Contents:
- IS RICHIE FROM IT GAY IN THE BOOK?
- 'IT CHAPTER TWO': JAM RANSONE ON THAT UNEXPECTED, STEPHEN KG-APPROVED GAY SUBPLOT (EXCLIVE)
- STEPHEN KG CHAMPNS ‘IT CHAPTER TWO’ GAY CHARACTER SURPRISE: ‘KD OF GENI’
IS RICHIE FROM IT GAY IN THE BOOK?
But Chapter Two, ’s revealed Richie is gay, and he’s always had feelgs for Eddie.
'IT CHAPTER TWO': JAM RANSONE ON THAT UNEXPECTED, STEPHEN KG-APPROVED GAY SUBPLOT (EXCLIVE)
I don’t believe there was an tentn to make Richie gay the first movie, and the character isn’t gay the books. While Richie never openly says he’s gay or bisexual, the tentn is there, and that is what matters. Richie beg nonilly gay (though I hate to assign a specific label to him, sce the book he’s had ser relatnships wh women while still havg subtextual feelgs for Eddie, while the film seems to imply he’s gay rather than bisexual) is not a cisn thrown to appease or panr to the “Tumblr crowd” as some Reddors have already dismissively said.
The film also opens wh a btal homophobic attack on a gay man, so to kill off two out of three openly gay characters might have drawn ire, and rightfully so. It’s also worth notg that prejudice and bigotry are very much villas the world of IT, and homophobia is clud that. The darkns of the human ndn and the pa we flict on others is jt as much a monster as Pennywise, and that clus the homophobia that Richie and Adrian Mellon face.
The disurse around the film will probably center on extrem, on whether Richie is qualy reprentatn or if the film is eply homophobic. The film do veer to buryg your gays terrory as stands now wh Adrian Mellon’s ath, Eddie’s ath, and Richie’s somewhat unhappy endg.
STEPHEN KG CHAMPNS ‘IT CHAPTER TWO’ GAY CHARACTER SURPRISE: ‘KD OF GENI’
” You might fd the Richie/Eddie story to be another example of buryg your gays, pecially upled wh the Adrian Mellon scene, and a terrible moment of reprentatn, or you uld feel ’s a big step forward for blockbter films engagg wh queer text. A weird sewer clown movie n have reprentatn and still fall to homophobic trop.