‘Enr’s Game’ Director: Author’s Anti-Gay Views ‘Very Sad’ – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• ORSON STT CARD’S ANTI-GAY VIEWS HNT ‘ENR’S GAME’ PREMIERE
• “ENR’S GAME” AUTHOR REALLY, REALLY HAT GAY PEOPLE. STUD REALLY, REALLY DON’T WANT YOU TO CARE.
• 'ENR'S GAME' AND SPIR-MAN: POP CULTURE'S BIG GAY PANIC
• 'ENR'S GAME' THOR ANSWERS CRICS: GAY MARRIAGE ISSUE IS 'MOOT'
• ‘ENR’S GAME’ DIRECTOR: AUTHOR’S ANTI-GAY VIEWS ‘VERY SAD’
• AUTHOR’S VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE FUEL CALL FOR BOYTT

ORSON STT CARD’S ANTI-GAY VIEWS HNT ‘ENR’S GAME’ PREMIERE

"Neverthels, the antigay views of Card, a man who once sat on the board of the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, and lled for the crimalizatn of homosexualy, have begun to eclipse any mer his award-wng story may offer to Hollywood's pantheon of science fictn anizatn Geeks OUT lnched s Skip Enr's Game mpaign July, urgg supporters of LGBT equaly to boytt the film when lands theatr on November 1, hop of sendg a msage that moviegoers will not tolerate antigay activism. After all, 's difficult to support a story om which an antigay activist like Card profs. But the effect of one of Card's most celebrated works may actually be to advance the msage of before Card's personal views on homosexualy ma headl, many LGBT fans who read Enr's Game were enamored wh the story.

“ENR’S GAME” AUTHOR REALLY, REALLY HAT GAY PEOPLE. STUD REALLY, REALLY DON’T WANT YOU TO CARE.

Not only is the tale a great work of science fictn, but protagonist Enr Wigg's stggl also closely parallel a number of mon experienc had by gay youth. But the parallels between Enr's story and that of gay youth don't end there. In fact, Enr's tale of empowerment works bt when s young protagonist is terpreted as a gay the exceptn of his sister, Valente, Enr shows no affectn toward femal throughout the book.

'ENR'S GAME' AND SPIR-MAN: POP CULTURE'S BIG GAY PANIC

"And so for me, is so ironic that the wrer of the work that has helped so many [young] people, gay and straight, to fd empowerment, to feel empowered, to fd their own moral pass -- 's very sad that he, himself, is stgglg wh the issu. I thk what would be far more helpful is if dienc knew that the makers of this film, and the film self, holds the polar oppose pot of view to the current thkg of Orson Stt Card on gay issu.

"The qutn of gay marriage is a battle that [Card] lost, " he says.

'ENR'S GAME' THOR ANSWERS CRICS: GAY MARRIAGE ISSUE IS 'MOOT'

""Regardls of s thor's clearly bigoted pot of view on gay marriage and homosexualy, this book was worth brgg to the screen, " says Hood. The upg film adaptatn of the btsellg novel, Enr's Game has received a lot of attentn, not for fally adaptg the sci-fi classic to a blockbter movie, but stead due to the book's thor, Orson Stt Card, and his vilently anti-gay opns.

Card, whose views on gay marriage have long been publicly known, first me unr attack om earlier this year when DC Comics hired him to wre a new digal Superman ic seri, which end wh the illtrator leavg the ic over Card's views and a petn beg signed by thoands of rears llg for Card's adaptatn of Card's book is slated for a tentpole November release, and now wh the st and director dog the prs rounds for the movie at plac such as Comic-Con, they are havg to field qutns about the thor's anti-gay statements, and the ntroversy is poised to take the hype away om the film the thor himself may be anti-gay marriage, a book htg store shelv October, Enr's Game and Philosophy asks one of s chapters, "How Queer is Enr? " A tailed look to the gay them of the book, reveals that Enr may more queer than the rear might thk. Below is the chapter which tails how one of the great science fictn books of our time, wrten by an outspoken gay marriage cric, may jt be more queer than origally thought.

" om Enr's Game and Philosophy published by Open Court Publishg"Furor over Orson Stt Card's anti-gay views driv 'Superman' illtrator to leave ic, " reads a recent headle on "Entertament Weekly’s" Chris Sproe stepped down as the illtrator workg wh Card.

‘ENR’S GAME’ DIRECTOR: AUTHOR’S ANTI-GAY VIEWS ‘VERY SAD’

The thor of Enr’s Game is not shy about his anti-gay-marriage stance, and bee of that many people prott his work. Card, who serv on the board of the Natnal Organizatn of Marriage (a group that works to advote agast gay marriage) do not jt believe gay marriage is wrong, but that homosexualy self is an immoral danger to society and the vilent as Card’s anti-homosexualy stance is, seems there’s a good chance that we n fd anti-gay msag "Enr’s Game! " It’s not a stretch, as the ma bad guys are the “buggers, ” which is a term often ed for gay men.

Are many who argue that Orson Stt Card is fact homophobic, and whether he is or not, we n say that he certaly is a proponent of heteronormativy, the ia and tenncy towards treatg heterosexualy as normal and homosexualy as odd, wrong, or queer. In Kate Bon’s “Gay Sex and Death the Science Fictn of Orson Stt Card, ” Card is quoted as havg said: “Gay rights is a llective ln that’s beg attempted. ” The term has been ed rogatorily agast gays, but recently over the last uple of s the term is now also ed to scribe a philosophil movement lled “Queer Theory.

Gay men, for example, are treated very much as Others our society. Consir how often gay men, pecially, are danger of vlence and abe.

AUTHOR’S VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE FUEL CALL FOR BOYTT

” What we beg to realize is that if we have a ep disrpect for women our society—as evinced by our language—then part of the reason we have such ep disrpect of homosexualy, pecially on the part of men, is bee they are “choosg” to be feme. We often read those texts as makg statements about homosexualy, but the ia “homosexualy” is new, while hatred for the feme is very old.

In fact, one verse om the Bible’s book of Levic, (18:22 “Do not lie wh a man as one li wh a woman; that is ttable”) is often ed by opponents of gay marriage to dite that homosexualy is sful, but, historilly, is more likely a nmnatn of men willgly takg on a subservient—women’s— we nsir the historil ntext, we realize that ancient cultur differentiated between the “right” way for a man to have sex wh a man and the “right” way for him to have sex wh a woman. [1]Beg a BuggerWhat is important to realize, om a queer theory perspective, is that man and woman, and heterosexual and homosexual are not clear blogil tegori. ) We’re also tght that there is a clear le between straight and gay.

We have some acceptance for bisexual women, but any man who claims attractn to men is immediately, and permanently, placed the tegory, “gay. Sendly, n we really be sure that there are jt “straight” and “gay”? Sure, there are bisexuals, but even the whole ia that there are “homosexuals” is a relatively new one.