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THE GRABBER, 'GAYFACE,' AND THE DANGER OF CONFLATG THE TWO IN THE BLACK PHONE
Content warng: This article discs homophobia, pedophilia/hebephilia, and child abe at length and ntas spoilers for "The Black Phone. " When discsg John Wayne Gacy, we refer to him as a serial killer, a hebephiliac, and a necrophiliac, but what we don't ll him is "gay, " bee he wasn't.
So why are some people llg Ethan Hawke's performance of a character spired by him "gayface? What is 'gayface?
Gayface is the term ed to scribe a straight actor performg a riture of a gay person by playg to harmful trop.