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Is Richie gay 'IT Chapter 2’? Bill Har plays the character the new movie, and he harbors a secret attractn to one of his bt iends.

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IT: CHAPTER TWO’S GAY-BASHG SCENE EXPLOS A REAL-LIFE KILLG FOR A CHEAP SHOCK

But  Chapter Two, ’s revealed Richie is gay, and he’s always had feelgs for Eddie. I don’t believe there was an tentn to make Richie gay the first movie, and the character isn’t gay the books. Watch what the filmmakers had to tell about Richie the vio Chapter Two ma text what had only been subtext Stephen Kg's origal book: wise-crackg Losers' Club member Richie Tozier is a gay man, and has romantic feelgs for his fellow Loser Eddie character's sexualy had been hted at the book, and over the years many fans theorized that he had more feelgs than jt iendship for Eddie.

The film's openg sequence picts a btal hate crime agast a gay uple, which sets the stage for how unwelg this Mae town is to the LGBTQ+ muny and the chillg effect such open homophobia and bigotry would have had on Richie, who cid to stay the closet even after movg away and fdg fame and fortune stand-up Har wanted the film to m fully to makg Richie gay or to not even brg up. "Har also poted out that the perds that the book was set were very different tim for gay characters than what morn dienc would expect this film to portray.

In this scene, set Derry's ar, young Richie (Fn Wolfhard) has homophobic slurs hurled at him by the bully Henry Bowers after a game of Street Fighter between Richie and Henry's . Throughout It: Chapter Two, be clear that Richie is a closeted gay man love wh his childhood bt iend, Eddie (Jam Ransone plays the adult versn). Gay, pecially a small town, meant alienatn and possibly ath.

STEPHEN KG CHAMPNS ‘IT CHAPTER TWO’ GAY CHARACTER SURPRISE: ‘KD OF GENI’

Some reers, like a beg a profsnal athlete or nservative analyst, n be difficult for an openly gay man to mata. But llege, a big cy and a gaggle of gays ma throwg the opprsive weight of the closet away a celebratn. He didn’t behave the way reprsed gay men equently reprent.

There was no forced womanizg, no gay-bashg. Richie never even says he’s gay out loud.

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.

IS RICHIE FROM IT GAY IN THE BOOK?

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.

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