holm (and vice versa) are explicly addrsed at var pots the seri. This is often played for lghs, wh characters mistakenly believg that John and Sherlock are boyiends, and  speaks to how much the csatn of homosexualy as a taboo subject has plited the bs of portrayg close male iendships.

Bee of the ntued existence of homophobia, even among people who nsir themselv to be open-md, seeg fiercely emotnal scen between heterosexual male characters n still elic a feelg of awkwardns  viewers, and one of the most effective antidot to awkwardns is lghter.