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Contents:
- 21 "EUPHORIA" MOMENTS THAT THE GAYS ARE STILL THKG ABOUT
- EUPHORIA EXPLOR CAL JABS’ SEXUALY WH TRAGIC GAY ROMANTIC BACKSTORY
- MD THE MEDIA: EUPHORIA'S DEPICTN OF A HIDN GAY INTY, AND S CONSEQUENC
- PEOPLE ARE JT FDG OUT COLMAN DOMGO FROM "EUPHORIA" IS GAY, AND I'M LOVG THE PICS OF HIM AND HIS HBAND
21 "EUPHORIA" MOMENTS THAT THE GAYS ARE STILL THKG ABOUT
However, tertgly the scen of heteronormative high school romance are terspersed wh shots of the boys wrtlg sglets that have a distctly homoerotic tone, as well as a shot of Cal starg at Derek adjtg himself the r, makg clear that there’s fe potential for the boys’ relatnship to move beyond the platonic. Thgs culmate on the night of their high school graduatn when Derek suggts they take a trip to the lol gay bar bee he knew they’d get served there whout an ID.
Euphoria's sophomore season was a roller aster of emotn. In season two episo three ‘Rumatns: Big and Ltle Bullys‘, which dropped on NOWTV the UK this week, the show’s rint villa Cal (Eric Dane) was given a gay orig story worthy of s own movie. Gay.
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EUPHORIA EXPLOR CAL JABS’ SEXUALY WH TRAGIC GAY ROMANTIC BACKSTORY
The two hantly walk to a gay bar, have some drks, and their platonic iendship quickly evaporat when "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS on and they prs their bodi together, dance, and even kiss.
Cue the gay squeals. Not only do they have the homophobia of Ameri the 1980s workg agast them, Cal learns that his girliend is pregnant.
MD THE MEDIA: EUPHORIA'S DEPICTN OF A HIDN GAY INTY, AND S CONSEQUENC
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PEOPLE ARE JT FDG OUT COLMAN DOMGO FROM "EUPHORIA" IS GAY, AND I'M LOVG THE PICS OF HIM AND HIS HBAND
But yeah, Colman Domgo is gay and married. The only nfirmed gay male character the form of a vlent, predatory middle-aged man, who hoards vios filmed nonnsensually.
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