The Apparently Te Story of the Man Who Secured Gay Lovers for Old Hollywood - LA Weekly

Contents:

• LET’S TALK ABOUT THE GAY STUFF ‘IT CHAPTER TWO’
• HENRY BOWERS GAY?
• HENRY BOWERS GAY?
• THE APPARENTLY TE STORY OF THE MAN WHO SECURED GAY LOVERS FOR OLD HOLLYWOOD

LET’S TALK ABOUT THE GAY STUFF ‘IT CHAPTER TWO’

Queer Character Queer Actor - Nicholas Haton is gay. The below article ntas major spoilers for It Chapter before the ter cid evil shaphiftg clown Pennywise was gay (and datg the Babadook), many queer Stephen Kg fans regard his 1986 novel It wh a certa amount of dread. By the film’s end, we disver that Richie Tozier (Bill Har) has been love wh Eddie Kaspbrak (Jam Ransone) sce they were ia that Richie secretly harbors feelgs for Eddie is not exclive to It Chapter Two, but only the clost rears of Kg’s novel are likely to have noticed any homoerotic subtext.

As Jaime Burbatt wr an say on Kg’s “ambiguoly gay trope, ” “One of the most tertg tails to [It] is not somethg sry at all, but the chemistry Eddie holds wh Richie Tozier, fellow member of The Losers Club. It reads like an attempt to rrect not jt the horrifyg hate crime It, but also to an unfortunate homophobic unrcurrent that ns through several of Kg’s novels. In the books, there is an obv lk between gay sex and vlent, psychopathic all that md, ’s rehg that It Chapter Two acknowledg the love Richie has for Eddie as somethg real and eply felt.

HENRY BOWERS GAY?

Rowlg announcg that Dumbledore is gay after the Harry Potter seri had end. Moreover, Eddie di — llg to md the "Bury Your Gays” trope — and Richie may well rema closeted, given that his biggt fear was Pennywise revealg his sexual ’s certaly somethg admirable about It Chapter Two’s attempts to queer the story for a more progrsive 2019 dience, but no matter how noble s tentns, the end rult falls flat. Adrian Mellon (here played terribly by former director of note Xavier Dolan) kiss his boyiend at a Derry rnival, and the two are followed out of by a gang of homophobic hoodlums.

The crime alerts Mike Hanlon to It’s rurgence, spurrg him to rne his iends to battle , there’s gay stuff It Chapter Two.

There is Homosexual Content TM. In Kg’s book, homophobia Derry is implicly tied to the prence of It, both evils feedg off of and to one another.

HENRY BOWERS GAY?

In the film, homophobic vlence is no different than Pennywise’s fantastil “kills. Seemgly by way of apology for the Adrian Mellon scene, the filmmakers have add jt a dash of gay to their ma st.

THE APPARENTLY TE STORY OF THE MAN WHO SECURED GAY LOVERS FOR OLD HOLLYWOOD

Richie Tozier (played by Fn Wolfhard as a child and Bill Har as an adult) is heavily implied to be gay. Richie is gay, he’s closeted, and this is the ep-seated fear that Pennywise is pickg on. This isn’t to say, of urse, that homophobia don’t exist 2016.

Still, the film n nceive of no reason why Richie should have remaed the closet all the years beyond a general sense of shame and ternalized homophobia, neher of which is ever actually picted. We have no ia how Richie feels about beg gay.