The Mummy Returns is gay, actually

Contents:

• THE RACHEL WEISZ GAY INX
• ‘TRMATIZED’ DGHTER OF LGBT PARENTS: ‘MY GAY MOMS OPPRSED ME’
• GAY HORROR WRER CLIVE BARKER HAS BEEN PLANNG A TRANS REMAKE OF THE MUMMY SCE THE EIGHTI: ‘WE WERE AHEAD OF THE CURVE’
• HOW TO TELL YOUR MOM YOU ARE GAY
• GAY-MUMMY
• PATRICIA VELASQUEZ, THE MUMMY STAR AND SUPERMOL, COM OUT AS GAY MEMOIR INSPIRED BY HER DGHTER

THE RACHEL WEISZ GAY INX

The Mummy Returns is gay, actuallyadvertisementreadwatchfashnphotographyartculturefilmtvactivismnewsmipnbetystraight upsmonth photos7 inic looksmagazei-D asialegalabout storentactvice media privacy policyaccsibilyterms© 2023 i-D magaze. ” As one virally spread (but now leted) tweet joked, “The gays have Love, Simon.

In an say analyzg queer thirst for straight actors, Grace Perry explas some thgs that certaly apply to the ncept of bi-awakeng movi — particularly how straight actors like Rachel Weisz and Cate Blanchett often bee gay ins and objects of queer sire after playg queer characters on screen.

‘TRMATIZED’ DGHTER OF LGBT PARENTS: ‘MY GAY MOMS OPPRSED ME’

Thor: Ragnarok’s Hela be gayer bee of Cate Blanchett’s starrg role the sensuo sapphic perd drama Carol, while Weisz’s rol The Favoure and Disobedience may have ntributed to The Mummy’s retroactive addn to bi film non.

Once aga forced to make space for ourselv a medium that mak no space for , lookg for queer characters onscreen be like a game of Six Degre of Kev Ban: “Sure, ” I n tell myself, “she isn’t gay here, or gay realy, but I’ve seen Cate Blanchett have movie sex wh Rooney Mara another movie, which mak this movie gayer, too.

GAY HORROR WRER CLIVE BARKER HAS BEEN PLANNG A TRANS REMAKE OF THE MUMMY SCE THE EIGHTI: ‘WE WERE AHEAD OF THE CURVE’

Onscreen, Hela don’t say anythg about her sexualy, but she still “feels gay” bee of Blanchett’s filmography.

While Eternals clus a proment gay character, and the upg Taika Wai movie Thor: Love and Thunr has promised substantial queer reprentatn, Disney also has a lengthy history of queer-bag dienc, promisg queer reprentatn and stead offerg a throwaway le or unnamed character.

As gay film director Harvey Fierste explas the sential 1995 documentary The Celluloid Closet, “Readgs school were heterosexual. For example, homosexualy was crimalized Bra until 1967: Gay men adopted techniqu like wearg green rnatns the 19th century, or speakg Polari slang, which remaed proment through the mid-20th century, as methods of vert munitn. In Ben-Hur, bi screenwrer Gore Vidal was forbidn om givg Ben-Hur a textual gay relatnship wh Msala, but he told actor Stephen Boyd about his tent.

HOW TO TELL YOUR MOM YOU ARE GAY

It’s the spy thriller Atomic Blon, when the protagonist has sex wh another woman (who is later vlently killed off), the gay Black Mirror episo San Junipero, and the poster for Moonlight. Th, while Twter ers and media crics have noted bi lightg John Wick 3, Bla Runner 2049, 2019’s Color Out of Space, and Spir-Man: Into the Spir-Verse, there’s often a ls gay logic for dog so.

Like all good thgs, the cematic ovre of Rachel Weisz has only gotten gayer over time.

In the early ghts, she played the hot, brilliant ad wife to both Ralph Fienn (The Constant Garner) and Hugh Jackman (The Founta), who both bent time and space to get back to her and ultimately stroyed themselv her name, which is pletely reasonable but not que gay enough. She’s topped the queen of England The Favoure, sp Rachel McAdams’s mouth Disobedience, and her latt and gayt work yet, sensuoly bten her own neck an overt suggtn of Rachel Weisz–on–Rachel Weisz actn the new Amazon seri Dead Rgers.

GAY-MUMMY

But Weisz’s movi have always been kd of gay, gog as far back as The Mummy, a movie about a chaotilly hot librarian who believ rernatn, and Defely, Maybe, which is ostensibly a Ryan Reynolds–led rom- for straight people but is more subtly about Rachel Weisz beg a bisexual journalist who lov show tun. Is her job gay? How is she further gay-d?

This movie is the epome of whe, straight culture, but ’s ranked slightly higher on the Weisz Gay Inx than The Mummy bee of s B-plot hgg entirely on two women fallg love at boardg school. Rachel Weisz go fully gay for her art for the first time a movie about an opprsive Orthodox Jewish muny where everyone talks sh about each other and nobody is allowed to be gay, do crim, or smoke. The entire movie is about how gay the two women are and how pulsory heterosexualy s liv.

Beg a gynelogist is not and of self a gay profsn, but beg a lbian gynelogist who has sex wh and falls love wh her patients is.

PATRICIA VELASQUEZ, THE MUMMY STAR AND SUPERMOL, COM OUT AS GAY MEMOIR INSPIRED BY HER DGHTER

The Rachel Weisz Gay Inx.